Comments on: Fallout Fallingout: Bethesda Sues Interplay

By: Dano

Dano — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:17:37 +0000

sure they did Kamos, or are you going for the “no true scotsman” bonus points?

By: Kamos

Kamos — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:41:30 +0000

I still don’t understand why Bethesda needed the Fallout IP. Why not just create their own? It’s not like they kept the Fallout 1/2 fans anyway…

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:28:11 +0000

Yeah, HTML tags. Kinda forgot about that. Whatever, you’ll figure it out.

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:12:27 +0000

Things took a turn for the [url=http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60435]bizarre[/url], Interplay supposedly planning to release the Fallout MMO on consoles and handhelds, as well as saying that Project V13 is actually a different game.

What can I say, both companies are working pretty hard for the prestigious “scumbag of the year” award.

By: Melf_Himself

Melf_Himself — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:22:29 +0000

Interplay >> Bethesda
Isometric RPG’s >> First person RPG’s.

Cue flame war.

By: vagabond

vagabond — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:41:04 +0000

Putting aside the fact that Trilogy means a set of three related works, and not parts one, two and three of something, is there really any name that you can give their boxed set that isn’t going to cause hypothetically addled parent to think that if they’re buying a three game collection of fallout, that they’re buying fallout 3 as part of it?
Short of “Fallout Threesome: the boxed set that does not contain Fallout 3!” I can’t really think of one.

It’s pretty much Bethesda’s fault for calling “Fallout 5″ “Fallout 3″ :)

By: Radicand

Radicand — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:30:10 +0000

Oh come on, its not like the actual developers at Bethesda have any say in this; they probably do really love the original fallout games. Their legal department, conversely, really loves money. Three guesses who calls the shots.

By: toro

toro — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:41:39 +0000

All I care is that Bethesda will release their version of a MMORPG flop and it will go to the garbage bin of gaming history. Interplay should be dead by now, but if they ever comeback for real … it would be simply awesome. That’s the only thing that Herve is not allowed to miss.

By: Obdicut

Obdicut — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:20:35 +0000

@Nalano:

It doesn’t seem like you’re actually looking at the lawsuit at all.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:50:32 +0000

All I care about is that the old Fallouts remain available from all digital distribution sources that offer them. Nothing excuses pulling games from people who’ve already bought them, and pulling the ability to buy them is pretty lame too.

By: Nalano

Nalano — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:48:11 +0000

@kuddles

“And yet people are defending this guy over Bethesda. Christ, the internet is stupid.”

Well, yeah. Because a lot of people don’t like the way Bethesda makes games.

It’s not about the feasibility of Interplay as a developer, it’s a backlash against the direction the industry is heading.

It’s the difference between the last Simcity to be made by Maxis as a wholly-owned subsidiary of EA (Simcity 4) and the first Simcity to be officially developed by EA itself (Simcity: Societies).

It’s the difference between the Command & Conquer series before and after Westwood was liquidated by EA. In the eyes of the discerning fan it’s the difference between “my baby” and “my cash cow.”

I personally did not like FO3, and found its plot, story and gameplay (it really is a very clunky FPS) to be inferior to its predecessors. I don’t think FO should be made for FO’s sake, so I’m not about to push Bethesda down anybody’s throats just because they have the ability to make more FO games.

That’s the eyes through which I see this lawsuit.

By: kuddles

kuddles — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:05:47 +0000

Jesus.

Interplay, as it is now, is one guy in an office. One guy who was partially responsible for destroying Interplay in the first place. Now he spends his days building hype and bilking investors for development projects that will never happen, and collecting money from old franchise material of which the original creators don’t see a cent off. It’s a scummy old man making tons of money while producing absolutely nothing, continuing to be the scumbag he always was. So much so that he thought nothing of signing a contract to get a big fat cheque from Bethesda, then turning around and making more money by completely breaking the terms of that contract.

And yet people are defending this guy over Bethesda. Christ, the internet is stupid.