Topic: Now here is a game i can't wait for !!!!!

[Pestalence]

http://www.taldren.com/projects.html

the link should say it all...
 

[Sirgod]

Yep. It looks pretty good. Nice to see taldren Getting into the MMORPG or whatever It's called.

BTW Love the new front end there Taldren.

stephen

[Age]

    Looks great  and I will secound what Sirgod said and this something Different for Taldren  

[Praxis]

No offense Taldren...
It looks sort of...
I dunno...
silly?
(people are going to hurt me now)
 

[Reverend]

I heard it has bombed, big time, and sadly... looks very exciting, and I do love good PvP...
someone please correct me otherwise... I was THIS close to buying Shadowbane, but two someones said it bombed badly...
Admin, any response? Anyone bought this yet? Really disapponinted, as the pictures and the box's pictures are totally awesome....  

[Sirgod]

Quote:
No offense Taldren...
It looks sort of...
I dunno...
silly?
(people are going to hurt me now)
   

Alright Praxis.   look to your left and then to your right. Find the nearest wall and do this.  

You may stop when you repent.  

Stephen

[Pestalence]

Quote:
I heard it has bombed, big time, and sadly... looks very exciting, and I do love good PvP...
someone please correct me otherwise... I was THIS close to buying Shadowbane, but two someones said it bombed badly...
Admin, any response? Anyone bought this yet? Really disapponinted, as the pictures and the box's pictures are totally awesome....  

Umm, i dunno how you almost bought the game in the link above since it is in Pre Beta development????

Stores haven't even heard of it yet.. Taldren just announced it on their web site...

so how , prey tell, have you almost bought it?
 

[Ravok]

 Boy howdy it looks really good to me!!! If it comes out as promised the replay ability should be excellent!!!
 i cant wait. Honestly and i don't have to worry about support after the game is sold either!!!!! That makes it a big plus in my book.  

[Sirgod]

Pesty, Shadow Bane is an older lisence and the first two iterations have been out already my friend. EB also used this in a huge X-mas campaign this last year. It's a great game though what little I played it.

 Shadow Bane

and

 Shadowbane: The Rise of Chaos

An honest mistake I'm sure though. It's nice too know though that taldrn is continuasly Grabbing ahold of new licenses and growing. It makes me proud to be a part of a community that has the potential in this new game to be the biggest clan yet for a game.

Of course they need an easter Egg Klingon to kick around, Or at least kroma.  

Stephen

[Pestalence]

My appologies.. i never saw the title in stores or in any ads.. so i guess it never went over that big.. hopefully Taldren's rendition of it will kick some major arse..
 

[Sirgod]

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My appologies.. i never saw the title in stores or in any ads.. so i guess it never went over that big.. hopefully Taldren's rendition of it will kick some major arse..
 

I'm sure taldren will put there spin on the game, and make It very enjoyable. I'm sure Reverand will also understand as he's a great guy here in OKC. He's been by my house a few times knowing I dont have a car, and offering to Help me out If I need to go anywhere.

Is he a crazy Russian? Yep.

Is he a great guy? Yep.

Now you two pass the Vodka, and let's get the word out on this new Game.  

Stephen

[Erik Bethke]

To be clear, the team in CA is indeed re-vamping Shadowbane for the Korean and Chinese markets (it is kinda weird, I am over here in Korea working on a new MMO, and the CA team is working on a title for Korea right now).

I am sure you guys could get in and play, but the playerbase will be mostly Korean and a fierce set of Chinese clans that the Korean player base whines about! ;-)

Taldren as a whole has shifted over to concentrating on online / service / small games and somewhat away from console work.  We want to create games where our connection to the players is as close as possible.  That may sound hooey, but it is true, working behind several middle businesses is not satisfying.

-Erik

[Toasty0]

Actually, if my analysis is worth anything, I think that is the correct course of development to take at this time. A poor analogy is the time in film devlopment history when the Big Studios were calcifiing and it was the independents who made the market happen with the best product.

Best,
Jerry  

[Sirgod]

Quote:
To be clear, the team in CA is indeed re-vamping Shadowbane for the Korean and Chinese markets (it is kinda weird, I am over here in Korea working on a new MMO, and the CA team is working on a title for Korea right now).

I am sure you guys could get in and play, but the playerbase will be mostly Korean and a fierce set of Chinese clans that the Korean player base whines about! ;-)

Taldren as a whole has shifted over to concentrating on online / service / small games and somewhat away from console work.  We want to create games where our connection to the players is as close as possible.  That may sound hooey, but it is true, working behind several middle businesses is not satisfying.

-Erik  

I want to  know how you plan to do this when you have all this scheduled...

 

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 fix the bMachine blogging install
figure out what the Amazon Honor system is about and see if I can use it to get more Mosquito Nets!
find a faster way to publish my photos, someone must have written a tool for that
add 10 new photos a week

make myself do 5 book reviews for each new book I want to buy
flesh out the politics page with the essays I have already written
create some Change What You Buy logos and get them on some Cafe Press shirts - again to get more Mosquito nets!
write up an over view of where I think we should go with space - specifically add Zubrin's books and review
add the commencement speach I did for the Art Institute
add projects page
 

From  http://www.erikbethke.com/  

Stephen

[Erik Bethke]

hehehe...

the webstuff - ahh that is easy stuff to crank out... I think I have spent only about 15 hours or so on my sight so far...

Getting the blog/forum up is just a little pain, it seems my web company doesn't want .html and cgi folders in the same directory so I have to change some of bMachine's scripts or find another blogger.

actually I don't list all of my projects for this very reason - I don't want people to think I am not focused on particular projects - but I just plain love to create and work all the time.  I don't watch TV and lately I have almost stopped watching movies...  but I have increased my time with friends chatting and drinking beer....

I spend a lot of time studying korean... does anyone know how to conistently get unicode in BB code?  I see some BB boards support just the subject lines and others the bodies as well.  Here, nothing....

-Erik    

[Ravok]

Quote:
Actually, if my analysis is worth anything, I think that is the correct course of development to take at this time. A poor analogy is the time in film devlopment history when the Big Studios were calcifiing and it was the independents who made the market happen with the best product.

Best,
Jerry  

 I think this is a verry astute observation!!!!!!!!  

[TalonClaw]

Quote:
To be clear, the team in CA is indeed re-vamping Shadowbane for the Korean and Chinese markets (it is kinda weird, I am over here in Korea working on a new MMO, and the CA team is working on a title for Korea right now).

I am sure you guys could get in and play, but the playerbase will be mostly Korean and a fierce set of Chinese clans that the Korean player base whines about! ;-)

Taldren as a whole has shifted over to concentrating on online / service / small games and somewhat away from console work.  We want to create games where our connection to the players is as close as possible.  That may sound hooey, but it is true, working behind several middle businesses is not satisfying.

-Erik  

And after your rake in all that DOH from your SB MMORPG can we have a MMOG of Starfleet Command 4??? With a persistent universe?  
 

[Praxis]

Hopefully Taldren will make enough money off of this game to pay for the costs of making a SFC4

[Toasty0]

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the webstuff - ahh that is easy stuff to crank out... I think I have spent only about 15 hours or so on my sight so far...

LOL...sorry Erik, but you asked for this zing...

Yes, any one can use a word processor and even compose a sentence or two, but ultimately it is the skill of the user/coder that determines wether or not what is produced is a Pulitzer or just more drek cluttering the internet transome.

That aside, I honestly suggest that even though frontpage does offer a plathora of templates (and thus shortens development time for the rookie), it ultimately lacks any sense of a visual cohesion(sp) and thematic style that is so important to a succesfull internet site.

I have 3--strike that--I have 4 sites I suggest you look at for excellence is style and workability.

http://www.codeproject.com/index.asp

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html

http://www.bankofamerica.com/index.cfm

and last but surely not least--

http://www.taldren.com/

Best,
Jerry  

[Erik Bethke]

Hey Jerry,

Let me get this straight, you took your time to write a post to tell me that there are at least 4 websites on the internet that are much better than mine.

Nice,
-Erik