Fallout will never be the same. RPG creator reveals hidden secret that changes how we see the game
Fallout creator Brian Fargo revealed that Interplay's game from 1997 is actually a sequel to the cult RPG Wasteland.
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Even though it's been known for years that the first Fallout is a spiritual successor to Wasteland, probably not many players realize that the 1997 game from Interplay was actually a continuation of the classic RPG from 1988, released by Electronic Arts. Brian Fargo - the Director of Wasteland and co-founder of Interplay - recently shared this interesting fact in an interview for the MrMattyPlays channel on YouTube.
What a lot of people don't know was that [Fallout] was a sequel to Wasteland. People don't know the story behind that. That's why it went from tunnels and trolls and then we needed a system – mercenaries, spies, and private eyes – and then that's how we got the skill-based system with Wasteland, and then that went to Fallout, said Fargo (via GamesRadar).
The developer admitted that although they drew inspiration from Wasteland while working on Fallout, Interplay did everything to "not get sued by Electronic Arts." In the end, legal problems were avoided, although the risk was significant - the game even retained the iconic sentence: "your life ends in the wastelands."
As we know, history finally came full circle when Fargo, as the head of inXile Entertainment, returned to his former franchise. Wasteland 2 was released in 2014, and Wasteland 3 - in 2020.
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