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Contents 1 Comment 2 Fallout 3 Re-add of Fallout 4 Comment on Re-add of Fallout 5 Conflicting statements 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Black Isle logo, 1998.PNG

[edit] Comment

What could have possibly happend....Microsoft ...will revive them

[edit] Fallout

I removed Fallout because it predates the founding of Black Isle. --Dsparil 13:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re-add of Fallout

I have re-added the original Fallout to the "products" list, as Black Isle Studios' official website states that they had at least some hand in it. I have cited their listing of the game as a source to prevent further confusion. JimmyBlackwing 14:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comment on Re-add of Fallout

While biased, I think it is appropriate that Fallout should be listed as a part of Black Isle. The group of people who were eventually called Black Isle in 1998 were managed by me for 2.5 years before the announcement of Black Isle Studios. We couldn't agree on a name for ourselves for quite a while and I did not want the group called Dragonplay, which was what it was going to be called when I was put in charge of all the RPG products, including Fallout, in early 1996. --Feargus Urquhart 12:14, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Erm... how many of the people managed by you were still around when Black Isle was announced? SharkD 00:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Here's a quote from a discussion with Feargus:

"While there has always been arguments about who was really responsible for Fallout and I've always said that Tim, Leonard and Jason are principally responsible for a lot of what the original Fallout was about, I also know the amount of creativity, time, energy and love that I put into both Fallouts."

SharkD 05:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

The troika guys said they did the bulk of the design for Fallout, and they weren't around when Black Isle was founded. What's the scoop here? -UNSIGNED USER

[edit] Conflicting statements

The article first says that BIS "aided in the development" of Baldur's Gate, and that Interplay published it. It then says that BioWare developed Baldur's Gate, and BIS published it. So, which is it? Is BIS a publisher, or not? To what degree did BIS assist BioWare in developing the game? SharkD (talk) 04:48, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I can't remember where -- it may have been a statement on the BioWare forums -- but the relationship of Black Isle was explained thusly: BioWare created the engine and game design including story elements for BG. However, Black Isle filled in the gaps, providing all the game's background characters, dialog text, and such. Another way of putting it is that BioWare provided the "game" and BI provided the "content". The article currently contains unsourced statements claiming that BI was nothing more than a label attached to the packaging; since I seem to recall reading facts to the contrary, I am going to remove them. Ham Pastrami (talk) 07:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Black Isle logo, 1998.PNG

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)