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Originally posted by Nadine
Unreal2 had better be GOOD then. REALLY good. ANOTHER first person shooter? Even fans of the genre must be getting sick of them by now. And if that franchise/genre is all Epic has going for them, it doesn't say much about their company, because there are other companies also making FPS. It's not like they specialize in it or are much better at making them than other companies. Sierra makes them, ID makes them, and Duke Nukem Forever should blow all over FPS shooters away. People will see through the same ol, same ol games, and what will Epic have left? They'll be remembered as a company that used to be great, but no longer. So Unreal 2 better be the most amazing thing anything has ever seen, and it probably will just be cool and nothing more.
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Nadine, most people aren't sick of FPS's, which is why they're DOING SO WELL. And yes Epic does specialise in it, condsidering Unreal Torunament and the Unreal Series are some of the most popular FPS's around. And Unreal II is looking pretty darn good.
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I'm not talking about "right" being legal. I mean, it being morally RIGHT. To suck in gamers and then take the possibility of continuing the series is just plain mean. To keep the rights to yourself and not use them may be mean but also you're not making any money off it anymore. If this industry is all about money, than if someone wants to pay them a lot of money for the rights to a franchise that they don't care about anymore, than why not sell it?
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Because they're a company - they care about money. If it doesn't involve them earning cash by the bucketfull, they aren't interested.
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Hmm, a bunny with a big gun, that's SO not violent. Okay maybe there isn't any blood or realistic weapons, but the gameplay is action based. Besides, there only being Jazz 1 and 2 (and variations of them), they are both 2D, no blood, and one was successful, one bombed. If Jazz 3 was 3D, more difficult, better advertised, made similar in someways to Fur Fighters (it was pretty violent for a cartoon game, it had a TEEN rating, enemies noticeably "died" rather than becoming small bits, and they could be decapitated and you could kick the head around) it would sell very well I think.
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No, a bunny with a big gun is not violent when compared with games such as Soldier of Fortune, where you can shoot them in individual body parts to produce individual pain-reactions and deaths. JJ1 was successful because platformers were popular then. Jazz 3
IS/WAS 3D. It is/was cool. But as I've said, NOBODY WANTS TO PUBLISH IT. Even Arjan, the creator of Jazz, and Noogy, the main driving force behind the now-defunct JJ3, want nothing to do with it. And I've played Fur Fighters. It was advertised well. It isn't exactly topping the charts. So JJ3 if made and advertised in the same way will?
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It's really silly to give up on a franchise that hasn't had much chance, and base it on how a game sold that was rather quickly put togther and needed a lot more work, and released as a 2D game in a time when people want 3D. If it was just about being a loyal "fangirl", I know it would be hopeless to ask for Jazz 3. But there are a lot of us really, and even people who have enjoyed Jazz before but aren't a member of these forums, PLUS I really know that if the sequel was done properly, it would be accepted by the masses and be popular. Look at how popular cute games are when done right: Spyro, Sonic, Mario, Pokemon... And it isn't all for kids, and we don't have a platform mascot for the PC except for Jazz, and they should make the franchise across more platforms as well. I think some companies focus on the wrong things when they think about what sells and what doesn't. Slap a game together quickly, don't advertise, and it doesn't matter if it's cute or violent - it won't sell.
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Really silly to give up on a franchise that doesn't have much of a chance...that there is a contradiction because if it has no chance, they should bow out before they lose money which, by the way, they did. And even though there are alot of people who enjoy Jazz that aren't on the forums as well, we're still a minority compared to the hundreds of thousands of people who play Quake, Unreal and Counterstrike. The sequel was being done really well, I mean, Noogy was the main designer. He values gameplay alot and isn't impressed just by glitsy lighting effects and whatnot in a game. But it doesn't mean the game will sell well. Oh, and most people over the age of 12 don't like Pokemon that much. Mario and Sonic and Spyro - many of the console mascots, as well as the consoles, are geared towards the younger fans because the majority of older gamers don't like cutesy wootsey as much s a nice round of Team Fortress Classic. No duh companies don't focus on the right aspects, see games such as Postal or Kingpin.
But even if it were advertiesed correctly, think it'd attract as many people as, say, Doom 3 or Unreal Torunament 2?
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Hmm, and yet you are so addicted to responding to them to tell me just how sick you are of them. It may be a LONG TIME from now, but if it should happen that a Jazz 3 or a new Jazz comes along, I'm going to make a signature just for you that say's "IN YOUR FACE DEFALCON!"
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Go ahead. I have lots of things in my face. For instance, I had steak in my face when I was eating lunch. I had rice in my face when I was eating dinner. Do signatures taste nice?
Look, I'm not trying to be hostile, I'm just getting the point across. The chances of a new Jazz are very low.
Darn, that's the longest rant I've posted in a while.