While it's a series that we all associate with Bethesda, it is worth remembering that it wasn't always owned by the company. Bethesda only hopped onto the Fallout license with Fallout 3, having only really made a few games in The Elder Scrolls series before then. Bethesda very much had the reputation of being a "fantasy" developer first and foremost, and understandably, a lot of people weren't too keen on a developer with that kind of reputation touching a series set in gritty Wastelands.
Thankfully, Fallout 3 turned out to be a pretty great game, but it turns out that so many people were against the idea of Bethesda making the game that it actually shocked those within the studio. This is according to former Bethesda associate art producer Angela Browder, who spoke about the whole situation in a recent interview with Edge Magazine (thanks GamesRadar).
"There was a section of the Fallout fandom that felt that a team famous for making elves and fantasy games should not be touching this series," says Browder. "It was surprising to us how much hate we got. They were not very happy that we had bought this license."
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