| mrstickball said: Did you ever bother reading the major forums (such as NeoGAF) with the (literally) hundreds, if not thousands of Fallout 1 & 2 fans that said "I was wrong" when it came to what Bethsada did with Fallout 3? |
That never happened, but whatever.
| mrstickball said: Somehow, I doubt Fallout 1 and 2, combined, have got anywhere near the 4.7 million units that Fallout 3 shipped before it even sold a copy. Whoop-de-friggin-do that FO1 & 2 are in the Top-5 at GoG.com, selling for a whopping $5.99 a copy. I bought my FO2 copy there, mind you. Nevertheless, I've never seen any quotations that said that Fallout 1 & 2 saw some sort of insane sales, and have always been referenced to as a cult-classic....Last I checked, 'cult classics' are usually not well-recieved by the public. |
Hey, funny comparing a single-platform which only had 1 ad (that no one ever saw) from the 90's to a today's multi-platform game with a multi-million dollar publicity. Dude, Fallout 1 & 2 have scores as high as Fallout 3, and that was from a time where reviewers were actually decent. Fallout 1 probably won every PC RPG of the Year award, and most RPGOTY awards, ahead of FFVII. While Fallout 2 didn't because Baldur's Gate was too tough a nut to break.
| mrstickball said: I'm suprised you didn't do your research concerning Van Buren before posting this. Van Buren was dropped well before Bethsada got the license to Fallout 3. Van Buren was dropped in favor of Fallout: BoS...Amazing that they'd drop the grandoise Fallout 3 for a cheap console title, no? |
What has the date of Van Buren's cancellation got todo with anything? And while Van Buren was dropped in favour of BoS, the main reason was the financial difficulties of Interplay(which eventually ended up crushing them to oblivion).
| mrstickball said: You kind of answered your own question when you said that FO3 was outselling Oblivion. They made the Fallout series relevant, sales-wise. If the Fallout series was some sort of uber-seller...Why the heck did Black Isle close down? It doesn't make any sense if the Grand Theft Auto series went bankrupt if it sold well, no? I've never seen any articles concerning the Fallout series selling well. Use vauge budget title positioning, but I don't buy that if Fallout was some sort of huge series, that Interplay would can it so quickly in favor of Brotherhood of Steel for PS2/Xbox. |
You didn't answer my question: "What did Bethesda make on Fallout 3 that's better than it's predecessors? Apart from graphics."
Hey brainiac, why do you think Interplay went down the shitter? Piss poor management! No wonder they chose the console game instead of Van Buren, lol.
There are no records about Fallout 1 & 2 sales (atleast none that I've seen), but I remember that Fallout 1's success was a big surprise to the development team, and that Fallout Tactics had the biggest pre-order numbers ever for an Interplay game.
