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    Apparently only 18000 of 120000 people playing Demigod actually bought the game!

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    I just found that quite interesting, such a high ratio.


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    Wasn't a (small) part of that troubling start due to Gamestop releasing the game early?

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    Next Fallout game announced.

    Fallout: New Vegas
    Not a sequel to FO3, just a different story set in another part of the US.
    Being developed by Obsidian (KOTOR2, NWN2), not Bethesda.
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    You know... Im getting tired of the United States, I wonder what Fallout in other countries would look like.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    Next Fallout game announced.

    Fallout: New Vegas
    Not a sequel to FO3, just a different story set in another part of the US.
    Being developed by Obsidian (KOTOR2, NWN2), not Bethesda.
    This is very exciting RPG news! Obsidian has members of the Fallout 1 and 2 teams, including the lead director. They're also a team which excels at rich story and strong characters - the major aspects I found lacking in Fallout 3.
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    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
    This is very exciting RPG news! Obsidian has members of the Fallout 1 and 2 teams, including the lead director. They're also a team which excels at rich story and strong characters - the major aspects I found lacking in Fallout 3.
    I agree, lets just hope they can release a more polished game than some of their more recent efforts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
    This is very exciting RPG news! Obsidian has members of the Fallout 1 and 2 teams, including the lead director. They're also a team which excels at rich story and strong characters - the major aspects I found lacking in Fallout 3.
    Based on conversations with my Bethsoft friends, I think Bethsoft is still working in the FO universe, but their next release is going to be on their next-gen engine. I expect we'll see ES5 released by Bethsoft next on a new engine, followed by FO4 on the same engine. The Obsidian FO release is a stopgap game to keep interest in the universe alive while Bethsoft works on their new technologies.


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    Based on conversations with my Bethsoft friends, I think Bethsoft is still working in the FO universe, but their next release is going to be on their next-gen engine. I expect we'll see ES5 released by Bethsoft next on a new engine, followed by FO4 on the same engine. The Obsidian FO release is a stopgap game to keep interest in the universe alive while Bethsoft works on their new technologies.
    I'm far more excited about the stop gap than the next 'proper' game in the series. Bethesda are good at making worlds; they're not so good at making those worlds fun to be in. Plot, character, smart quests - these are the things I crave in RPGs. ES5 and FO4 I shall play when they turn up because there aren't so many RPGs of that style, but I don't care how long I'm waiting.

    Bethesda's world inhabited by Obsidian's characters and plot - it's a match made in heaven! Or it had better be! Obsidian plus KOTOR should have been equally glorious; publisher greed ruined it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
    Bethesda's world inhabited by Obsidian's characters and plot - it's a match made in heaven! Or it had better be! Obsidian plus KOTOR should have been equally glorious; publisher greed ruined it.
    I agree, and I don't think we've got much to worry about. Bethsoft are the publishers, and despite the many complaints about their games, I've never seen "unfinished" being one of them. The odds of Bethsoft forcing Obsidian to push out an unfinished game seems pretty low to me, especially since Bethsoft will want to keep critical opinion on the FO universe high for their own FO4 sales.
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    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
    Bethesda's world inhabited by Obsidian's characters and plot - it's a match made in heaven! Or it had better be! Obsidian plus KOTOR should have been equally glorious; publisher greed ruined it.
    Not to be a party pooper, but Obsidian doesn't really have a good track record does it? They kind of have a reputation for getting farmed out sequels to games and turning them into disappointments....

    KOTOR2 was a good game, but unfinished and ultimately disappointing compared to the first. NWN2, to me at least, was an unplayable mess when it first came out. Two expansions later and I hear its finally starting to come together, but I've stopped caring.

    I'd love to be proven wrong, but when I hear Obsidian is getting to do another sequel to a different devs game, its more likely to elicit a sigh from me than excitement.
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