Game News Vault Boy auctions cease and desist; Fallout Online concepts

[DarkUnderlord]

Tags: Bethesda Softworks; Fallout 3

Betheda are having fun with lawyers. Not content on making lies against Interplay, they've decided to turn their attention to Brian Menze's Vault Boy art auctions. <a href="http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Ausir/Brian_Menze%27s_auctions_taken_down">He informed Ausir at the Fallout Wiki</a>:
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<blockquote>I apologize, but I have been informed that I do not have the right to sell the images and was asked to take the auctions down. I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused.</blockquote>
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In other Fallout news, Duck and Cover managed to get their hands on some screenshots from Project V13, Interplay's Fallout Online thingo.
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You can check 'em <a href="http://www.duckandcover.cx/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23430">at Duck and Cover</a> or see <a href="http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Ausir/Another_batch_of_V13_concept_art">those</a> and <a href="http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Ausir/First_Project_V13_screenshots">another batch</a> at the Fallout Wiki.
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<blockquote>These screenshots were actually submitted by Interplay as court evidence to show that the game is in full production already.</blockquote>
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Except concept art is not full production...
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UPDATE: Okay, apparently that last batch are actually screenshots. :Borderlands:
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Thanks <b>King of Creation</b> and <b>Ausir</b>!

 

[thesheeep]

Bwahahaha @ Bethesda.

This gives the bored lawyer syndrome a completely new dimension :D

 

[Gragt]

The very last you linked are screenshots, not concept art, right? I'm slightly confused.

 

[thesheeep]

Yeah, they are obviously screenshots of a version that doesn't even seem to be in alpha. So no too harsh critics based on that, please.

All in all, I think they look too comic-y, but still more fitting for a Fallout game than any of the Bethesda stuff.

 

[Ausir]

Except concept art is not full production...

The second batch are screenshots, not concept art.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Really? It's very Borderlands in that case.

 

[Ausir]

Yeah, looks like they're cell shaded, but they're actually early screenshots.

 

[Gerrard]

Re: Vault Boy auctions cease and desist; Fallout Online scre

Yeah, some of the textures on the screenshots definitely look hand-drawn.

Not content on making lies against Interplay, they've decided to turn their attention to Brian Menze's Vault Boy art auctions.

Hahaha, fucking knew it would happen.

I like the spess mahrine power armor though.

 

[Gragt]

That hand-drawn look isn't unpleasant.

 

[Talby]

It looks like a lower-res Fallout 3.

 

[Grunker]

Fuck man. Bethesda is confirming every single prejudice that europeans have about americans.

 

[JrK]

Notice how the super mutant looks more like the fallout thing than fallout3 thing.

 

[Ogg]

Fuck man. Bethesda is confirming every single prejudice that europeans have about americans.

Too much fat?

 

[Grunker]

Fuck man. Bethesda is confirming every single prejudice that europeans have about americans.

Too much fat?

Too many goddamn lawsuits. But that too.

 

[Zed]

Those screenshots makes it look like a fucking kid's game.

I'm tired of stylized shit. Make normal aryan fucking graphics.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

I'm tired of stylized shit. Make normal aryan fucking graphics.

 

[Gerrard]

Those screenshots makes it look like a fucking kid's game.

I'm tired of stylized shit. Make normal aryan fucking graphics.

Stylized shit is the new shit.

 

[JarlFrank]

The super mutant does look a lot better than Fallout 3's, though.

 

[MetalCraze]

That's true. The top 2/3 of the third screenshot also look quite atmospheric and Burton-ish

 

[Lockkaliber]

Very intriguing, and as others have said, the super mutant looks very much like a F1 or 2 super mutant. I think the stylized graphics are actually pretty spot on, as I have always considered the older Fallouts to have very stylized graphics.

 

[Andhaira]

Super Mutant? Should it have a cape?

 

[YourDaddy]

Wasn't I naive, expecting Bethesda to sue him right away? Boring world.