This Babylon 5 Game Almost Changed PC Gaming 

Is there any chance to leak some of the FMV or at least what the story would have been about?

a scorched earth policy... as president Clarke would have it...

Also stupid, since by doing so, they denied themselves money as well, since selling the licensing rights would have earned them money, while holding them and not using them earned them nothing at all. So I really can't understand why anyone would do it for any reason the sheer spite.

@@Norbert_Sattler Who wants free money anyway...? Haha........ha.....WHY?!

That sounds awesome!

I was there too, the line was so long and I never got the chance to play. I figured, that's ok, I'll play it when it gets released...

A real problem with expansions, is that it is hard to spin off a new story in the B5 universe without focusing on B5 itself. The entire franchise revolves around this one station in space. If the B5 universe had a more generic title maybe it would have a bit more room to grow.

lol, not really. You literally could make spin offs of the different races ansome story about them. About different clashes, wars between the different empires... About the ancient races... About the different cycles a la mass effect, with the old races leaving not the youngers ones... About different stories from the characters in the Show. About the secrets in the universe, who made the gates... Etc. In fact Babylon 5 was inspired by many sci fi media books, movies, etc. and also inspired hundreads of games, movies, books, etc. THink about galaxy on fire, or mass effect, Star trek deep space nine, etc.@@nolan4339

@@nolan4339 I extremely disagree and am disappointed in your comment as the B5 universe had much growing space. The issue had to have been money inside Babylonian production inc. Something happened that caused Crusade to get cancelled along with a large number of other spin offs which have also not seen much of the light of day. This video truly did not show the scope of attempts to revive this series. The series left us off deeply at a cliffhanger with the onset of the telepath wars, Earth Alliance civil war, the formation of a new Alliance of many species that was replacing B5. For instance, how was that alliance going to work and where would the politics take place. Of course, I'm referring a bit to Minbar where the head courters were built. There simply was a large brand and still is with my opinion standing that its worth billions if anyone were willing to properly pick it up and continue the story. NOT REMAKE IT... Never remake a masterpiece

@@zombwars7749 Feel free to dispute the comment, but to be disappointed would mean that you hold all fans to some high expectation level of reverence. As the name implies, B5 is about the stories that revolve around this station. Yes, you can utilize and expand upon the story world with or without much direct reference to the original, broadening the world's scope, but each would likely dilute the fandom and require a new explanation to build out the world. A better branding name may have been able to better bundle these products together for building the brand. It is a shame that the efforts to build the brand has stalled out for so long and I'll be glad to see additional works, but I still think the B5 brand is a bit lacking once you start branching off into other story arcs. As for a remake, personally I am hesitant to support it as it would need to be an absolute masterpiece or risk forever being compared to the original.

@@nolan4339 technically you have 20 some more seasons you could produce revolving around the station where each year is a season like the original. Telepath war could especially be centered around Babylon 5. The Earth Alliance civil war maybe not because you're talking many years later after the station is destroyed. The idea though that stepping away from the station would dilute the story is preposterous because the Babylon 5 series was never actually about the station but the political battleground that happened on the station. It's like Disney today which thinks Star Wars was all about good versus evil and Jedi versus Sith when in reality Star Wars is about politics where the good guys live long enough for their judgements to be clouded and become the villains. In retrospect star wars has nothing to do with the Jedi and Sith that give it character and uniqueness. The same thing with the Babylon 5 universe except the uniqueness is not the station but the fact the story has a beginning and an end that leaves you satisfied because it doesn't go on for eternity. The second part of the B5 series is that it keeps you focused on a single group of people the whole way through the series not jumping to other perspectives but only this small group. For example you never see Morden's perspective whenever he shows up, however you do see him afraid when he's about to be beheaded. This is something I don't think modern writers can capture nor even understand. George Lucas I think put it best when Star Wars was ruined by Disney. This generation and the coming generations have no clue. The reason I am using Star wars as an example is due to the story similarities between Star wars and B5.

are the other campaigns downloaded separately? i played the babylon project a few years back but it only had some pirate story. at least thats all i could find but maybe i was being dumb

I Found Her was genuinely one of the best space combat sims when it was first out, and it was a fan project. Unbelievable work, I loved it. Thanks for reminding me about it, apparently there's a bunch more content that's been added since I last played it, so I can check that out now.

@@TheFloorface There's a downloadable Minbari war campaign, I know that much. And a sort of greatest hits one, for other battles. Plus Shadow's Children?

I had discovered him via Tangerine Dream in the 80s when I was a sonar tech in the Navy during the mid 80s. Still a huge fan after all these years.

I completely agree, and the leaked music from the cancelled game is fantastic!

They do "get it" that's why they hate it.

And there were more than a few jealous CEO's at tnt and warners' that refused to do anything with the property... We still don't have a darn blu-ray! Every other show has one...

Hi Marc. I have sent you a connection request on LinkedIn (Matthew S. Smith). While I am not working on any videos related to your past projects right now it’d still be great to connect. That way, I can ping you for comment in any future projects you worked on.

Can you be more accurate about the myth? Like what was the story about and were the FMV ever done?

@wesp5 mainly the state of completion. We had a lot of systems to implement and balance. We were not almost done with it.

The shadow wars were great Al seasons 3-4.5 Lackley was a terrible actor and character. Destroy the show due to her

Wasn't there a B5 mod for one of the Homeworld games?

Stargate, another great franchise for a video game. Maybe I should do a video on those someday.

Babylon 5 mods are the best!

I need to play all the way through the older Wing Commander games. They were a little uh...before my time. FreeSpace was my jam.

@@computergamingyesterday Freespace was (and still is) the best. And I know I'm massively biased since I ended up working on later releases but TBP, the FS2-based B5 game always gave me the best feeling of playing a B5 game.

@@Karajorma I agree with you. FS2 Open Babylon 5 Project is the bomb! I just streamed it on Twitch yesterday, although some of the missions cannot be done because it's difficult to disable the freighter engines without destroying them when you don't have a disrupter cannon to inflict only damage to the subsystems....

Honestly, the whole Newtonian physics thing was probably the biggest threat to the official game's popularity if it had come out. It's a fun idea but also incredibly difficult for a player to wrap their head around. But who knows - maybe they had cracked it!

@@computergamingyesterday MANTIS 5700 was LIKE that also! The game had a lot of potential in that genera, & did FMV BEFORE WC3 did, tho it was limited! I had to return my copy back in the early 90s as the game was faulty and would just keep crashing or refusing to load after a certain amt of missions! Shame, it was good!

@@DMSProduktions Are you talking about XF5700 Mantis Experimental Fighter? If yes, that game was a remake of Warhead, a title I used to love on my Atari ST. It used Newtonian physics and the fighter had four "wings" to mount weapons on: one on either side, one on top, and one on the bottom. Like a Starfury, it was launched from a space station and never entered atmosphere. There were computer shortcuts to help you deal with the Newtonian physics: stop spin, stop all, point at target, point away from target, match speed of target, etc... It worked really well.

@@Bucketroo That's IT! Mine did not! Game was faulty!

@@Bucketroo Warhead was amazing. Still one of the best space sims ever. The whole bezerker plotline was great.

Haha, still a good suggestion! I only stumbled on it in the last quarter of making this video - had to rearrange a bit as a result.

it's rough. maybe the upcoming reboot will be good...maybe...?

@@computergamingyesterday if it happens.

@@computergamingyesterday there strong chance it will since Michael Straczynski is suppose to be running things

I am definitely jealous of folks who have swag from the game. IIRC Metal Jesus Rocks has a poster of it.

Books are actually pretty decent. At least those retained the show`s quality.

The last season was a mix of the mediocre/bad Kelly Famil...sorry, telepath stuff, and the great (just not as awesome and tightly packed as the fourth season of course) Centauri/Drakh arc. _Some_ of the movies weren't all that good (Thirdspace being the low point), but some were awesome (In the Beginning being the high point). Crusade had it's moments and was building up to something - of course just half of a first season _is_ bad, look at B5's first season, look at any Star Trek first season, ... (Firefly probably being one of the rare exceptions). Oh, and it was called Legend of the _Rangers._ Yeah, maybe it would have become good, but as it is, that one pilot is just not worth checking out.

@@Wolf-ln1ml damn auto correct