Interplay Says Stuff

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:45 pm

Three years? What were they doing? I have tons of respect for the BIS people, but I think IPLY has been doing stupid things its entire career. I'm not saying they sabotaged their own product, I'm just saying they put out a half-assed effort to assure sales. We love the game, yet there are many people who try Fallout and say "I don't get it". Plus the sheer amount of bugs probably turned many people off.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 2:02 pm

bloodbathmaster2 wrote:Don't worry too much. It's only a few more months until there are no more Interplay forums anymore.

Is that after all the users get banned? Or?

DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k · Post by **DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 2:23 pm

Mr Carrot wrote:I got banned from interplay for pointin out that despite managements "good" decisions interplay hasnt made a profit for god knows how many years.

I got banned for joining the channel. Can you beat that? 8)

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 2:38 pm

Any address IPLY makes to shareholders should probably start with, Dear suckers at this point.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 3:12 pm

FO was a long and relatively hard game. Only these 2 points turn a lot of people away from the game. Back in high school when it came out I loved it, but most of the people at school didn't like it at all. They were into Mortal Kombat and such.

When FO2 came out I think the warez killed it a lot. I don't know anyone personnally who bought the game retail, everyone copied it. In these years CD copying was spreading a lot (around here). Althought I bought the Double Jewel Pack of FO1 & FO2 when it came out. I feel kind of guilty tho.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 5:34 pm

Fallout is for smart people, there's no denying it.
All of my friends who haven't liked it are dumb otherwise as well.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 5:52 pm

Hah! They dodged it! IPLY neither confirmed nor denied the rumors.

Try harder next time.

Btw Fallout is A-title, and that's just how long it takes to develop one, although I'm pretty sure it was 2 years, and not 3.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 6:13 pm

Fallout 1 dev. time: 3 years.
Fallout 2 dev. time: 3 months.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 6:46 pm

Smart game doesn't mean smart fans.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 9:12 pm

Well... not necessarily. All smart people are fallout fans, but not all fallout fans are smart people?

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 9:41 pm

Kashluk wrote:All smart people are fallout fans, but not all fallout fans are smart people?

Uh... the first part of that statement doesn't work either, or were you being sarcastic?

Anyway, there are quite a few moronic Fallout fans out there > WWW.FORUMS.INTERPLAY.COM < but the problem is they don't really get what Fallout is about - it's not about blowing stuff up and picking up hookers in New Reno as Chucky said. Hell, those things have been done to death! Fallout is good because it's an original, it's funny, it has some good references (Fallout 1, anyway), and it's done in an unforgettable retro-future style. Smart people like Fallout for those reasons.

Xax · Post by **Xax** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:30 am

Translation of press release:

"Everyone who owns stock in IPLY, don't you worry. Everyone besides us is making stuff up. Please don't leave us OHMYGOD WE'RE GOING DOWN THE SHIITER DEAR LORD PLEASE DON'T LEAVE US AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

Dan_Wood · Post by **Dan_Wood** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:34 am

Well, what can be said about a company that hollows out the only division they have that's likely to get them money.

Other than FUCKED OVER HEARTILY.

bloodbathmaster2 · Post by **bloodbathmaster2** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:52 am

atoga wrote:Anyway, there are quite a few moronic Fallout fans out there

*cough*Shadowpaladin*/cough*

wump · Post by **wump** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:09 pm

Motherfucking cocksuckers
They fire the whole team once the engine is in place and some levels have been made. Next year some underpaid college kid get's to finish FO3 in the holidays for cheap.
Farfetched ? Maybe. Either way I'd love to smash the faces of the marketing slime over at IPLY

N · Post by N » Wed Dec 17, 2003 5:39 pm

You have to go back and see 'the whole story'.

With Fallout 2, they had many bumps in the road during developement, not the least of which was the programmer who made/knew the engine for it, left.

If memory serves, they had one guy who kind of knew the engine at that point, and admidst bugs, scripting, and finishing the game, the team was tearing their hair out.

When finally released -- they then got hammered, screamed at, yelled at, and pissed on by 'the fans' because the product was buggy.

After they finally struggled (for the dev time/money to be ABLE to patch the game) to get the patch done, they were 'sick and tired of Fallout', and that's when they made the 'run of none': Torn (cancelled), then the Icewind Dales (which didn't sell as well as they'd hoped(?)), etc etc. This is all about the same time when, if you read some Feargus Urquhart interviews, the back and forth struggling with Interplay, developers, licenses, and a large shitstorm of problems continued to culminate and create the piece of shit that is the Interplay of today.

At least, if that's what I remember correctly? Anyone feel free to correct me if I am in error.

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