I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now. If you are any kind of Fallout fan, you already know that Interplay lost their hold and the MMO of Fallout is DOA. Pour one out for the old girl, but don’t be too down. There is a good reason that this is probably for the best, and its name is Interplay. Please, let me explain.
As a fan of PC gaming whose time with the beast ranges from today, all the way back to the yesteryear run by MS-DOS 5.0 and earlier, I have some fond memories of the joys Interplay brought us all. If you played on consoles back then, you occasionally came across this publisher, but you simply could not get away from these guys on the PC. From the RPG depth of games like Stonekeep, the action of MDK and Descent, and the RTS gaming of M.A.X., all the way to the hybriding of genres like Realms of the Haunting (FPS/Point and Click adventure), Interplay had their fingers deep in the PC gaming world. But nothing lasts forever, and eventually financial ruin would all but bury the name in the history of what many consider the PC’s golden age.
It may sound cruel to call out a company for going out of business, but the way it went out was rather dramatic. Between not paying their rent, their taxes in California, and their employees, this company really had no other way to go but down and out. Yes it came back, but let’s be fair; with this kind of history, do we really want to see what they would do now? I’m honestly not sure I do. I’d rather remember the good times flying my Pyro through the virus infected mines the PTMC owned around the solar system, or taking my part in a biblical tale about the final fight between good and evil… or even just hanging with a worm who happened to find a really cool space suit.
But where does this leave us now? I’d say in pretty good hands. If an MMO of Fallout does happen, it will now be in the handsof people that we know care about the franchise still, and have a chance at doing it justice. But more importantly, there are a ton of other MMOs on their way to sink your time into, from the classic fantasy of Guild Wars 2, to the high tech warzones of PlanetSide 2, the far flung future of Dark Millienum: Warhammer 40K, and even the fantasy world forced to co-exist with a modern one in Secret World; there is plenty of online action for all of us to enjoy on the way, and that is without counting whatever your current favorite is. So if you must, grieve for what could have been. But don’t expect me to, and don’t take too long. A whole bunch of new worlds are about to open up.
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