Brian Fargo leaves Interplay: Good or bad news for Fallout 3?

[loinburger]

Spoiler alert:

The most annoying crash in Fallout II by far was when I tried to kill the President by strapping some plastic explosives to him. When the explosives went off, the game crashed. Since you're not allowed to pickpocket his keycard, I wound up having to Vindicate him, and then run like hell past the several dozen Enclave guards in the area before they could shoot me up (had to stay ready for Horrigan...)

I only learned much later that Super-Stimpacks eventually cause damage (I never used them, I'd been saving them for an emergency that never occurred), and that I could have killed the president by shooting him full of Super-Stimpacks and then sitting on my haunches until he dropped dead. Would have saved me many a game crash (and a very hectic dash for the exit) had I known that before...

Anyway, it would be nice to have a Fallout III, and don't consider it an impossibility; if Titus is trying to move Interplay in a new direction, and if BlackIsle is profitable, then maybe more funds are going to be funnelled into BlackIsle. Here's hoping...

[Lemmy]

Static looks good, very fallout like, with the 50's type poster and everything, even the graphics look like fallout, there gotta be some copyright issue there....

Anyway, it would be nice to have a Fallout III, and don't consider it an impossibility; if Titus is trying to move Interplay in a new direction, and if BlackIsle is profitable, then maybe more funds are going to be funnelled into BlackIsle. Here's hoping...

but BlackIsle is spending most of there time with Baldur's Gate, since that is much more profitable, so they would need a whole new team if they ever want to give fallout 3 a good chance

for now i'll just set my hopes on Static...

[Grumbold]

Wow! Another game to keep track of. It looks good but I'd hope it manages to break out onto the surface world eventually rather than being concerned only with the one installation.

With the exception of the pipboy I think Fallout took its graphical inspiration from 50's and 60's concepts of what such places might look like. If Static can point to these outside sources as the place where they got their inspiration from then I don't believe Interplay could block them. Referring to VaultTek, FEV, perks or other material made up by the Fallout team would be very different.

[Kassiopeia]

I remember a science fiction film, or was it an episode of Outer Limits, where the United States was in the near future, but back in the 50's since "everything was so good back then".
Maybe the fifties will have a renassaince in the following decades.

[Moral Hazard]

Just thought I'd post the gamespot interview about why he left etc.

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2848761,00.html

[CapTVK]

Fallout 3!? Pah! like comparing beebee guns to gatlings!

I'd rather see a proper sequel to Wasteland appear. The mystery of what happened at the orbital spacesation was never resolved. I want to know what happened! And no, fountain of dreams doesn't count...