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."

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Farm it out? Great, maybe they can get...

[Rayonic]

...Troika! You know, the people responsible for the first Fallout game.

I'm normally an optimistic person...

[the_ed_dawg]

...but a big name publisher wanting to create a sequel to an amazingly popular game without the original developers? How many times have we heard this before? I believe that the Fallout SPECIAL system is one of the better ones out there, but Fallout 1 and 2 were so great because of the details: the dry humor, the cartoons, the subtle pokes at famous people, etc. Interplay is going to have a hard time replacing the developers' attention to said detail.

Because of the previous Fallouts, I will probably buy this one, but I'm going to wait a few weeks to see what corners get cut in the sake of budget and schedule (because we all know where quality rates with big companies), as opposed to getting on the waiting list 3 months in advance.

Note: This is all under the assumption that Interplay didn't fire everyone at Black Isle just to contract them out.

Obsidian's Delaware Project?

[Kulic]

This is just idle speculation, but Obsidian Entertainment hasn't announced what it's "Delaware" project is yet (nor have they announced who the publisher is). They are also hiring, possibly indicating another project. There is plenty of speculation on the forums, but no official word yet.

If they were finishing off FO3, I'd definitely buy it. Look who founded Obsidian, any of those names look familiar?

Re:Obsidian's Delaware Project?

[incubusnb]

actually, its been unofficially confirmed by IGN that the game Obsidian is working on is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 (source)

i know its a bit off-topic but i figured i'd clear that up a bit before people start assuming that Obsibian is making Fallout 3

If the original developers aren't involved

[eXtro]

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.