Fallout 3 is dead, face it

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Inskeme

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Personally, I think Fallout 3 is more or less dead.
The chances of another company buying the licsence when Interplay meets its inevitable demise are slim to none, I'm not saying it's impossible, just unlikely.
How many games can anyone name that have been revived by another company? I'm sure they exist, but I can't think of any.
Fallout never had a huge fanbase, a zealous fan base full of people with good gaming taste, but the majority of people have bad game taste.
Think on the bright side, we still have Fallout Mods to hope for.
If anything I'm more bitter that Fallout 3 was ever started, got our hopes up.
 
*takes TheBigL and Elissar's crowbars, one in each hand and beats the shit out of Inskeme*

All our hate is on you now, because we can put it no where else.
We cannot touche Interplay, yet.
Why not creat a fucking group of amateurs, and buy the rights of fallout 3. I guess this idea was already heard, but I wasn't a around to read it.
 
Briosafreak said:
I`m not saying that it`s going to happen, but there cases of games beeing brought from the dead, Jagged Alliance3 and Thief3 just come to my mind.

Here`s one example http://www.hdinteractive.nl/
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Let's not forget too that FO3 has had a few false starts before. At worst, this could be a situation like "Wasteland" - a true sequel never came out for it, but it did have a "spiritual" successor that was eventually made. Maybe the Troika post-apoc game will fill that spot for Fallout.
 
Lighten up on Inskeme, he is correct as far as I'm concerned. Maybe the game can be resurrected although I doubt it, but the team is gone. Everyone who matters is scattered to the winds and I'm sure they are sick of the game.

Fallout 3 RIP.
 
I have hopes for a spiritual successor rather than a new game in the series, which I think is very unlikely to happen.
 
Might and Magic, as well as the spin-off series Heroes of Might and Magic (which I very much prefer to the original), were resurrected after 3D0 went bankrupt. And why? Because they were one of the few game serieses that made 3D0 any money at all. Fallout is much the same for Interplay.
 
Agreeded... It seems those damn D&D games tend to have huger life spans compared to the Post Apocalypse. I mean, Fallout had such a deep impact, what has been done to the series is unforgiveable...

On the other side, who knows, maybe it is a long shot, but perhaps it maybe saved. Perhaps the folks at Trokia or even the people who are making the Fall may take it under their wing...

Maybe too much to hope for, but with those devoted fans who are breaking their backs to make mods, I salute you... The men and women who have made online role playing fun... Cheers!!!!
 
hmm vito's also hitting iskeme or what his name was with a crowbar......... but how'bout makin a first-person game in the fallout enviroment like for example a raider-game........none has EVER (that i can think of) made a game were the main purppose is to just be MEAN........why is that. The best thing in fallout, hm lets mak it the coolest thing in fallout was the khans its just so %&#/& logic that some people find it smart to raid other people..........*PUH* that was good ....got some thoughts out o'me

and hey whats the deal with set and his shadow.....never figured that out........
 
Inskeme said:
Personally, I think Fallout 3 is more or less dead.
The chances of another company buying the licsence when Interplay meets its inevitable demise are slim to none, I'm not saying it's impossible, just unlikely.
How many games can anyone name that have been revived by another company? I'm sure they exist, but I can't think of any.
Fallout never had a huge fanbase, a zealous fan base full of people with good gaming taste, but the majority of people have bad game taste.
Think on the bright side, we still have Fallout Mods to hope for.
If anything I'm more bitter that Fallout 3 was ever started, got our hopes up.
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FO has a much larger number of fans that you probably think, in a single week a petition gathered 11.000 names asking for FO3. And if I'm not mistaken, about 60.000 guests came here at NMA to see BriosaFreak's thread about FO3's pictures.
BriosaFreak mentioned some examples of revived games...
But is it possible for some other company to buy FO's licence AND continue the game from where BiS was? I mean, it would be great if troika could buy FO's licence and hired the ex-BiS! But that's just me dreaming, of course :(
 
in a single week a petition gathered 11.000 names asking for FO3
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One could easilly claim that, say, 5,000 people want to seem more important, so they each signed twice.

And if I'm not mistaken, about 60.000 guests came here at NMA to see BriosaFreak's thread about FO3's pictures.
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Fallout 3's demise was interesting, to say the least. It wouldn't be wise to equate people reading a web page with people who were exactly going to buy it.

For example, the Apollo character on the original Battlestar Galactica (I believe his name is Richard Hatch, but that reminds me of the winner of Survivor so I'm not too sure) has often used numbers like yours to try and convince TV and movie producers that people want to see a BSG with the oringinal cast. However, the attempts at some sort of revival like that never happen, partically due to the fact that three or four attempted BSG comic books have sold horribly. Where were the fans then?

Then, someone else comes in and makes a new BSG miniseries - which many of the hardest-core fans decry) which has gotten the third best ratings Sci-Fi has ever had.

Interplay is looking at the bottom line, which I believe is the safest thing for them to do, what with very low amounts of money in their bank. Fallout 1 and 2 didn't create mainstream belief and sales like something like Baldur's Gate did. Ask a random person off the street who the Vault Dweller was. Ask him about a Mutant and he'll mention the X-Men far before he talks about The Master. Fallout 3 was a gamble, and Interplay didnt think it would sell a lot.

Maybe it would've. But I don't think so.
 
Just because Fallout is not a cash cow doesn't mean that it is as good as dead. If everyone's going Hollywood, then publishers should take note that movie companies every once in a while produce an 'art' film or something 'brainy' to keep the respectable reputation.

And if you ever want to expand, you definitely need more hits, and you can't do it with derivative crap.
 
Briosafreak said:
The question here is "who is ESpark"?
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Just a new guy. Dunno who Chuck is or anythin'. Feel free to check IPs or anything.

If everyone's going Hollywood, then publishers should take note that movie companies every once in a while produce an 'art' film or something 'brainy' to keep the respectable reputation
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Indeed they do, once in a while. However, those same movie companies would not continue to exist if all they spat out were 'art' films, or 'brainy' films. Those 'art' films are made on the profits of normal films.

I liked the Fallout series as much as the next guy, but to assume that Fallout 3 would do any better than the first two is partially laden with wishful thinking. To willingly ignore the common consumer is to invite your third game in a series to be dumped halfway through.
 
Yeah, well, when was the last time Interplay published hit material? It's not like they're losing money by making good games right now either, they're losing them by making shit nobody buys.
 
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