RPGcodex Member Interviews Herve Caen

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:26 pm

[ Person -> Interview ]

Denizsi supposedly interviews Herve Caen through email and it turned into a giant clusterfuck but it has some interesting stuff in it like his Twitter account;<blockquote>After many e-mails and much waiting and somewhat
nerving exchange of questions and answers, finally here is a short
e-mail interview with much beloved Herve Cain, CEO of Interplay, on
Fallout Online with breaking new information, conducted by yours
truely. Here are some shortened, if somewhat cryptic, bits from the
interview to whet your appetites:




Cars, and bikes, are in, at least I think so:


</blockquote><blockquote><table width="90%" height="155" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">So,
you have confirmed that there will be certain forms of personal
transportation in Fallout Online. Could you elaborate further?

2 wheels or 4 wheels, that is the question...
</td> </tr></table>




As hard and long as it was to get
answers to my e-mails, the answers were almost as cryptically brief as
it gets. He must have noticed this at some point, since he, thankfully,
supplied me with additional information later on (after I pulled a
polite WTF on him) :


</blockquote><blockquote><table width="90%" height="455" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">What
other forms of in-game activities will the player be able to occupy
themselves with? Perhaps you could give a vague example and how much
time an average player can invest in these?

... a party in Venice* for the Hatton-Paquiao* and it last 6 minutes...

*: Venice is the name of a settlement that has been partially flooded and thus came to be called Venice

**: Hatton-Paquiao is the name of a fighting tournament, similar to the
one at Jungle Gym, except each tournament event takes place in a
different area, and players will need to undertake a quest to be able
to learn where and join the tournament. It's also a reference to two
contemporary boxers by the names Hatton and Paquiao.
</td> </tr></table>




House owning is in, you'll be able to
form "families" instead of clans with players, and it looks like the
means of personal transportation will have a pretty significant place
in game world:




</blockquote><blockquote><table width="90%" height="355" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Could
you dwell further into the emergent and unscripted nature of quests, as
you called it, and maybe give a brief example (preferably a real
example over a hypothetical one, please?)?

Firebird is in the shop. Family is in town visiting. Life is good...

An asshole smashed his car into my 69 Firebird convertible parked in
front of my house at in the morning and ran. What a world...

My Firebird 69 is a total loss. Time to focus on work and go shopping for a new car...
</td> </tr></table>




I was somewhat puzzled by this, but was afraid to ask further:


</blockquote><blockquote><table width="90%" height="155" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">What
do you think of the current crop of next-gen games? How are they doing
in terms of game design? Any observations, any criticism?

Very good by looking at the kids faces...
</td> </tr></table>




Let's do a sanity check:


</blockquote><blockquote><table width="90%" height="195" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">What
do you think of the current state of game journalism? Are you concerned
about how certain game journalists' impression of Fallout Online may
have a negative impact on Interplay?

gameindustry.biz journalists are incompetent assholes
</td> </tr></table></blockquote>

<blockquote>
Sounds pretty good, I think. Read the whole thing without cut-outs here!


<a href="http://twitter.com/hervecaen" target="_blank">http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id= ... quote>I have no idea if the interview is real or not but that twitter acount looks real cause of that Hervy pic on there. You can read the original thread <a target="_self" href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic ... 2933">here. </a>
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Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:56 am

What the fuck?

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:58 am

the answers to the questions are obviously just his random twitters

Post by **King of Creation** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:41 am

Yeah...it seems to me that the guy looked at Herve's twitters and crafted questions a la Jeopardy.

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:12 pm

Who care's about his fucking firebird.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:40 pm

You the man, Poopa

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:37 pm

acount looks real cause of that Hervy pic on there

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:00 pm

Gaming journalism doesn't get more sad than this.

Post by **King of Creation** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:58 pm

VasikkA wrote:Gaming journalism

MR Snake · Post by **MR Snake** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:54 pm

Dogmeatlives wrote:What the fuck?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:57 am

sounds like he interviewed megatron