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Fallout 3 Back From the Dead?
BiteMyShinyMetalAss writes "According to a GameSpot story, Interplay plans to publish Fallout 3. However, development has not been restarted, and it will likely be farmed out from the sounds of it. There is supposed to be an announcement with more details coming soon to your neighborhood. No Mutants Allowed is also covering it."
I hope they pick someone who can do the series justice. Not a developer that will just dig the grave for us.
I have windows on my computer. Right on the side of the case
they'll probably botch it up. Fallout and Fallout 2 were both games with dated graphics which still ended up with a vocal, if not huge, following. I just replayed Fallout 2 last week myself. Their skill system was excellent but I don't think that explains the popularity. Instead I think it was a combination of that alongside the attenion put into the gameplay itself. CRPG are usually nasty linear affairs and while Fallout suffered from some of that you could still complete the game in a variety of ways and with a variety of different starting characters. A Big Dumb Slugger was one way but most recently I finished it with a grifter. Good speech skills, excellent pickpocketing skills.
Chris Kuivenhoven is a thief, beware
There are two possible outcomes, assuming that fallout 3 is not completely canned again.
1) It is given to Troika, or Obsidian Entertainment (largely composed of ex black isle staff) and they make another superb fallout game.
2) It is given to any other studio, who will promptly make an abomination (like Brotherhood of Steel) and kill off the fallout licence once and for all.
I'm betting on 2)
Bioware have turned crap.
NWN was an uninspired hack and slash. SOU and HOTU were good, but too short and too linear.
KOTOR was a very pretty, overdeveloped and underwritten POS with all the balancing of a news report on FOX
Additionally, they now have a very close relationship with Microsoft, which means if they did Fallout 3 it would be XBox exclusive
I'm particularly hoping for Obsidian, or one of the other companies that picked up lots of Black Isle workers. Bioware has some good work, but Black Isle worked on this game for a long time. They know what they wanted it to be.
From the developers posting on websites like nma-fallout.com, it sounded to me like they were fairly well along in development. They were writing quests, composing a storyline, inserting towns into the game world. Bioware might be able to take it and run, but it's a much more sure bet that the former Black Isle guys will take it and run in the right direction.