Please enlighten the folks currently demonstrating in favor of a proper recognition of Bethesda’s manifold merits. Somebody should tell them that they don’t need to pass themselves off as the underdog anymore.

That said. Can you IMAGINE Bethesda making an MMO? Their games are already as something-isn’t-quite-solid-here wonky as most release day mmo’s and their SINGLE PLAYER GAMES for chrissakes. I have NO faith in their ability to make even a small-group multiplayer game.

Ah, we must be using the “volume (in both posts and decibels) of comments on internet message boards” method of measurement. Grod knows, that’s statistically representative.

Interplay have had years since that deal was signed to get their butts in gear, now it seems that off the back of the success of FO3 they’re just throwing together any old crap to keep the MMO rights so they can churn out some garbage to profit off the back of Bethesda.

Though the amount of hatred for FO3 is ridiculous, love or hate the game only a idiot would call it a poorly made game (not perfect no, but far from bad). It’s okay not to like a good game due to personal tastes people, you don’t have to to Simpsons comic guy “worst game evar!” it.
Then again is more people could separate their subjective opinion from objective assessment there’d be a lot less amusing internet drama to chuckle at.

yes Oblivion was flawed (I hated oblivious, bored me apathy, but I can see why some people would love it) – Still the greatest thing about Bethesda is that like Valve they GET the PC modding scene.
They create a world, bare bones and flawed – they set the tone, the palate and then hand the tools out to the world and I love them for that.
While I enjoyed FO3 by itself, some of the things coming out of the community (thanks to a small army of very experienced TES engine modders from Oblivion) are stunning and I love that the game I purchased while great but no perfect, will be so much more in a year or 2.

With the mod communities work FO3 will be huge compared to any other sandbox title, even MMO like in scale.
Already you can have NPC companions, Military Squads, New monsters and creatures, drivable vehicles, airstrikes, bullet time and so much more…

If anything, these signings just shows how desperate Interplay are to keep the license by playing the continuity card.

“Oh look, we have hired members of the mythical original Fallout team to work on our MMO. Surely nothing can go wrong if these gods among men lead us forward in the days ahead!”

I’d rather have a fallout online made by Bethesda which the interplay fan boys hated, then a 2nd rate fallout online made by a team no one has ever heard of, who have never worked in the fallout universe and the only thing going for them is that interplay managed to find enough cash to outsource to them.

I doubt Inerplay could make a good Fallout 3 mod to get out a wet paper bag. I mean, look at the damn time they have wasted. I’m more concerned at the lack of news on ANOTHER beloved post apocalyptic sci-fi shooter.

Where is that episode 3 trailer dammit VALVE!?

I hang out with a lot of gamers, they all loved Fallout 3, all loved Bioshock and Morrowind got at least three of them into console RPGs, with Oblivion sealing the deal. FO3 was at least 3 of their GOTYs (as it was mine).

We should be wary of assuming that what messageboard commenters think of games is what the general public thinks of games.

They’re operating out of a cardboard box for Christ’s sake!
Their “staff” are a bunch of homeless people they pay in beer and cigarettes. They program their games on typewriters. Their concept art is drawn with magic markers. Their writers are on contract from FanFiction.net. Their water cooler is a garbage bag full of ice. They go dumpster diving during lunch breaks.

And that’s AFTER Bethesda bought the rights for Fallout 3.

Can’t we get through a single discussion about ANYTHING Bethesda does without getting into some big hissyfit about whether or not we liked Fallout 3 oh shit wait a second