Cheng talks

Today is the big media gathering about Fallout 3, so Bethsoft Producer Ashley Cheng decided to rally the troops:

It gets lost in the noise and doesn’t get said enough. For the record, I’d like to thank everyone here at Bethesda Game Studios. Thanks for the hard work you guys have put into everything so far, and for the hard work you are about to put in going forward. Thanks for making us look so damn good.

Making games is not easy. Every game we’ve made here stands on the blood, sweat and tears of the last one, mostly starting with Morrowind. The core team is still here – as we’ve grown slowly, the team overall has built a personality, a knowledgebase, of how to work together. I can’t express how excited and happy I am to be working with everyone here.

It is easy to get stuck in the daily minutiae of the noise, the hyper-sensitive drama that lives out there on the series of tubes. But time makes all that moot. What matters is how we relate and work with each other, and that we continue to strive to make great and fun games.

Huge

From Ashley Cheng’s blog:

According to Game Informer, the next issue — the one with Fallout 3 on the cover and inside its pages — comes out next week on June 18th. I like Andy McNamara and his magazine, always great seeing him at trade shows. Game Informer knows that we we read gaming magazines for the screenshots so they make sure they are HUGE. HUGE, I tell ya!

During a quick meeting in my office today, Istvan expressed great satisfaction at how Game Informer used the cover image – we all agreed it came out looking awesome. I can’t wait for a big poster of the cover so I can frame it for my office.

It’s the only major gaming magazine that I don’t get in the city I live, so I need to try to use the tubes to get it.

Oblivion with mutants part 2

Tor Thorsen from Gamespot replied to my comments of yesterday on No Mutants Allowed:

Re; Your blog, briosafreak: You are taking things way too personally. I am not pushing an oblivion with mutants game nor am I coming after NMA.

“Many in the Fallout community felt that this poll and a general bias against Fallout fans that aren’t interested in a Fallout: Oblivion with Mutants game shown by Tor Thorsen and Gamespot were annoying, to say the least.”

I am v. tired of people saying that I am pushing an agenda or coming after NMA. I was a big fan of NMA and the fact I took a lot of time out of a busy-ass day to talk with yall is evidence that I care about the Fallout community. The poll was intended as humorous, and to consider it an attack on the fallout community borders on paranoid–and is more than a little annoying.

The discussion later turned ugly, you can check everything that was written here.