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PGR4 is the end of the series?

BaronVonSnakPakBaronVonSnakPak Registered User regular
edited September 2007 in Games and Technology
bizarre creations, the developers of the pgr series were bought by activision earlier this week.

in this interview with ign - http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/823/823562p1.html - there was a very disheartening, yet cryptic, quote.
IGN: Does this deal mean we might see Project Gotham Racing on multiple platforms now? Or does that belong to Microsoft?

Sarah Chudley: Microsoft own the Project Gotham Racing Brand, so sadly for all of us, PGR4 was our last PGR game. It's something that we're obviously sad to see end, but in a way, we feel it's a good time to be able to leave on a high with number 4, and with an amicable parting of the ways. It'd be horrible if the series became stale, and having done four iterations (and MSR before that) it's now a good time to give our racing team the chance to stretch their legs and move onto something new and exciting with our Activision racing title. And if Microsoft decides to continue with the series (and I know they're really passionate about it), then we're confident they'll find someone new who can look at it with a fresh pair of eyes. We look forward to seeing what they can do!

tl;dr - no more pgr made by bizzare, theyre making an activision racer, and microsoft has to find a new studio to make pgr games.

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    FireflashFireflash Montreal, QCRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    They could still be making a very similar racer, at least in terms of feel and physics, under a different name.

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    Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Insert random DC Comics City Racing joke here.

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    SpikedFreakSpikedFreak Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Does Sega still own Metropolis Street Racer title?

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    The ListenerThe Listener Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Hmm... both good and bad news. While I will miss the Project Gotham Racing's balance of arcade pick-up-and-play ness and sim punishment for stupidity as well as it's avoidance of X-TREEEM attitude, I also respect the desires of the crew to not focus on one exact series for the rest of their lives. Let's just hope that this new series is a worthy successor.

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    FireflashFireflash Montreal, QCRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    The Listener wrote: »
    Hmm... both good and bad news. While I will miss the Project Gotham Racing's balance of arcade pick-up-and-play ness and sim punishment for stupidity as well as it's avoidance of X-TREEEM attitude, I also respect the desires of the crew to not focus on one exact series for the rest of their lives. Let's just hope that this new series is a worthy successor.

    It's not a question of desire to make a different game, Microsoft owns the PGR brand, and thus, they can't make new PGR games.

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    Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Midtown Madness and later PGR were fun games, but IMO they'd pretty much run the course. Personally, I always thought they were fun, but not nearly as engaging or authentic as Gran Turismo, and later Forza. It's just personal preference, but I don't like "arcadey" driving games, I prefer them to be as realistic as possible. Forza and GT are a little arcadey themselves, compared to GTR and the like. But they're still a lot better than Gotham (or Need for Speed: Angry Youth Xtreme Hardcore).

    An Activision racer is bound to be double xtreme hardcore, including tandem drifts off of giant skulls into burning vaginas.

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    BaronVonSnakPakBaronVonSnakPak Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Xenogears of Bore wrote: »
    Insert random DC Comics City Racing joke here.

    operation metropolis racing?

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    StupornautStupornaut Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Man, there was a "when genres collide" PS thread where I shopped an Aston Martin jumping off a halfpipe in Tony Hawk and put a Kudos counter in the upper corner. Wish I still had it somewhere.

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    citizen059citizen059 hello my name is citizen I'm from the InternetRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Fatty McBeardo wrote: »
    An Activision racer is bound to be double xtreme hardcore, including tandem drifts off of giant skulls into burning vaginas.


    I'm calling Gamestop to preorder that shit right now.

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    wasted pixelswasted pixels Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    citizen059 wrote: »
    Fatty McBeardo wrote: »
    An Activision racer is bound to be double xtreme hardcore, including tandem drifts off of giant skulls into burning vaginas.


    I'm calling Gamestop to preorder that shit right now.

    Jesus, me too. I know you were being snarky, Fatty, but tandem drifts?! Giant skulls? Burning vaginas!! All it needs now is a point system for hitting pedestrians, b-b-b-b-boost power, and cell shading.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    oh no who will make our racing games now

    help us ea, sega, sony, whoever makes juiced, and nintendo!

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    bruinbruin Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    As long as they keep making racing games I don't care what it's called

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    Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    FWIW PGR4 looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. If I remember correctly there was weather in PGR2, and it made the game a lot more interesting.

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    StupornautStupornaut Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »
    oh no who will make our racing games now

    help us ea, sega, sony, whoever makes juiced, and nintendo!

    NFS (which, ProStreet's potential notwithstanding, has been crapola over the last several years), Sega Rally, Gran Turismo, Juiced (seriously, Juiced?) and Mario Kart/Excite Truck are all completely different games than PGR, a franchise which does what it does (semi-realistic but unpunishing handling + drive all super-slick-like + OMG pretty) better than most arcade racers. So yeah, there is a void here.

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    Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Forza with all the assists enabled feels a lot like PGR.

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    ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    wasted pixels wrote: »
    citizen059 wrote: »
    Fatty McBeardo wrote: »
    An Activision racer is bound to be double xtreme hardcore, including tandem drifts off of giant skulls into burning vaginas.


    I'm calling Gamestop to preorder that shit right now.

    Jesus, me too. I know you were being snarky, Fatty, but tandem drifts?! Giant skulls? Burning vaginas!! All it needs now is a point system for hitting pedestrians, b-b-b-b-boost power, and cell shading.

    Carmageddon 3, plzkthx?

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    Nitsuj82Nitsuj82 Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    As long as they keep making Forza games, I don't care. The PGR games are fun, but they don't always do it for me. Test Drive Unlimited was a lot of fun...especially at the cheap price point. NFS lost me though when I started to get bonuses the stupider my car looked. There comes a point when that much vinyl can HURT the performance of your car. You know, like when you're on your 6th layer of metallic neon graphics.

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    wasted pixels wrote: »
    citizen059 wrote: »
    Fatty McBeardo wrote: »
    An Activision racer is bound to be double xtreme hardcore, including tandem drifts off of giant skulls into burning vaginas.


    I'm calling Gamestop to preorder that shit right now.

    Jesus, me too. I know you were being snarky, Fatty, but tandem drifts?! Giant skulls? Burning vaginas!! All it needs now is a point system for hitting pedestrians, b-b-b-b-boost power, and cell shading.

    Carmageddon 3, plzkthx?

    I would kill for a new Carmageddon game that didn't suck.

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    citizen059citizen059 hello my name is citizen I'm from the InternetRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Stupornaut wrote: »
    Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »
    oh no who will make our racing games now

    help us ea, sega, sony, whoever makes juiced, and nintendo!

    NFS (which, ProStreet's potential notwithstanding, has been crapola over the last several years), Sega Rally, Gran Turismo, Juiced (seriously, Juiced?) and Mario Kart/Excite Truck are all completely different games than PGR, a franchise which does what it does (semi-realistic but unpunishing handling + drive all super-slick-like + OMG pretty) better than most arcade racers. So yeah, there is a void here.


    IMO the TOCA Race Driver series does this.

    The last entry, TRD 3, may not have the "wow" factor in terms of graphics that PGR does, but the next entry in the series (Race Driver One) is going to be using the Neon engine currently used in DiRT.

    If they can tweak the physics a bit from DiRT to make them a little better, I think they'll have a nice game there.

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    darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    they'd better finish the storyline, i have to find out what happens to Ferrari F50

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    Atlus ParkerAtlus Parker Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    darleysam wrote: »
    they'd better finish the storyline, i have to find out what happens to Ferrari F50

    This is why I hate when developers announce trilogies.

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    BaronVonSnakPakBaronVonSnakPak Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    darleysam wrote: »
    they'd better finish the storyline, i have to find out what happens to Ferrari F50
    it accelerates, it brakes, and in the process it learns how to be a father.

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    Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Atlus Parker wrote: »
    darleysam wrote: »
    they'd better finish the storyline, i have to find out what happens to Ferrari F50

    This is why I hate when developers announce trilogies.

    Well then thank God it is a quadrilogy

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    tetsuoZshimatetsuoZshima Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    tetralogy...yeah yeah theres that alien quadrilogy thing, but it's a proper name, and you can name shit anything you want =p

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    VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    tetsuoZshima wrote: »
    tetralogy...yeah yeah theres that alien quadrilogy thing, but it's a proper name, and you can name shit anything you want =p

    I always knew quadrilogy had to be wrong since it clearly kept the 'ri' from 'tri'.

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    Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Variable wrote: »
    tetsuoZshima wrote: »
    tetralogy...yeah yeah theres that alien quadrilogy thing, but it's a proper name, and you can name shit anything you want =p

    I always knew quadrilogy had to be wrong since it clearly kept the 'ri' from 'tri'.

    But it just sounds so much cooler.

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    darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    BaronVonSnakPak wrote: »
    darleysam wrote: »
    they'd better finish the storyline, i have to find out what happens to Ferrari F50
    it accelerates, it brakes, and in the process it learns how to be a father.

    Project Gotham Racing 4: Finish the Race

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    InzignaInzigna Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    darleysam wrote: »
    BaronVonSnakPak wrote: »
    darleysam wrote: »
    they'd better finish the storyline, i have to find out what happens to Ferrari F50
    it accelerates, it brakes, and in the process it learns how to be a father.

    Project Gotham Racing 4: Finish the Race

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    BaronVonSnakPakBaronVonSnakPak Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    when they blow out, the skid marks will speak for them.

    nub.

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    SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    4 games, and still no Batman

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    InzignaInzigna Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    An honest to goodness Gotham racing game would be lame, face it.

    Objective: Beat the Joker to the potential crime scene!
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    EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    I still play MSR on a semi-regular basis, so here's hoping that Bizarre can just cheat and make a Metropolis Street Racer 2 and have the exact same gameplay as the PGR games.

    Assuming they can work a deal with whoever owns the MSR name, be it Bizarre, Microsoft, or Sega.

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    OmeksOmeks Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    PGR is going to Activision?

    The first order of business will be to add the Batmobile as an unlockable car, because they've been waiting years to cash in on the joke and now's the time of reckoning.

    And in their heads, everyone will laugh so hard they'll forget how terrible the game is.

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