Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject: Gen 13 (PSX, N64, or Saturn)
Was flipping through some old Wizards and saw talk of a video game planned for the PSX, N64, and Saturn based on the Gen 13 comics. Out of curiosity, whatever happened to the game?
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:
Way off topic... but damn, the Interweb is getting smaller all the time. Xanathis, remember me? Spooky from Ricyn's Emulation? How the hell have you been?
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Gen 13 (PSX, N64, or Saturn)
Xanathis wrote:
Was flipping through some old Wizards and saw talk of a video game planned for the PSX, N64, and Saturn based on the Gen 13 comics. Out of curiosity, whatever happened to the game?
You probably want to de-bbcode those urls, directly linking to them fails, why copy and pasting them works.
Of course, I have no idea what happened, but.. I would speculate that the property was pretty much no longer hot by the time the game was near completion and they decided to can it, as the comic was *dead* inside a year or so.
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: Gen13???
Gen13 was most popular when the SNES was just going out of style. So a PSX/N64 version would be a possibility....
Also wasn't Gen13 part of Wild Storm comics??? The only survivor from that group is Spawn. I mean how people remember Cybernary, WildCATS, Youngblood, or Prophet???
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:54 am Post subject: Re: Gen13???
SlyphGlitch wrote:
Also wasn't Gen13 part of Wild Storm comics??? The only survivor from that group is Spawn. I mean how people remember Cybernary, WildCATS, Youngblood, or Prophet???
A comic book store used to be in the building that our antique store is in now. We found all sorts of Youngblood and Prophet junk in the basement when we were moving stuff in.
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:09 am Post subject: Re: Gen13???
SlyphGlitch wrote:
Gen13 was most popular when the SNES was just going out of style. So a PSX/N64 version would be a possibility....
Also wasn't Gen13 part of Wild Storm comics??? The only survivor from that group is Spawn. I mean how people remember Cybernary, WildCATS, Youngblood, or Prophet???
Not quite..
Image Comics had a handful of founders. Each founder set up their own studio. Jim Lee's studio was named something, then was renamed to Wildstorm. Everything Jim Lee or his studio put out was work done by Wildstorm, published by Image. Gen 13 was one of their comics.
Spawn was at Todd McFarlane's studio, Youngblood and Prophet were at Rob Liefeld's (Extreme Studios I think, while at Image), Cybernary was Wildstorm, WildCATS too.
So, really, Gen 13 and Spawn only have the same publisher in common. Different studios. Moreover, Spawn was one of the original founder books, and is one of... I think two to still be published. Savage Dragon is the other. Gen 13 came out a couple years later.
Oh, and yeah, just about all of that old Image stuff was absolute crap. They publish much more diverse, interesting and quality stuff now, but people still have no idea because of all the horrific shit they put out back in the day.
Heh, I felt compelled to write all that, and man, I could expand so much more.. so perhaps it is time to stop!
edit: Oh, hey.. addendum! I guess this is kinda interesting stuff.
Liefeld, whose studio produced the most crap, was kicked out of the company several years ago. Then Jim Lee sold Wildstorm to DC comics. So, all those titles up there minus Spawn and Dragon either aren't published any more or are so sporadically published they might as well not be.
Oh, and the dude who was behind the beautiful art for Cybernary died of some rare disorder, he was like 24 or something. So long ago I have no idea memory of what it was.
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject:
I remember something about this... Or wait, I think it was that Leifield, or one of the other artists started his own game company that I don't think we've seen anything from.... (I think I'm wrong about which artist it was....... )
I do have a few issues of Youngblood and such, but I don't know how much it sucked, maybe I'm lucky *shrugs* I like the art, atleast...
I remember something about this... Or wait, I think it was that Leifield, or one of the other artists started his own game company that I don't think we've seen anything from.... (I think I'm wrong about which artist it was....... )
You might be thinking of Joe Madureira, who announced that he was starting his own game company early in 2002. In order to concentrate on this new venture, he stopped work on his slightly promising Battle Chasers comic, of which he had published only nine issues in four years.
His company was called Trilunar, and it folded in late 2002, months after announcing its first game, Dragonkind. He then worked as a designer on Exarch Online, a PC game that was also canceled.
Madureira most recently did a story for one of those new Street Fighter comics. He's a huge game geek. I have an old issue of GameFan with his work in the reader art section.
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:
Jim Lee's studio was Aegis Entertainment, then Homage Studios, then finally Wildstorm. DC's been publishing Wildstorm stuff for a while now (I think Stormwatch is in print, of all lame things). I can't believe this shit is "history" now. Good God I'm old.
Shit, Nick Manabat died? Badass artist with an equally badass name. It's a shame The Cybernary was never completed (at least not to my knowledge). You just had to know that something halfway creative wouldn't last at Image.
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject:
Smeg wrote:
Jim Lee's studio was Aegis Entertainment, then Homage Studios, then finally Wildstorm. DC's been publishing Wildstorm stuff for a while now (I think Stormwatch is in print, of all lame things). I can't believe this shit is "history" now. Good God I'm old.
Shit, Nick Manabat died? Badass artist with an equally badass name. It's a shame The Cybernary was never completed (at least not to my knowledge). You just had to know that something halfway creative wouldn't last at Image.
Aegis, yeah. I knew it was something kinda greek. Homage still exists as an imprint at DC, they do some typically higher quality creator owned stuff.
Stormwatch (Vol 2) was coming out for a while, but finally cancelled again a few months ago when it turned out it's writer had lied about being in the military several years ago and some other shit. It was a VERY good book, but the sales figures were declining kinda slowly (though collections were selling fine), but after he was caught in his lie everything went to shit.
The first incarnation of Stormwatch actually ended up being a great comic during it's last couple of years once it got a great writer. When they started volume two a couple years ago, everyone figured it would be crap, but it also turned out pretty good. Of course, see above paragraph, so.
Manabat died of cancer, so I guess it wasn't something rare after all. Unless it was a rare type of cancer, fuck, I dunno. Image eventually did publish at least one standalone issue of Cybernary, but by then Manabat had died.
As for what Image stands for, I am blissfully forgetful! :D
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