Feargus on Fallout 3 and Interplay

DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k · Post by **DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 1:37 am

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Join us now for a message from Feargus Urquhart. In case there are n00bs among us, let's reiterate that Feargus was the leader of Black Isle Studios until last year, when he and other BIS employees, including Chris Avellone, left to establish <a href="http://www.obsidianent.com">Obsidian Entertainment</a>. Today he has provided some A's to some Q's from <a href="http://www.gamespot.com">Gamespot</a>. Here's a tiny snippet:
 <blockquote>GS: It must have been sad for you, since you were the prime mover behind Black Isle's launch back in 1998.
 
 FU: Yeah, it's sad to see it go. A bunch of us put a ton of energy, and many 100-hour weeks into the games that the division produced and developed. But I wouldn't say that work was for nothing, since we have a lot of great games to show for it.
 </blockquote>What's really sad is how many of those 100-hour weeks were invested into games that ended up canned (TORN, BG3, FO3 at least twice). Anyway, the whole thing is available for your eyes only <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallout3 ... l">here</a>. Feargus mostly talks about how it's hanging with Obsidian, his opinions on Fallout 3 and the closure of BIS, as well as what the future might hold, with an obligatory and indifferent mention of FOBOS also.
 
 Thanks to Sir Funkalot for the heads-up.

The Gaijin · Post by **The Gaijin** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 2:13 am

Heh, guess when I posted this I didn't write entirely enough. I thought Feargus was dodging some of the questions, but it was overall informative.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 2:15 am

Feargie wrote:GS: Does Obsidian have any desire to buy Fallout 3 from Interplay?

FU: We are a very new company and do not have the financial resources to buy a license like that. However, if a publisher were to be interested in us making the game after they acquired the license, we would be more than happy to talk to them. We have a number of people here at Obsidian who worked on Fallout and Fallout 2 including Brian Menze who perfected the PiP Boy look and Chris Avellone who many saw as Fallout until he left Interplay to found Obsidian as one of its owners.

There's your hint, publishers.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 3:46 pm

The Dream Machine is back to work, hurray.

Ooe · Post by **Ooe** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:14 pm

Sir Funkalot! I thought you were dead or...or...had gotten a real life!? (EEK!)

wump · Post by **wump** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:55 pm

That was pretty diplomatic.
Sounded like he's keeping some doors open.

chrisbeddoes · Post by **chrisbeddoes** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:55 pm

There is only one person that can do a fallout game with no compromizes.

And the name of that individual is Tim Cain.

Amen.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:52 pm

When's Feargus going to get those damn forums up?