Fallout creator Tim Cain has for the first time revealed his role in the cancelation of Interplay’s Van Buren, the codename for what was intended to be the original Fallout 3.
He wasn't working on it, and was invited to play-test what they had. He said he thought it would take 18 months to finish when they asked him, which is what the person who asked him also thought, and anything longer than 6 months ment it would be cancelled.
It's like when someone asks you if the soup they are making is too salty, you say yes, and they pour it down the drain. You're not the person who threw it away.
Fallout 3 and 4 ended up being really great games after Bethesda got ahold of the IP. Can't say the next one will be that way considering Microsoft got their hands on the studio reins.
I never played 1 or 2, and from the gameplay I have seen they're very different games. And since they're much older, I don't have the nostalgia factor making me want to go back to them, so the graphics and game play are a bit of a turn off for me.