GA interviews Damon Vergilio

Corith said:
Yeah, but it would bring in money to create Fallout 3 for the PC. I'd like to see that. Like everybody else here, or most anyway, I'm a fan of Fallout.
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You know what, I'm so truly sick of all these arguments that "if you buy this, it could bring you Fo3 on PC". Hell even JES, Damien and Chad tried that with Fbos, they wanted us to buy that title because it could help Fallout 3 happen..Fuck that...

As to Fallout as an MMORPG: ack..eck...uck..ick.... NO!

And Troika have tried to buy the Fallout license, several times actually...
 
*shrugs* Herve's alternation between "you can't have it" and "sure you can have it, if you pay me...one...hundred BILLION DOLLARS!" pretty much means he's not seriously looking at selling it.

He might've struck a deal with one of the creditors already, but I doubt it...

In either case his choices are fast diminishing
 
Kharn said:
*shrugs* Herve's alternation between "you can't have it" and "sure you can have it, if you pay me...one...hundred BILLION DOLLARS!" pretty much means he's not seriously looking at selling it.
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:lol: I can picture him, little finger at the side of his mouth as he laughs at Tim Cain's frustration...
 
Mr. Teatime said:
Tim replied to me:

I had not seen that article, but it makes me want to try (again) for the license.

Thanks for the heads up!

Tim.
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Good work, that man!
 
Mr. Teatime said:
Tim replied to me:

I had not seen that article, but it makes me want to try (again) for the license.

Thanks for the heads up!
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Heh, good luck at that.
 
I have very limited knowledge of the corporate world, but were I Troika, I would contact some publishers such as HD Interactive, Bioware, Vivendi, even Atari, and so on, saying 'we're the people who first made Fallout. If we make Fallout 3 fan and general interest will be a factor of 10 higher than if some unknown company makes it - please get the license for us'. The fact that Tim's tried before implies that he thinks it's not that impossible that they could end up with the license. If they offered money immediately, the situation for interplay is desperate enough that they might say yes.
I worry that they want to keep the FO license over other ones such as Kingpin, etc, even though a decent FO game would take more time than a Kingpin game - and time is something Iplay doesn't have.
 
APTYP said:
You think Troika's got the monies to pay Herve the Horrible?
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Unless Troika is going to pay with monopoly money I don’t see how they will afford to buy the license from Iplay.
 
Mr. Teatime said:
even though a decent FO game would take more time than a Kingpin game - and time is something Iplay doesn't have.
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Since when Iplay cares about making decent games :lol:
 
One also have to remember the other PA art that Troika did, ie they might want to do their own PA game.. Which doesn't sound like a bad idea either...

But I'd prefer to see the license in the hands of Troika/Obsidian, both Timmy and MCA gots the passion for the Fallout series..
 
Mr. Teatime said:
I have very limited knowledge of the corporate world, but were I Troika, I would contact some publishers such as HD Interactive, Bioware, Vivendi, even Atari, and so on, saying 'we're the people who first made Fallout. If we make Fallout 3 fan and general interest will be a factor of 10 higher than if some unknown company makes it - please get the license for us'.
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Well, scratch Atari, certainly. And Vivendi is a big nono too. But Bioware and some of mid-sized European publishers/developers, like HDI and SSE, could back them.

Mr. Teatime said:
The fact that Tim's tried before implies that he thinks it's not that impossible that they could end up with the license. If they offered money immediately, the situation for interplay is desperate enough that they might say yes.
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Seeing the nature of Herve's method of dealing, he'd probably have to pay cash, in unmarked nonconsecutive bills.

Mr. Teatime said:
I worry that they want to keep the FO license over other ones such as Kingpin, etc, even though a decent FO game would take more time than a Kingpin game - and time is something Iplay doesn't have.
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This does not bother me. No matter how much smoke Herve and his staff of gnomes blow out of their asses, it would currently take a miracle to save Interplay and/or Titus.

Odin said:
But I'd prefer to see the license in the hands of Troika/Obsidian, both Timmy and MCA gots the passion for the Fallout series..
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Y'know I never managed to pick between either in personal preference. I'm kind of partial to Obsidian, for some odd reason, but...
 
Sovz said:
Mr. Teatime said:
even though a decent FO game would take more time than a Kingpin game - and time is something Iplay doesn't have.
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Since when Iplay cares about making decent games :lol:
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But as FOBOS shows, bad FO games just don't sell. To unlock the commercial value of the license, the game needs to be good, and needs to be developed by the ex-BIS people ideally.
 
Mr. Teatime said:
But as FOBOS shows, bad FO games just don't sell. To unlock the commercial value of the license, the game needs to be good, and needs to be developed by the ex-BIS people ideally.
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Ugh...yeah I'm sure Herve and Chuckie see now that making Fbos rather than Fo3 was a brilliant idea on their part...
 
As far as Troika v Obsidian goes, Obsidian has MCA and he has great story telling abilities. I also prefer FO2 to FO1. But Troika are the people who came up with the original concept and open endedness that FO2 just followed up on. I'd be happy if either one of them got it, though I too lean toward Obsidian if I avoid feeling nostalgic ('it should go to the people that made it'), only because Troika are unproven in my eyes, and Obsidian aren't (since they have no games to be judged on bar the great ones they made at BIS).
 
Based on toee i don’t think i want to see troika develop fo3, but since i haven’t seen any game from obsidian, i wouldn’t bet on them just yet.
Best solution in my opinion is to stop speculating for now and just wait and see what will develop.
 
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