Chris Taylor announces a sequel to Demigod

zomg!

LOL Outsourcing!

Translation: Made in China, Assembled in the USA.

Still this is great. It is obvious they are going to put it on consoles... so hopefully this will give it a big PC fan base (since it will clearly be better on PC)

Hell yeah, didn't think it would happen but really glad to hear it is on the radar.  Amazing game and I'd love to see it improved, refined and taken to that next level.

I'm still not sure I believe it.

I've sent emails to him asking for a sequel. >.<

FFS guys please watch the damn interview before posting such a thing, ALL he says is they /WOULD/ be interested in making a sequel to further milk the already stablished franchise/IP and fanbase. Hell anything he says about demigod is money related.

So yeah, wohoooooo, they MIGHT make a sequel instead of supporting demigod 1

Demigod 1 is not worth supporting.

O, interesting. Not that I'm really surprised, Demigod is the last IP with potential GPG still owns. I wonder how they are going to publish it. I hope it will be a cooperation with Stardock again.

Who else thinks the Generals' days are numbered when this goes multiplatform?

sigh

Doubt it. Supreme Commander 2 was on consoles =P

I think it's good news

Guess we got to hope for the best and that a multiplatform demigod 2 will have all the issues in demigod 1 ironed out and will be what demigod 1 was meant to be.

That's the spirit!

Why the sigh Nom?  I think DG2 would be a good thing, even if they have a console version!  Hopefully they don't fuck it up.

Again.

j

I was the one asking the questions (sorry for butchering the English language, I was sleeping only 4 hours each night that week).

"Now, some things have happened since that. We've got a lot of interest in a sequel to Demigod. And we feel that... maybe the kids will go to college if we do a really good job on the sequel, and we can make the money back that we invested in the core game and the core IP"

The only thing that MIGHT happen is making enough money. If Gas Powered Games has a lot of interest in a sequel, it's another way to say that they are going to develop it after Kings & Castles.

The way Chris talks in that video makes me think he actually is starting to understand the community. The video blogs certainly help.

@jongalt

Sigh at "demigod is not worth supporting". Sigh at the fact Chris Taylor didn't announce anything, he just said they'd be interested in making a sequel TO MAKE MONEY BACK from the initial investment in DG.

Even IF it happened (which IF made well could be great), sigh at GPG probably making a consolized POS which would be less worth playing than the original DG. Just take a look at what they did with Supreme Commander sequel.

The more i watch the interview, the more clear is to me this guy is all and only about the money (hey, maybe it's true he has no money for his kids college after all  ).

The questions asked where about money or money-related, that helps. I seemed to me that this guy is all and only about having fun. If he wanted to make more money, he could have easely become a senior executive in a big publishing company. Instead of that, he choose to remain the head of his own independant studio.

You don't care about the money when you don't need money. But Gas Powered Games has been into troubles because their games were not profitable enough. He is the CEO of the company, he needs to make sure that they make cool games, but also that they don't end up closing like Looking Glass because of bankrupcy.

After the interview, he didn't talk about money. He went to his computer, showed of video of him 12 years ago telling an hilarious story and tried to show me the latest Kings and Castles videoblog.

(Completly the opposite of Activision where the PR guy tells you that they are not a charity when you complain about the scam that the Map Packs for Modern Warfare 2 are)

Demigod 1 is definitely past its prime! We need an entirely new game, new marketing campaign to get the ball rolling again.

Thanks a lot for sharing Arth

Well i'm still hoping that the make a DG 2.  I also hope they drop the 3DS Max requirements for map making lol.  According to Brad though they shouldn't have lost money on the investment.   I also don't care if they make it a console game as long as it doesn't consolize the PC version of the game.  I did LOL when he was referencing FPS games and "muscle memory"/ dexterity for playing those on consoles.  Microsoft even did a formal study where mediocre PC FPS gamers would consistently beat the best console players out there.  The keyboard/mouse combo is far superior to the console controller (with exception to racing games & fighting games)

and yea, Supcom2 did suck lol. 

j

The only thing demigod needs is a re-release with a LOT of bug fixes, a new ladder system that actually works and includes teams, and a matchmaking system for teams.  The crappy release lost many potential players, and the complete lack of fixes to the majority of problems still around to date ensured that the slim chances of a revitalization in player base was never going to happen.

Millions of dropped lobbies, random dc's in game, and a noticeable degree of lag (if not extreme lag) in most games with a ladder that is broken beyond belief are the biggest problems.  Solve those, and it could do well.

In otherwords, a sequel.

No, in other words, SUPPORT.

I vote sequel, I want to know who won the tournament.  Hopefully Rook pulled off the upset over UB and Oak, his story is the best.

I find Rook with Mard's hammer to be kind of redundant and illogical

at this point yes, but if they do the same thing as last time (wouldn't be surprising) and don't bother to fix the main issues that they should have fixed in the first month of release of Demigod, it will just be the same story.