Template talk:Westwood Studios

I am making an effort to rename the Fables and Fiends series to its proper nomenclature across articles. Below is a copypasta of the explanation I posted in the Talk:The Legend of Kyrandia: Fables and Fiends page, and article which also needs to be renamed.


 * The title of the first game in the series is definitively "Legend of Kyrandia," the article and Westwood Studios template are wrong. "Fables and Fiends" is the name of the series. I am looking at the side of the original 1992 big box release right now, and it reads: "If you liked King's Quest(R), you'll love The Legend of Kyrandia(TM), a whole new realm of fantasy adventure, the first in the Fables and Fiends(TM) series." I have attached a photo citation. However, it is true that titling of the Kyrandia series has always been inconsistent, including multiple game and international releases. Rick Gush hints this was due to corporate bungling in the following Adventure Gamers interview from 2002:

"The first game was a solid A-minus or B-plus, and was definitely just what the doctor ordered for the new relationship with Virgin, which was products in the pipeline. But then the next title, the Hand Of Fate, suffered mightily at the hands of an unbelievably arrogant new VP of marketing at Virgin. She, Kathy something or other, lasted only long enough to sabotage the HOF launch, and then she got the axe. HOF only did half the sales of the first title. Not a surprise, considering the cryptic ads which forgot to mention the title of the game, and the famous "nuclear explosion" box in the US release. I'm not sure what a nuclear explosion has to do with a medieval comedy game, but she would not even discuss the situation with me and said stuff like "I'm a vice-president, and I don't have to speak to Producers." Ha! An incredible twit. Gosh I wish I could remember her last name.

Then the last, Malcolm's Revenge similarly suffered from lack of marketing effort. Incredibly, the game was never even shown at a trade show. By this time Command and Conquer was hot stuff, and the brass at Westwood did not care about anything else. I'm still annoyed at the lack of respect Kyrandia got even within the company. We had too many new marketing people coming and going, and the "little" project got pushed aside."

- Rick Gush, lead writer and director on the Legend of Kyrandia/Fables & Fiends series


 * Fables and Fiends was originally planned to include non-Kyrandia games -- in another interview in the book "The Art of Point and Click Adventures" published by Bitmap Books in 2018 (page 188), Louis Castle stated:

"The Legend of Kyrandia was originally intended as a single story but, as we developed the game, the world expanded and we were all excited about making a game that departed from the original framework."

- Louis Castle, co-founder of Westwood Studios


 * From the above, one can infer that what was first marketed as "Fables and Fiends" and what is commonly referred to as "The Legend of Kyrandia series" are the exact same series of games. I hope this clears things up. Jellocube (talk) 18:16, 13 October 2020 (UTC)