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.
Watched it in its entirety. It's very nostalgic and you can tell they're forever bound by those experiences and will reminisce with enthusiasm, laughing for the hundredth time at old jokes, etc. But there's not much to repost here.
This was the song Leonard originally wanted in the intro, but couldn't get, because it was too expensive:
(We'll meet again by Vera Lynn, if it doesn't load for you, Nick)
And the Pip Boy was inspired by the Monopoly guy, Bob's Big Boy and The Jetsons.
And for the first 6 months of development they were making an ode to Road Warrior, hadn't even thought of making it original and theirs in any way. Only then Leonard came up with retrofuturism. And the Brotherhood of Steel was a copycat of an organization from some sci-fi novel, but I didn't write it down. And self-admittedly, Leonard's power armor wasn't retrofuturistic, but it seemed cool, and that was enough. The lantern on its helmet was inspired by the City of Lost Children that Leonard had just watched.
They finished saying they should do another one of these on Arcanum and Vampire. Crossing my fingers.
While Troika's games were pure
True, he was a Tim Cain type making successful games on his own before founding Interplay. But while those 90s guys were great at making video games, they were terrible at making and running their own companies. It's a completely different skillset.
