More Troika rumours

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:20 pm

[Company -> Update] - More info on <a href="http://wikipocalypse.duckandcover.cx/in ... tle=Troika Games">Company: Troika Games</a>

Someone passed along a link to an interesting post from <a href="http://www.robmerritt.net/">Rob Merritt</a> speculating a little on <a href="http://www.troikagames.com">Troika</a>'s closure, and their failure to secure a publisher. <a href="http://www.quartertothree.com/phpBB2/vi ... 0">Merritt writes on Quarter to Three</a>:

<blockquote>Heard some interesting rumors on Trokia from a
former employee. They said that Trokia was offered two contracts to do
rpg games on Next Gen console platforms. These contracts were good
contract too that would of easily kept the company afloat and many of
the employees wanted to take them just based on the licensed. The
management refused to take them and held out hope for a similar
contract on the pc platform. Which never came and the company folded.

</blockquote>
It's replied to by former Troika employee, Linoleum:

<blockquote>
That's news to me, although it might have occured after I left.
However, after Vampire was out the door, I don't think Troika would
have turned down Extreme Paintbrawl if it would have kept the doors
open. They were doing a small DARPA project for crying out loud.

It sounds like a case of telephone, Troika was asked to prepare a
proposal for a next-gen console treatment of an established RPG series
at the beginning of 2004. However, in the end the publisher decided to
do it on current-gen with an internal studio.

</blockquote>
I'd guess there probably was movement towards consoles and 'the mainstream' near the end of Troika's life (remember that Tim Cain
interview where he talked about MMORPGs?), although it wasn't enough
to save them. I'd be inclined to go along with the theory that the
console proposals were pitched by Troika and turned down by publishers.

And... a <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/">DARPA</a> project? Isn't that where they make power armour and mechs and stuff?

Thanks for the link, Someone.

Europa13 · Post by **Europa13** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:56 pm

yeah, theyve been up and running for a long time... Seems theyve made some headway... Of course, don't expect to join the Army and get any of this shit... Hehehe, Hell, I was in an Airborne unit and we got hand-me-down M16s, along with all our other equipment... The 82nd got the M4s and "newer" toys.... SF and DELTA are the ones who get the newest and coolest shit.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:31 pm

So they're stuck with combat-untested gear... AWESOME SIGN ME UP!

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:34 pm

Perhaps, frustrated over not getting the licence to Fallout 3, they decided to go one better and make Fallout: REAL LIFE, complete with power armour and plasma rifles?

Europa13 · Post by **Europa13** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:38 pm

Actually, some of my buddies who went to Afganistan got to field test the new weapon thats going to replace the M16... It's called the XM8...

http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/Pics/xm8b.jpg

They said they loved it for the most part... There were a few glitches that needed to be worked out, but overall, they thought pretty well of it.[/url]

Frowning · Post by **Frowning** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:49 pm

How long were they in Afghanistan, what rank in the army?

Europa13 · Post by **Europa13** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:31 pm

Well, my immediate superior was a SSG... We were both Foward Observers. I never went overseas though. He was in many different places, Saudi, Iraq, Afgan... He was part of the joint forces command, always situated behind multi-leveled compounds... He was actually in the room where they had the joint forces command in Saudi if I remember correctly, with the giant window behind him, where the various Gen. and Adm. would oversee operations. Any ways, he has a shit load of Group and DELTA buddies and Rangers & shit... I just remember a few of us sitting around a table, and him explaining the weapon and his experience with it. we were in the 18th ABN CORPS FA, BDE level (Ft. Bragg, NC). I was (as stated above) an ABN FO... I got to play Observer for a while, but then switched to Counter-Fire... Thats where you link your fire programs into the Radars, so when they track incomeing enemy rounds, you extrapolate the data and come up with the fireing points origin, then you call a fire mission on that grid and blow the enemy guns to hell. ";0) Actually, the Iraqis "had" some really good Arty, but, we had better Counter-Fire... So, any time they'd get a shot off, they'd have to kiss that piece of Arty "good bye"

Frowning · Post by **Frowning** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:11 pm

Jesusfuck... scary war stories, when you hear them first hand

Europa13 · Post by **Europa13** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:38 am

Yeah, my SSG... Heh, we use to joke around about him... Say he was more "machine" than man. I guess he was on a jump when he was in Germany or something, any ways, the plane banked and he decided to jump any ways, he got tangeled in his chute and burnt in... Broke his back in multiple places and a lotta other bones.... Compressed. He was origionally a medic back in Desert Storm... Yeah, I've heard some good stories. One that I remember was an iraqi soldier (who had just gotten his leg shot off by a .50 cal) crawling to the nearest AK-47 as they walked to him. I worked with Intelligence, so I've heard a lot of shit and seen a lot of shit on paper.

hat_man99 · Post by **hat_man99** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:12 am

So all together it was a good war huh

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:14 am

When I sit up from a soiled bowl I see a lot of shit too. OMG BROTHERS IN ARMS.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:26 am

Back in Nam I was in the Care Bears team and they sent us in when situations got real bad, like the Tet offense. We were the ones who stopped it from destroying us all.

Post by **Alexander** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:12 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:Back in Nam I was in the Care Bears team and they sent us in when situations got real bad, like the Tet offense. We were the ones who stopped it from destroying us all.

And now you are regulars at this forum... sigh... the kinds of things war can do to a person, huh?

Europa13 · Post by **Europa13** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:42 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:Back in Nam I was in the Care Bears team and they sent us in when situations got real bad, like the Tet offense. We were the ones who stopped it from destroying us all.

Yeah, I read about that in a book called "History for High School Dropouts"... If I remember correctly, the Care Bears were able to pull themselves out of that scrape by useing the secretly developed "Care Bear Stare" right?

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:45 am

The ravages of war are horrible to behold.

Forum War Syndrome - it's like Gulf War Syndrome, only it leaves you more retarded.

hat_man99 · Post by **hat_man99** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:19 am

Your a long time sufferer then

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:07 am

What about my long term sufferer?

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:02 am

I think he was asking if your long term sufferer was full of joy or something.

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:35 pm

Ah, well I suppose he is, I gave him some cake and he seems to like it.

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