Fallout 3 is going to sell well, regardless of what the final product ends up looking like. It's a prediction I've pulled from my backside, but one that I think is more than reasonable. Interplay is certainly prepared to rake in the moolah, and has already mentally spent the wealth -- it's planning to revive an in-house dev studio with an eye to bringing back long-since deceased franchises, chief among them being Earthworm Jim.
Only a coldhearted lizard-esque creation of mankind's evil could ever claim to disliking the ridiculous escapades of Earthworm Jim, though fears of cheap cash-ins are surfacing. I wouldn't stand in the way of anybody looking to create a fresh, original and hilarious Jim title, but nostalgia can lead to broken dreams and sequels that can't live up to expectation. That, or games that are just plain crap.
Along with Earthworm Jim, a return for Baldur's Gate and MDK are also entirely possible. Once again, I can't see anybody complaining about good new games in these franchises, but that's the question people are asking -- would they be good?
Personally, I say let them at it. If the games turn out bad, we as gamers have lost nothing. We only stand to potentially gain from any resurrections. For the chance of a current-generation Earthworm Jim game that doesn't blow chunks, I'll take the risk, however big. After all, it's a risk Interplay is taking for us.
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11:41 AM on 11.14.2007
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Then again, I'm still looking for the day Sega revives the Vectorman revival project they had in the pipeline a number of years back despite the fact I know it would blow. I just fucking love Vectorman.
*shudders*
But I do agree that no matter how much the game sucks it should at least be attempted and hell, maybe it will be incredible and the hearts of cynical gamers the world over will grow 3 sizes that day.
Now if only they would BRING BACK ROAD RASH!!!
I still have the Nintendo Power Poster of it with Crow in the background... this game rules...
And yes, they still have the license to do a Fallout MMO. Honestly, I would prefer them to not risk everything in this difficult endeavor, and instead focus on less risky ventures such as a new Earthworm Jim.
@Brosef: Fuck yeah, Road Rash. My buddies and I had a plan (unfortunately never enacted) where we would get trikes and little girly bikes with streamers and baskets and shit, and then ride them around campus beating the crap out of each other with plastic bats and whatnot.
And a New Earthworm Jim would be crazy, I loved the cartoon when I was little and the game was gold, but it seemed so difficult for me back in the day. Hope they try it out at least.
Baldur's Gate needs no sequels, there is no possible story after BG2 (well the Baal story arc anyway) - a new game set on the Sword Coast, yes that would be well and dandy.
A new MDK i'd kill for though....
BG still belongs to Atari. Interplay lost the PC Baldurs gate license four years ago, since they couldn't make some payments, but kept the console oriented BG:dark Alliance one for a while, even released BG:DA2.
They finally lost that too, on the courts, but registered Dark Alliance, and later made a deal with Wizards and Atari to give away all the Bgs, from the PC and consoles, but were allowed to name new games with Dark Alliance only, no BG:DA.
So Baldurs Gates won't be a part on Interplay ever again, Dark Alliance would be possible, if they had anything more than a couple of tables, a telephone and a lot of hot air to make anything regarding games...
Basically either you try the Planescape expansion for NWN2 that is being produced (sorry I can't find the link right now) or... nothing.
Zero even.
They simply killed Planescape. I hope one day they change that decision, but that remains unlikely.
Who said vectorman? I'm adding you to my friends list right now!
Also, I'm totally picking up Fallout 3 unless I hear that it makes my 360 kerplode as soon as it approaches the proximity of the room. I'm a sucker for that franchise. Cerealy, I'm thinking of naming my main character Dogmeat.
Yeah, Vectorman is freaking awesome.