/v/ - Video Games

oh thanks OP, I hadn't finished reading your post that I went and downloaded the dos version, good thing you posted the port because I was giving up on those gay old school controls

Gone but not forgotten, Pandemic Studios has won my heart, not only do they have the most recognizable logo, they have created a bunch of games I hold dear to my heart. Here are some (((fun facts))) about their games.

Battlezone II (1999)

>One of the first few games to support mods thanks to Nathan Mates and Ken Miller, two employees of Pandemic Studio who had continued developing the game on their own time.

>Carey Chico, Art Director on Battlezone II said, "Well, the goal of all our effort was to provide for a strong mod community to keep the game going. Seems like it's working."

Star Wars Battlefront (2004)

>Devs added 1,200 foley or everyday sounds to show interaction with flora, fauna, and surfaces within the game, all thanks to a two-day visit to Skywalker Ranch

>The AI used two main systems. Higher objectives, such as which command post to head towards, would only be calculated every few seconds per unit. Lower level objectives such as which enemy to fire on, or defensive strategies to take against incoming fire, were calculated continuously.

Destroy All Humans (2005)

>After being rejected by Microsoft Studios for pushing a family friendly game, Matt Harding, dev at Pandemic, jokingly suggested "a game where you kill everyone", suggesting the title Destroy All Humans.

>Harding even thought of using the concept of playing as an alien invader, something that he had not seen in a video game and served as a "premise for getting to do mindless destruction that makes sense.”

>He barely worked on the game that he conceived, instead he shot the classic "Where the Hell is Matt?" videos.

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005)

>Banned in South Korea for obvious reasons

>Soundtrack composed by Michael Giacchino, known for his works in the original Call of Duty and the Medal of Honor series

>Sound designer visited Travis Air Force base to record sounds of a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy for 'added realism'

Just a bunch of devs with nothing better to do than make some video games, fuck EA for laying off the whole studio and absorbing the leftovers into 343 Industries.

>>15733571

If you really want to get nitty gritty about it the company went belly up when EA made Pandemic rush through developing a Batman: Dark Knight game so it can be released alongside the Dark Knight back in 2008.

Apparently the dev process was so rushed that when the assets were imported into a new engine it made almost every dev kit in Pandemic Studios crash.

In the end, EA cancelled its premature child, missed out on about 100 million in potential revenue, made the Brisbane, Australia branch of Pandemic shut down, which caused the rest of the devs to head to LA to finish up their last game the Saboteur. Even with the Saboteur being made, the backlash of the Batman game was so bad it couldn't keep the dev studio afloat.

What a shame, a rotten way to die.

Bonus Fun Fact: Gary Oldman was the catalyst for this because he accidentally leaked the game to G4 journos not knowing that EA wanted to keep the game secret so there would be no pressure.

>>15733687

>die a hero, live long enough to become the villain

Such is the vicious cycle of life. Valve is now a shell of its former self, EA is the opposite of their cool slogans being Challenge Everything and It's In the Game.

>make some ok pc games

>some bretty gud console ports

>get exclusive contract with Epic and Unreal Engine

>sue Epic games for not delivering UE in time

>steal code borrow code from Unreal Engine to make their own engine

>get the money Activision gave them for developing X-Men DESUtiny using the borrowed code the got from Unreal Engine without telling Activision whilst secretly funneling that money to finish Eternal Darkness 2 resulting in an unfinished game and a shit game

>lose courtcase against Epic

>Epic games counter-sues

>court awards them with $5 million Silikon knoghts has to pay

<I'M NOT WRONG U R WRONG COURT

>quadrouple down and sue court

>court doubles the amount awarded to Epic games from $5 million to $9 million for that

>in addition they must burn all unsold copies of any games developed using the Unreal Engine

>declare bankruptcy and still try to appeal the case

>appeal_thrown_the_fuck_out.exe

>lead of the studio arrested for cheese pizza with a cream filling

LEGENDS

oh and of course that time where (((Mark))) tried to bring him here to shill Eternal Darkness 2 kikestarter or whatevergreat job as usual kike

>>15733687

ouch

>>15732107

When searching for the name of this group I found out that some YouTube videos/reddit posts have thrust one of their projects into the spotlight, so maybe this information isn't as unknown as before:

Velez & Dubail Dev. Team, two French guys best known for their GBA port of DRIV3R, basically getting a 3D open world game with driving and on-foot mechanics plus car and human NPCs to run on the GBA. Stare at it for longer than a minute and the cracks begin to show, but I almost like that more, personally, because it lets you see what kind of techniques they used to get it working.