🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:26:07 -0800, "goPostal"
<agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message 
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>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:12:40 -0800, "goPostal"
>> <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>"Todd" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>>>> The first Unreal Engine was first used for Unreal, then they decided
>>>> to release the multiplayer as a stand alone, and Unreal Tournament was
>>>> born.
>>>>
>>>> For Unreal Engine 2, they released both the single player Unreal 2,
>>>> and the multiplayer 2003 pretty close together.  (I always said it was
>>>> one game for the price of two, and the fact that they added game types
>>>> and rereleased the game as 2004 proves that 2003 was only half a
>>>> game.)
>>>>
>>>> Now we're up to Unreal Engine 3, and we have Unreal Tournament 3, but
>>>> there's no single player game with the Unreal name.
>>>>
>>>> So, is there a game (other than UT3) that is the reason they built the
>>>> engine?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>In some ways UT3 is a showcase for the engine to be licensed by third
>>>parties. I think they have seen that there is not a lot of money to be 
>>>made
>>>directly with a released game.
>>>
>>
>> " I think they have seen that there is not a lot of money to be made
>> directly with a PC game."
>>
>> Fixed.
>
>Thank you Big F. As always you are spot on  :)
>
>Think about it for just a moment. What if it was 2003 and I told you what 
>has happened in the last couple of years was going to occur? You'd have 
>thought I was insane. A version of UT that has a ghosttown of servers? 
>Console designed game? It boggles the mind... 

I can't blame Epic for building on their success with Gears.  It's a
shame though that their talent pool is so shallow that pulling Cliffy
B. off to do Gears killed UT.

Either that or possibly the original UT was just a stroke of luck or a
fluke for Epic, since nothing they've produced since then for the PC
has been as solid or enjoyable.