{"id":11062,"date":"2011-12-10T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T03:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2011-12-10T19:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T03:43:35","slug":"does-the-bioware-name-have-any-place-in-a-cc-generals-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/12\/10\/does-the-bioware-name-have-any-place-in-a-cc-generals-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Bioware name have any place in a C&#038;C Generals sequel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"11062\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/CC_Generals_2.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11063\" title=\"C&amp;C_Generals_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/CC_Generals_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bioware name has always meant &#8220;RPG&#8221; to me. However, I don&#8217;t mind that EA is moving the development of Command &amp; Conquer 2 under that branding. It&#8217;s a name with plenty of room to grow.  But that&#8217;s not all EA is doing. They&#8217;re folding their Victory Games studio into their Bioware label and calling it Bioware Victory, which has a really dopey ring to it.<\/p>\n<p>Before the C&amp;C studio was folded into Bioware, general manager Jon Van Caneghem commented on the name in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commandandconquer.com\/en\/blogs\/blog\/71\">this<\/a> interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The initial idea came from the obvious parallel of winning in a strategy game, where the word &#8220;Victory&#8221; often ends up on your screen. The reason I think it fits so well is when you look at how to be successful in strategy games: it&#8217;s the ability to anticipate, plan, and react. This is no different when it comes to the gaming industry &#8212; you must anticipate the direction of the genre and marketplace, plan for what the consumers are looking for, and stay nimble enough to react to environmental changes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, marketing guys came up with the name. By that rationale, Bioware Pwn would work just as well.  As a word, &#8220;victory&#8221; is too on-the-nose to be used unironically, unless you&#8217;re making <a href=\"http:\/\/markherman.tripod.com\/PacificWar.html\">serious wargames<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victory-games.com\/\">selling to people in Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s in a name, beyond the opportunity to take cheap shots on the internet? The Command &#038; Conquer: Generals 2 announcement is a cause for celebration because Bioware Victory seems to be nee EALA, and those guys have been doing mostly great work, and even taking some risks. I&#8217;m glad to see the Frostbite 2 engine pressed into service. It served Need for Speed: The Run quite well. But mostly, I&#8217;m glad to see Generals picked up again. I&#8217;ve been playing a fair bit of the original Generals lately, and it has a lot to teach the genre. So long as EA, er EALA, uh, I mean Bioware Victory appreciates the basics* of C&#038;C Generals, I expect a grand real time strategy game in 2013.<\/p>\n<h5>* Stayed tuned for more on that later this week!<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does the Bioware name have any place in a C&amp;C Generals sequel? - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/12\/10\/does-the-bioware-name-have-any-place-in-a-cc-generals-sequel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does the Bioware name have any place in a C&amp;C Generals sequel? 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