Fuck, don't remind me about that.
Can't the peeps at Liverpool dump some art, footage or whatever of their WipeOut project at least?
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Sony close Studio Liverpool
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Fuck, don't remind me about that.
Can't the peeps at Liverpool dump some art, footage or whatever of their WipeOut project at least?
helloiamgary
Neo Member
I spent insane amounts of time playing destruction derby on the PS1, I was hoping for a remake at some point but there goes that plan. Very sad day for the british gaming industry.
Love Wipeout and the continued support the vita version has been getting.
Going to hook up the PS1 and do some smashing.
Love Wipeout and the continued support the vita version has been getting.
Going to hook up the PS1 and do some smashing.
Neuromancer
Member
Public service announcement: you can download 23 songs from Wipeout/Wipeout 2097 by Cold Storage legally and for free here (scroll to the bottom of the page):
http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/music.html
http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/music.html
KennyLinder
Member
It will probably leak out.
KennyLinder
Member
It would of been awesome if wipEout on PS4 was anything like the original plans for 2048. I guess we will never know 
It would of been awesome if wipEout on PS4 was anything like the original plans for 2048. I guess we will never know
...what was the original plan for 2048?
zomgbbqftw
Banned
That will leak out for sure, it's the cancelled projects from 2009-2012 which are much more interesting and will shut people up about "oh they only made WipEout so who cares".
So sad.
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
Ugggggh - this is depressing. Another in a long line of casualties this gen that's starting to make me realize that the games i happened to like might be on ice for a good period of time :/
I was at Uni in Liverpool during the playstation launch build up and the Game store in the city center used to have Wipeout on a big projection screen running constantly. I used to go and watch Wipeout running - just mesmerized by what i was seeing (and hearing).
I chatted with some guys at Psygnosis at a recruiting drive at our Uni around 96 when i was looking for a post-degree job and whilst i would have loved to go work there i decided to not mix work/pleasure and didn't go for the interviews. :/
Utterly gutted by the news - like a part of my gaming life has died. Hope all the wizards get new gigs elsewhere as soon as possible.
And thanks for all thefish piranhas.
I was at Uni in Liverpool during the playstation launch build up and the Game store in the city center used to have Wipeout on a big projection screen running constantly. I used to go and watch Wipeout running - just mesmerized by what i was seeing (and hearing).
I chatted with some guys at Psygnosis at a recruiting drive at our Uni around 96 when i was looking for a post-degree job and whilst i would have loved to go work there i decided to not mix work/pleasure and didn't go for the interviews. :/
Utterly gutted by the news - like a part of my gaming life has died. Hope all the wizards get new gigs elsewhere as soon as possible.
And thanks for all the
I had no clue this was for a racing game when I first saw the ad. So many memories.
Hunter-Zero
Member
It would of been awesome if wipEout on PS4 was anything like the original plans for 2048. I guess we will never know
Come on, spill the beans already...plz?
They will be missed.
We need to go deeper!
Can't seem to find my Japanese copy of Pure nor my Pal PSone trilogy though...only the WipEout 3 SE. Think I put those in storage.
How do you record from w2048? Quality is great.
I didn't. Studio Liverpool donated the footage
;_;
I know a lot of GAF don't go on PlayStation Home, I'm no fan of Wipeout (I suck at it, though I LOVE the designs) but I thought the Wipeout Museum in Home was cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEWXMKE5gY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEWXMKE5gY
KennyLinder
Member
...what was the original plan for 2048?
It was going to be open world. Think Burnout Paradise BUT.. You can drive up the side of buildings as well. COOL as fuck idea.
Anticitizen One
Banned
I will never forgive Sony for this
Heres another early ps1 game it actually had billboards in the original Wipeout but I never got around to playing it:
Heres another early ps1 game it actually had billboards in the original Wipeout but I never got around to playing it:
Aww shiit.
We need to go deeper!
Can't seem to find my Japanese copy of Pure nor my Pal PSone trilogy though...only the WipEout 3 SE. Think I put those in storage.
...Wait, I knew about WipEout on N64.
But on Saturn too? Seriously? O___O
What was Little Deviants supposed to be before they scrapped it a year out from release?
KennyLinder
Member
Remember the tech demo? An entire adventure/platform game like that full of puzzles to get to end "gate". We loved it, but the powers that be thought the game was too hard to control (which it was, to be fair), so we had to very quickly rethink what to do. We came up with an idea for mini-games using the different control inputs.
Hunter-Zero
Member
Not feeling it...maybe that would fit Rollcage better, but not in wipeout imho
DidntKnowJack
Member
Ah, what memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7vOEQy1Sh0
Also interesting to see what that course looked like in the Wipeout 3 Special Edition. (Which we obviously never got here in North America.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7vOEQy1Sh0
Also interesting to see what that course looked like in the Wipeout 3 Special Edition. (Which we obviously never got here in North America.)
GoofsterStud
Member
It happens
Oh yeah. There even were pc ports for the original and XL/2097.
The Saturn ports were actually extremely nice. Not quite as buttery smooth as the PSone originals, and the transparacy effects were replaced by the mesh texture. But there was no wobbly polygon syndrome like in the PSone games, which is something most games had back then.
TheBioLover
Member
Son, you dun goofed.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
I will never forgive Sony for this
Heres another early ps1 game it actually had billboards in the original Wipeout but I never got around to playing it:
You didn't miss out on anything. Frankly, the game wasn't very good, even if the premise was fun (the world has gone to shit with various factions using giant mechas to wage war, so Russia sends in a drunken lunatic in a giant mecha as a last ditch effort to defeat the others, or something like that).
It got ported to PC too. Desruction Derby also got PC and Saturn ports.
Zekra Dezivad
Member
Sorry, but I really don't like open world racing games
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Yup, all while being owned by Sony. Wipeout is a weird game and its history.
PixyJunket
Member
Wipeout has (in my opinion) not been very good since 3, but this is really sad news.
Of course, then I look at their Wikipedia page and compare the list of games as Psygnosis to the list of games as SCE Studio Liverpool and just laugh.
Sony.
Of course, then I look at their Wikipedia page and compare the list of games as Psygnosis to the list of games as SCE Studio Liverpool and just laugh.
Sony.
Hmm, the PSP ones were pretty great, I thought. Especially Pure -- playing that game during PSP launch was just mindblowing. A game like that on a handheld. It was just amazing.
Never played the PS3 WO, but I hear the Vita WO is also great. Just bought it last night in fact, and look forward to playing it when my Vita arrives.
test_account
XP-39C²
I remember when we upgraded from 4MB RAM to 12MB RAM, one of the first thing i did was to play the Destruction Derby demo
Game required 8MB RAM.GoofsterStud
Member
I loved Wipeout on Sega Saturn. >.>
I preferred the Sega Saturn Wipeout as it was much faster...both in graphics speed and game play. The graphics were lacking in comparison though...but the speed was worth it. Plus the SS Wipeout had a better soundtrack.
Sega Saturn also had 2 Wipeout games.
I preferred the Sega Saturn Wipeout as it was much faster...both in graphics speed and game play. The graphics were lacking in comparison though...but the speed was worth it. Plus the SS Wipeout had a better soundtrack.
Sega Saturn also had 2 Wipeout games.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Wait a second. Pulse was on PS2?
Opus Angelorum
Member
I love Wipeout HD, so smooth.
Yep, I think a lot of people forget Saturn had games like Tomb Raider too.
PixyJunket
Member
The PSP games were lacking, something, I just could never pinpoint what. I tried to like them.
Wipeout HD was GORGEOUS, but the laughable difficulty just made the game not very much fun to play (and I didn't care about online).
I haven't tried the Vita game yet, but I would sure like to at some point.
Very weird. Everywhere you look it says they were bought by Sony in 1993, but I remembered reading in magazines at the time when WipEout 64 came out that it would be the last game that they would put out on non Sony hardware. Stating how they were bought up by Sony.
So confusing.
Yes, but the port was done by Spiral House. Not the best version of the game to say the least...
Neuromancer
Member
Yep the best part of Home. Maybe I'll swing by tonight to see if anyone's in there.
Neuromancer
Member
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
AlphaTwo00
Member
Had to look it up. EU only, that's why I didn't know it existed.
I thought it was smoother actually, but with some weird effects and no transparencies.
GoofsterStud
Member
The first one was much faster and more responsive. Playing them one after the other will make a huge impact.