Read: "make more money from games in his name now without ever needing his permission"
yeah
carry his legacy
with a release every year
I loved this guys books, I'm deeply saddened to see him go.
[QUOTE=lockdown6;42380140]none of the tom clancy series get a release every year[/QUOTE]
Well back when games weren't cash cows, Splinter Cell released on 2004, Pandora Tomorrow on 2005 and Chaos Theory on 2006, they were all great games though.
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[QUOTE=Doritos-pope;42380531]Probably because an author takes time to write stories?
Since he's dead Ubisoft takes charge of writing the stories for their own games now. And after the travesty that was AC3...
Yeah, any future TC games will have a plot that screams "I WANNA BE TOM CLANCY!!" and fails horribly.[/QUOTE]
Tom Clancy never wrote any of the games and most Tom Clancy books in recent years were written by different authors. Even then the games haven't been directly based on the stories in his books for years, they're a jumping off point.
[QUOTE=Doritos-pope;42380531]Probably because an author takes time to write stories?
Since he's dead Ubisoft takes charge of writing the stories for their own games now. And after the travesty that was AC3...
Yeah, any future TC games will have a plot that screams "I WANNA BE TOM CLANCY!!" and fails horribly.[/QUOTE]
You actually think Clancy wrote plots to all those games?
[QUOTE=Doritos-pope;42380531]Probably because an author takes time to write stories?
Since he's dead Ubisoft takes charge of writing the stories for their own games now. And after the travesty that was AC3...
Yeah, any future TC games will have a plot that screams "I WANNA BE TOM CLANCY!!" and fails horribly.[/QUOTE]
The fact that you couldn't tell that the previous games were not written by Tom Clancy is a testament to their writing ability, I suppose.
[QUOTE=Omali;42382741]The fact that you couldn't tell that the previous games were not written by Tom Clancy is a testament to their writing ability, I suppose.[/QUOTE]
you really think he's ever actually read a tom clancy book?
Damn, I really enjoyed his books..
All the Splinter Cell novels were written by David Michaels for example
[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;42380024]Read: "make more money from games in his name now without ever needing his permission"[/QUOTE]
um, wrong.
If you knew anything about the subject, you'd know that the right to his name falls to, for example, his wife (assuming he has one)
[QUOTE=Odellus;42382992]you really think he's ever actually read a tom clancy book?[/QUOTE]
I read the original Rainbow Six novel a couple years ago.
It wasn't that great. Clancy could keep a good pace going sometimes, but even his books tended to veer into action movie territory with a serious edge. So Ubisoft's games don't really fall far from the tree, aside from the plot twist reveal of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 being some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen.
Now he can finally roll in his grave about all the new games coming out.
I find it sad that a company trying to honor a man they've worked with for years who has just passed away is being hand-waved away as "OH THEY'RE JUST MONEYGRUBBING"
[QUOTE=Skyward;42387973]I find it sad that a company trying to honor a man they've worked with for years who has just passed away is being hand-waved away as "OH THEY'RE JUST MONEYGRUBBING"[/QUOTE]
Well, they are. They haven't "honored" his work since the 6th gen console games, you think they're going to suddenly do a 180 and completely change the way they make Tom Calancy games now?
Damn, I remember when I first read "The Hunt for Red October" way back
[QUOTE=STeel;42383095]All the Splinter Cell novels were written by David Michaels for example[/QUOTE]
Actually it was just a nickname. First two books were written by a different author than the rest of them - you could see that in the third book when they changed the narration style from first person to third person.
[QUOTE=STeel;42383095]All the Splinter Cell novels were written by David Michaels for example[/QUOTE]
David Michaels is the village whore of pseudonyms. He's been passed around the table so many times, nobody really knows who he is. Next to John/Jane Doe of course.
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Best TC game, in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Fingers!!!;42380222]Well back when games weren't cash cows, Splinter Cell released on 2004, Pandora Tomorrow on 2005 and Chaos Theory on 2006, they were all great games though.[/QUOTE]
First splinter cell was 2002 yo
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Also rainbow six Vegas 2 was my favourite.
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[QUOTE=STeel;42383095]All the Splinter Cell novels were written by David Michaels for example[/QUOTE]
That was a name Tom Clancy went by.
[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;42419936]Also rainbow six Vegas 2 was my favourite.[/QUOTE]
It's a fun game, my favorite Tom Clancy game (but that's not saying much since I have a lot of them on Steam but haven't played most of them), but goddamn. [sp]Gabriel being the main antagonist, as a terrorist organizer and attempted chemical weapons salesmen, of both Vegas games because of a fucking childish temper tantrum about being given hell over his own fuck-up?[/sp] The stupidity doesn't undermine the fun, but christ.
Reminds me of the Colin McRae franchise after he passed away, they used his name in the title of DiRT2 after he passed away, and in the game itself after the main tour ended, there were a series of race challenges unlocked named after him that ended in a memorial video dedicated to him.
They dropped the name after that. I'm kinda expecting Ubisoft to do the same.
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