What it feels like to have your Fallout game declared non-canon by Todd Howard: 'It sucked'

Fallout 3 is not, in fact, the third Fallout game. That would be Fallout Tactics, a squad-based Brotherhood of Steel tactical RPG developed by Micro Forté, which appeared a few years after Fallout 2, in 2001. Despite being pretty well-liked by critics at the time, the way it deviated from its predecessor meant that it caught a lot of flak from the fans. 

Lead designer Ed Orman, who we recently chatted to about his time in the Wasteland, remembers things getting pretty heated. "There was...