I always assumed bringing back old FPS franchises would be challenging for a lot of reasons:
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It could probably be the id Tech 2 Heretic game we wanted.Īs of now, MS owns Activision and might allow devs to be free of the COD mines and Raven is even unionizing. Amid Evil is said to be a spiritual successor to Heretic, but it looks more like Quake. While they have sometimes, on their Twitter or Facebook, talked about reviving their old franchises like Heretic, Hexen, or even Shadowcaster it's pretty clear it's never gonna happen. They haven't worked on anything that wasn't Call of Duty content for a decade now. The half that remained in Raven made a bunch of franchised games (Soldier of Fortune, Star Trek, Star Wars, X-Men.), worked back with id a bit to make Quake IV and Wolfy '09, before crashing and burning with Singularity and being sent to the Call of Duty DLC mine as punishment. Then they created Roundhouse Studios instead, with ZeniMax's financial backing.
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Sad, but not unexpected.įirst thing to keep in mind is that half of the creative team that worked on Heretic and Hexen series left Raven Software in reaction to the Activision buyout, so as to form Human Head Studios, which would go on to make Rune, the first Prey, Brink, fail to make the second Prey, and barely manage to make Rune 2 before dissolving itself to escape its contractual obligation to support the game post-launch. I don't think it's in any case even hard to see those two making a lot of success if done right in modern engines, it's probably just a matter of Activision not caring about the legacy of Raven Software, or probably not even seeing potential in this FPS renaissance at all since they've still got one of the most popular FPS franchises in the world. Heretic and Hexen seem to only have gotten more popular as time went on, especially now that retro shooters have kind of stabilized to the same-ish popularity to the general modern public, especially now with youtubers covering them, and not to mention how the revival of boomer shooters has got people much more open to these kinds of games, whether they're franchises that existed for decades or completely new IPs, and also how Graven has somewhat shown that dark fantasy FPSs still can attract a lot of attention. I'd like to strongly disagree with the notion that sequels to them wouldn't sell or that people wouldn't be interested in them.
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