Additional news from the stockholder's meeting

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Since this is news about a number of different subjects than those I posted on, but confirming some of the earlier news and adding some, here's a post from Interplay mod/stockholder zorrelak69 on the Interplay stockholder's forum:

<blockquote>Caen mentioned a handful of projects in developed/to be developed. He mentioned Fallout 3 (PC), Kingpin (PC/Xbox), Fallout: New Action RPG game- not a sequel to FOBOS (Xbox/PS2), Exhaulted (PS2/Xbox), Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 3, Earthworm Jim. I asked a question about Fallout 3, and Caen said it will be published by Interplay and developed by an external development studio. (I'm guessing Trokia Games/Silver Style)

Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale PC rights and D&D rights traded in for the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance trademark. I was wrong in my assumption that Interplay regained the rights to BG for the PC and I'm sorry for posting the rumors here on the message board.

400,000 units shipped of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and 300,000 units shipped of Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. Sales for both titles seem strong.

The company made $3.3 million for the quarter and $1.3 million for the year. The company is looking for external sources of financing to help fund development of the upcoming titles they have. Caen said he expects Fiscal Year 2004 to be profitable as well, as long as the appropriate funding is receiving. He mentioned possibly methods will be selling of IPs, and/or debt and equity.</blockquote>

Link: Yahoo business report
 
I think its pretty good news to hear. At least Fallout 3 will be made. Hopefully they won't screw it up, though, by letting Silver Style or something do it. I'd much rather see like Troika, or even Bioware make it.
 
I thought he mentioned Obsidian already? Either them, Bioware or Obsidian.

Or at least I hope so... :)
 
King of Creation said:
tre said:
I'd love to see it from NiVAL.
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No thanks.
Lets go with an established company that has produced good games.
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I think they extremely well with Silent Storm. And that being TB and all.
But they're not my first choice though, I just haven't read a post mentioning them.

Obsidian would rock.
 
If anything, Troika or Obsidian would be the primary choices, mainly because they were behind the development of the first two games. A joint venture between the two of them would possibly be the decision i'd support the most; just giving the project to either one is perhaps too risky.

As for Bioware, no doubt they could turn into a successful game... but likely at the expense of doing a game which would end up not being Fallout at all.
 
I don't reckon they could afford it anyway. I reckon it'll go too (in order):
Obsidian.
Troika.
Silver Style.
 
This is Ineptplay we are talking about here. They would probably handball it to whoever Chuck Cuevas is working for now.

Why the fuck would they cancel it then handball it's half eaten carcass to another developer??? That does not make sense! Chewacca is a wookie yet he lives on Endor! That does not make sense! Here, look at the silly monkey!...

Would the new developer start all over again, or would they be forced to pick up the broken remains from the last attempt? The engine hasn't been proven on the market yet. They've fired off most of the original programmers of the engine. How the hell could provide tech support for the engine?

Sounds like they have been reading that Dilbert book "Random Acts of Management". Lead by the magic eight ball technique.
 
hmm

personally i think the wrath of the fallout community and rath of some of the gamesites and other game communitys who were wanting fallout 3 finally scared that pencil necked geek caen into getting to title finished and calm them down and get money at same time!
 
I would think the new developer would start from scratch or take some samples of the design and implement it into a new design overview. I also think another engine would be used - and it should, at this point.

Michael said:
This is Ineptplay we are talking about here. They would probably handball it to whoever Chuck Cuevas is working for now.

Why the fuck would they cancel it then handball it's half eaten carcass to another developer??? That does not make sense! Chewacca is a wookie yet he lives on Endor! That does not make sense! Here, look at the silly monkey!...

Would the new developer start all over again, or would they be forced to pick up the broken remains from the last attempt? The engine hasn't been proven on the market yet. They've fired off most of the original programmers of the engine. How the hell could provide tech support for the engine?

Sounds like they have been reading that Dilbert book "Random Acts of Management". Lead by the magic eight ball technique.
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Bioware is highly unlikely since they have their own IP they're working on , now.

Obsidian and Troika are both good choices, but there is a trust factor that probably needs to be worked out between whoever might get the contract and IPLY. I highly doubt Troika and Obsidian would both be hired for F3 development; the logistics would be a pain in the glutes and IPLY does not have the cash to spread around like that.

Role-Player said:
If anything, Troika or Obsidian would be the primary choices, mainly because they were behind the development of the first two games. A joint venture between the two of them would possibly be the decision i'd support the most; just giving the project to either one is perhaps too risky.

As for Bioware, no doubt they could turn into a successful game... but likely at the expense of doing a game which would end up not being Fallout at all.
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King of Creation said:
Puuk, who do you would (or should) get Fallout 3?
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Honestly, I think either Troika or Obsidian would be good choices; I don't have a favorite between the two. I think either company would do F3 justice and put a lot of passion into its production. There's a lot of great talent at both companies.
 
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