"Also, they’re asking for Interplay to pay up for all the “irreparable harm” and whatnot the studio caused Bethesda."

Did someone get raped and we missed it? Seriously, this stands out as one of the stupidest statement of the year.

After reading the full article, I'm not really sure who to side with. On one hand, Bethesda looks like they're just trying to stick it in Interplay's ass now that they've reaped all the benefits of the Fallout license. On the other hand, if Interplay is in breach of contract, well.. business is business. Still sucks, though.

Bethesda shooting to be the next Activision, eh?

What... what the fuck?
THEY WERE BEHIND THE ORIGINAL FALLOUTS, WHICH BETHESDA LICENSED FROM THEM.
MIGHT I ADD BETHESDA'S GAME ALSO SUCKS A LOT.
Fucking hell. That's like me buying an apple from a grocer, and then suing him for seeling apples because I want to be the only one with an apple.

What a dick move.

Egad, I don't want to think about what must be happening over at NMA right now. They must be swimming in bile and vitriol.

@Bluemeep: Jesus Christ I forgot about NMA. We could do a whole Fanboy Friday over that.

Let's do a whole Fanboy Friday over that.

Hopefully the Fallout MMO will be cancelled and the unreleased Earthworm Jim game will be back in production and Interplay will then make lots of money.

@Dexter: Primary difference being that Bethesda makes good games and Activision does not.

Bethesda's just butt hurt that they can't make a decent Fallout game. Actually, their games in general have been downhill since Daggerfall. After Oblivion (which lived up to its name) and the destruction of the Fallout series, I've lost interest in Bethesda.

They can sue Interplay all they want, though. Interplay laid off Black Isle Studios (aka one of the greatest developer of all time, now Obsidian Entertainment) so I'm not exactly on good terms with them either.

Confusion? It states quite clearly on Steam, GOG.com etc. who the publisher/developer is for each game. That's all just bullshit

Sounds like Bethesda are trying to put a barely there publisher out of business to claim back the MMO rights. The stuff about distributing the game just seems petty and vindictive. I mean, it says that Interplay had the right to sell the original games anyway, but didn't ask Bethesda first?

I still dont see how people think that because Interplay is making it, that its going to be the answer to their Purist Fallout Dreams.

Masthead is working with them, and they weren't part of the original Fallout team were they? Sure Interplay has a couple of Original Devs...but not that many.

Alot of them are at Obsidian now, and Brian Fargo has his own company now and is working on a Wasteland property supposedly.

Oh and the whole selling of the Original Games. I bought one of the packs with Fallout 1 2 and Tactics...and on the box it actually says "Fallout 1 2 and 3" So yeah, I can see why Beth might be shitty about that.

@Monster w21 Faces your analogy is fucked up.

Its as if a man made 3 loaves of bread. HE sold the recipe to somebody and then after the new guy made some good bread and sold it to more people over a larger area, the original man tried to sell his bread again, and the new guy tried to fuck him in the ass, because he bought the recipe.

Damn, I was really hoping for a turn based strategy rpg Fallout game. Why are you doing this Bethseda?

Quick! Buy the trilogy on steam beofer this ends!

@GoW: One would hope you'd read what games are included before buying it. Then again..I suppose the average person who buys Bethesda games IS an idiot..

What you people FAIL to realize(mostly because your search engines buttons are broken)is that OBSIDIAN is made up of ALOT of BLACK ISLE(ie the DEVELOPER who MADE FALLOUT 1 AND 2)staff. And BETHESDA gave them the rights to make Fallout: Las Vegas. Interplay, your sacred whore publisher, CANCELLED FALLOUT 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or what would have been Fallout 3. If any of you actually were fans of the first two games, this wouldn't be news to you.

What Monster w21 Faces, clonetrooper and countingdown7 said.

Interplay are as big if not bigger dicks than Bethesda these days.

@Midgetsnowman:

Yes, because everyone knows the Elder Scrolls games are worthless and never did anything right and in fact are completely rubbish.

What Interplay is doing is pretty shady, especially considering they sold the rights to Bethesda. This lawsuit is actually justified.

So... how many of you who are going apeshit right now against Bethesda actually bothered to read the Gamasutra article linked above? Some of that stuff is some pretty specific shit that, if true, shows that Interplay didn't keep up their end of the contract and that Bethesda is entirely justified in doing this.

Calm the hell down, you fucking fanboys. The quality of Fallout 3 vs the original games or the quality of Bethesda games vs Interplay games has absolutely no bearing on this whatsoever. This is just industry bullshit, no more and no less.

@Midgetsnowman

Except, of course, the people who buy the Fallout Trilogy are buying Interplay games, not Bethesda games. So, um, who's the idiot again? Seriously, if Joe Tard game player buys this Fallout Trilogy thinking he's getting Fallout 3 in the combo, this is partly his fault for being Joe Tard and partly Interplay's fault for being shady and trying to cash in on Fallout 3 with a disingenuous title that implies that Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 are included. Hell, even I hardly consider the execrable Fallout Tactics, and I already own the fucking thing, independent of this, so I can see where confusion might set in. Fallout 1 and 2 are awesome, but Fallout Tactics is pure shit and is certainly no Fallout 3. Again, not that that has any bearing on this lawsuit.

Bethesda owns the rights to fallout. Interplay was under a specific agreement with Bethesda to make the mmo, and if failed to come up with the minimum budget (20 million or something) then the rights come back to bethesda, case closed.

It's a shame, but Bethesda has the right to do it. Interplay sold them fallout which had allowed them to get back on their feet in the first place. I would say it is Interplay who is making the shady plays here.