Chatter Of The Squirrel

FallOut 3!

April 21, 2007 on 10:00 pm | In Me! |

Those who’ve played the FallOut franchise will know how I feel.

FallOut 1 & 2 were great games. And FO: Tactics too was an incredible challenge.

But we never got to see FallOut 3, despite waiting years and years.

This franchise belonged to Interplay, which had been developing games for years and years. Starting with Battle Chess, which I remember with some fondness, in the days of double digit MHz PC systems.

Ah… My first PC AT, 12MHz with 1MB RAM and 20MB harddisk. And a CGA computer capable of displaying 4 colors at a time.

Since then, Interplay had many successful franchises. Including Baldur’s Gate, Planescape:Torment (best RPG there ever was) etc.

But despite the success of their games, the company had fallen into hardtimes. Unable to pay its staff. Evicted out of its premises. Slapped with numerous lawsuits. Taxes. etc. Generally having no money left to develop, nor publish anymore games.

Till they’ve been forced to sell the rights to FallOut.

To Bethesda Game Studios. Known for The Eldar Scrolls series.

For 5.75 million.

And now, they’re going to do FallOut 3.

And after selling the full intellectual property rights to Bethesda, Interplay gets the license to create a FallOut MMORPG. That’s what the millions are for I guess, a last ditch gamble to dig themselves out of insolvency.

I wish success to both projects. While I’m still young, please.