Hardcore Fallout fans opposed Bethesda's Fallout 3 transition

According to Gamesradar, Bethesda faced strong hostility from a section of hardcore PC RPG fans when it developed Fallout 3, with some treating the adaptation of the isometric classic into what was dubbed "Oblivion with guns" as blasphemy.

As Angela Browder, associate art producer at Bethesda at the time, says in Edge magazine issue 419: "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. It was surprising to us how much hate we got. They were not very happy that we had bought this license."

Browder says the series' audience grew with Fallout 3 and 4 and now includes a television show, concluding, "That, to me, is the success of it 13 all these people who became lifers."

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Culture, Bethesda, Fallout, Angela Browder, Oblivion, Morrowind