Fan-made fallout v. Blackisle+interplay fallout

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 9:57 am

After reading a bunch of threads in 'In the News...' and the bis boards...

Wich would you prefer? A fan-made fallout or one made a game company like blackisle?

The Pros of a fan-made fallout would be we wouldn't be screwed around, feedback everyone reads, helpful updates, it would resemble fallout (unlike fot) and generally be a pretty good fallout experience. Everyone here has more or less the same vision (80+ years after fallout 2, set in the general area of california (possibly more north), 8 or so towns...)

The cons would be the graphics wouldnt be much (Not many of us are 3d moddellers and the current fallout editor resources are scarce), copyrighting, would take ages and if everyone did a little bit of it you'd probably end up with the fo2 collage of easter eggs and personal touches.

The pros of a game company making it would be it could include new sounds, graphics etc. The fans would be suprised at the end, might include tools, KEWAL concept art and HILARIPOUS behind-the-scenes shit that's always fun to look at afterwards and all the other stuff.

The cons would be they would probably screw it up badly (looking at fot), we WOULD be screwed around for ages until we get it (if ever) and we might not get another sequel afterwards.

Thoughts?

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 10:32 am

The only way Fallout 3 can be made satisfactorily is by a professional game developer. Any fan-made game would fail miserably when everyone realises that they have no fucking idea what they're doing. The only real hope for a good FO3 is for a real company with talented people and a good vision of the setting to do the game.

Doyle · Post by **Doyle** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 12:33 pm

I'm not sure about that "everyone having the same vision" line after reading your description. :roll:

NachoMonkey · Post by **NachoMonkey** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:07 pm

i dont know bout that, i would like to see a fair few more towns then that, keeping the same engines as the originals would be the best move, maybe if we could backward engineer FO2, then remake FO2 maps, have people dedicated to storyline , art, and so forth, and only after everyone agrees on storyline is it final, ummmm, yes, if all skills can be used evenly, lots of battle, speech and missions, and heck maybe more things to do, i dunno maybe it could work from a fan-based setup...

another company picking it up is implausible at the moment, interplay are definately not going to touch it with a 50ft pole, and i doubt troika would spend that much cash to obtain the liscensing to make it, they wouldnt make a profit back on it, same with most other gaming companies, why buy the lisense when they can make a L33t online game which every supid ass kiddy with AOL will buy and so forth.... its just not plausible.....

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 3:07 pm

You never know a fan made prject can be good
Although the odds are pretty high of it failing

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 7:47 pm

Doyle wrote:I'm not sure about that "everyone having the same vision" line after reading your description. :roll:

You mean you don't want a 3d fallout set in the east coast of germany?

UH OH!!111

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 8:46 pm

A fan-made Fallout 3, no way!

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 10:59 pm

id like to see a fallout 3 made by fans right now, and then wait for the real one.

Meths · Post by **Meths** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 1:40 am

Hey but if we make Fo3 then what will be the fun playing it?

What will be the fun playing the game that we know everything about just at the start.

Nah.. i prefer Fo3 made by specs.

Strapon2 wrote:id like to see a fallout 3 made by fans right now, and then wait for the real one

Uhm.. that could be an option - but we're too lazy 8) ,i suppose.

guess what i voted :twisted:

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 1:56 am

the last one

because i just voted, and i voted the last one, so your the next to post and the last one has 2 vots now, so i guess thats what you voted

Meths · Post by **Meths** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 2:21 am

Any other suggestions?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 3:13 am

Fallout made by Titus, anyone? 8O
...
OK, that's the worst-case scenario.

jerman999 · Post by **jerman999** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 8:11 am

No. The worst-case scenario is FO3 made by Microsoft. :roll:

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 9:16 am

Published by Microsoft. MS only actually makes apps, they publish games. And they're not a bad publisher, at that, Xbox issues aside.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 4:18 pm

I would want to see FO3 made by a real gaming company.

Because only fan-made projects that work include people who work in gaming firms 8O Just like Natural Selection-mod for Half-Life: they have two professional graphic artists and [add a number] of hard core programmers, who've been working for years.

Carib · Post by **Carib** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 3:25 pm

It wouldn't hurt The Company to make it while taking into account the valid input of players who would probably buy the game. And the Fallout PNP games have some novel scenarios which could be utilized.

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