Is anything going to happen to T:V. I don't want the only good tribes game to turn into a browser game.

Flamebait.

Hopefully they pretend it never existed.

This.

The next Tribes game better be called Tribes 3. It would be disrespectful to call it anything else.

T:V deserves that name, Thank you. That's probably why it got it too. It wasn't finished properly but at least it still has that better game play feeling when you play it. The other Tribes were good but I still feel this game really surpassed them in that sense. T:V still lacked the amount of depth that T2 has though, and it was a shame they had to bail on it:(.

Fallen Empire Legions is a fairly nice "Spiritual successor" of Tribes and personally, I really love the jet pack and the freedom of movement it brings to this game. The "Downjet" feature was a great concept that makes this game quite different from the other tribes games in a good unique way. I'm hoping to see many more improvements into this game though and the amount of depth in the game content could really use a boost.
This game is great and all but.... The character size relationship with the environment feels far too small. I mean if you look at an incoming capper or anyone out on the field they look like some sort of firefly lol. Another thing is that its a lot harder to defend than to offend which really makes this game unbalanced. My guess to that is probably because you can't quickly get a boost to catch up to your enemy when he grabs the flag at like 150+ speed and you have to spend some valuable time trying to get somewhat close to that. In T:V you had the grappler which really balanced out the game play for the Defense.

Anyway, I really do hope that Garage Games does make a Tribes 4 and that it would consist of key elements of all the Tribes games put into this succesor game and that Garage Games would not "just pretend T:V never existed".

-Thanks

They want to get people excited about Tribes again, T:V has no place in that world.

I doubt T:V is going to be in a browser anytime soon.  The game took a DVD of space and the specs for the Unreal 2.5 engine are still fairly high compared to Legions, T1, and T2.

I feel like T:V deviated enough from Tribes for it to not really be considered Tribes 3.  Unfortunately, Legions will not be Tribes 3 either.

EDIT: Oh FFS, can't I call a game an illegitimate child, using the correct FRAKIN WORD? For the love of god, its not a bloody curse word, certainly not in this context.

*chocolate cow pie*, Tribes:Vengeance was the *butter ball* child of a great series, and even as a *butter ball* its far more worthy than many other popular games today. It’s a sad story, with a little love and care, not to mention another six or so *dancing* months of development, T:V could have been a worthy offspring of the once great child series.

However, T:V was pushed out the door to early by a greedy publisher, scarified with the likes of Vampire:Bloodlines and KOTOR2 on the alter of the Christmas release glut against the likes of HL2. It had no support, it had no backing, and yet still it managed to hold on for several years, thanks to a dedicated community of players trying to make up for and fix the bugs, imbalances and other problems that plagued the game on release.

It was a good game despite how broken it was, but just not a good Tribes game.

So I call it a *butter ball*.

Now, a *butter ball* can be shunned, ignored, driven away… or you can take the shameful child to your breast and nurture it, make it yours. That’s all that T:V needed, a little love, care, (and a good amount of hard yakka) to fix up the borked multiplayer that crippled her.


However, as Wattlerbottle said, it took up an entire DVD, hell, Tribes:ReVengeance (TeeVee minus the single player + community content) was a 1.6 gig download, and that was all RAR’ed.

Bottom line is, we won’t be seeing Tribes:Vengeance in a browser any time soon, and not without some serious revamping.

I disagree. I played t1 for about 2 months before t2 came out, I was one of the few that the game worked fine out of box for. I've never wasted away more hours playing a game more than t2. Even went to a couple big *bumm* lans in a 5 star hotel ( the year they announced tv previews and developer meet and greets, *chocolate cookie* sold out in less than 24 hours)


yes and no. iirc, there was never any more depth ever coming to that game, the fantasy patch everyone believed was coming only fixed minor map issues. imo, changing the engine the game was built on was the biggest mistake, but in the end the developers had zero say in that. doomed to fail from the start. see this thread for the full inside dish ( from the folks who made it) on the "doomed from the start" game of tv http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=457247



I agree with all but last sentance, we can hope right?

and when I read rougeys big ffs, all I could think of was "OH GOOD!" from this (nsfw lyrics) 22 seconds in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48

T:V is a single player game. The multiplayer was a poorly designed and underdeveloped after-thought. It's in a category with games like Far Cry and Crysis - single player was entertaining, but the multiplayer is totally pointless and only there just as a throw-in. I'm not saying that the T:V campaign was as good as those games.

Now why does this seem a familiar topic? -.-

Mreh. A fair whack of T:v multiplayer certainly screwed the pooch. However, personally, I adored the movement (including the grappler), which has yet to be bettered (again, for me) in any other game. I also enjoyed the flag passing and most of the combat (some weapons were just shitteh).

Vanilla T:v sucked a serious amount of arse, but the tweaked version that kept me entertained for four years is still, for me, a gameplay experience unlike any other.

I'm going to guess that a lot of T1 and T2 players would say the same of their own experiences in those games.

I'm not letting any personal bias of its gameplay affect my opinion which is based purely on the amount of people who played the game. In that regard T:V is a flop among flops. Now if T:V was this hugely popular game I would suggest it be represented here and have no problem calling it Tribes3 whether I personally hated it or not.

What's funny about T:V is that I didn't really like it but my other friends that never liked tribes loved it.

the single player in T:V was decent.  the MP never did it for me though.