I just sent a message to Chris Taylor.
| Submitted by Raymus on Tue, 2016-05-24 06:15 | ||
I didn't really ask anything or say anything of much importance. I sought him out mostly to sate my own curiosity of what the big man behind Dungeon Siege is doing nowadays, what with our beloved Gas Powered Games being no more. But if I were to actually get a response and establish contact with this guy... any questions you all might have? I kind of want to let him know that we're still active and working on the game. It'd be pretty cool to get recognized by him, no? blogs: |
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If he does respond I would like to know if he's got any armour, weapons, jewellery or code that wasn't used in the game backed up somewhere, and if he has, can I get my grubby little mitts on them. :fishing:
I would request an open access to the source code of the game, it would help to even more mod the game. But I'm pretty sure of the answer. At least a way to create a script extender with DS2Dll, that would be nice :). But again the answer will be close to no for sure :? .
Square Enix bought the rights from Chris Taylor.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/119913/E3_Square_Enix_Owns_Dungeon_Siege_IP_Moves_Into_Western_RPG_Market.php
I've known they bought the rights ever since it happened. They bought the rights, churned out one sub-par game with DS's name slapped on top of it, and then forgot about it.
That said, Chris Taylor is still the one who led design for the original, DS2, and BW.
Legends of Aranna and the other expansions I believe were made with other teams, much in the way that Fallout: New Vegas was made by Obsidian after Bethesda made Fallout: 3.
In fact, Mad Doc software went on to become a division of Rockstar a while after Legends of Aranna. Made me wonder if Dungeon Siege III would've come out better if some branch of Rockstar had bought the rights...
All that besides, I still think it will be cool to meet the main guy and see what he's up to, whether he has any assets we can use or not. And I'm willing to bet he'll enjoy seeing that Dungeon Siege is still being played and loved and modded to this day, eh?
Honestly after watching a few old interviews with him, I'm willing to bet he only sold the rights to the games as the company was going down to ensure that all of his employees were paid properly... He's actually quite a nice guy, from what I can tell.
found this: http://scottbilas.com/games/dungeon-siege/
while looking at this: http://glampert.com/2015/09-16/reverse-engineering-dungeon-siege/
I know he's no Chris Taylor, but Scott Bilas was the driving force behind why Dungeon Siege is such a mod friendly game.