what happens now?

eyejuice · Post by **eyejuice** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:36 am

hey hey, first time iv posted in about five years - i've read DAC since i bought that brand new "fallout" game back in what, 97?

anyway, i wanted to know what will happen to DAC now that black isle has disbanded. i think its fairly safe to say interplay is kaput, and who knows when (if ever) the fallout license will be picked up by another company.

is DAC going to go into virtual stasis like it did a few years ago, before news of fallout tactics revived interest? or will it just turn into a nursing home for bitter old Fallout fans, bitching about how "post-apocalyptic role playing games arent made like they used to be! i remember a time when developers walked 20 miles through snow, UPHILL BOTH WAYS to bring us a good game, not like the rubbish these kids play nowadays..."

trythebill · Post by **trythebill** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:44 am

eyejuice wrote: or will it just turn into a nursing home for bitter old Fallout fans, bitching about how "post-apocalyptic role playing games arent made like they used to be! i remember a time when developers walked 20 miles through snow, UPHILL BOTH WAYS to bring us a good game, not like the rubbish these kids play nowadays..."

turn into? how about reaffirm it's already home for the bitter and disenfranchised status.

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:03 am

Ohhh, I reckon we'll kick on for a bit longer... whilst Fallout is the main focus here, we're still fairly interested in the other post-apocalyptic games floating around. Plus there's the modding / mapping community... and those scary role-playing types that I'm too nervous to talk to.

Besides, most people hang around here because of the other people posting their crazy / bullshit / amusing opinions... I pretty much gave up on Fallout a while ago, but I still poke my head into here when I get a free moment to see how things are going with the regulars.

We don't necessarily need new Fallout news to survive... it's the crazy fuckers in the community that keep it going. Shit, how much "exciting" Fallout news have we posted lately anyway? Stuff that will please Fallout fans? Exactly.

When everyone gives up and decides that "Baldurs Gate 6: The Throbbing Gauntlet of Fah'Quing Wahn'Kar" is the way to go, leaving this place as a (poetic) barren landscape, then we'll call it quits.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:05 am

Fortunately, there are other post-apocalyptic things besides Fallout. I guess we'll just slowly evolve from a fallout community to a general post-apoc community. Take a look at Fall, Stalker, Project Phoenix (

) etc.

But yes, we are already bitter, only the sign "nursing home" is still missing from the top of the site.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:28 am

what will happen to DAC

MYSTARY.

Insane-Lark · Post by **Insane-Lark** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:56 am

Well, it's time to sit it out & see. I'll stick around for the ride.

Menno · Post by **Menno** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 3:58 pm

Fallout isn't dead man! We got F:BOS 1 and 2 coming out soon! Woooh!

Calal · Post by **Calal** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 5:24 pm

Kreegle wrote: Plus there's the modding / mapping community... and those scary role-playing types that I'm too nervous to talk to.

What the hell is that suppossed to mean?

*Hurls a huge d20 at Kreegle and hits him right between the eyes*

Err, ok, I believe I' ve just proven your point. :p

Well it' s like most of you might have answered already: it' s not as much FO but the interest in the whole post-apocalyptic feel that binds us to DAC. Oh yes, and the demise of BIS/Interplay ofcourse.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:50 pm

DAC will be fine. Most of us (except maybe Brios) don't care all that much about the future of Fallout anyway.

We roleplaying people are scary types, that I assure you.

trythebill · Post by **trythebill** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:13 pm

atoga wrote:We roleplaying people are scary types, that I assure you.

i assume you would be, what with all that pent up sexual tension.

before anyone goes on a tangent about how that's just a stereotype and they get laid all the time afther their d&d games, 'twas a joke. so settle down.

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:17 pm

DAC will probably be taken over by this roleplaying motherfuckers, but not a lot will be changing, I wager. Dying communities get smaller and smaller, but if the game was realy good it manages to maintain itself just enough.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 3:17 am

Remember back then there was only Fallout, new things emerge now, and more will keep emerging.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 3:56 pm

And I strongly disagree with Fallout-community being dead before the release of Fo:T... We were kicking ass before, and we still do. I doubt this'll end so soon.

BlackDog · Post by **BlackDog** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 12:15 am

hopefully all the assholes leave here and it'll be a cooler place, forum-wise.

as for the site, I like to take a gander at it occasionally to see if there are any other worthy post-apoc things to check out.

Me personally, other than STALKER...? I'm looking forward to Dead Cities for BF1942...

Som Guy · Post by **Som Guy** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:07 am

What about the Fallout 2 mods that are being made, nobody mentioned those... They will still make the news I'm sure and stuff... yeah.... My grammar has really gone down the trash.

Phias · Post by **Phias** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:16 am

Whatever happens, happens, brother. Just keep on going and see where life takes you.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:17 am

How fucking zen.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 3:08 am

BlackDog wrote:hopefully all the assholes leave here and it'll be a cooler place, forum-wise.

After you, my dear.

iohkus · Post by **iohkus** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 3:28 am

i think DAC should stick around and continue to be the stapple of the fallout community

also we should try to attract as many f:bos 1&2 fans as possible so we can chew them apart and make them cry for being stupid and supporting intersuck

Kizmiaz · Post by **Kizmiaz** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 8:52 pm

This is the the new DAC gay management:

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