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GamesDomain has joined the rest of the gaming magazines and start this preview by saying how sad it is to loose BIS and Fo3, yet here's their final verdict:<blockquote>Call us mutant heretics, but the truth is that we're ready for this new chapter in the post-nuke world. As anybody who played an earlier Fallout game knows, there were times when the emotion (or desperation) ran just high enough that one almost begged for a crack at an action-based game - by God, THEN we'd show our foes. Well, soon you'll have the chance to put your munitions where your mouth is (provided you have only one mouth, you post-apoc mutant, you). </blockquote>Sure we might be ready for an action Fallout, but not one that doesn't fit the setting/story and one that ruins BIS/Fo3. Get a clue GamesDomain, Fbos was one of the major reasons for the demise of Fo3 and Bis and you're only saying that is was the right choice..
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Maybe they saw the game, and liked it enough to consider F3 an acceptable loss?

With all due respect, not everyone thinks Fallout 3i is the worst event evar. Maybe its me, but the string of "another gaming site millions look at aren't bemoaning the loss of F3 as much as me and thus, are stupid or something" bits of 'news' is sort of discouraging.

Glad I got that off me chest.
 
This game might have been good if it wasn't 100% linear, only for consoles, and screwed up Fo3. I could care less that it bears the name Fallout, Fallout was a fantasy i loved, to be in a completely desolate world were survival of the fittest was law. i never really cared about the turn based gameplay... Sure it was fun but i really loved real time in Tactics. Tactics had to be screwed up to with no freedom to do anything you want besides what general barkley assigns for you . One thing im glad of is not ever getting my hopes up. I did that with Devastation and it completely went to shit, then HL2 gets delayed and i hear about F:BOS. I wasn't surprized to here that Fo3 got canceled.
 
Personally, I probably would have played BOS. I know I definitely wouldn't have liked it as much as the REAL fallout games, but it could have been a good distraction at best. Now I know I definitely WILL NOT play it! I've heard empty promises before, and them trying to say that they will resume FO3 after they get income from their console games is a load of horseshit. Up until recently I was in their target demographic for BOS, I played console games exclusively, because I didn't have enough money to purchase a PC. Now I have one and can play the games I love (mostly fallout and RPG's and tactical games). They well and truly lost me as a customer by cancelling my favorite game series. I really hope they are happy for destroying my hope to play a game that is actually good.

Oh and thanks for compiling all this news, I don't think I would have put in the effort to look for this stuff. I probably would have been found in a bathtub full of my own blood just hearing that fallout was dead.
 
i understand that you guys hate the console fallout because it 'killed' fallout 3, but have any of you considered that the best chance for fallout 3 development to be restarted would be for the console title to be a big hit?

if interplay can dig itself out of the financial hole that it is in, and the fallout name gains more widespread cachet through console sales (and i read somewhere recently that pc games only make about 10% of sales for the big american games retailers, the rest is consoles) then there is a chjance that they could get a couple of developers and designers back from ex-bis, form a new team and finish it off?

according to a guy who is a games developer (wrote mechwarrior 2) and who knows some (ex) bis guys to boot:

It's practically impossible for a second party to finish a game without the original players, even if the source is fiendishly well-documented (which it practically never is). Fallout 3 will never see the light of day, and it's a shame. I was so looking forward to that game.
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http://www.poe-news.com/forums/sp.php?si=31&fi=&ti=1000632275&pi=1000632869

but i still hope that maybe some of the original team can be reserrected to finish it, i have more hope than him.
 
if interplay can dig itself out of the financial hole that it is in, and the fallout name gains more widespread cachet through console sales (and i read somewhere recently that pc games only make about 10% of sales for the big american games retailers, the rest is consoles) then there is a chjance that they could get a couple of developers and designers back from ex-bis, form a new team and finish it off?
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Do you really think that in six months when all the former bis-employees have new jobs and are developing new games (or whatever they like to do) they are going to fall for:
"Hey you guys, sorry for firing you and fucking up your lives, but it seemes that Fobos - the game we truly believed in - did sell very well so... Come back and finish Fallout 3 won't ya. This time we won't fire you, well lets face it, we will, but not before the game is finished."

/D
 
Not only that, Interplay is going down. Hard. Any temporary boost FOBOS could provide would only be an incentive to make more games like it. They've nearly given up the PC platform entirely by now.
 
Not nearly, they HAVE given up the PC platform entirely.

They've said all along that they're going to focus more and more on consoles so I don't see them going back on that...

Besides, as Drakon said, if FOBOS becomes a hit, it's not like they're going to see it as the logical step to go back to the PC version. Hell, I wouldn't even see that as a logical step (and I want to).
 
nethead said:
i understand that you guys hate the console fallout because it 'killed' fallout 3, but have any of you considered that the best chance for fallout 3 development to be restarted would be for the console title to be a big hit?
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No, all the success of FOBOS will guarantee us is FOBOS 2. (Which has already been set in motion anyway, but here's hoping IPLY will can it and/or die if FOBOS flops real hard.)

nethead said:
if interplay can dig itself out of the financial hole that it is in,
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Too late for that.

nethead said:
and the fallout name gains more widespread cachet through console sales (and i read somewhere recently that pc games only make about 10% of sales for the big american games retailers, the rest is consoles)
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Which, if you think about it, is the best reason to make another FO console game, is it not?

nethead said:
then there is a chjance that they could get a couple of developers and designers back from ex-bis, form a new team and finish it off?
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No, that's just naive, as pointed out above.

The choice now isn't between FO3 and FOBOS. It's between FOBOS and 2 FOBOSes...
 
nethead said:
i understand that you guys hate the console fallout because it 'killed' fallout 3, but have any of you considered that the best chance for fallout 3 development to be restarted would be for the console title to be a big hit?
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Have you ever considered how silly what you're saying is? Please do so next time.

You're talking about a company that's cancelled not one PC CRPG, not two PC CRPGs, but three PC CRPGs this year. You're talking about a company that's fired everyone to do with PCs at this point. You're talking about a company who fired all of BIS with the exception of the two people who had a lot of console game development experience. You're talking about a company run by one of the guys who founded Titus Games, which basically makes nothing but really shitty console games right now. His right hand man is Darth Molitor, who was a big wig at Digital Mayhem, Interplay's old console division.

If any of their console titles do well, really well, then that's just encouraging those dumb shits they were right and consoles are the only way to make money.
 
I think SP summed it up perfectly!

And please refrain from spewing up idiotic statements!
 
It's starting to get repititive though...

There will always be new morons coming in and saying that if FOBos sells, then Fallout 3 would get made.
 
Maybe this is the only way they can find hope for Fallout 3?

(I know, I'm reaching, but I'm an optimist by nature)

They're still wrong though, FOBOS will in no way ever help bring about Fallout 3. Thinking it might is misplaced wishful thinking.
 
Saint_Proverbius said:
You're talking about a company that's cancelled not one PC CRPG, not two PC CRPGs, but three PC CRPGs this year.
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I obviously know about Jefferson and Van Buren. Which was the third?
 
Dan said:
There will always be new morons coming in and saying that if FOBos sells, then Fallout 3 would get made.
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Yup, you'd think that the whole thing about BIS all being sacked would be enough of a cluepon for people to know that no matter how well Fallout Enforcer sells, there won't be a Fallout 3.

King of Creation said:
He may be thinking of Torn, but that was cancelled back in 2001.
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I'm not refering to TORN.
 
Spider said:
And you're not going to tell us what you're referring to?
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Okay. I'll spill a bit.. Imagine a game set in the Deadlands setting, where wild west meets shamanism and undead, imagine it using the SPECIAL system, and imagine it being turn based.

Now imagine Darth Molitor renigging on the contract payment to the development house that finished the first milestone because they kinda forgot to get the license for Deadlands.

Well, you don't have to imagine it. That was earlier this year.
 
Saint_Proverbius said:
Now imagine Darth Molitor renigging on the contract payment to the development house that finished the first milestone because they kinda forgot to get the license for Deadlands.
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WONDERFUL.....Interplay screws itself in the anus yet again. That game sounds like it would have been pretty cool. Hey! Maybe they'll change the "official setting," make it a hack n slash game, port it to console, and cancel its PC RPG counterpart!...........
 
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