What was hivemind reaction to Bloodlines announce?

[inwoker]

I mean it's Troika which is praised here. But then they announce game which is 3d and real-time and has much emofaggotry in it. Was Troika bashed for it, like wtf Tim Cain sold out?

edit: I used search but didn't find anything.

 

[Jim Cojones]

Troika hiring for Action CRPG title
Troika's other game
Vampire: Bloodlines interview
Vampire: Bloodlines preview at HomeLan

 

[Imbecile]

Troika is going more mainstream, first a combat heavy D&D game and now a licensed HL engine to make a "FPS/RPG". Bah

I'm not really a huge fan of the setting either, but strapping it down with action... I dunno. I kind of expected a little.. more.. or something.

Yep, as long as it's a good, well written RPG I don't care what setting its in. We don't have that many good RPGs to be picky anyway

About the same as Alpha protocol is now by the looks of things

 

[Wyrmlord]

"Troika is going more mainstream, first a combat heavy D&D game and now a licensed HL engine to make a "FPS/RPG". Bah"

I can't believe people said things like that. Making a D&D game means selling out to the mainstream with a casual unwashed product?

Has the Codex really declined, or has it started to make alot more sense as years went by? Seeing some of the stuff they used to say back then, I am bit inclined to think the latter.

Seriously, thinking that RPGs are in decline because of D&D systems is the kind of ridiculous thinking I used to harbour back when I was 15.

 

[inwoker]

Decline isn't about that. Decline is inane posting. Because at the golden times there wasn't stupid inane threads, oh wait!

 

[bhlaab]

Probably a bunch of shit that turned out to be ironic in retrospect like

"Oh, Troika, you'll be around forever!"
or
"If things keep going our way, we'll be swimming in hardcore RPGs by 2010!"

 

[obediah]

I don't think I ventured very far past the news page back then, but I was extremely underwhelmed by the announcement.
I hate everything about the setting, and had given up on Troika making a game that wasn't torture.

I had love/hate for Troika since the beginning. Arcanum was awesome, but the delay, bugs, and RT/TB hybrid travesty were all signs of things to come. The fanbois were harder to argue with, because I wanted all the same things they did. But mainstreaming is mostly a one way street, despite hopes and promises to the contrary :dragonage: and :nwn2: .

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Goddammit I miss troika.

The golden age has ended. Now there is only decay.

 

[obediah]

Goddammit I miss troika.

Which got you hard.

The golden age has ended.

Which got you hard.

Now there is only decay.

Which gets you hard.

 

[mondblut]

The golden age has ended.

In 1994.

 

[flabbyjack]

There's plenty of great new games, you guys aren't looking hard enough.

RIP Troika

 

[obediah]

There's plenty of great new games, you guys aren't looking hard enough.

RIP Troika

Yeah - you just have to walk over to the console aisle, and fall and suffer major brain damage on the way.