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[D347H]

Is the OMF franchise essentially dead? I never actually played BG, but 2097 will always hold a place in my heart.

Good to see my login still works though... I doubt anyone remembers me - I don't think I left as much of an impression as many of the others here did.

I found this forum via the Wikipedia entry (thank you). Well, it linked to a thread in this forum, which indicates that Rob's decided to discontinue the site - hence my above question.
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[raptor]

For all I know, he should still sit on the IP rights and what not, but I really doubt we will ever see anything more from OMF.

And don't worry, some old farts like myself still remember you, even if just vaguely (As most things are nowadays... hmm...).

Probably wouldn't be all that much to "get" from the OMF franchise any longer anyways. Something like a XBLA version of omf2097/omfbg might be about the only thing left worth some dollars, and from the look of things, Rob ain't interested in that either.
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[dvereb]

I'm still bankin' on winning the lottery, coming down to Florida (or wherever Rob is) and fully funding a remake.......... but the chances.... oh the chances

Edit: ha, appears I forgot I said this in the other thread. At least I have my ideas in order for when it happens!
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[Cyberman]

I would think you'd need about a dozen people (at least) for, say, five years.
And then you need advertising and such. Which probably costs even more.

The next best thing, IMO, would be a sort of revival of BG, using the Mod tools. If someone still had them. (And if they are usable - though I've heard their UI isn't good.)

So, a modding of the BG engine would probably be cheaper. Of course, some will say the graphics are outdated.

[edit]Of course, the first thing to do would be hacking the client to properly function in Vista and beyond.
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[MageKing17]

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[Dzament]

Given access to the full engine code (EG: The source or something) i could likely easily fix the problems with it on vista and some of the more horrific engine bugs

Then again, i work in coding and game design so

But, that happening would be dependant on me having a full variant of the code, hack-adding code to it honestly wouldn't do much i think
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[MageKing17]

If we had full engine source code, you'd probably have plenty of people willing and able to fix bugs.
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[D347H]

That's a huge shame, really. I think that, ignoring the bugs and balance etc, BG was just way too early for its time.
If it had come out around now, in the age of Steam (et al): where digital distribution is becoming the status quo, where word of mouth is the new advertising medium, where the average user's internet connection is actually good for gaming, where the world is becoming more and more interconnected; on the internet where the indie developer reigns supreme, it probably would have found more success.
(Of course, the graphics would need to be up to date, unless you took a cell-shaded or surrealist approach to the art; but that's a given - as graphics technologies improve so does the standard, but then so does the graphical design software.)
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[Dzament]

[Meowbeast]

I just recently came back to this game, and I still find it enjoyable. @ Mageking, are you maddan, or flaming monkey? I seem to remember someone changed their name.

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Meowbeast! My arch enemy... we meet again... lol
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