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Interplay murdered Fallout. Bethesda just carried the bullet a while.

If you're really so willing to believe that Fallout is dead as a franchise then pretend Fallout 3 isn't a Fallout sequel or even an FO game at all, just think of it as a game loosely based on FO, sheesh how can people get emotional over a franchise, it's just video games not a subprime mortage loan.

Maybe Diablo 3 will bring isometric RPGs back into vogue.

Welcome to the future. Adapt or die.

Bethesda will not exist forever. Maybe it will take twenty, thirty years, but who knows what the industry will look like in ten.

FO II was more sly.

If Derek Smart had the rights it would be in development hell longer than even Duke Nukem Forever has been, I don't think Freespace fans would have anything to worry about FS being desecrated by him anytime soon.

Doesn't "sick parody" kind of describe the series well?

Fallout's interface is clunkier than its sequels. Hell, forget about FO 3 and just get someone to remaster the originals.

The point is that if the rights were to ever to be required by the original team or those who really want to follow their vision then it would be child's play to ignore Fallout 3 then, since Fallout 3 was created by a foreign entity and not endorsed by the original dev team. It would be...

Who cares about a number. It's Bethesda's Fallout 3. Not the Fallout 3 of your preferred dev team. As I said before, Star Control fans loathe the third game and they just ignore it, seems to work fine for them. Apples and oranges. George Lucas made both series. Lucasfilm's handling of...

Then wait a few decades until Bethesda goes out of business or sells the IP. No gaming company lasts forever. Except, perhaps, EA. I'm sure someone could have said the same thing about Interplay back in 1998. Well, considering that video games are pretend already, it's not so much a...

I'm not overly optimistic, I'm just young and so is the video gaming industry. I really can't be bothered to care too much about bad turns for franchises. If a story is good enough, it will be picked up eventually. If Fallout really deserves its accolades, sooner or later- give or take a...

Then why don't people just pretend that Fallout 3 is a spinoff? So if FO is ever returned to its roots the next instalment will have skipped a number (or two). Just pretend FO 3 is a non-canonical spinoff a la Brotherhood of Steel. You don't see people complaining about Star Control 3. They...

Man, Interplay screwed everybody. Where's my FreeSpace 3?

Why didn't the original Fallout team just go and make their own development company and make a spiritual successor type sequel game? Worked for a lot of franchises, from Bioshock to Supreme Commander.

What if they turned it into a spin-off game? Fallout: Recon. Fallout Chronicles. Fallout Oblivion. Would fans be mollified? I doubt it, there will still be spitting and mewling because people don't want anyone but the original dev team handling the IP's setting and storyline.

I have to wonder what kind of response would there be if the original Fallout dev team gave their blessing to Bethsheda's FO 3.

Sold!

Look, sure it's pretentious to have the number to make it seem like it's part of the original series, but does it really matter? Deus Ex: Invisible War is still Deus Ex. Even if Fallout: Recon was a spinoff series to many it would still be FO 3 considering how long the franchise has been...