trigun

Gamespot link

Former employee post on Interplay forums

Thanks Black Isle, your games rocked. Fallout and Torment will always be some of my most memorable gaming experiences. It's sad that Van Buren aka Fallout 3 won't be seeing the light of day.

nickdawgy

Eh, Looking Glass went the same way and Ion Storm picked up Thief III, so I'd say Fallout 3 will probably be picked up by someone else.

Hopefully.

Also, while Fallout and Planescape Torment were great games, you left out Black Isle's greatest accomplishment: Baldur's Gate.

flashburn

Holy shit. That really sucks.

Groucho

Bioware had more to do with the actual development of Baldur's Gate than Black Isle.

nickdawgy

Maybe so, but Black Isle was a big part of it.

nickdawgy

Also, I forgot to mention Icewind Dale.

fumanstan

Damn that sucks. But considering a bunch of the Black Isle team had left, i can see why. Go give Troika Games the Fallout property

nickdawgy

I wonder why Ion Storm doesn't pick up Fallout...or even Bioware.

RoQuEr

thats usually what happens after all the talent leaves to start their own company.

gcribbs

I loved BG and Icewind Dale so I am sad to see them go. Although I heard they were not going to make more BG games for the PC anyway.

I need my RPG fix

Setzer

Black Isle also gave us Planescape Torment, another classic RPG. This is definitely sad to hear.

shizawn

****

CaptainMarvel

Crap.

glassdragon

I'm pretty sure that Fallout 3 and Bulders gate DA 2 aren't gone.. i think they've just been pushed back a little longer

~~ PAL ~~

Hopefully that is the case.

shizawn

BGDA2 shouldn't be affected, but the entire Fallout 3 team was laid off.

The word is Interplay is moving totally away from the PC and going strictly console. Plans are to make a sequel to Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel even though the first one hasn't shipped yet.

trigun

You're thinking of Fallout: Brotherhood of the Steel. Fallout 3 would've been a true sequel to the RPG series will Fallout : BoS is more like Super Mario Brothers.

flashburn

Fallout: BoS looks like a horrible way to truely kill off a once great series. Everything I have seen and heard about it just sounds terrible.

nickdawgy

I was looking forward to BoS. But then again, I am always craving new material from good franchises.

flashburn

Here are some screenshots from the apparently now cancelled Fallout 3.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallo...s_6085620.html


Looks really cool, sucks that it seems it has been totally cancelled. Hopefully something will change.

nickdawgy

Yeah, very depressing.

Still, I am sure someone will pick it up

flashburn

Wow, that petition is so horrible I am hesitant on signing it.
Not like it would make much difference probably...but still.


"To: Interplay

I don't speak good english, so this petition will be short.
We want to restore the Black Isle Studios and continue the Van Buren Project also known as Fallout 3. Don't do another poor game for PS2 or Xbox. Fallout was created for PC and we want a new part of this american, post-apocalypse history...

I hope this will be the best part...

Sincerely,

The Undersigned "

nickdawgy

Do those petitions ever work?

mikehunt

this sucks
I just got around to buying IWD2

cheapskate

Online petitions are the voice of the people. The only way anything every changes in this country, be it restoring foreign films with the original language audio track, getting complete season sets of obscure 70's cop shows on DVD or making FOX revive your favorite TV show from cancellation is through the use of ONLINE PETITIONS....






...not.