Van Buren ("FO3") trailer time!

[Gorth]

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/

 

Urghh! >_

 

Ok, so I didn't like Oblivion. I still hoped Bethesda wouldn't completely miss the mark though. Not a lot of optimism left

Edited May 4, 2007 by Gorth

[Dark_Raven]

Who owns the source code to Van Buren or is it considered abandon ware?

 

Edit.

Nevermind I found it.

 

Van Buren assets

 

* The assets of the cancelled Black Isle Studios (BIS) game Van Buren (Fallout 3) were mostly purchased by Obsidian in the deal mentioned above. Assorted pieces have been released through No Mutants Allowed (NMA). Bethesda also received a large amount of Van Buren assets and documention, but Todd Howard of Bethesda has indicated that they will not use any Van Buren assets in their game, but will "start fresh."

 

Source.

Edited May 4, 2007 by Dark_Raven

[Pop]

So in a perfect, foreign world, Van Buren could be released as a sort of Tactics-y side project to Beth's F3. Hmmm.

 

At least the devs have all of their work back. It was fun going through KOTOR2 and trying to find all the little bits of VB that made it into that game in some form or another.

Edited May 4, 2007 by Pop

[Jorian Drake]

So in a perfect, foreign world, Van Buren could be released as a sort of Tactics-y side project to Beth's F3. Hmmm.

 

... were mostly purchased by Obsidian ...

 

 

Guess who has more rights to do that

 

 

EDIT: right J.E.?

Edited May 4, 2007 by Jorian Drake

[Pop]

Well, uh, what I think that means is, eh, Obsidian has the rights to the concept art, and the engine, and all of that jazz, but they can't actually release a Fallout game without Bethsoft's express permission, they being the owners of the license and all.

[Gorth]

Obsidian also bought some other old Interplay assets, didn't they?

 

Perhaps they want to build their own little museum. They could open up a bar in the office and call it the Cafe of Broken Dreams >_

[Jorian Drake]

Obsidian also bought some other old Interplay assets, didn't they?

 

Perhaps they want to build their own little museum. They could open up a bar in the office and call it the Cafe of Broken Dreams

more better: 'Caf

[Xard]

I prefer Caf

[Jorian Drake]

I prefer Caf

[Xard]

Yes, if.

 

Which is something I really doubt as Beth has license and I can't imagine why Beth would allow OE to touch their license

[Dark_Raven]

Obsidian also bought some other old Interplay assets, didn't they?

 

Perhaps they want to build their own little museum. They could open up a bar in the office and call it the Cafe of Broken Dreams

Cafe of Broken Dreams rules.

 

They may not be able to make a Fallout game with Van Buren's remains, but they could make their own post Apocalyptic game with it.

[Zoma]

Feargie did mention about expressing interest in making their own fantasy apocalyptic game when the chance arrives in one of the interview.

 

While we couldn't go with the campy 50's feel of Fallout (campy as in the Pip Boy look, not campy as in culture references), I think the tension created by having all the different fantasy societies trying to scrape by and rebuild would make for an interesting world to explore.

 

Something along the lines of Arcanum, but Mad Max style.

[Spider]

I prefer Caf

[metadigital]

He's Hungarian.

[Pop]

Obsidian also bought some other old Interplay assets, didn't they?

 

Perhaps they want to build their own little museum. They could open up a bar in the office and call it the Cafe of Broken Dreams

Cafe of Broken Dreams rules.

 

They may not be able to make a Fallout game with Van Buren's remains, but they could make their own post Apocalyptic game with it.

It never ends.

[metadigital]

So, would that be making a post-apoc game out of a game that suffered an apocalyptic event ... a post-apoc game of a post-apoc game?

[Dark_Raven]

Sure why not.

[Jorian Drake]

I prefer Caf

[Tigranes]

Oh god, don't start another forum drama about Hungarians.

 

The point is that naiming it the Cafe of Broken Dreams would be a reference to the original fallout games, no matter the actual meaning of the name. So naming it something else wouldn't really work. Now let's move on.

[Jorian Drake]

Oh god, don't start another forum drama about Hungarians.

 

The point is that naiming it the Cafe of Broken Dreams would be a reference to the original fallout games, no matter the actual meaning of the name. So naming it something else wouldn't really work. Now let's move on.

well...do they actually have the RIGHTS to the name 'Caf

[Tigranes]

It's a freaking reference to popular culture, nobody's going to sue you for having an OFFICE PARTY CAFE THING called the cafe of broken dreams. Let it go.

 

Has anyone finished the tech demo? It had pretty bad performance for me so I haven't bothered yet. I understand it's only like 15 minutes long?

Edited May 5, 2007 by Tigranes

[Gorth]

Has anyone finished the tech demo? It had pretty bad performance for me so I haven't bothered yet. I understand it's only like 15 minutes long?

Ehh... where do you go after the guy in armour says we are close to the entrance and he has to leave? :blush10:

[Pop]

I fooled around with the vault door for a little while, opened the door and couldn't walk through it, closed the door and then walked through it.

 

From there, you meet some vault-dwellers who need a generator fixed. So I had to find a toolkit, but I couldn't, so I flamed everybody I could find. Then I found out the door to the generator room was locked, so I flamed it. The game did not see this coming, and promptly crashed.

 

I loved what I saw, though. Ranged pistol whip ftw.

[Girias_Solo]

Maybe Sawyer could work away on this game instead of the NWN2 mod he is cranking out....

 

Yeah I know, pigs might fly...

[Morgoth]

Maybe Sawyer could work away on this game instead of the NWN2 mod he is cranking out....

 

Yeah I know, pigs might fly...

Sure they can.

 

 

 

And yes, while it's cool that J.E. works on TBH with the NWN2 engine, working with the old VB engine would make me flying!