Interplay死灰复燃，制作辐射MMORPG？

Sheogorath

今天的Gamespot新闻。链接：http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallout3/news.html?sid=6198164

Interplay relaunches site, rehires original Fallout dev

Flush with Fallout IP cash, the once-mighty publisher reestablishes Web presence, announces Chris Taylor on board for Fallout MMOG.

Remember Interplay Entertainment? Founded by Brian Fargo in 1983, it became one of the top publishers of the decade, releasing Descent, Wasteland, and The Bard's Tale for various home-computing platforms. In the '90s, it published even more classics, including BioWare's Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms game Baldur's Gate and its self-developed role-playing-game landmarks, Fallout and Fallout 2.
Unfortunately, the 21st century wasn't kind to Interplay. Fargo left the company in 2002 when it was bought by French firm Titus Interactive. His successor as CEO, Herve Caen, presided over the company's slow financial disintegration, which led to the cancellation of the "Van Buren" Fallout 3, the closure of Black Isle studios, and the laying off of almost all Interplay staff.

Though written off by many as dead, Interplay hung on, with Caen and a skeleton crew hawking its marquee IPs. They got their first buyer in July 2004, when Bethesda Softworks announced that it had licensed the rights to develop and publish Fallout 3. Three years later, Bethesda bought the Fallout IP outright, giving Interplay a much-needed cash infusion and leaving it with rights to develop a Fallout massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

Now, a year after the Fallout fire sale, Interplay appears to have risen from the grave. The company today launched an all-new Web site at Interplay.com and opened a new office in Irvine.

Perhaps more importantly, the company laid more concrete plans for development of its proposed Fallout MMORPG, code-named "Project V13." Interplay has rehired Chris Taylor*, one of the developers of the original Fallout in the mid-1990s, to be lead system designer for the game. According to its careers page, the publisher is also hiring a technical director for Project V13 to oversee all aspects of programming for the project.

* Not to be confused with Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor.


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前边介绍Interplay的不管了，后边大意是说Interplay原CEO Brian Fargo离任后，继任者Herve Caen停掉了范布伦、关闭黑岛、解散团队。在04年把辐射版权卖给Bethesda之后，Interplay保留了开发辐射MMORPG的权利。今天（9.24.08）Interplay开放了新主页www.interplay.com并在Irvine成立了新的办公室。

更重要的是，Interplay进行了更实质化的辐射MMORPG开发工作，代号"Project V13"。Interplay重新聘用了原辐射开发成员之一的Chris Taylor（并非Gas Powered那位）作为总程序设计，并且聘用了新的技术指导。


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个人看法：

去那个新主页看了，确实是有这事，而且论坛里也在讨论。
第一感觉是WTF…………
并且这回还是某Caen，说实话从关闭黑岛之后就对Interplay失去信心了。而且做Fallout MMO，不和Bethesda商量一下世界设定问题吗，感觉是来趟浑水抢饭碗的（毕竟已经不是原Interpaly了）。万一要是做得好，Fallout MMO倒是感觉很cool，不过很难……

[ 本帖最后由 Sheogorath 于 2008-9-26 08:35 编辑 ]

anty976

期待，做出来也是几年后的事了吧。

希望不是刷装备为主的游戏。

不会因为是MMO就失望，出了肯定会尝试，有代理的话。

taotao98

   据说2012上市  
  到时候真核爆了

Sheogorath

按理说废土极适合做MMO的（这点同KotOR），主要是这新Interplay的实力让人质疑。

等两个月后轰出黑洞什么也不剩倒清静了……

Sheogorath

发觉自己火星了，似乎国外论坛上早就有Fallout MMO的消息了（但为什么我从来都没听说过呢……）

eason001

原帖由 Sheogorath 于 2008-9-26 08:34 发表
今天的Gamespot新闻。链接：http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallout3/news.html?sid=6198164

Interplay relaunches site, rehires original Fallout dev

Flush with Fallout IP cash, the once-mighty publisher r ...

Interplay与Bethesda约定：MMO必须在2014年4月14号前面市，否则Interplay将彻底出局了。所以Interplay要赶在公司彻底倒闭前搏一搏。

Sheogorath

原帖由 eason001 于 2008-9-26 11:38 发表

Interplay与Bethesda约定：MMO必须在2014年4月14号前面市，否则Interplay将彻底出局了。所以Interplay要赶在公司彻底倒闭前搏一搏。

原来如此。这样的话不管好坏还是希望Interplay把MMO出了，好的话双方都有好处，不好的话至少不用让Bethesda做MMO（因为还要等TES5、F4……）