2mo ago

After resuming work following a 'hold' in 2024, Fallout: Nuevo Mexico is now officially cancelled: 'The costs ahead, both financial and personal, are too great'

www.pcgamer.com

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A good reminder that Fallout: London is very much the exception, not the rule when it comes to these large fan projects. Really sad to hear still, however.
- from what i have experienced, fan projects need good leadership (clear aims, no endless scope creeping and can avoid drama) plus a core group of major contributors to succeed
  also when you inevitably lose someone important to the project (be it obligations or drama), you have replacements ready and dont have the whole project fall over because one person was too important
  this team failed at that: leader quits and whole thing disbands
  
  also when you inevitably lose someone important to the project (be it obligations or drama), you have replacements ready and dont have the whole project fall over because one person was too important
  This is a lesson loads of actual businesses need to learn. Put all your proverbial eggs into one overworked, underpaid basket, and when they inevitably get burnt out or get a better offer and leave, you're up shit creek without the knowledge that kept everything ticking over.
- There's an enormous Battle for Middle Earth overhaul mod that released last year.
  There's also an entirely unrelated fan attempt to remake BFME2 which I'm personally convinced is never going to see the light of day.
  
  We're apparently getting Skyblivion this year, too. That sounds like it'll be fun.
- Fallout: London is so good, I can't believe that it's a free mod. It feels like a standalone Fallout title. Can't believe they convinced all those amazing voice actors to work for free. The level of detail put into the game world is beyond impressive as well.
  
  I tried to get into Fallout 4 for the second or third time recently, and have just given up, and uninstalled it. It's the simplified dialogue that ultimately robs it of any meaning for me. Nobody has anything very interesting to say, and the player just has a few one-word prompts to respond with. I don't suppose that's any different in Fallout: London? I imagine they'd have had to go to unreasonable lengths to change it.

I at least hope the devs didn't just trash everything and actually keep the files and stuff somewhere safe so someone else could pick it up, if the devs would allow that to happen. There's nothing worse than a mod that dies before release and the devs decide to trash everything.

Release early, release often.
The worst decision for all this work would be to leave it wasting away on some guy's hard drive. Push whatever you got.

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