Well, that’s what’s happening here… Except, this news so damn good I don’t care if it was posted almost a month ago.

Here it is in a nutshell… Obsidian Entertainment is developing the next Fallout game.

Some of you might not realize what that means, so I’ll explain.

Imagine if ten years ago Chris Metzen and his buddies all left Blizzard as it went out of business.  Now imagine Metzen and his buddies then formed their own company, while in the meantime all of Blizzard’s franchises went floating off to be made by other people.  Now today, ten years later, the current owner of WarCraft, for the first time since Blizzard’s break up, have hired Metzen and his team to make the next WarCraft game.

That’s what just happened with Fallout.

Obsidian Entertainment contains a lot of the core talent behind Fallout and especially Fallout 2.  Their Chief Creative Officer is the Lore Master of Fallout himself, Chris Avellone.  We are in for one GREAT GAME.

You can read more about it here.

Originally posted at: Loregy.com

The Best Fallout News in a Decade

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Personally, I of course think they should license the project to Obsidian Entertainment.  When you need the game to be good and you already have a chunk of the developers who made it great still together under one roof, how could you not give it to them to run with?

Originally posted at: Loregy.com

Fallout MMO Announced

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So why does Chris matter? Why is he worth mentioning? Because he’s the one who published “The Fallout Bible“.

The guy knows post nuclear apocalypse lore.

So what we have are two simple facts:
Chris Avellone is a post nuclear apocalypse Lore Master.
No one yet has done a real “Post Nuclear Apocalypse” MMO.

A good MMO needs a great lead lore master. It’s the difference between WoW and one of those weird Korean MMO’s your friend played after getting kicked out of his guild. We’ve got the lore master, we’ve got the open niche in the market. Let’s see a “Post Nuclear Apocalypse” MMO.

And I should note that I’m not talking about a “Fallout MMO” (Chris isn’t involved with the franchise anyway). You don’t need “Fallout” to do a “Post Nuclear Apocalypse” MMO anymore than you need WoW to do a MMO about Orcs and Humans. High Fantasy MMO’s salute Tolkien, as much as Fallout salutes “Mad Max”, “A Canticle for Leibowitz”, David Brin’s “The Postman”, “Blade Runner”, and a countless multitude of other stories that take place in that setting. If anything I would prefer Chris Avellone to NOT do a “Fallout MMO”, because that would only restrain him. He has already proven his respect for the premise and his ability to find depth in its setting. I’m curious to see what he could pull off without having to curtail to what an established franchise would dictate.

Suffice to say, it’s unlikely we’ll see such a game come out tomorrow, or even the day after. Chris is currently busy on an Aliens RPG, and an expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights 2. But Obsidian Entertainment, where Chris is CCO, is a strong enough company to be another Blizzard. They have the Lore Master in house. They have an in house team capable of designing the mechanics. I’m curious to see what Chris and his partners could pull off.

Originally posted at: Loregy.com

Chris Avellone needs to do a “Post Nuclear Apocalypse” MMORPG

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