Summary

• Fallout 3 was originally in development at Black Isle Studios, codenamed Van Buren, but it was cancelled when Bethesda bought the IP.
• At one point, designer John Deiley was creating an area called the Nursery, a Noah's Ark-like location which housed pre-war fauna.
• He planned to have Pagans and Wiccans take up residence here, but Chris Avellone allegedly said no, banning them outright.

Updated at 9:44 am BST on 16/05/2024: Chris Avellone has since , saying that there was a pagan faction in Van Buren called Daughters of Hecate who you could have joined, done quests for, and even potentially led.

Before the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 3 as we know it was released, original developer Black Isle Studios was working on its own sequel, codenamed 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Van Buren. Like the first two games, it was ༒an isometric RPG, but it was cancelled after Interplay sold the IP to Bethesda.

A lot of ideas in Van Buren would appear in future games, like Caesar's Legion and Hoover Dam.

I sat down with Fallout 2 and Van Buren designer Joh𒁃n Deiley l♛ast week, and he revealed a strange rul๊e he ran up against when putting together a location called the Nursery - no Pagans.

What Is The Nursery In Fallout Van Buren?

To make a long story short, The Nursery was an alternative way of surviving the nuclear apocalypse to the vaults. It was a perfectly selected spot in America that could avoid radiation to thrive and sustain much of the pre-war environment, sort of like Noah's Ark.

The Nursery was founded 𝓡by former꧟ Poseidon Energy scientist Derek Greenway.

"I did some research and chose Black Star Canyon in Arizona as its location because somebody took the time to research data and figure out wind patterns, weather patterns, and everything," Deiley says. "[They said,] 'Hey, if you put everything here, it won't get irradiated and die.'"

Deiley's plan was to have this last bastion of pre-war America be inhabited by Pagans and Wiccans, but Obsidian Entertainment co-founder and Van Buren co-lead designer Chris Avellone allegedly said no.

"He said, 'You are not to bring Paganism or Wiccanism or anything into the game,'" Deiley recounts. "I said, 'Well, Chris, what do you think happened to these people when the bombs went off? Did every one of them just vanish from the face of the Earth? When you consider the whole purpose of the Nursery, wouldn't they make the perfect tenants and tenders?' [He said,] 'I've made my decision' and just turned around and walked off."

If Van Buren were to have been released, we would have found carnivorous plant life in𒊎stead of the Pagans that Deiley wanted. Our quest would have been to restore power and wipe out the 𝔉human-eating fauna to refurbish the Nursery so that we could bring wasteland animal samples there for preservation.

We see some elements of this resurface in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout: New Vegas with Vault 22, where the survivors began an agricultural study to grow plant🦹s underground, only to ⛄become carnivorous vegetation themselves.