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[Vicious Parker]

I'm haven't listened to this yet, but I will later tonight. I just wanted to share this with all of you, because these are three awesome people:

http://twit.tv/tri1

[Donkeymog]

Only about a minute in and Warren has already said "holy cow!"

[Vicious Parker]

http://www.pcgamer.c...f-frustrations/

[Donkeymog]

Interesting link, though I think the article is misquoting Warren Spector. One of the comments links to this from Warren's blog:

Deus Ex was completely a response to Thief. I remember sitting in meeting after meeting with the team, arguing that it was a bad idea to de-power players to force them to sneak and avoid combat. “What if I’m not good enough to sneak past a guard? Or I just want to bash a guy over the head once in a while?” I lost all those battles (and, the way Thief turned out, I was clearly in the wrong — the game rocked). However, those lost battles led me to a place where all I could think was, “I’ll show those guys. I’ll make a game where you can sneak, fight or talk your way past any problem.” The next four years were just details — the game was born out of intense frustration with Thief.

[Donkeymog]

So I just heard that Warren Spector is writing the new Ducktales comics, which I think is a little sad. Sure, Ducktales are awesome, and I'm sure he'll have a lot of fun. But I'm very selfish and wish he'd make another awesome computer game. I remember him saying that the cool thing about teaming up with Disney Interactive was that they would allow him to keep ownership of the intellectual properties he'd been working on with Junction Point before then. So I always figured after doing Epic Mickey we'd see a much more distinctly Spector-ish project emerge. But perhaps he's just done with the games industry, which is sad.

[Vicious Parker]

Hopefully after he's done living the wet dream of his college years, we'll see what you're hoping for.

When I watched the interview that the original post is about, I remember getting the impression that Spector has kind of... moved on. Or maybe, he figured that his influence on the industry was over, but had nothing but optimism for the future of gaming.

[Donkeymog]

/>When I watched the interview that the original post is about, I remember getting the impression that Spector has kind of... moved on. Or maybe, he figured that his influence on the industry was over, but had nothing but optimism for the future of gaming.

Yeah, I definitely get that impression too. I think maybe he's just satisfied that his work is done with games and doesn't feel he could really add anything new. I'm sure the prospect of pottering around Disney contributing to random projects that take his fancy doesn't soundn't all too bad to him at this stage.

[Donkeymog]

/>Hopefully after he's done living the wet dream of his college years, we'll see what you're hoping for.

When I watched the interview that the original post is about, I remember getting the impression that Spector has kind of... moved on. Or maybe, he figured that his influence on the industry was over, but had nothing but optimism for the future of gaming.

Warren Spector seems to have been fired from Disney.

Man, I got the impression the guy loved that company. Seems like kinda a shitty break for him.

[Monkeydog]

Every time I see this topic I think it says

"Warren Spector is a Twat"

Which I feel is disrespectful.

Anyways, that is disappointing news.

[Donkeymog]

Didn’t Warren mention several times that he’s too old to still be making games? It felt that he’s been hinting that he wants to retire and this seems like a golden opportunity. I sure as hell hope he at least makes one more good game though. Call me crazy but maybe even assemble a small team and do a kickstarter for a low-fi/budget game, but one that’s deep and complex in the vein of Deus Ex? I’m sure people would literally throw money at him

Saw that posted somewhere else and thought it made some interesting points. I'll be keeping an eye out for word from the man himself.

What a shame.

[Vicious Parker]

[Donkeymog]

Thanks for the link, I'm on my tablet at the moment and won't get a proper chance to watch through it over the next few days. What are your general impressions?

[Vicious Parker]

That if there's any man I'm glad is still in this industry, it's this one. If not for his games, but for his ideas. He makes me love that I love video games.

[Xteven Xavier]

completely agree, I look forward to playing the titles he works on the next 10-15 years(if he decides he's not ready to retire for that long.)

[Donkeymog]

Arkane Studios should pick him up.

[Donkeymog]

Old but interesting:

[Donkeymog]

Old but recently emerged on the Internet:

 

[Donkeymog]

The University of Texas announces Denius-Sams Gaming Academy from Moody College of Communication on Vimeo.

Maybe I should go back to school.

[Vicious Parker]

That makes me wish I were smrter.

[Donkeymog]

So apparently Warren Spector was interviewed over at rock, paper, shotgun and I missed it.

He says some pretty interesting stuff. Says he's not done with games and that he wants go indie. He even mentions wanting to make more procedural and simulated games. This is exactly the direction I wanted him to take when he left Ion Storm. I'm really excited.