Company News Stardock hires Civ 4 designer

[Whisky]

Tags: Stardock

Not content with merely hiring the creator of Fall From Heaven, the most popular Civ 4 mod, Stardock has now hired the lead designer of Civ 4, Soren Johnson. He is apparently overseeing the general design of all of their games in the coming years.

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[merle12]

Thanks for your sharing.:D

 

[Lightknight]

Nah, nothing can save Stardock games. Not even THAT.

 

[MetalCraze]

Nothing will save Stardock. And it isn't that they want to produce dumbed down games for retards like Firaxis. It's that Stardock is chock full of talentless hacks that can't even clone originals right.

 

[Marsal]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-05-16-soren-johnson-why-ive-left-ea-for-zynga

Someone may be looking for a job soon...

1. Hire Soren.
2. Snatch MoO licence.
3. Remake MoO2 with fancy graphics and minor changes to its mechanics.
4. Call it MoO 4.
5. Profit!
6. Let Soren design next MoO.
7. Profit!
8. Repeat 6. and 7. until Soren has had enough, then let him make whatever game he wants.

Called it! :rogueyd:

 

[Grunker]

Nah, nothing can save Stardock games. Not even THAT.

I was about to say this might be the only thing that could save Stardock

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-05-16-soren-johnson-why-ive-left-ea-for-zynga

Someone may be looking for a job soon...

1. Hire Soren.
2. Snatch MoO licence.
3. Remake MoO2 with fancy graphics and minor changes to its mechanics.
4. Call it MoO 4.
5. Profit!
6. Let Soren design next MoO.
7. Profit!
8. Repeat 6. and 7. until Soren has had enough, then let him make whatever game he wants.

Called it! :rogueyd:

u dreamin' son

 

[Gord]

Interesting.
I think GalCiv2 (at least with ToA) wasn't lacking so many things to become a decent successor to MoO2 (yeah, I know I'm relatively alone with this opinion here, but otoh, I think that many have never tried ToA), so who knows, it might be just what was missing.

 

[hoverdog]

Nah, nothing can save Stardock games. Not even THAT.

well, if they fire all the current staff and replace them with guys like these, and frogboy focuses on harassing female workers rather than designing, they might stand a chance.

 

[JarlFrank]

GalCiv2 is one of the most boring and soulless 4x games out there, and I played a lot of bad ones.

 

[Lightknight]

well, if they fire all the current staff

Brad cant fire himself, he's the owner.

 

[Spectacle]

well, if they fire all the current staff

Brad cant fire himself, he's the owner.

Sure he can. Just because he owns the company, it doesn't mean he has to work there.

 

[Whisky]

GalCiv2 had potential somewhere. Problem was, every time I played it, it bored me greatly. I haven't played any other Stardock games.

Only part I liked was pimping out my spaceships.

 

[hoverdog]

well, if they fire all the current staff

Brad cant fire himself, he's the owner.

see the second part of my post.

 

[Irenaeus]

That chick was hot, can't blame the guy. OT, I think GC2 was at the same time fun and boring, particularly when micromanaging lots of space stations. Combat was the most disappointing, IMO, too deterministic. It still got several things right, like race creation, ship design the Tech Trees in the second expansion. Not very fond of Terror Stars, though. I bought Fallen Enchentress but have yet to try it due to rumours it's a mess of a game.

I hope Soren brings the CIV 4 magic to Stardock.

 

[Mortmal]

We may get an improved fall from heaven now, civ 4 engine instead of elemental one and all the options offered by fall from heaven but more, with custom art . Frogboy hinted at two new games they were working on that could interest us , so that might be that.

 

[sser]

Hopefully it goes better than their run with Jon Shafer.

 

[Metro]

What they need to do is stop repackaging their fucking games: Elemental turned into FE and now FE is Legendary Heroes. Was thinking about FE but I have zero incentive to buy it since LH is standalone and includes FE. Yeah yeah, there's a 50% loyalty discount but I doubt it will stack with other sales so I'll just wait until LH itself is 50% (or more) off. Not to mention the amount of additional 'content' they are charging $20 for is questionable at best -- most being fixes/polishing of existing mechanics.

 

[DakaSha]

It still got several things right wrong, like race creation, ship design the Tech Trees in the second expansion.

Fixed

 

[Irenaeus]

Well, I liked it. I blame combat for being boring.

 

[Trash]

That chick was hot, can't blame the guy.

Fucking troglodytes man.

 

[MetalCraze]

We may get an improved fall from heaven now, civ 4 engine instead of elemental one and all the options offered by fall from heaven but more, with custom art . Frogboy hinted at two new games they were working on that could interest us , so that might be that.

Guess what Civ4 engine is bro

 

[Brotherman Bill]

Now this is what I call incline. Crossing my fingers here, this has huge potential. I mean the turn based strategy genre isn't that heavy on the production values, and when it comes to design one man with a good plan can make or break a game.