Faint glimmer of hope for FO3

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:23 pm

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<html><body>I know its been shitcanned (shelved) but another company may be interested in the license for it, Silverstyle, the guys that made Soldiers of anarchy and The Fall (in production). They've also made some comments on talking with the bis crew in regards to future employment.<blockquote>quote:
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 Originally posted by godd
 http://forums.interplay.com/viewtopic.php?t=35616
 Puuk in the above link is/was a primary mover and shaker on FO3.
 
 The Fallout 3 project, known also as Van Buren has been canned and those working on it laid off. Since The Fall seemed to be a logical competitor to the upcoming Fallout title, and I imagine a primary inspiration for The Fall, I now respectfully ask Silver Style to pick up the pieces of the post-apoc world and run with them.
 
 Make all of us Fallout fans proud!
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 Well, we are definatly interested in hiring some of the former Balck Isle staff. I try to get in contact with them.
 I also disclose no big secret if I tell you that we have found a mayor partner for The Fall and that money wouldn't be the biggest problem when we would try to get the FO licence.
 My biggest concern is the reaction of the FO community. We're all huge fans of FO here and have deepest respect for the achivements of the dev team. However, we are no Black Isle, we are Silver Style. And I'm afraid that the community wouldn't be pleased with a FO3 that wasn't developed by the original team. Even if I'm very sure that we could deliver a real stunning game.
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 Silver Style Entertainment
 
 Carsten Strehse
 Lead Designer
 
 www.silver-style.com</blockquote>more stuff here ...
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Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:24 pm

People who can't even make good games, much less good RPG's, working on FO3? Great idea!

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:28 pm

I'm waiting until The Fall comes out before deciding if there's a chance they can do FO3 justice. Still, the chances of them getting the license and a bunch of the ex Black Isle people is next to impossible.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:59 pm

The FO license will be sold to EA.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:12 pm

sauces please

Ooe · Post by **Ooe** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 7:51 pm

NOOO! Dont let em have it! GIVE IT TO TROIKA, DANGIT!!!!
Heck, Troika has all the good ol' guys like Cain, Boyarsky, Anderson, Shellman etc etc. If anyone should do FO3, its Troika Entertainment!

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:01 pm

What're you guys talking about? Nobody else will ever get the Fallout license until Interplay is dead and buried.

They cancelled FO3 to make FOBOS2. They're going to ruin that setting as much as possible before they go.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:51 pm

SuperH wrote:What're you guys talking about? Nobody else will ever get the Fallout license until Interplay is dead and buried.

(Next year)

Ea will make FO2004, then FO2005 then maybe FO Hot pursuit 1, then 2, and then FO Underground.

We should get around 10 FO games in then ext 7 years!! We'll all be happy! FO overdose!

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:05 pm

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Sims Expansion Pack.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:22 pm

1st of all, I guess F3 was for the most part completed - when Sawyer was leaving there was some talk about some major components of the game being done, and they have progressed even further from that. It seemed that Sawyer, after all, had pretty good ideas on Fo3 (no, you can't please everyone) so continueing the work FROM the point where it was 'shelved' should result in something decent, right?

This 'EA got the licence' thing is bullshit, right?
So yes, Troika (OR OBSIDIAN) should (ideally) try to get the licence.

Still, even Silver Style should be able to complete Fo3 since, I assume, it's almost ready. They should try to get Josh and Chris 1st of all if they can actually get any former BIS employees.

Right now WE should try to get Puuk say what's done and what's not in the Fo3/VB project.

And maybe we could petition Troika to encourage them to try to get the licence? (if it's ANY possible)

BlackDog · Post by **BlackDog** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:03 pm

like i said on the interplay forums - Interplay needs to sell teh fallout license to somebody who can actually make fallout games that are worth a damn. Like Troika. They did great with Arcanum, as its the only other PC RPG besides Fallout I've been able to Get Into.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:22 am

I've just created a thread at Silver Style forum. It's about what they should implement in The Fall or Fallout 3 (if they happen to get it) if they want to come up to our expectations.
http://www.silver-style.com/forum/viewt ... =9817#9817
You're welcome to contribute. (register to do so)
The Fall forum: http://www.silver-style.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10

EvoG · Post by **EvoG** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:39 am

Slave_Master wrote:People who can't even make good games, much less good RPG's, working on FO3? Great idea!

This sums it up.

Hell, I certainly don't have the arrogance to think I could do right by the license to ever want it...just look at this community. Granted there is so much material, but what makes it FO more than anything IMO is of course the people. Truth be told, I didn't have the highest expectations for the current BIS people to bring back that 'flavor', though it still would've been fun.

At that point, is it still Fallout? Better to go out how we remember it than as a shitth sequel.

Cheers

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:49 am

Slave_Master wrote:People who can't even make good games, much less good RPG's, working on FO3? Great idea!

Yeah they should hire you as an artist straight away!

Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:51 am

Silver wrote:
Slave_Master wrote:People who can't even make good games, much less good RPG's, working on FO3? Great idea!
Yeah they should hire you as an artist straight away!

I'm one of the few masters of post-Impressionist stick figures in the world, so it would be a wise move.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 1:08 am

I'm with MMRW on this one. I'd rather wait and see how the fall turns out first before letting them run around with Fo3.

wump · Post by **wump** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:40 am

Let Interplay die first. Then the Fallout franchise will be up for grabs. No drawn out negotiations only a matter of timing, first come first served.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:47 am

Maybe Microsoft will buy it and make it their next os.

Windows : Fallout (R)
A post nuclear operating system.

evilmonkey · Post by **evilmonkey** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:08 am

I agree with MMRW as well, even if the Fall looks pretty bleak it might be fun etc - and if the design is the bad part, and FO3 already have a good design to start with the Fall and the quality of a possible FO3 gets to be how well they can execute a design, even a bad one at that. But the chances that they will make FO3 seems pretty low besides the fact if they can make FO1 justice or not.

as for MS.
Super H > MS makes pretty good games though, but never great for some reason.

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:19 am

Note:

The age of the remake is upon is. Everything is getting remakes, from films to books to games to even toy brands, everything is going vintage and coming back up to 20 years after its initial incarnation, and quite often these remakes are actually turning out better than the originals.

Let us enshrine the original copies of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, and the unfinished Van Buren, lock them in a vault, and guard them until their time comes about once more... in.. 10 years or so.

.. no? :oops:

I like the way silverstyle seem to repsect our zealous love for fallout... but i don't think they could do it right... Get those selfish buggers from the other companies, lock them in a room with a few nice pc's and push strips of beef jerky under the door twice a day.