Fallout 3 Lives!

[NiteFox]

Wow, Bethesda.  Makers of the most engaging, fun, and bug-ridden games on the face of the planet.

Following the cockroach* filled trainwreck that was the final version of Fallout 2, if Bethesda continues on with their track record then it would actually be an improvement :)

I'm skeptical and, it must be said, a little worried. Anyone can make a game, a game that anyone can play which is fine, but it takes a certain amount of skill to maintain a universe. Fallout's universe was a fairly rich, well-thought out, and deep universe.

So what happens when you ask a different company to make a game for a story continuity that they didn't make? Fallout Tactics, or even worse, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

I have no doubt that Bethesda can write a fantastic story, everything I've heard of the Morrowind saga has been good. But let's be fair: Can they do Fallout? No more so than the original Fallout team could do a Morrowind game, I reckon.

The only way I'll be happy and secure in the knowledge that Bethesda will do a good job of FO3 is if they headhunt and recruit every single man and woman that made the first two Fallouts and make it their responsibility to do the game - Nobody else in the office touches it. Erect barbed-wire fences between the cubicles in necessary. Second option is to haul out the designers (Avellone and the like) and dialogue writers from whatever they're doing now and set them up in an advisory role. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of strangers prodding and poking at and trying to get something they have no fundamental clue about working.

Ain't gonna happen. It may look like Fallout, but it'll be Fallout Lite, one-cal Fallout, not nearly Fallout enough.

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*Bugs, natch.