5545Trey
Underground Deviant
It did both. Still, without Bethesda, who else would have made Fallout 3? We already know that Interplay was supposed to make Fallout 3, but I did not see any other company that wanted to make a Fallout 3.
naossano
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Ahem...
When Interplay wanted to sell Fallout, there were other buyers than Bethesda. There were other companies like Bioware, but more important, Troïka Games.
Troïka Games that was made by Tim Cain and two other key members of the original design team of Fallout 1. (Jason Anderson and Leonard Boyarsky, A.K.A Vault boy's dad)
That company was already making an un-named post-apocalyptic RPG. They never released it and closed the company one year after the licence was sold to Bethesda.
So you could also argue that Bethesda was the company that prevented Troïka Games to make Fallout 3. (and refused their help when they actually made Fallout:Capital Wasteland)
Not necessary wanting to bash Bethesda on that. But you can't say that withouth them, there wouldn't have been a Fallout 3. We might had a true Fallout 3 with three of the original makers.
When Interplay wanted to sell Fallout, there were other buyers than Bethesda. There were other companies like Bioware, but more important, Troïka Games.
Troïka Games that was made by Tim Cain and two other key members of the original design team of Fallout 1. (Jason Anderson and Leonard Boyarsky, A.K.A Vault boy's dad)
That company was already making an un-named post-apocalyptic RPG. They never released it and closed the company one year after the licence was sold to Bethesda.
So you could also argue that Bethesda was the company that prevented Troïka Games to make Fallout 3. (and refused their help when they actually made Fallout:Capital Wasteland)
Not necessary wanting to bash Bethesda on that. But you can't say that withouth them, there wouldn't have been a Fallout 3. We might had a true Fallout 3 with three of the original makers.
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It's been a contentious question since the day Bethesda picked up the license. There's no denying that Beth has kept the series alive, but as naossano says, there were numerous others spoiling to do so. Most of them would probably have stayed truer to the original series' core principles and design, as well.
Whether such an effort would have been able to achieve the kind of commercial and critical success Bethsoft did is an issue of opinion and speculation, but it's highly unlikely that any of the other serious candidates for the license would have released their version of F3 to outright failure, and regardless of whether they would have brought in such huge sales figures or attracted quite as sizable a new audience of console kiddies, there's really very little doubt that Fallout would have survived (and thrived, though perhaps not turning AAA numbers) to this day no matter who picked it up.
Whether such an effort would have been able to achieve the kind of commercial and critical success Bethsoft did is an issue of opinion and speculation, but it's highly unlikely that any of the other serious candidates for the license would have released their version of F3 to outright failure, and regardless of whether they would have brought in such huge sales figures or attracted quite as sizable a new audience of console kiddies, there's really very little doubt that Fallout would have survived (and thrived, though perhaps not turning AAA numbers) to this day no matter who picked it up.