Fallout online, will you be there?

[Blackality]

Signed on the beta too. I hope i get a chance to play this.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

VATS is specific to Fallout 3, these are (some) of the people who developed Fallout 1 & 2.

This Interplay made Fallout: Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, both considered non-canon and two of the worst Fallout games in the series. Oh! And they aren't developing alone, they signed up another company to help them... Masthead Studios of whom hasn't released a single game yet and is working on a game of their own apparently, Earthrise. This doesn't exactly inspire confidence if they sign up a company to help them, a company that hasn't produced a single game yet.

They're even using Masthead's toolset and not Interplay's own, but I've been proven wrong before and it's still too early to make a clear call.

You are right about waiting to see how the beta turns out I guess. But I must admit that I'm just a big fallout fanboy (went to the store every day to see if Fallout 2 was out already).
Introducing a new studio in it doesn't (as you said) have to be a bad thing, you can also see this as a point where they know they need some more eyes on it and just haven't got tunnlevision enough to say they can handle it all themself.
As for me, I am a bit hyped about this, for years and years they have talked about an MMOrpg based on fallout, but now, there finally is a real concept.

 

[Zaik]

VATS is specific to Fallout 3, these are (some) of the people who developed Fallout 1 & 2.

This Interplay made Fallout: Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, both considered non-canon and two of the worst Fallout games in the series. Oh! And they aren't developing alone, they signed up another company to help them... Masthead Studios of whom hasn't released a single game yet and is working on a game of their own apparently, Earthrise. This doesn't exactly inspire confidence if they sign up a company to help them, a company that hasn't produced a single game yet.

They're even using Masthead's toolset and not Interplay's own, but I've been proven wrong before and it's still too early to make a clear call.

Oh lol, nevermind.

If that's the case this is going to fail so hard :/

 

[tomvw]

Fallen Earth may be an indicator of how well post-apocalyptic MMOs will do. But I honestly don't know how popular it is.
Maybe the Fallout-brand can carry this, but I'm pretty skeptical about it all.

 

[Mr. Grey]

VATS is specific to Fallout 3, these are (some) of the people who developed Fallout 1 & 2.

This Interplay made Fallout: Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, both considered non-canon and two of the worst Fallout games in the series. Oh! And they aren't developing alone, they signed up another company to help them... Masthead Studios of whom hasn't released a single game yet and is working on a game of their own apparently, Earthrise. This doesn't exactly inspire confidence if they sign up a company to help them, a company that hasn't produced a single game yet.

They're even using Masthead's toolset and not Interplay's own, but I've been proven wrong before and it's still too early to make a clear call.

You are right about waiting to see how the beta turns out I guess. But I must admit that I'm just a big fallout fanboy (went to the store every day to see if Fallout 2 was out already).
Introducing a new studio in it doesn't (as you said) have to be a bad thing, you can also see this as a point where they know they need some more eyes on it and just haven't got tunnlevision enough to say they can handle it all themself.
As for me, I am a bit hyped about this, for years and years they have talked about an MMOrpg based on fallout, but now, there finally is a real concept.

True enough, I'll hold my judgment until I see more or can make a more informed opinion.

Yet I'm still hanging on those three words... Monkey Butt Mine. That's where I kind of see this as a failure, they aren't even trying to use the old - and sometimes morbid - humor Fallout had. That or they let their seven year old children write the jokes.

Unless that mine is used for mining monkey butts, that is.
"Well it could be named that cause it looks like a monkey butt."
How is that possible when you can't see the monkey's head?
"You don't need a head to confirm what kind of butt it is."
You would know, considering how far up your butt your head is.

Ta-da! Still not funny. Probably a bad example of how you can't salvage it, but eh... I didn't have a whole lot to work with. Also, I should stop having conversations with myself.

 

[Baby Tea]

No. A Fallout MMO is a terrible idea.
It completely defeats the idea of Fallout: Survival in a post-nuclear wasteland.
You're alone, you're isolated, you call no pace home.

But in an MMO? Oh well they'll be dance parties in town, big hubs crawling with people, and everything that fallout is not. People yelling "LFG!" or "WANT TO TRADE MY GUN!?" or "FO CAPS BEST DEAL IN CHINA!" isn't my idea of Fallout. It's not a good idea, is a cash grab at a popular franchise at the cost of the entire feel and setting of the franchise.

I won't be getting it.

 

[Zeema]

If it gets Good Reviews i will play it or if i see the trailers of and i might buy it pre order

 

[Mr. Grey]

YOU WILL BUY MY APOCALYPSE SPATULAS!

I will give you a fork for one.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

I would consider it ONLY if they...

...made the world large enough that you weren't running over one another.
...made PVP a REQUEST ONLY option. Fuck losing my gear to some 14 year old spawn camper.
...allow me to be a wandering junk seller.

See THAT could be good. Allow people to trade things. Allow for people to fill the roles of NPCs, to trade goods with one another, allow the actual players to dictate the market. How awesome would that be?

YOU WILL BUY MY APOCALYPSE SPATULAS!

I agree with you that it should be a VERY large scale to let it have that Fallout feeling. I hope they are smart enough to get that. On the downside there could be the danger of lazy designers who make that whole f*cking map just te same or copy/paste some terrain now and then.

 

[Mr. Grey]

I will give you a fork for one.

Sir, I shall accept your trade of silverware as a fine hatted gentleman.

Ah, yes. Of course.

Spoiler: For you: one fork.

Did I forget to mention it was an Oyster Fork?​

 

[bad rider]

-snip-

Whaaaa? I'd heard nothing about this! Details, man, details!

http://www.fallout-on-line.com/ There you go. You can also type in 'fallout MMO' in the right upper corner in the search of this site. There are some articles written about it on this site too!!!

Hmm. Looks like an interesting concept, but I can't see it working. How would VATS work? Or factions, come to that? It doesn't seem like a very good universe to set an MMO in, frankly, seeing as the games seem to be more about surviving than action/adventure.

What made Fallout 3 so atmospheric was the loneliness. Walking empty streets in ghost towns, hearing the wind whistle between dead buildings and the occasional blare of music from a passing eyebot...if you add in a few million other players, all that goes away.

I am sure that there will be no VATS, from what I know, Interplay is making it, but I think it will be weird to see hundreds or thousands of people in a post-apocalyptic setting.

If WOW cataclysm is as popular as it is believed to be, you'll feel plenty lonely.

 

[Daclunator]

I don't play WoW or eve. I made a personal rule of not playing crap.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

I don't play WoW or eve. I made a personal rule of not playing crap.

Enlighten me then (no sarcasm intended) why you consider things like this crap? You like to share a thought on something, but please elaborate on it too.

 

[Flying Dagger]

So that link signs you up to the beta?... oops.
I didn't really enjoy F1 that much, and only signed up because I saw Bethesda Softworks at the bottom.

And then saw "License on loan from"

Oh well. I may have to give away my beta application if I succeed. Which, knowing sod's law, I probably will.

Is it going to be topdown or first/third person?