Little von
08-14-2004, 03:52 PM
A little background to start things...
The very first gaming forum I ever went on was the old Lords of the Realm II forum. I had bought a copy of that game for my son's B-day and when he opened it, there was no manual in the box. I went back to Best Buy here in Laredo, TX, where I had purchased it and found out after they did a regional, state and finally a national scan of their outlets that I had apparently bought the very last copy of Lords II in their inventory. No other copies available to swap and so no manual for me.
Well, I liked what I had seen of the game upon starting it and decided to keep it and check out the site they had included on the game CD for more game info. What a find! Not only was I able to learn enough about the game on the forums to play it, I had found a new home with people of like interests..., gaming.
When the Lords III forum opened in anticipation of the pending release of that game, I was among the first to join that community. Man, that was a busy place back then as some of you TM devs probably remember. The "blue guys" were frequent participants on those early L3 forums.
It was a big surprise for all of us when VU bought Sierra. It was even a bigger surprise and a very big disappointment when y'all walked off the job at Imps and went out on your own shortly thereafter. I stayed on that forum, but never really heard the reasons for your leaving. Since that time and especially with the L3 game they released and the recent closing of both Imps and Sierra, I can very well imagine why you left the joint. *imagine and insert appropriate foul comments about VU and their gaming dev "style" here*
Okay, I'm finally getting to the point of this thread. The L3 game that was being talked about and written about on that original L3 forum seemed a lot different (more complex, more in depth, more immersing..., more... "better") than the game they released as Lords of the Realm III. Is it so? Was their intent to strip the heart out of the game and does that have anything to do with all of you leaving?
I am sure the reason you left Imps are many, varied and complex, but being as I am (was) a loyal fan of the old, original Imps Studios, I was hoping you could perhaps shed some light on what all of that was about.
Why did you abandon us and leave us and your beautiful embryonic Lords of the Realm III in the hands of the VU suits?
P.S. Hey, and with all due respects, if you can't talk about it yet, don't. I just had to get that off of my chest. It was almost 3 years of my life spent on the L3 forum waiting for that game to finally be released, that's all. I'm glad I finally found this place and I am looking forward to the release of CotN. ;)
The very first gaming forum I ever went on was the old Lords of the Realm II forum. I had bought a copy of that game for my son's B-day and when he opened it, there was no manual in the box. I went back to Best Buy here in Laredo, TX, where I had purchased it and found out after they did a regional, state and finally a national scan of their outlets that I had apparently bought the very last copy of Lords II in their inventory. No other copies available to swap and so no manual for me.
Well, I liked what I had seen of the game upon starting it and decided to keep it and check out the site they had included on the game CD for more game info. What a find! Not only was I able to learn enough about the game on the forums to play it, I had found a new home with people of like interests..., gaming.
When the Lords III forum opened in anticipation of the pending release of that game, I was among the first to join that community. Man, that was a busy place back then as some of you TM devs probably remember. The "blue guys" were frequent participants on those early L3 forums.
It was a big surprise for all of us when VU bought Sierra. It was even a bigger surprise and a very big disappointment when y'all walked off the job at Imps and went out on your own shortly thereafter. I stayed on that forum, but never really heard the reasons for your leaving. Since that time and especially with the L3 game they released and the recent closing of both Imps and Sierra, I can very well imagine why you left the joint. *imagine and insert appropriate foul comments about VU and their gaming dev "style" here*
Okay, I'm finally getting to the point of this thread. The L3 game that was being talked about and written about on that original L3 forum seemed a lot different (more complex, more in depth, more immersing..., more... "better") than the game they released as Lords of the Realm III. Is it so? Was their intent to strip the heart out of the game and does that have anything to do with all of you leaving?
I am sure the reason you left Imps are many, varied and complex, but being as I am (was) a loyal fan of the old, original Imps Studios, I was hoping you could perhaps shed some light on what all of that was about.
Why did you abandon us and leave us and your beautiful embryonic Lords of the Realm III in the hands of the VU suits?
P.S. Hey, and with all due respects, if you can't talk about it yet, don't. I just had to get that off of my chest. It was almost 3 years of my life spent on the L3 forum waiting for that game to finally be released, that's all. I'm glad I finally found this place and I am looking forward to the release of CotN. ;)