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."

Re:It better not...

[Cryect]

Agreed on that storyline, Morrowind main plot was like what were they thinking. Lucky for them they had some of the best side missions I've ever played and tons of them at that.

Re:Um... Bethesda?

[tarp]

LOL, How about Gaithersburg?

Fallout 3 WON'T Be Morrowind With Guns

[TomHandy]

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7 969 [nma-fallout.com]

Seems like just about everyone is assuming that this is going to be just like Morrowind. Read the posts linked in the article above, and you'll see that Bethesda is making it clear that they aren't just going to be sticking Fallout stuff into the Morrowind engine. It's way too early to tell what they're going to do with it, and until we know more, it would be a good idea to avoid jumping to all these conclusions.

Re:Cool

[prockcore]

I haven't tried Morrowind on the PC... but the Xbox version was buggy as hell; and the re-release GOTY edition didn't fix any of the damn bugs, either.

Morrowind on the PC (GOTY-edition) is probably the most buggy piece of software this side of Temple of Elemental Evil.

It crashes all the time.. either dumps to the desktop or reboots XP.

Heres some help

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, the PC version is just as buggy, however, there is one great man who solves all that.

http://www.baldurdash.org/TESMW/TESMW.html
(nea r 3000 bug fixes, have fun)

(And yes, its the same guy who fixed all the BG1+2 bugs as well.)

Re:Oh jeez I hope you are being sarcastic

[isyd0r]

Anyway I remember that fallout 1&2 were full of bugs too : falling back to the desktop, inifinite loops... And I still _love_ Fallout1&2 so I think I'll love berthesda bugs :)

Re:Oh jeez I hope you are being sarcastic

[Zeriel]

1) Morrowind was boring to you? I guess you're not an "explorer" type. And how could you handle Fallout, then? Especially Fallout 2 with it's pages of crappy dialogue and endless grid squares of terrain?

2) Small worlds suck--Morrowind was goddamn PACKED with detail as far as I was concerned--down to the fact that you could harvest crap off of damn near any plant.

3) I don't think you can really say that "If the game doesn't have exactly the same engine type, it's butchery"...compare Metroid and Metroid Prime, or Zelda 1 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Worthy sequels, COMPLETE viewpoint/control overhauls. Geez, open up the mind and let some air in, eh?