[Rictor]

http://ve3dboards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=16391656

Bethesda has bought the rights from Interplay. They (Interplay) are to have nothing more to do with it.

...so it IS possible. Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

edit: that what I get for not checking the spelling. Admins, if you could please correct that?

[Thorn]

God damn you.. I was two seconds away from posting this myself..
Hers a better link..
http://www.bethsoft.com/news/pressrelease_071204.htm

[jdjtcagle]

Freespace!? what's to become!?

[Thorn]

Don't bloody jinx it.

[jdjtcagle]

****space!? What's to become of ****space!?

[Gank]

Excellent

[Rictor]

I hope they are allowed to use the progress that was already made at Interplay, cause they had it pretty far along IIRC.

[Zeronet]

Better do, i don't want a first-person RPG like morrowind. Herve Caen is slowly going insane i think, wants to make a MMORPG, gone whacky he has.

[Rictor]

There are links to a ton of interviews with Bethesda, over at No Mutants Allowed

http://www.nma-fallout.com/

[Zeronet]

I'll cry(aka commit acts of war against bethesda) if it doesnt have Special, or isnt isometric or has realtime combat. It already looks bad

Pete Hines: Our intent is to develop and publish the game for a number of platforms.

I hate interplay, it'd been too easy to sell it to Troika or someone.

[Rictor]

I think that doing it KOTOR style would be cool. I never dreamed that you could retain all the good qualities of isometric, while being immersed 10x in the world, but they proved me wrong..

[Ace]

I think the best bet is that they'd make it 3rd person 3d (like KOTOR) with turn based combat.

I'm thinking this is going to be the case since they are mentioning they want to use their latest tech for the game. That would mean the engine they're using for the next TES game.

[Gloriano]

this is Good news

[Turnsky]

good news indeed, can't wait to see screenies.

[Setekh]

Cool, thanks for the news. Front page.

[Mr Carrot]

ARRRGHHHHHHH why couldnt Troika get it.

if its not Timmy C then its gash.

real time linear BG clone here we come!

[Liberator]

What's the deal with Turn-Based?  I despise turn based for everything except Empire-Builders, such as Alpha Centauri or even better MOM(which desperately needs a sequel).

[Thorn]

The game can be played in either real time or turn based. Turn based is just a hell of a lot less confusing.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Liberator
What's the deal with Turn-Based?  I despise turn based for everything except Empire-Builders, such as Alpha Centauri or even better MOM(which desperately needs a sequel).

Then you despise UFO : Enemy Unknown which makes you either a fool or completely tasteless.

Either way your opinions have therefore been proven to mean nothing

[Ace]

Originally posted by Liberator
What's the deal with Turn-Based?  I despise turn based for everything except Empire-Builders, such as Alpha Centauri or even better MOM(which desperately needs a sequel).

Let's see:
X-COM
The Gold Box D&D Games
Troika's Temple of Elemental Evil (Best interpretation of the D&D combat rules yet, it's a pitty that they didn't choose a better module with more actual roleplaying though... and a pitty that the publisher gave them such a low word count and censored a lot of the quests they wanted to do...)

Yup, they're all descpicable