Will Fallout 3 be considered canon?

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Fallout: Tactics and FO:BOS are not considered canon by the fanbase and by Bethesda Softworks because of numerous controversies with previous games.

Since Fallout 3 is an "official" sequel, will it therefore have to be considered part of the canon, or if It's terribly received by the fanbase will it be overlooked when/if development starts on Fallout 4?
 
Ehm, well, considering the fact that the rights to all of Fallout lie in the hands of Bethesda I don't see how they'd do anything other than use it as canon.
 
It'll be canon. Maybe if the Fallout license switches hands its status as canon can be reviewed, but the right to view something as canon is in the hands of the license owners. Only for dead licenses can fans seriously make any claims about this.
 
BN, the question was not 'will it be canon', it's 'will it be considered canon'.

Besides there's always the distinction between 'official' canon and 'fan' canon ('fanon')

While it will definately be officially canon, whether it will be considered canon by the fans depends on how much of the Fallout story and setting they get right.
 
Blackwing said:
BN, the question was not 'will it be canon', it's 'will it be considered canon'.
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Actually, no. He specified that he was talking about what would happen with development of Fallout 4.
 
How the hell could we know how fitted it'll be to the Fallout setting if we know barely anything about the story?
 
So I guess if it sucks ass and the Fallout brand dies out then it won't be considered canon by the fans of the series, but for the purposes of potential sequels it will have to be by Bethesda since they're the ones who made it.
 
Of course.

I don't think Bethesda are the types to come back on their own canon. They don't seem to be that self-critical, as a whole.
 
Brother None said:
Of course.

I don't think Bethesda are the types to come back on their own canon. They don't seem to be that self-critical, as a whole.
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However, supposedly they're not that hot on keeping up with their own canon either. I remember a lot of complaints about Morrowind being centred about stupid/faulty canon.
 
I'm not much of a Tes fan, but wasn't Cyrodiil more like jungle-like environment instead of disneylandish thing they put in oblivion?
 
Black said:
I'm not much of a Tes fan, but wasn't Cyrodiil more like jungle-like environment instead of disneylandish thing they put in oblivion?
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YES! They chewed up their own history and spit it out. Heck this is one of my biggest grips with the game. I can't think of any RPGs that take place in a massive rainforest, and this is one of the things that immediatly sold me on Oblivion. I just kind of assumed they'd follow their own set up... boy was I wrong. Instead we got Tolkiens DisneyLand.
 
Cyrodiil, to my knowledge, was always portrayed as a country of rolling hills, fertile lakes, and forests.

You're thinking of the south when you think jungles. Black Marsh, Valenwood, and parts of Elsewyr mostly, but also the southern parts of Cyrodiil (which was represented in game.)
 
The official canon is currently in the hands of Bethesda, and as for fanon, pretty much every fan has his own definition. E.g. my personal canon includes Van Buren and parts of Fallout Tactics.
 
I would assume so. Even if the game did suck, but got huge sales, Bestheda would try and explain it and move on.
 
Ausir said:
The official canon is currently in the hands of Bethesda, and as for fanon, pretty much every fan has his own definition. E.g. my personal canon includes Van Buren and parts of Fallout Tactics.
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Same here. I like parts of the Tactics story that don't directly contradict anything from 1&2.
I wonder if the Fallout MMORPG will have to reference Bethesda's additions to the canon.
 
Well, Interplay does not have to stick to Bethesda's canon, so I doubt they will. It's their game after all and one would thought that they will try to do it their way, without having to deal with other company's vision.
 
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