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Titus
Posts: 7745
  • Posted On: Dec 10 2003 10:52pm
Rest in Peace Black Isle. We'll miss you, but more importantly, we'll miss Fallout3. *cries*

Link: forums.interplay.com/view...hp?t=35613
Link: forums.interplay.com/view...hp?t=35616

As you skim those threads (and cry with Lup and I), you'll notice references to 'VB'. VB, is short for Van Buren. Van Buren was the code name for what was all but officially confirmed as Fallout3.

It's with great sorrow that i bring this news, although expected i`m still doing this newsbit with tears in my eyes.

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but the "good" folks at Interplay have laid off everyone at BIS.BIS is no longer. Anytime you see the BIS logo on a future product, know that no one who was associated w/ BIS actually worked on it. BIS is nothing more than a sticker that IPLY slaps on their future product.


So, how about Fallout3:

Van Buren/Fallout3 has been "shelved," as the geniuses at IPLY have put it. Console only is the word of the day now. Even though Van Buren was half-way finished, the 'tards in charge have decided they want to do Exalted console and FOBOS 2. The simple fact they are making FOBOS2 even when FOBOS when hasn't shipped and is hated by the Fallout community says a lot about their intelligence. Not to mention Van Buren would be the only game they could possibly ship by X-mas next year.


Yes, Interplay decided to suspend Fallout3, lay off the staff, and make FOBOS2 instead.
This came from several sources close to BIS, all i got from the devs was silence and this:
*sigh*


Found here: www.nma-fallout.com/#3266


And to make the loss even heavier, I found this image. Whether it's a photoshop job or not, I don't know.




In conclusion...

INTERPLAY ... DIE DIE DIE

Thankyou.

*huddles in corner and sobs*
Ceros Sin Kii
Posts: 228
  • Posted On: Dec 10 2003 11:08pm
@#%$.
Dolash
Posts: 4291
  • Posted On: Dec 11 2003 2:59am
...No....

Not.. BIS...

*Cries in agony*

Another good company has fallen!
Bhindi Drayson
Posts: 1381
  • Posted On: Dec 11 2003 4:07am
It's with great sorrow that i bring this news, although expected i`m still doing this newsbit with tears in my eyes.


It's a @#%$ video game. You'll get over it.
Titus
Posts: 7745
  • Posted On: Dec 11 2003 4:09am
2 games, with the third halfway done...

And they are good games too, loads of fun.
Park Kraken
Posts: 4025
  • Posted On: Dec 11 2003 4:29am
Isn't Interplay the company that made the Carmageddon Games? Good Games, those.
Bhindi Drayson
Posts: 1381
  • Posted On: Dec 11 2003 4:32am
They were video games.
Dak Blackblade
Posts: 224
  • Posted On: Dec 11 2003 4:59am
Bugger @#%$ @#%$ @#%$ crap.


Motherfuckers.
Titus
Posts: 7745
  • Posted On: Dec 11 2003 5:04am
Hope Surges for the Faithful!!!

Carsten Strehse of Silver Style, developers of the post-nuclear game the Fall, revealed in a thread about the canning of Fallout 3 that it is not impossible for Silver Style to purchase the rights to the Fallout 3 PC game in the near future, if Interplay is selling. Here what he had to say:

Well, we are definatly interested in hiring some of the former Balck Isle staff. I try to get in contact with them.
I also disclose no big secret if I tell you that we have found a mayor partner for The Fall and that money wouldn't be the biggest problem when we would try to get the FO licence.
My biggest concern is the reaction of the FO community. We're all huge fans of FO here and have deepest respect for the achivements of the dev team. However, we are no Black Isle, we are Silver Style. And I'm afraid that the community wouldn't be pleased with a FO3 that wasn't developed by the original team. Even if I'm very sure that we could deliver a real stunning game.



He is very interested to know the opinion of most of the Fallout community on this matter and asked me if I could organize this for him. I don't know about you, but I find that level of interest refreshing. So please, do him and us a favour and post your honest opinion in the comments to this thread. How would you feel about Silver Style doing the next Fallout game rather than BIS?

Thanks go out to Murdoch/Godd for starting that thread. Cheers, Murdoch.


Taken from here:www.nma-fallout.com/forum...php?t=3285

And, that screen shot above is from Fallout3.
Ahnk Rashanagok
Posts: 5387
  • Posted On: Dec 11 2003 6:37am
As possibly the worlds biggest Canadian Fallout fan, I was deeply disheartened to hear this news.

Hope lives on however!

I am making a Fallout 2 modification using the offical editor. I am looking for anyone interested to join my team... had I known you were a Fallout fan Kas, I would have asked years ago.