Bethesda Licenses Fallout Franchise, To Make Fallout 3

An anonymous reader writes "According to an official press release, Bethesda will now develop and publish a brand-new version of Fallout 3, after the company 'licensed the rights to the Fallout [videogame] franchise from Interplay... with the option to develop and publish additional sequels.' Interplay, who is presumably licensing out its IP due to recent financial difficulties, is keeping the rights to its theoretical Fallout MMO concept, however, and this new attempt at Fallout 3 from the Morrowind developers doesn't look to be using code/assets from the previously half-completed Black Isle version."

PA: The Truth Comes Out

[rokzy]

Click me, you 'tard! [penny-arcade.com]

All right!

[Kenja]

Fallout where you can fall through the floor!

Back to play...

[DrCode]

I still have to get through Wasteland.

A reason to live...

[0111 1110]

Thank you so much Bethesda for giving me a reason to remain alive. I was fresh out of reasons, but now I can't die until after I have played Bethesda's version of Black Isle's Fallout 3. Now if someone would just (finally) come out with an Ultima Underworld III and Planescape: Torment II.

Re:Bugs

[psetzer]

I dunno, but the bugs didn't seem to last too long under the wrath of several of my guys with AK-47s in Tactics. That big momma one took a bit more work. Remember: Shoot first, and let God sort 'em out.

Oh, great

[Wtcher]

So, now we're going to get a game that won't run on C3s (Cyrixes), will have millions of NPCs who sound alike, and will have us falling into the void every time we bump into a corner.

OH YES

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't play any other games but Fallout. I love blasting things away with the .223. I play on the highest difficulty with the wimpiest characters, building them up slowly until Enclave patrols tremble when they see me. I *love* taking out these patrols with the hunting rifle. Sometimes, just for fun, I see if I can take out everyone in New Reno with the pipe rifle. I play for hours, killing things. And I still can easily separate game from reality, well at least most of the time.

I love FRANCHISE!

[3Suns]

I've been a big fan of FRANCHISE ever since FIRST RELEASE way back in FIRST RELEASE DATE. I love how FRANCHISE revolutionized GENRE with INNOVATIVE QUALITY #1 and INNOVATIVE QUALITY #2.

This new take on FRANCHISE has a lot of potential, as long as NEW COMPANY understands what made FRANCHISE great in the first place. I hope they don't go the way of LAST ATTEMPT AT UPDATING FRANCHISE and get back to FRANCHISE's great roots. I really liked NEW COMPANY'S LAST OFFERING, so maybe this is good news.

Still, the cynic in me can never trust these things, as I am still feeling burned by STAR WARS. We'll see how I feel on RELEASE DATE.

Re:There goes the Mac version...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone have any idea if they're planning Linux support?

I'm holding out for BSD support.

Progress Quest

[KingEomer]

What you need, my friend, is Progress Quest! It takes the tediousness right out of inventory management, and you can even be a demicanadian robot monk!

Unless...

[Anonymous Coward]

... Bethesda is Interplay. Hah! Take that one, Mr. Logic Man!

please don't be yet another FPS

[myowntrueself]

please oh *please*...

fallout had such a cool atmosphere... even the way that your cohorts were totally out of control had its moments, and being able to view it all from third person made it so entertaining.

first person would ruin it... (mind you I think it *always* ruins a game; I just feel like a blinkered dalek in a neck brace when playing FPS games).

Re:There goes the Mac version...

[Anonymous Coward]

You know there's going to be BSD support if you're running Windows! Remembering what a steaming pile of kludge which was Morrowind there's bound to be hundreds of blue screens of death hiding behind every poorly rendered bit of terrain!
Excelsior!

Re:Bethesda? Not my first pick, but...

[YOU LIKEWISE FAIL IT]

I dunno, I'd kind of like both, actually. I really enjoyed F1 & 2, but the thought of camping the respawn points with a Bozar is almost too good to resist.

Re:All right!

[Daemongar]

Uh - Fallout was a 2D game - the floor was a 2D background rendering - so no, you couldn't fall through the floor in Fallout as much as you could fall through the floor in Diablo 2 or Starcraft - unless you are on drugs when you play it, then hypothetically you could "fall through the floor" playing Combat on an Atari 2600...

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's incomprehensible that the slashdot trolls wouldn't be fans of a series with games where you can target attacks at the groin. With your choice of sledgehammer, flamethrower, sniper rifle, minigun...

Re:Cool

[CrazyGringo]

I've never been much of an RPG gamer, but I happened to get Morrowind bundled in with my new video card a few months ago. I'd never heard of it before, but I decided to try it out since, hey, it's free. Don't let it get you too. I went to check the mail yesterday and I suddenly felt like Gollum emerging from the dark. I shrieked, "the yellow face, it burns ussss!" and shook my fist at the sun before I realized what I was doing.