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Bethesda buys Fallout IP, Interplay becomes licensee
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This is the link:
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/12/great-geiger-bethesda-buys-fallout-ip/
So now Bethesda owns the license instead of being a licensee. At the very least, this means the IP is no longer held by a dead company. I'm not sure exactly what else it means, but I hope it's a sign that Bethesda is very serious about Fallout 3 and future Fallout-related projects.
Now they need to buy some other dead licenses, like Wing Commander and X-Com.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/12/great-geiger-bethesda-buys-fallout-ip/
So now Bethesda owns the license instead of being a licensee. At the very least, this means the IP is no longer held by a dead company. I'm not sure exactly what else it means, but I hope it's a sign that Bethesda is very serious about Fallout 3 and future Fallout-related projects.
Now they need to buy some other dead licenses, like Wing Commander and X-Com.
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I have this feeling sometimes. But then I wonder if it's worse to have no Fallout 3 or TES: Fallout and I can't decide.
Wait, how exactly will this make it worse? Interplay in its current state probably wasn't going to be having any say in how the game was made.
Bethesda just owns the IP now. Nothing has changed.
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Bioware is the one that makes great games.
Or a Fallout game that's not for you...
Which doesn't really change much, what I liked about Fallout was the atmosphere and writing.
Yeah, I'd rather Bethesda not have the IP...
But maybe it's better than Interplay having it.
They also seem to assume that the Gamebryo engine that they used to make Oblivion can only do Elder Scrolls games.
The engine has been used for more than first-person free-roaming RPGs. It's even been used in top-down isometric games before.
I can't! They've clearly demonstrated that they have no idea what makes Fallout work!
At least that's what I've read at NMA.
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35621
^Hilarity.
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Pirates of the Carribean and Call of Cthulhu aren't exactly reassuring, though.
But I'm sure they'd do Fallout better... At least we'll get another Fallout game, and nothing could be as bad as Brotherhood of Steel.
Weren't PotC and CoC merely published by them?
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Oh, were they? I'll take a look.
According to Gamespot, yeah, you're right. I didn't know they published games other than their own.
So...Aside from TES, what have they done beyond Elder Scrolls?
I have faith that Beth will make a great Fallout game.
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Acording to IGN (TES games removed):
Dreamcast
IHRA Drag Racing
PBA Tour Bowling 2001
NES
Wayne Gretzky Hockey
PC
Burnout: Championship Drag Racing
Fallout 3
IHRA Drag Racing
IHRA Drag Racing - Sportsman Edition
NIRA Intense Import Drag Racing
PBA Tour Bowling
PBA Tour Bowling 2
PBA Tour Bowling 2001
Skip Barber Racing
SkyNET (The Terminator)
Terminator: 2029
Terminator: Future Shock
The 10th Planet
X-Car: Experimental Racing
PlayStation
IHRA Drag Racing
PlayStation 2
IHRA Drag Racing - Sportsman Edition
IHRA Drag Racing 2
IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005
PBA Bowling 2004
Wireless
IHRA Drag Racing Multiplayer
Xbox
Breeder's Cup World Thoroughbred Championships
High Rollers Casino
IHRA Drag Racing - Sportsman Edition
PBA Bowling 2004
Xbox 360
Fallout 3 {TBA}
A lot of drag racing games and NCAA games.
Still I love TES so I have great faith in Bethesda. I don't want Fallout 3 to be like TES, but I am confident they can give us an awesome game.
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I dunno, if they can show some personality with it, good on them.
They're not a big company and they publish themselves so I guess it's the equivalent of occasionally producing a porno in order to fund your avant garde art movie.
They also did a recent batch of Star Trek games too which some people seem to have enjoyed, but appears to have had a very niche appeal.
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I'd rather see the former then the latter, but I takes what I can gets.
Look closer at the Dark Brotherhood quests. Now look further back and look at the blasted wasteland they created for Morrowind. Now mix the two in your mind. The resulting hybrid should resemble something close to Fallout 1 in atmosphere. While Fallout 2 may have been loose and colorful, Fallout 1 had a darker and more somber character to it that Bethesda already did in Morrowind.
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Cathedral scene, M I RITE?
I would have sex with this...
The Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild quests were both fantastic.
Mages guild was kinda middleground. I haven't done Fighters yet.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
It made Civilization 4 for christ's sake!
I hope you like travelling as far as possible from the city you get the quest from in order to complete the mission! (Hint: Each mission is to go somewhere and beat the shit out of various beings, possibly to recover and object, but sometimes just for the heck of it.)
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Yeah, I've kind of turned it into Thief RPG for me. I sneak everywhere. Hence I avoid the Fighters guild right now.
Makes Oblivion gates a bitch though because there's no cover.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Sneaking + Marksman = Sniper.
With my constant Detect Life gear, I headshot mofos before they can even see me.
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Yeah I am on a new playthrough though and my skills aren't that good.
I am trying to get the main storyline out of the way early this time.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The greatest failure of the game is how laid back and peaceful everything seems. I felt relaxed playing it, but never excited. That's something they need to have for Fallout.
I dunno why everyone seems to think Bethesda is incapable of making a Fallout game. It's as if people think that they never played the game ever and have no intention of playing it and also hate it while pissing on every copy they find.
I never asked for this!