Comments on: Bethesda Decides Those Newfangled MMOs Just Might Work

By: Soulflame

Soulflame — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:41:40 +0000

Sweet, we’ll be able to fall through dungeon floors ONLINE. That should make everything better.

By: Andrew Crystall

Andrew Crystall — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:30:22 +0000

I think Interplay’s bankrupt (again) after they were told they actually had to y’know, pay the workers for their last few months from the last real incarnation.

By: Apache

Apache — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:02:10 +0000

I think some broke Russians are making Fallout Online for Interplay. Wouldnt be too shocked if they took it over.

By: Andrew Crystall

Andrew Crystall — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:17:53 +0000

Well, I hope it’s not fallout because I’d not consider it as things stand (see: Glutton Creeper games).

By: Georgia

Georgia — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:00:11 +0000

Good for Matt!

And yeah, the commute he had to Mythic’s offices was insane. I don’t know how he withstood it.

By: kyan

kyan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:35:43 +0000

Sounds like it could be a good fit for Firor. Assuming he’s north of where Mythic is, the 25 or so mile distance between it and Zenimax should shave a chunk off the massive commute that was plaguing him before.

By: Hellfire

Hellfire — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:28:15 +0000

@Nicademus: See, I look at it in completely the opposite way. The fallout IP and mythos would allow a studio the freedom to put a game out there that isn’t a shinyhappyworld.

It’ll never happen. But I enjoy thinking that a studio might be crazy enough to try.

By: From the Hole

From the Hole — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:03:43 +0000

I’d pretty much bet the farm it’ll be elder scrolls. They have the attitude that they can kick WoW’s ass with their IP. I’m also under the impression that they really don’t think much of the Fallout franchise as a MMO, which seems odd that they then turn around and pretty much give Interplay so many insane milestones that it is all but guaranteed that the license will go back to them.

By: BloodyViking

BloodyViking — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:58:30 +0000

“sci-fi or fantasy, or a combination of the two”

Shadowrun RPG turned into an MMOG…now THAT could be cool. Would love to play a huge Troll street-samurai with a Panther Assault Cannon in his hands shooting elves in Tir

By: Nicademus

Nicademus — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:09:20 +0000

Fallout OL would suck, if you can’t be a complete dick to the world, and if they can’t allow player prostitution or drug dealing or half the other morally wrong things Fallout builds into the world then you really don’t have the freedom of choice that makes the series. For once the anti-Care Bear brigade would have a valid gripe.

Making a functioning social environment within the Fallout world would completely ruin the whole point of the game.

Now if they pitched it as a “yeah people get to be dicks, and no your not the vault dweller, but if you REALLY have always wanted to be an online smack dealer, then this is the game for you” I would sign up for life just on principle.

Sadly economics are unfair to some.