Black Isle Studios, RIP

#1 Yep big shame they're gone...

#2 I'm just about in tears... not literally, but you know what I mean. ;)

#3 First looking glass..
now BIS

#4 Hey, it happens. I'm sure for most of the longer-term guys it's a nice excuse to get a change of scenery. For the new guys it might be a little more stressful. :)

Regardless, they had a good run and it's sad to see 'em go.

#5 Wow... that sucks. Always had fun with BIS games. Just goes to show (once again) that even the big boys have a hard time with funding.

Makes our little indie corner that much cozier to know that your in control of your own fate and your publisher isn't going to come in and say, "Well", *sniff*, "looks like we need to be spending less. BRING IN THE BIG AXE BOYS! It's time to cut me up some developers!"

GF

#6 Several of us here are game industry vets just like these guys. Who knows? We may find some of them publishing through GG for their next projects...

#7 A lot of the talent apparently had already left before this to form Obsidian Entertainment and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these guys go form their own companies or quickly find new jobs.

Hell they should be coming here to GarageGames to make their next product and stick it to "the man".

#8 The fallout and fallout 2 team that was once in BIS left a while ago to form their own company called Troika Games and they released Arcanum, a GREAT game. Sad thing is that BIS was working on Fallout 3, not the same team but It would still be Fallout, great IP.

#9 From what I had seen of Fallout 3 previews it looked more like Resident Evil with mutants instead of Zombies than it looked like a fallout game... That is, assuming that Fallout 3 and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel were the same game.

They were essentially just making a post apocalyptic version of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance - one of the most unfortunate abuses of a good franchise I have played lately. :/ Since most of the actual Fallout team left for Troika a long time ago, it may have been a mercy killing.

Still it is sad that the IP to such a great series is stuck with a massive corporation that is far more concerned with using the franchise for name recognition than continuing the quality and mood of the original series. I'm sure Interplay will get some other studio to make new "Fallout" games, they wouldn't pass up the chance to use a series with that much name recognition.

I agree with Logan and Jay - all those Black Isle guys should turn indie and make awesome, original games.

#10 Heh, thats what happened to me back in April. Finished my first shareware game and waiting for Garage Games to publish it in the near future :)

It's certainly nice not to have to commute 200 miles a day, but I certainly miss the pay check :(

#11

Quote:That is, assuming that Fallout 3 and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel were the same game.

They aren't. :)

#12 Sony now own the baldurs gate dark aliance team, they are first party sony PS2 dev now. They also sold the hunter licence which is how they are funding this coming years titles.

Or at least thats what they told me

#13 @Mark: Oh, good to know, in that case maybe it is a loss :/ It is always a bummer to see well known teams closed down by the large publishers who have bought them out... kinda like Dynamix. Though in both cases they lost most of their original teams long before the company was shut down.