Canon or not canon, that is the question.

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:46 pm

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Well, I emailed <a href=http://www.bethsoft.com>Bethesda's</a> PR man, Pete Hines with a rather simple FO3 question and got a not so simple response. (posted with his permission)
 
 Here's the email I sent, and his response.
 
 <blockquote>Hello Mr Hines, I'm known as PsychoSniper on the FO fansites NMA and DAC.
 
 I have a simple yes no question.
 
 Does Bethesda intend to keep to the canon storyline as established on
 FO 1/2 and the FO bible ?
 
 We'll let folks know what we're up to when we've done a little more work on
 the game. Right now we're working on putting together the team. It'll be a
 while before we're ready to start talking about the game.</blockquote>
 
 So they dont even know basic things like whether or not to keep it canon yet ? Disturbing.
 
 What's next, not knowing whether or not to make it post apoc ?

Role-Player · Post by **Role-Player** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:52 pm

Thats a bit of mouth-stuffing there, i think. He's simply saying they still haven't gathered the entire team that will work on the game, so it would be somewhat obvious to infer that, if the team isn't together yet, they haven't started making research or decisions regarding what will be made.

EDIT: Also, you find it disturbing that they haven't made any annoucement regarding an adherence to the canon... but every Fallout fan has a different idea of what canon is, or should be. Saying they would adhere to it would be nearly the same as saying nothing, because merely saying they would do so would not give you any guarantees that they'd use what you, me, or anyone else would consider canon.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:54 pm

I am prepared to give them a chance. We don't have any info to decide either way really....

EDIT: and I tend to agree with roleplayer on this... they can't say anything, because they haven't got anything to say

Briosafreak · Post by **Briosafreak** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:44 pm

I`m bored with this issue, nevertheless. Good mail Psycho anyway.

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:49 pm

That probably was a bad idea to just up and post his email on the front page. He'll probably never talk to you again. At least, he won't talk to you candidly.

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:12 pm

I got his premission Saint_P, as said on the front page.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:46 pm

Was Van Buren canon storywise?

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 6:01 pm

I would assume so, but would defer to those whom know more.

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 6:57 pm

PsychoSniper wrote:I got his premission Saint_P, as said on the front page.

More the way it was done.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:29 pm

I agree with Saint. You can't make any sudden moves with these people, or they'll scurry off like rodents.

LlamaGod · Post by **LlamaGod** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:05 pm

Post by **Retlaw83** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:18 pm

Square?

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:00 pm

It's to early to tell Llama.

Araanor · Post by **Araanor** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:22 pm

PsychoSniper wrote:Does Bethesda intend to keep to the canon storyline as established on FO 1/2 and the FO bible ?

The FO Bible has some good parts, but I wouldn't like it to be seen as the de facto bible. MCA wrote some dubious stuff, like the 1 car to 200 people thing.

Above all, I'd like to see the original Fallout held up as the example. Fallout 2 keeps to the original canon decently but it's a bit.. leaky.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:28 pm

Christ, stop bugging Bethesda. You could ask one of their guys his name and he'd go 'too early to say'. They're just not going to answer any queries at all until they have something concrete.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:09 pm

Even then...

Post by **Retlaw83** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:07 am

I don't put much stock in the Avellone's bible. In one part I read it said ghouls were a product of overly radiated people dying, and in another it said Harold became a ghoul when exposed to trace amounts of FEV after passing out in the military base during his excursion with Maxson.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:11 am

Well... Avellone is kinda right there, except that Harold isn't a ghoul, really, he's just something else. Regular ghouls are the result of massive radiation exposure (not death, though, death just kills you). Some forms of FEV exposure (Harold wasn't dipped, probably just got hit by fumes) could potentially create something ghoulesque since FEV is really unpredictable.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:19 am

Thanks for clearing that up.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:31 am

Death kills you?

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