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Editorial History of the Fallout series; OR: How not to run a company

DarkUnderlord

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Tags: Brian Fargo; Fallout 2

Pretty sure there have been fifteen articles on this already but <a href="http://www.mediaconsumesme.com/2009/11/the-history-and-review-of-the-fallout-series-part-2/">here's another one from media consumes me</a>:
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<blockquote>Immediately after the release of Fallout 2, Black Isle Studios began working on another sequel to the series. Interplay at the time had just gone public on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange and their shares began to take a nosedive after several years of reporting loses. Even though Interplay published some great games, they were purportedly spending boatloads of cash on projects like Star Trek: The Secret of Vulcan Fury,a project I was eagerly awaiting, having seen a preview in PCGamer magazine. Fallout 3 along with many other upcoming projects were cancelled.
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Interplay was funding its projects through credit agreements, game sales, and loans from the head of the company himself, Brian Fargo. They never kept much cash at the ready, and once troubles grew out of their hands in 1999, Titus Interactive, a French based production company, acquired a majority interest in Interplay. In 2001, Brian Fargo, the original founder, left the company and Titus Interactive’s own Herve Caen took over as CEO. A deal with Vivendi Universal was signed to publish Interplays games, giving a much needed lifeline to the troubled company.</blockquote>
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It's part 2. Link to part 1 is in the article.
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Meh. Pretty mediocre.

Also, gigantic world in FO3? He does make The Pitt and one other DLC sound good though. Are they?
 

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denizsi said:
Meh. Pretty mediocre.

Also, gigantic world in FO3? He does make The Pitt and one other DLC sound good though. Are they?

They try. In this, they fail even more than the original game, since that's at least somewhat honest about being a fucking bad shooter and nothing else.

There are hints of something interesting in the Pitt, but it is still fucking trash.
 
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denizsi said:
Meh. Pretty mediocre.

Also, gigantic world in FO3? He does make The Pitt and one other DLC sound good though. Are they?

The Pitt reminded me of Mass Effect. Poor linear shooter gameplay with a halfhearted attempt to let you either role play a bad person or a good person who in either case is out to do good things and help people.
 

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