fallout MMO

[mattpegher]

I'd really like to try a nonfantasy MMO but Eve is all ships, I don't think there is any personal combat or rpgto it. Fallout maybe a deus-ex mmo would be a change.

 

[Schadenfroh]

The broken shadow of its former self known as Interplay has the license (they sold the Fallout franchise to Bethesda) to create a Fallout MMO. All of the people responsible for Fallout 1 and 2 are either at Obsidian Entertainment or various other developers since Troika (where the "Fallout guys" went after Interplay fired them all) was shutdown by Activision, so do not expect it to be of the same ilk as the first two single player games.

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Interplay reaffirms its ambition to secure funding for the Fallout MMO as well as "creating sequels to some of its most successful games,"

In other words, they want someone to buy them.

My predictions for the Fallout MMORPG:

1. Bethesda releases their version of Fallout 3 (the real Fallout 3 was Project Vanburen by Black Isle Studios / Interplay). It sells more than Fallout 1 and 2 combined thanks to it being "dumbed down" to little more than a shooter with stats / levels, a marketing budget and the fact that it will be available on three platforms instead of one.

2. Investors seeing how well Fallout 3 sells invest in Interplay, real development of the Fallout MMO begins.

3. One year before the game is ready to launch, the investors become impatient and unwilling to invest the extra money needed to do the MMO right and finish it.

4. Another company (like NCSoft or Sony) buys Interplay's assets. They rework the Fallout MMO into a WoW clone set in the Fallout world (if it is not one already). 6-months later, they release the game riddled with bugs due to it being shipped early and unfinished.

5. The initial waves of people who had the game preordered or bought it in the first month leave the game and return to the MMOs that they were playing before it launched.

6. Another failed MMORPG.

 

[Piuc2020]

LOL that's quite an imagination you have there Schadenfroh but I agree, a Fallout MMO would be doomed from the start just because it would be a MMORPG.

 

[AstroManLuca]

MMORPGs all seem to be pretty heavy on the MMO and pretty light on the RPG. They're practically glorified chat rooms. I would hate to see Fallout turned into one, but I fear it will happen.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Piuc2020
that's quite an imagination you have there Schadenfroh

We will see

Similar things have happened with modern MMOs.

 

[NicePants42]

Originally posted by: Piuc2020
LOL that's quite an ability to generalize events from the recent past you have there Schadenfroh but I agree, a Fallout MMO would be doomed from the start just because it would be a MMORPG.

Fixed that for you. No disrespect meant to 'froh.

 

[Xavier434]

It really is a shame if that is to be the game's future (assuming it has any future at all). I would also be interested in more MMO style games that are not fantasy. It takes a lot to convince me to pay a monthly sub though so whatever it is it must really entertain me.