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Troika's Fallout 3 Pitch Prototype Showcased?

Posted by simoniker on from the many-fallouts dept.

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."

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  1. Stop repeating that PR spins. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yea, yea, sure

    ToEE was the most bug ridden piece of crap of the last year and had the worst voice acting of the year.

    Arcanum was bug ridden and had no game balance at all.

    I'm sure the rabid fallout fans will now blame bethesda for "preventing fallout from the original team" - but right now, I'd take any software bethesda puts out (and they aren't saints when it comes to bugs as well) over whatever Troika puts out any day.

    The whole "it must be from the orginal team" stuff is hillarious - the original team, black isle, produced more crap or canned software than good software in the last 5 years (lionheart anyone? canned fallout 3? canned van buren/bg3? Icewind Ripoff 2?).

    Now there are 3 companies trying to cash in on "by the original creators of fallout and baldurs gate!!" (Troika, Obsidian, Fargo's new company). I don't CARE if one or two guys on the development team of a startup worked on a hit before, as long as you don't put out a hit title yourself, stuff your PR somewhere.

    Troika has some good stuff in the pipeline (Vampire), BUT neither ToEE or Arcanum where anywhere close the quality of Fallout ...

    And before anyone rants about evil Atari being the reason fallout was bugged - read the postmortem. Troika screwed up big time and tried to pimp Atari for more money and time...