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Brian Fargo was interviewed by Firingsquad on his current projects (see our earlier article), but this bit also cropped up:<blockquote>We couldn't talk to the founder of Interplay without asking his opinion on what was currently happening to the game publisher that under his control was one of the biggest in the industry in the 1990s. Recently the current management posted up a note to the US Securities and Exchange Commission about their plans to get funding for an MMORPG based on their Fallout RPG franchise, complete with a $75 million projected budget. Fargo told us in no uncertain terms about his doubts for Interplay's plans, saying, "I don't know what they are smoking in France but it must be illegal." And what Interplay franchises would Fargo like to revive if he had the rights and resources to do so? Fargo told us he would be interested in reviving the first person shooter Kingpin and the Shiny developed RTS game Sacrifice. Fargo also expressed a fondness for Battle Chess although he added that he didn't think there would be much of an audience for it. Fargo said he was happy that Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda Softworks was working on an all new Fallout RPG but so far he has not been contacted by BethSoft for his input.</blockquote>Fargo never worked on Fallout, so it's not surprising BethSoft wouldn't contact him, but it's still a big mystery who the developers are that Bethesda *did* talk to.

Link: InXile projects on Firingsquad
 
Jabberwocky said:
And what Interplay franchises would Fargo like to revive if he had the rights and resources to do so? Fargo told us he would be interested in reviving the first person shooter Kingpin and the Shiny developed RTS game Sacrifice. Fargo also expressed a fondness for Battle Chess although he added that he didn't think there would be much of an audience for it.[/url]
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Kingpin, Sacrifice and Battle Chess? What about Wasteland? Guess he'd rather do a Bard's Tale II. Idiot.
 
Jabberwocky said:
"I don't know what they are smoking in France but it must be illegal."
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It's about time someone relevant said something like that publicly. I've been getting tired of all these stupid reactions, ranging from reserved, but ignorant "Let's wait and see, it might be good" to absolutely idiotic "OMG FALLOUT MMO LIEK WORLD OF WARCRFAT TEH AWESOEM!!!1". Thumbs up, Fargo. We like you, even though you almost killed Fallout.

philowar said:
Kingpin, Sacrifice and Battle Chess? What about Wasteland? Guess he'd rather do a Bard's Tale II. Idiot.
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I'm pretty sure he's already working on Wasteland.
 
And I still think that Sacrifice was a pretty cool game. Especially in multiplayer. Epic, violent and spectacular battles !
 
Hello people,

Man I get the impression this guy keeps teasing the fans around with what they want, Wasteland remake or Wasteland 2, by instead bringing up on which games he would like to work or the new 'exciting' game he is working on, and casually mentioning on a game site or forum that he did buy the rights for Wasteland a while back but hasn't done anything with it yet.

I am as far as wanting to say to him in person "Quit screwing around with us and start working on Wasteland dammit."
 
Wild_qwerty said:
I call dibs on the frenchie comment for my sig :)
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Your Sig is cool enough. Since it has CRUSADER in it. I loved that game, brings back memories.

Anyway, atleast semi on topic, I hated Scarfice. I thought it was silly to have a game where you were punished for attacking the enemy. If your attackers died all your souls were right there for the taking.

I might have been missing something though.
 
Thrawn said:
Anyway, atleast semi on topic, I hated Scarfice. I thought it was silly to have a game where you were punished for attacking the enemy. If your attackers died all your souls were right there for the taking.

I might have been missing something though.
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it's a long time ago since i played it, but couldnt you very quickly collect your own souls, while the enemies souls needed to be collected slowly?

so if your minions died, you could collect most of them & get the fuck out of dodge.
 
SuAside said:
couldnt you very quickly collect your own souls, while the enemies souls needed to be collected slowly?
so if your minions died, you could collect most of them & get the fuck out of dodge.
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Yes, you could simply by walking on them with your wizard ( if still alive ). To collect enemy souls you had to summon a creature specialized in soul collecting.
 
Sometimes if you inflicted massive damage you'd "gib" a creature, making its soul(s) directly available to anyone.

It was a good game.
 
why did B.Fargo tell this "insult" about the french? i really don't understand... is there a context that i would have missed?
 
The current CEO of Interplay, the one who caused the downfall of Interplay and made a shitload of retarded decisions, is a Frenchman named Herve Caen. It's also the one who Fargo is talking about.
 
As Ratty said, it was really about time someone spoke for us. If things keep evolving in this direction, before you know it they will be developing Fallout Pinball...

Honestly, im worried. Aren't you?
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Hello people,

Man I get the impression this guy keeps teasing the fans around with what they want, Wasteland remake or Wasteland 2, by instead bringing up on which games he would like to work or the new 'exciting' game he is working on, and casually mentioning on a game site or forum that he did buy the rights for Wasteland a while back but hasn't done anything with it yet.

I am as far as wanting to say to him in person "Quit screwing around with us and start working on Wasteland dammit."
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After experiencing the hype to harsh reality ratio with The Bard's Tale, I'd prefer if Fargo stayed the hell away from Wasteland until he can get his act together.
 
ScoRp) said:
As Ratty said, it was really about time someone spoke for us. If things keep evolving in this direction, before you know it they will be developing Fallout Pinball...

Honestly, im worried. Aren't you?
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I'm more for Fallout Solitaire. Those cards would look so cool, especially if they had TEH BABEZ from FO:BOS. :)
 
I do not believe Herve's claim to have an investor.

He has no demo, no concept art, no proof of concept. The entire development staff who created the original ideas for Fallout are gone and working for other companies. Herve has demonstrated an utter lack of knowledge about the computer game industry, and business in general with his bankruptcy of 3 companies. He also has no practical experience of massive multiplayer game development, specifically, RPG types, nor does he have any staff to advise him on such. With a long history of breaking deals and contracts, he has no credibility and his projections on the number of subscribers is highly unrealistic at best, and serves to display his ignorance (or arrogance).

All he has is an industry buzzword and an IP. One or two million, maybe, but 75 million, what moronic fool would invest that much money in development of an MMO with nothing more than "wouldn't it be cool if . . ."?
 
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