I misread that as "Westwood Studios Online".

Westwood made some really wonderful games. It's such a shame that EA completely destroyed them.

Follow the money for the magnitude of reaction. Santa Monica, Westwood, populated by rich folks-one reason. Also, the location of the epicenter and recent infrequency in the same area, factors stack-up for worry when this could evidence a pre-trem for more to follow. Let it happen in bumfuck and see how little news it makes. PAC-Rim may go in your lifetimes naysayers, pack a go-baggy.

It was centered near Westwood, which is where their studio is at. So it probably felt like something big was happening to them at the time. With it being that close to LA, a lot of people would have felt it due to the population density... which is probably why they've not yet shut up about it.

I'm in OC, probably less than 50 miles away and didn't feel a thing.

@chingalera

That's the third version of Frank Klepacki's Hell March.

Westwood Studios ftw!

>> ^Jinx:

I'm just really bored at the stagnate FPS genre atm. Hasn't been a good recent multiplayer FPS game recently apart from TF2, and that was a while back. Even then the focus is clearly on public play and the competitive community is small and dying out pretty quickly. Its sad that in this e-sports renaissance created by SC2 there is no FPS game to really step up and enter the limelight. The Arena style of Quake needs to make a comeback. Its so watchable as a spectator sport, and the skill the best players display is just astounding. Even watching these speedruns etc makes my jaw drop.
Instead we get boring Modern Yawnfair 12 - For Xbox360 and PS3! And yah, I'm a PC elitist. I watched some Halo3/Reach @ MLG and while it wasn't terrible, it was lightyears behind Quake. CS:GO is on the horizon, and I hope steam support that as much as they are pouring money into DotA2, but still, I prefer an FPS where you don't die in one pixelshot or from wallbanging spam.
/rant
Oh, and a new tribes is coming, but I was super turned off by their free2play model. If its anything like LoL I am not interested. I'd rather pay upfront and know I am on a equal footing than everybody else rather than sink limitless cash into making sure I can remain competitive.


I realize I'm necroing a 2 week old video thread, but, there are some things that nobody bothered to say.

Jinx: Many of these F2P games are not Pay2Win. You simply pay for variety/speed of unlocks. Nothing you can pay for with cash can make you do more damage, move faster, etc. The only things in LoL that absolutely require actual cash are character skins and extra rune pages. Everything else can be unlocked with the same points even the richest person has to earn by playing matches. Can you spend $1-200 and unlock every character? Yes. Do you have to...is it worth it? No. Just play with the free rotated characters each week. Personally, I'm sick of paying up front for shitty games or games I don't play that often.


@EvilDeathBee The difference is, many of the companies that used to produce the best stuff now produce mass market crap and many of the great companies were bought out and/or ruined by EA/Activision. Westwood Studios...gone. Lucasarts is plagued by the same mass market bullshit problems as the newer movie trilogy. id hasn't made a good shooter since before Doom 3, and Rage is the latest crap they've spewed out. You can find videos of Carmack saying they're being held back by console graphics/memory considerations. Luckily we have Blizzard and Valve still, though Blizzard is now Activision Blizzard, and is making console Diablo 3 and has added friggin Facebook to Battle net. GG. Valve seems to want to make hats, ignore HL2:Ep3 while splitting the already-split MOBA community by releasing DOTA2, which nobody really asked for given that HoN and LoL are rather popular. But, at least Valve and Blizz put out quality PC games. BF3 now has the useless Origin, which is nothing but a business move and provides zero benefit to gamers.

Games used to be art. Now they're all about money.

@Hawkinson "A few thousand"? Doom 2 sold like 2 million back before PC gaming was at all popular. Quake 2 sold 1-1.5 million also. I couldn't find Q1 numbers but I'd guess they're similar. You're also forgetting that Doom 2 was distributed as shareware, and I've seen estimates that 15 million played it. Give google a try next time you want to pull statistics out of your ass

>> ^radx:

IPX was pure madness. No more 1-on-1, no more shifting gaming rigs around. Only the neverending search for the bloody hub. Those boxes have a tendency to be everywhere when you don't need them, and nowhere when you need them. >> ^ant:
Oh yeah, I remember that! Good old serial cables. I remember using InterLink, LapLink, etc. with it and parallel cables through LPT1 ports. Then, came along LAN like through IPX/SPX before TCP/IP got popular.


IPX/SPX was annoying. I remember Westwood RTS games wanted it for LAN! Ugh!

You worked at Westwood?

Freaking... AWESOME.

>> ^Hive13:

I have met him a few times over the years. He frequents E3 (I spoke with him three years in a row there) and when I worked at Westwood Studios, he came in for a personal tour of the offices. He is an extremely cool guy and has always been very friendly to my obvious starstruckness.
This commercial is great and very sweet.

Were you at E3 this year?

I might've seen ya! Didn't know Robin was a gamer tho I can't say I'm surprised. Who isn't in SF?

>> ^Hive13:

I have met him a few times over the years. He frequents E3 (I spoke with him three years in a row there) and when I worked at Westwood Studios, he came in for a personal tour of the offices. He is an extremely cool guy and has always been very friendly to my obvious starstruckness.
This commercial is great and very sweet.

I have met him a few times over the years. He frequents E3 (I spoke with him three years in a row there) and when I worked at Westwood Studios, he came in for a personal tour of the offices. He is an extremely cool guy and has always been very friendly to my obvious starstruckness.

This commercial is great and very sweet.

>> ^ant:

>> ^BoneRemake:
because of Warcraft and Diablo..especially Diablo, I had to buy a new mouse as the buttons wore out !
Fun fact- I hate starcraft

I love Diablo and WoW series, but not a fan of their RTS games. I prefer Westwood Studios' C&C and Dune series. However, old Battle.net was awesome.


Exact opposite for me. Diablo 1 and 2 had great setting/story, and were fun the first time through, but the gameplay was a mindless clickfest. WOW was great with friends, but the endgame is an endless gear treadmill. Starcraft and e-sports are Blizzard's greatest achievement in gaming IMO.

>> ^BoneRemake:

because of Warcraft and Diablo..especially Diablo, I had to buy a new mouse as the buttons wore out !
Fun fact- I hate starcraft


I love Diablo and WoW series, but not a fan of their RTS games. I prefer Westwood Studios' C&C and Dune series. However, old Battle.net was awesome.

>> ^EMPIRE:

Yes I did actually
I liked Emperor. But nothing replaces the original. If nothing else, for that feeling of nostalgia you can never recreate.


Ditto. I finished it too. Dune 2000 was OK too. I laugh at Dune 2 now because it is SO old. I love Command & Conquer (excluding Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 3, and C&C4) too. I miss Westwood Studios!

>> ^EMPIRE:

this is definitely a classic. I loved this game. And this is one of the best cinematics ever done IMO. Westwood had in general really good cinematics.


Speaking of EMPIRE, did you play that version?

this is definitely a classic. I loved this game. And this is one of the best cinematics ever done IMO. Westwood had in general really good cinematics.