Fallout 3is going to sell well, regardless of what the final product ends up looking like. It’s a prediction I’ve pulled from my backside, but one that I think is more than reasonable. Interplay is certainly prepared to rake in the moolah, and has already mentally spent the wealth — it’s planning torevive an in-house dev studiowith an eye to bringing back long-since deceased franchises, chief among them beingEarthworm Jim.
Only a coldhearted lizard-esque creation of mankind’s evil could ever claim to disliking the ridiculous escapades ofEarthworm Jim, though fears of cheap cash-ins are surfacing. I wouldn’t stand in the way of anybody looking to create a fresh, original and hilariousJimtitle, but nostalgia can lead to broken dreams and sequels that can’t live up to expectation. That, or games that are just plain crap.
Along withEarthworm Jim, a return forBaldur’s GateandMDKare also entirely possible. Once again, I can’t see anybody complaining about good new games in these franchises, but that’s the question people are asking — would they be good?
Personally, I say let them at it. If the games turn out bad, we as gamers have lost nothing. We only stand to potentially gain from any resurrections. For the chance of a current-generationEarthworm Jimgame that doesn’t blow chunks, I’ll take the risk, however big. After all, it’s a risk Interplay is taking for us.
