gunsmoke on 21/4/2009 at 21:20
Quote Posted by Koki
And people say
I'm a dick.
LMFAO
Zygoptera on 21/4/2009 at 22:00
Quote Posted by Matthew
As I understand it they have the rights to the name and setting but may not have the rights to use the D&D ruleset itself any more, hence the Dark Alliance series being spun off from it.
I presume you mean IPLY? They haven't had the rights to even Dark Alliance for half a year, it was part of their settlement with Atari/ WOTC, and Icewind Dale's TM got registered by Atari roughly a year ago. Bioware's trademarks of Baldur's Gate got transferred to WOTC in January. The only company that can make D&D computer games are Atari.
Well, probably, remembering the mess that was who owned Pool of Radiance.
Obsidian don't own the rights to anything, they even had to pimp Alpha Protocol to Sega. Funnily enough though, Feargus U himself (or perhaps Obsidian as a whole) bought up all the concept art etc from the original Fallouts just after Obsidian was established.
Quote Posted by AxTng1
Hello I am a woman in the future you must walk around this bit and collect four things and then bring them back to me then we can go someplace else and get four more things and then I will betray you hard and then you get four more things and then we fight and you persuade me to become good again and then I die tragically and you kill the boss.
Poor old Obsidian, always being mistaken for Bioware.
AxTng1 on 22/4/2009 at 01:41
Fair enough. Damn factual accuracy getting in the way of cheap shots. Now if BioWare were coding and Obsidian were doing the story... Beth could texture. Maybe get id to help with the engine and get Epic to do the marketing. Playtesting and publishing by Valve.
oh fine it can be 2d and turn based and need windows 95 OSR2 are you all happy now?
Koki on 22/4/2009 at 07:16
Yes!
Also, if you read the (
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=31852) Codex thread about it you might notice there's quite a few Obsidian devs giving some more info.
You might also notice that Codex is the incarnation of Malal and not Khorne like you probably thought.
Rogue Keeper on 22/4/2009 at 07:41
Since when Obsidian has license for Fallout? I don't follow, somebody please explain it to me like to a 12 years old.
Matthew on 22/4/2009 at 09:58
Quote Posted by Zygoptera
I presume you mean IPLY? They haven't had the rights to even Dark Alliance for half a year, it was part of their settlement with Atari/ WOTC, and Icewind Dale's TM got registered by Atari roughly a year ago. Bioware's trademarks of Baldur's Gate got transferred to WOTC in January. The only company that can make D&D computer games are Atari.
Well, probably, remembering the mess that was who owned Pool of Radiance.
I am a year or so behind in my understanding, then - thanks.
But please don't ever mention Ruins of Myth Drannor again,
ever.Jason Moyer on 22/4/2009 at 11:51
Quote Posted by Rogue Keeper
Since when Obsidian has license for Fallout? I don't follow, somebody please explain it to me like to a 12 years old.
Bethesda own the rights. They're outsourcing the engine/license to Obsidian to make a new non-sequel (i.e. Fallout New Vegas) while they work on the next DLC and Fallout 4, apparently.
Ostriig on 22/4/2009 at 12:15
Quote Posted by AxTng1
Beth could texture.
Ugh... Please no.
Rogue Keeper on 22/4/2009 at 15:15
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Bethesda own the rights. They're outsourcing the engine/license to Obsidian to make a new non-sequel (i.e. Fallout New Vegas) while they work on the next DLC and Fallout 4, apparently.
And with IPLY supposedly making the MMORPG, the Fallout franchise suddenly branches to confusing heights. Well at least everyone can pick up his preferred post-apo adventure.
Jason Moyer on 22/4/2009 at 16:27
I dunno, I don't see a reason why Avellone and Co couldn't continue doing the west coast-centered Fallout games while Bethesda continued making games that focused on the east coast.
What would really be amazing though, is if someone would make a Fallout game that started a new story thread outside of the USA/Canada/China. There is a ton of untapped material waiting to be written in South America/Australia/Europe/Africa/Asia/etc. In fact, there's no reason those games couldn't have an entirely new backstory and entirely different technology and factions to the NA fallouts.
Edit: Totally random Fallout setting idea - How about a game centered around a cargo cult in an area that likely wouldn't have been hit by bombs in an a 50's post-apoc scenario, like the Amazon or some place. The Brotherhood finds out that the US government had a small, secret base in some remote jungle in South America where they were airlifting supplies in advance of the war breaking out, and you're tasked with going down, locating the base, and recovering technology from the indigenous people who have set up a religion around a nuka cola bottle that fell from the sky. A little Fallout, a little Far Cry, a little The Gods Must Be Crazy.
