Make a new Dune game please

[TahoeJunglist]

When EA bought Westwood Studios, they only continued the C&C Franchise. The Dune Franchise was so much better. Why not make more Dune games?

[Feloidea]

Licensing issues.

[stephanovich]

They don't have the rights to it.

[Revanchist]

I'm glad they don't. The Dune games were awfully lame.

[Garbarsardar]

What, you want EA to screw up the Dune games too?

[Borreh]

TBH, Dune is a great theme for a strategy game.

Especially if you would mix BFME-ish sword fighting with modern vehicles and weaponry (possible in the fiction thanks to the use of shileds).

Emperor is, IMO, the best (not to mention final) RTS done by Westwood, and I would really love to see more of it. But maybie a bit closer to the books..

As far as the licensing goes.. Well, yeah, but if anyone in the video game world has any right to do this, then it's the studios that took over WW's games.

[Victimizer]

I agree. A Dune RTS would be awesome to return to, as long as it remains roughly true to the style established by the movie.

I had this fantasy about a RTS/grand strat/mmo combination for the next DUNE. It would be like Eve online married with CnC and the Clausewitz-style grand strategy of Paradox. You would have a huge several hundred planet ingame universe. Every player begins as a minor house ruling over a portion of a planet granted to you by the Emperor. Inside this universe you'd have trade and warfare between the houses, but within the approval of the guild and the Empire, which govern the universe and set the rules of the game, so to speak. Interstellar travel would only be possible with the Guild's heighliners that would regularly move between star systems. Players could declare war on each other, with guild approval, and fight over planets (which would be divided into smaller regions, each constituting a separate battlefield) in the style of RTS world domination. The economy would be complicated and would allow for different paths to prosperity; i.e. resource mining, agriculture, trade domination and manipulation, etc. For balance purposes, you would first select a "type" of house and set slider values for it, which would determine the strength and weaknesses of your house, sort of like MMORPG characters at start up. These values you could change as your house develops.

I'm glad they don't. The Dune games were awfully lame.

well, d2k was pretty lame and obviously very low budget, but E:BFD was awesome.

[CNCGeek101]

I'm pretty sure Dune 3000 or Emperor: Battle for Dune 2, would have come out by now if anyone had the license still.

[Victimizer]

I'm pretty sure Dune 3000 or Emperor: Battle for Dune 2, would have come out by now if anyone had the license still.

Not really. RA2 and other CNC universe games had much more success than the Dune sequels. This is probably why there hasn't been another Dune rts.

[Harrrr]

Not really. RA2 and other CNC universe games had much more success than the Dune sequels. This is probably why there hasn't been another Dune rts.

You're not counting someone else...like a Petroglyph attempting to secure the IP, too. The Herbert estate is known for being tough-nosed about anything Dune, and even canned a movie remake with Herbet's son on as an adviser in 08/09.