Jason Manley on why Fallout 3 (Van Buren) got shelved

[Gaspard]

Here - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=159149 Jason Manley talks in a few sentences about the reasons why Van Buren got shelved. Turns out it was all because the art he and the team created was too good !

Saw this on CA while I was looking up old Icewind Dale artwork. He also comments on one of the portrait paintings.

Sorry if its all old news to you guys, I'm a frequent visitor to the forums but only a visitor none-the-less.

 

[Per]

It's interesting, but probably not too informative. Fallout 3 was in and out of pre-production several times, so he may not be referring to the Van Buren stage, but just one of the times it got put on hold. Also the cash cow nature of the Icewind Dales is known, and I don't think they hurt Fallout as much as they helped - it was titles like Brotherhood of Steel that did the haemorrhaging.

 

[Ausir]

Yes, it's clearly one of the pre-Van Buren versions of Fallout 3.

 

[Gaspard]

it was titles like Brotherhood of Steel that did the haemorrhaging.

true, true

ok thanks for the heads up, guys

 

[Sorrow]

ID had beautiful graphics .