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> The next four Lemmings games would each deal with the fate of three of the twelve tribes after they left the Ark the player had helped them reach last time ar

by xg15 7d ago

> The next four Lemmings games would each deal with the fate of three of the twelve tribes after they left the Ark the player had helped them reach last time around. The whole series would be called All New World of Lemmings. > Not long into development, a feeling took hold in Dundee that they were all just done with Lemmings, ready to come out from under the shadow of the casual monster they had accidentally created and return to making the games they wanted to make. As it happened, this was to be the last game of a six-game contract they had signed with Psygnosis back in the 1980s. Just get ‘er done became the watchword, so that they could take their Lemmings loot and do something more exciting with it. Sounds like the publisher was the sane one here for a change, while the studio was seriously trying to bite off more than it could chew. What made them think it was a good idea to commit to four Lemmings games in advance, lock themselves into a rigid storytelling structure, extend the story into a shared universe and coordinate with a TV show - if they all were actually fed up with the franchise at that point? Thank Psygnosis for rejecting this and enabling the timeline in which we got GTA instead.

vidarh 7d ago
Hm? It doesn't sound like Psygnosis rejected it at all. The article points out they half-assed the last title because they still needed to meet that contractual obligation.
- xg15 7d ago
  I read the image caption like that: > If matters had transpired differently, All New World of Lemmings would have been the banner title of a new sub-series, with different subtitles for each of its entries. As it was, Psygnosis just dumped the would-be first entry of the sub-series out there on its own, sans subtitle, and abandoned the other nine tribes to their fate. This reads to me as if Psygnosis only accepted the first of the proposed four games and made it into a standalone title - which then turned out bad anyway. (Not sure how DMA's four games match with Pygnosis' contract for one more game. Maybe that was an attempt by DMA to extend the contract?)

by xg15 7d ago

vidarh 7d ago

Hm? It doesn't sound like Psygnosis rejected it at all. The article points out they half-assed the last title because they still needed to meet that contractual obligation.

xg15 7d ago
I read the image caption like that: > If matters had transpired differently, All New World of Lemmings would have been the banner title of a new sub-series, with different subtitles for each of its entries. As it was, Psygnosis just dumped the would-be first entry of the sub-series out there on its own, sans subtitle, and abandoned the other nine tribes to their fate. This reads to me as if Psygnosis only accepted the first of the proposed four games and made it into a standalone title - which then turned out bad anyway. (Not sure how DMA's four games match with Pygnosis' contract for one more game. Maybe that was an attempt by DMA to extend the contract?)