If you could save one now defunct studio, who would it be and why?

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Tough choice:

Mnementh said:

Easy answer: New World Computing! They invented some of the best game series like Might and Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic and King's Bounty. They also were not really in trouble, they only did go under because their parent company 3DO did costly experiments and bankrupted all. Had they survived they would've kept creating amazing RPGs and strategy games, I am sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmt5HZGT_y0

Definitely one of my all-time favoites, and I'm yearning for a real Might & Magic game and a HoMM, both in the orignal Science Fantasy world instead of Ubisoft's shitty High Fantasy universe of Ashan. Fuck Ubisoft!

LegitHyperbole said:

I would have said Bullfrog but we got Two point Hospital so eh. Probably Evolution studios just to see the graphics of Drive Club 2.

Bullfrog was great, as was Lionhead studios (Black & White, Fable), the follow-up studio of Peter Molyneux. 22cans, not so much...

SanAndreasX said:

Origin Systems, just to revive the Ultima series.

And also Wing Commander/Privateer while we're at it!

But despite all those great studios, my choice falls to... Sir-Tech, the studio behind the Wizardry series and also Jagged Alliance. I'm still mad that the horrendously bad Jagged Alliance 2 sales in the US (24k, compared to over 100k in Germany alone) sank the company and resulted in Wizardy 8, my favorite game ever, to never be truly finished - Sir-Tech even sold advertisement space in the game to get it to a mostly finished state and finally closed doors the week the game got released. And mad props for the developers offering support for years after the release despite Sir-tech being long defunct by that point, ironing out almost all the bugs.

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about Black and White, You just gave me such an extreme jolt of nostalgia.