Third option: unless Fargo's cunning plan was to get Cain, Boyarsky and Anderson to resign, he fucked up on a management decision.
It was an acceptable loss though. In their hour-long talk, he didn't backpedal. Ultimately their presence at the company wouldn't have saved Interplay. Caused some additional hardship on the Fallout 2 team, but that was all.
Dear God, no.
Interplay had too much dead weight for any cRPG to save it, the best case scenario would probably have been that one idea where Black Isle would be bought by another company (Which realistically would have just become another Obsidian)
Keep in mind that Micro Forte before it made Enemy Infestation which bled into Fallout Tactics.
IE is of course much bigger and much more complex than what Fallout has, so kudos to Bioware, but you're mixing it up here with Aurora.
Aurora and all future iterations have a different renderer, but it's all built off the Infinity Engine. Anthony Davis, who's seen the code, said as much. Additionally the biggest giveaway is that there's no z-axis gameplay/rooms-over-rooms in any of these games. Despite using 3D graphics, it's a 2D engine.
In that sense even Arcanum is then built on top of Fallout. And then ToEE.
Mustaches were fashionable in the late 70s/early 80s for whatever reason. He's no Tom Selleck though.
Cain was legally not allowed to use any code from Interplay. I recall hearing that Interplay actually had people go over to Troika to make sure he wasn't using anything of theirs. But ToEE does in fact use Arcanum's engine, yes.
That's just a legality, it's not like he could whiteroom it after working 3+ years on Fallout. Unless Arcanum engine was programmed by someone other than Cain.
jesus are you like a member of the brian fargo dick sucking club or something ?Brian Fargo was one of those guys.
How was it Fargo's fault that Fallout got delayed? He put Tim in charge.
Yeah, that's what bosses do. Some 20 years ago, I knew a guy who was one of the most productive employees and his supervisor liked him. He hated the time-wasting meetings he had to participate in and made a bunch of jokes in one when it was his turn to be in charge of minutes. His boss's boss didn't like that and told him he needed to be more professional. My pal had a bit of a chip on his shoulder and said no. They immediately fired him for insubordination and had security escort him from the building, his productivity and good work didn't matter. Most of the states have at-will employment and you can leave or be fired for any reason at any time. Fargo would have been within his rights to fire Tim for saying no to him, and there are plenty of bosses who would have, but Brian clearly valued what Tim had to offer. In hindsight, it would have been better for his ego just to fire him since the outcome would have been the same.
