[Arryn]

Originally posted by archaeolept:
i'm pretty sure Bethesda are going to make fallout first person realtime ie. like morrowind. you think they're going to go develop a new engine when they have a perfectly servicible one?

Wouldn't be the first time a company *didn't* reuse existing code. Fallout is a TB tactical RPG, while Morrowind is a RT FP RPG. However, the article at this link is interesting. The concluding sentence is sort of vague:

"Pete Hines: Too early to say, but I imagine it'll probably lean towards using technology that we're developing."

Might be read as either their existing FPS technology, or an entirely new (and secret) technology yet to be revealed.

Personally, I think you're correct, and Pete's dodging of the questions is likely due to them wanting the project to be advanced enough along so that they can show off an alpha and woo people rather than turn them off early on by telling gamers that the FO franchise is shifting format. If Bethesda were do do FO as well as Bioware did KotOR (unlikely, but possible), I doubt there'd be any complaints. I mention Bioware, because Bioware did top-down TB games like BG, and then heavily modified their engine to do a RT FP RPG. Perhaps Bethesda, seeing what Bioware did, and how successfully, may have gotten the idea to try something like that themselves. I can only hope.