Comments on: Splash Damage and Bethesda Sitting In a Tree

By: Scandalon

Scandalon — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:36:06 +0000

Kadayi – Why would want to wake up to that? Me, I’d prefer to *BE* awake. :)

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:43:17 +0000

“Maybe they’ve worked out a way to outrage Fallout fans even more by making Fallout 4 a Shadowrun-esque FPS?”

Quiet! They’ll hear you! Don’t even joke about that!

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:22:36 +0000

Now will it ever be released? That’s another story.

Given Interplays financial state I’d say there’s more chance of me waking up tomorrow with Scarlett Johansson on one side and Evangeline Lilly on the other (there’s always hope). The inherent problem with Post-apoc is that unlike Sci-fi or Fantasy it’s a genre set within a world we know/are familar with. Where as it’s easy to constrain a player in a sci-fi or fantasy environment with little difficulty (they tend to accept what you give them), it’s not to plausible to do so in a real world one. Short of remapping the entire world, where do you stop, without having to contrive endless means of containment (radiation fields, impossible to scale mountains, unsalable seas, etc etc). Plus the whole post-apoc environment calls for two things, small cluster towns and enormous amounts of desolate wasteland in between. It’s an asset nightmare.

By: Briosafreak

Briosafreak — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:02:15 +0000

I’m not seeing a Fallout MMO

Well it’s being done, by the new Interplay, with Jason Anderson, from the original Fallout crew heading operations.

Now will it ever be released? That’s another story.

There was a multiplayer mod for Half Life called “The Wastes”, very inspired in Fallout, that was rather pleasant to play, although never got really finished.

I think the guys that are making a Quake 3 engine first person exploration and turn based combat Fallout inspired game had ideas for an MP portion, but I may be wrong, BN may know that.

Now the idea of a Shadowrun styled game, not only a Fallout one, just leaves me with one comment:

aaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh!

So this is the first move from ZenimaxEurope, based in London? Good start, I suppose.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:35:59 +0000

Agreed with None (for once ;)) . I’m not seeing a Fallout MMO, the market is already way too saturated and the step up to play hideously expensive with no guarantee of commercial long term success. Albeit there is an ever growing number of people playing Wow, convincing them to leave the comfort of it for your game is the problem. The MMO space is like TV ratings, your chasing the same audience. Plus the creature comforts normally found in an MMO, friends lists, global chat, near insta travel everywhere and lot’s of other players nearby, kind of are at odds with the idea of tough, rugged Post-Apoc wasteland where one lives hand to mouth to survive another day. Personally I look forward to the day that such an MMO emerges, but I suspect I’ll have a long wait (unless someone has $100 million they can front me for development ;)).

By: Taxman

Taxman — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:31:36 +0000

If Splash Damages future games start using the Gamebryo engine (a fav of Bethesda) instead of ID’s Tech engine I’d say thats a sign they are moving closer.

Splash Damage was one of the umbrella studios of ID so the loss of publishing duties from parent Activision could be a sign of something, was Quake Wars a success I’m guessing no ?

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:40:35 +0000

I actually suspect None is on the money here.

By: MisterBritish

MisterBritish — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:27:53 +0000

Possibly for developing multi-player components for some of Bethesda’s IPs?

By: mystic sika

mystic sika — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:24:24 +0000

always get a kick out of seeing splash damage doing well after gibbing a few of them in my qwtf days.

By: Brother None

Brother None — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:44:21 +0000

I just assumed Bethesda/ZeniMax is looking to expand its publishing activities, and that’s what this is about. Not so much anything to do with any of Bethesda’s IP, that’d be.

By: Fallout-Fanatic

Fallout-Fanatic — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:53:29 +0000

Last time a team tried to create a Fallout spinoff (ie FOBOS), Interplay almost went under.

I applaud the courage of (and shake my head at) anyone who dares to even touch the “as-good-as-holy” Fallout brand with a ten foot pole.

By: Kismet

Kismet — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:38:39 +0000

Mmmmh, a Star Trek MMOFPS maybe?