Troika's Fallout 3 Pitch Prototype Showcased?

An anonymous reader writes "The No Mutants Allowed website has gotten hold of some screenshots of a post-apocalyptic RPG that was in development at Troika Games - the news story claims: 'Due to recent developments, [the prototype has] currently been put on hold.' Did the recent acquisition of the Fallout license by Bethesda kill chances of a Fallout 3 made by the game's original development team?" A recent messageboard post at the Troika-based Terra Arcanum fansite also suggests: "According to several unconfirmed rumors... Troika were also in the bidding for the license. In the end though... Troika were simply out-gunned."

Comments

Re:Stop repeating that PR spins.

[AdamPiotrZochowski]

IIRC Van Burmen project was the Fallout 3, not BG3 as you seem
to elude to.

Another nitpick, or to be overly pedantic Planescape Torment was
also released in the last 5 years.

I have not played Icewind Dale 2 to comment on it, first one I
disliked for same reason I disliked Diablos (1 and 2), both
were click fests and not imaginative, not giving ability to try
to pass the game by just talking out of a problem.

--
/apz, Power corrupts... Atomic power corrupts atomically!!!

Re:Too bad...

[abandonment]

which would be funny because fallout started as a gurps game, but they couldn't get the license so they created the fallout 'game system' and it's associated stats etc

for it to move onto a 3rd game/world system now would be amusing - and proves that the fans don't care about the IP - they want good games