Derek Smart and Freespace 3? [Jul 15, 2004, 7:33 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A speculative
question from 3000 AD's Derek Smart on the Adrenaline Vault Forums (thanks
Rake) polls interest in him acquiring the rights to Freespace 3, making the
following statements in a pair of posts:
....Derek Smart, yeah, that would be me, got the license from my friends at Interplay (a publisher I had very good experiences with); would you buy Freespace 3 if I made it?
Discuss. Rave. Rant. Argue. But this is something I am seriously considering, given that it looks like Interplay has started off loading properties (starting with Fallout3). I mean, just think. Would you rather see this legacy license fall into the wrong hands?
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I have already contacted my Interplay contact about it btw.
I for one don't really care much about a developer. I guess I can draw a parallel to Hollywood-I may absolutely love a movie, for example,'Saving Private Ryan', but not give a rat's ass about the director or actors. Frankly, I don't even really like Tom Hanks as a person, but in the movie I was watching Capt. John Miller, not Hanks. And in UC, I never stop to think that I am playing a Derek Smart game. I am playing a Battlecruiser commander in a vast universe. The game has issues, which is only normal for a game of this scope. But really, it was not nearly as bad as many of you say. I personally liked it. I think what happens is that Smart runs his mouth, gets everyone stirred up, and the blood in the water mentality causes ridiculously long threads like this. Now, apparently, anyone claiming to be Smart can start an equally long thread. Honestly is any one developer worth all this bitching?
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