Two years ago, an ambitious team of modders released a fully-fledged Fallout game set in London, heralded by critics and players alike for its charming English wit and "meticulously thought-out factions". Bethesda's own Todd Howard even commended the project, highlighting "how hard" a hobbyist conversion of this scope is to pull off. "I just need to express to everybody out there how difficult and how much of a journey that is," he said.
However, while Team FOLON lead Dean Carter enjoyed Fallout 4 enough to make a spin-off, the feeling clearly isn't mutual. "With the greatest respect to Bethesda, I feel like they've probably gone one game too far," he said in an interview with Esports.net. "I feel like it's time to go off into the sunset and look at selling off your IP.
They need better writers, honestly [...] The one thing we agreed on with Fallout: London is that we wanted to make it more dark and gritty because that's what Fallout actually is.
"I'm honestly not sure it's in the right hands," he continued. "It really hurts me to say that because I love Bethesda. The writing has just gone downhill. I know as a...
