Looking Glass Studios is DOA. Damn it.

Just a few of my thoughts and feelings on Looking Glass Studios going under.

You know..... I'm seriously pissed off. This really sucks. And I do mean SUCKS. As in, Al Gore for president of the world type sucks. Looking Glass Studios, one of the worlds most inovative game studios is officially DOA. What the hell is going wrong with the world when a company who made games like Terra Nova, Thief 1&2, System Shock 1&2, & Flight Unlimited could be shut down. Expecially when companies like Ion Storm and my fav example of how NOT to run a gaming company, Headgames are still around? It's just not fair. Terra Nova was the first shooter to use the WASD movement commands, and was so damned engrossing that I played the entire game from start to finish at work with no sound. Then played it again with sound on my home machine. Hell, I still have the game and it's still fun to play. It was kinda like Tribes, but released 4 years ago. :) Their Thief series was a radical departure from the regular "I am Rambo, I can mow down 10,0000 enemies while never dying" type of shooter.You had to think, and for once, you were the panzy ass. A fight usually got you killed. And it was a great game! The whole ambience of sneaking around, trying not to get heard was a wonderful departure from the usual run 'n' gun shooter. System Shock 2 was one of the creepiest adventure games ever. An drifiting space ship. You. A thousand horrible ways to die. A mad computer back from the dead to take over the universe. Tension. Sweet. And now they're gone. I just can't understand it. Must have been sudden too, considering that they have job postings on their web site that went up less than three weeks before they went bye-bye. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR................. I'll post here if I get any more information on their closing.

Sigh.

R.I.P 2000

We'll miss you, and the gaming world is lesser for your passing.