Leonard Boyarsky On 'Fallout's Spiritual Successor'

An anonymous reader submits "Duck and Cover have interviewed Troika's Leonard Boyarsky about their currently unsigned post-apocalyptic game. He describes it as the 'spiritual successor to Fallout', which sounds good to me."

Comments

Re:engine recycle

[Morphine007]

They aren't talking about sequels. They're talking about building a (hopefully) robust game engine, which, will allow them to build a game on top of. The game engine has little to do with the content of the game. If it's a flexible engine, which most are, the "sequel" that you talk of would only be related to the original in that they'd be of the same genre, ie. FPS, RTS, MMORPG, etc...

Spiritual Suckessors, Normally

[vjmurphy]

"He describes it as the 'spiritual successor to Fallout', which sounds good to me."

Yeah, just like UFO: Aftermath was a spiritual successor to the UFO games. Usually, that means that the game will really suck and we'll still be waiting for a real successor to the game in question.

Have there ever been any "spiritual successors" to any good game that have been worthy?

Whither turn-based games?

[BlightThePower]

I found this quote rather chilling: There's been a lot of debate since I said that we were considering real time with pause over turn based so that we could get this game made. The fact of the matter is that we're not self funded, we rely solely on publishers to fund our projects. Most publishers have flat out told us that they will not be funding any turn based games, and are not even interested in discussing them. If we can't sell a Troika post apocalyptic RPG to a publisher, it will never get made, it's as simple as that. No more turn-based games?! Perhaps an exaggeration but it depresses me that the market is so raidly sinking. I'm a bit hazy on the specific game(s) but I'm sure I've seen hybrids that offered the player the choice. That would seem to be the equitable solution. Perhaps the coding/game balance overheads are too great.