F.e.a.r newbie here, What happened to f.e.a.r and monolith?

[JIIINGJING]

Like the series fell of after Extraction point (I like it) and what happened to monolith? Why did f.e.a.r series fell?

[Species1571]

IP was owned by the publisher (Activision I believe). Just before FEAR 2 released, - originally just called Project Origin, before the rights to the FEAR name were bought back just in time to call it FEAR 2: Project Origin, although the name FEAR was never mentioned in the game. Monolith was then owned by Warner Bros games and made to do the games that WB wanted them to do, which of course failed to perform as required and naturally the blame falls on the studio for doing exactly as they were asked and ultimately shut down by WB just a couple of weeks ago.

[JIIINGJING]

Who is it to blame?

[Cobra Commander]

Originally posted by JIIINGJING:

Who is it to blame?

Maybe it's the Monolith guys for taking the money and running. Maybe it's AT&T for restructuring Time Warner. Maybe it's Warner Bros for not supporting their best studio. With enough rich white people, everything starts to turn into a circle jerk.

edit: "people" not "men" because samantha ryan is a woman

[target_changelevel]

Originally posted by Cobra Commander:

white people

Originally posted by Cobra Commander:

woman

Why did you mention that?
Do you think their skin colours and genders somehow related to the Monolith and FEAR issues?

[Cobra Commander]

Originally posted by target_changelevel:

Originally posted by Cobra Commander:

white people

Originally posted by Cobra Commander:

woman

Why did you mention that?
Do you think their skin colours and genders somehow related to the Monolith and FEAR issues?

These are the facts of the case. These people together with six, seven figure incomes are so thoroughly disconnected from the people they make products for that it is laughable to ignore the incredible disparity (in income) between the people making the art and the people consuming the art. To cherrypick a statement for passing mentionings of race, color, creed, sexuality, or any thing the woke generation says with clicking tongues and tutting words is not to pass the lips of any "civilized" member of "society" is awful. It's an awful thing to do like making potions out of bleach and snake guts then putting them in a contact lens fluid bottle in the bathroom. Horrible. Horrible.

[target_changelevel]

Originally posted by Cobra Commander:

Originally posted by target_changelevel:

Why did you mention that?
Do you think their skin colours and genders somehow related to the Monolith and FEAR issues?

These are the facts of the case. These people together with six, seven figure incomes are so thoroughly disconnected...

But for some reason you said "With enough rich white people" not just "With enough rich people" in that comment.
Looks like you think with more diversity in skin colours of those rich people Monolith situation would be better.

[JIIINGJING]

So do we blame... uhhhhhhhhhhhh warner bro's?

[Cobra Commander]

Originally posted by target_changelevel:

Originally posted by Cobra Commander:

These are the facts of the case. These people together with six, seven figure incomes are so thoroughly disconnected...

But for some reason you said "With enough rich white people" not just "With enough rich people" in that comment.
Looks like you think with more diversity in skin colours of those rich people Monolith situation would be better.

I’m not sure what it’s like in your country, but here we have a problem group called the KKK and I do think they played a role in Monolith’s closure.

Edit: it hardly seems coincidental (to me) that Monolith closes so soon after criminal white guy Trump takes office

[NeutronVortex]

Originally posted by Cobra Commander:

I’m not sure what it’s like in your country, but here we have a problem group called the KKK and I do think they played a role in Monolith’s closure.

Edit: it hardly seems coincidental (to me) that Monolith closes so soon after criminal white guy Trump takes office

Politics have rotted your brain.

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[JIIINGJING]

I'm glad im in a country that is not affected by the us government

[JIIINGJING]

Also what is dat?

[target_changelevel]

Originally posted by Cobra Commander:

I’m not sure what it’s like in your country, but here we have a problem group called the KKK and I do think they played a role in Monolith’s closure.

Edit: it hardly seems coincidental (to me) that Monolith closes so soon after criminal white guy Trump takes office

It is strange that people vote for criminals and foreign agents.
We also had such "president", he ran away to Trump's favourite country for some reason.
Maybe Trump will run to that place also.

I doubt that Monolith’s closure has something to do with that.
Monolith was just ineffective after FEAR 1.
They should respect people who played expansions before FEAR 2 and do not change their mind of expansions "canonicity":

"The expansion is part of the original agreement between Monolith and VG, and Monolith is working very closely with new developer TimeGate Studios (Kohan, Axis & Allies) to ensure the add-on is consistent with the direction of the series. The story of the expansion has been approved by Monolith and could possibly be the link between WB's full-blown F.E.A.R. sequel.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fear-expands-extracts/1100-6149113/

[JIIINGJING]

lets keep politics out of it ok :) americans are simply just stupid and gullible :)
Unless we wanna talk politics I like politics

[Chicago Ted]

EP is considered a great expansion
PM is a little less great, harder than FEAR 1 but still pretty good
FEAR 2 was ok
FEAR 3 was worked on by Day 1 and was basically a COD game instead of a FEAR title
WB buys Monolith, shuts them down

hope that helps

[Cobra Commander]

Originally posted by Chicago Ted:

FEAR 3 was worked on by Day 1 and was basically a COD game instead of a FEAR title

side topic
Not every game with aim-down-sight is "basically" a COD game. ADS pre-dates COD, but everybody knows that. It's meaningless to rattle off ways FEAR 3 is not "basically" a COD game, but it is certainly more like FEAR 2 than FEAR 1, not setting aside the primary functionality which is asymmetrical competitive co-op.