I'm not spending $400+ for a platform to play it on though
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 June 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
my way or the highway
you should get a kick out of the setting: a wasted Washington DC.At some point, your guy has to use abandoned Metro lines to get around.
At some point, your guy has to use abandoned Metro lines to get around.
this is different from IRL how, lol
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 June 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
thing runs on PC, you shouldn't have to buy a new console. if you can run Oblivion, you should be able to run this(i hope i hope).
and the number of supermutants on the current metro lines isn't quite as noticeable as in the game.
― kingfish, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess I could go find a copy of xp and dual-boot or whatever
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
XPpro damn well better be cheaper now that shitty vista is out. my win2k doesn't like the new games coming out.
― kingfish, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
lol paying fr windowz
lol capitalism
― Will M., Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck the non-auth shit. i don't want to put up with that annoyance anymore, after having already borrowed my dad's neighbor's copy, which went bad on me.
― kingfish, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1uuDKrY7eW0
vid of the aborted Van Buren/Fallout 3 project, before Interplay cut the funds and decided to make that stupid console game. Really. They had a choice between FO3 and F:BOS, and they went with the one that sold less than like 25K.
Also, NMA-Fallout has some new screengrabs and interviews w/ Bethesda from E3.
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't stand to watch that Van Buren video. It makes me sad for what could have been. Like Silent Storm only /good./
BTW, you know there are ways around the non-auth, right?
― Will M., Friday, 20 July 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=157
piecing together the bits & threads of what is known about the next game so far, which still has a year plus before release. Apparently we'll get a demo, tho.
― kingfish, Sunday, 2 September 2007 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Emil: "We went back and forth with the impact of dialogue on the character, and ultimately decided we didn't want to penalize or reward the player for carrying on a conversation."
So this is a Fallout game how :(
― Will M., Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=755135
― El Tomboto, Monday, 17 September 2007 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you not afraid that introducing a father figure limits the freedom to imagine your avatar and imposes motivation on the player that may not be in keeping with the avatar he imagines?
ah hell, somebody let the NMA-fallout guys start asking questions
― kingfish, Monday, 17 September 2007 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
If it weren't phrased so assholishly I'd almost agree... I don't feel good about Fallout 3 anymore. I TRIED SO HARD TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT THOUGH
― Will M., Monday, 17 September 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=154
Chris Avellone(of Kotor 2/black isle/obsidian) gives an illustrated monologue to writing dialogue.
― kingfish, Sunday, 25 November 2007 11:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://community.lionhead.com/forums/2/2883417/ShowThread.aspx
Turns out that you will have a dog companion. Dorks on the Fable 2 boards are calling foul.
Good. One of hte things I really liked about Oblivion was the addition you could have to get a pet. Stomping thru dungeon with a dog made things better.
― kingfish, Friday, 4 April 2008 07:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone should tell Fable 2 fans bout a little game called Fallout 1 that came out in, like, 1979. With a dog companion.
― Will M., Friday, 4 April 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://kotaku.com/378937/gamestop-details-fallout-3-collectors-edition
http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/fallout3/fallout3_details.jpg
available 7 oct 2008, or so they claim
― kingfish, Sunday, 13 April 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
im looking forward to this a bunch.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 13 April 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
just the bobblehead, i mean. not interested in the game.
I'll buy the special edition and sell you the bobblehead for ten bucks.
Then all I gotta do is sell the game off cos i REALLY want that lunch pail.
I kid, I kid... I can't wait for moar fallout.
― Will M., Sunday, 13 April 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uncertain-world/2053942/SITE%27s-embarrassment-as-Islamist-%27Washington-apocalypse%27-image-turns-out-to-be-from-Fallout-3-game.html
lolz.
― Mordy, Friday, 30 May 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
ha!
― El Tomboto, Friday, 30 May 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-3-Amazon-com-Exclusive-Survival/dp/B0017QFX30/ref=br_lf_m_1000233051_1_9_ttl?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=videogames&pf_rd_p=405465401&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000233051&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1SE02ACGE05BNKS636SK
the extra special Amazon-only version has your own pipboy digital clock.
― kingfish, Friday, 27 June 2008 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
a $50 plastic clock
― abanana, Friday, 27 June 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
The $50 includes the lunch pail and the bobblehead and the art book and the soundtrack in addition to the clock, yo.
i'm paying for a $50 lunch pail, personally.
― Will M., Friday, 27 June 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The $70 Collector's Edition includes all that.
― abanana, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36039.html
Fuck, man, they're really playing it close to the vest. I want gameplay vid.
― kingfish, Saturday, 12 July 2008 07:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_3#Film_festival
they're starting to ramp up the promo events.
― kingfish, Sunday, 13 July 2008 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
here's your gameplay vid... http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36197.html
almost put me to sleep :(
― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
holy smokes; all anticipation I had for that just went out the window
looks AWFUL
― czn, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
fallout 2 on lots and lots of downers?
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry I meant half-life 2, duhh
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36238.html
This one looks a bit better.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
More of a proper trailer, i guess: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36238.html
Also probably some of the opening cutscene, if history is to judge.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/fallout-3/preview/fallout-3-hands-on/a-20080714133932662026/g-20070327151320531089
Somebody on SA pointed out that pretty much all of the promo footage we've seen is just combat, which is only part of the actual(full? proper?) experience, but is a damn good way to get your casual xbox fratboys interested in the title.
Check the vid here:
http://e3.g4tv.com/e32008/videos/26939/Hands_On_Fallout_3.html
You hear the mouthbreater contingent in the studio audience agape over the slo-mo gore.
Hopefully there'll be more substantive vid coming up, that actually shows the dialogue bits and other parts of the game. Yeah, that's a full-on visually entralling part of gameplay(look, kids! you can CLICK DIALOGUE CHOICES!) and doesn't do shit for an attract-mode, but whatever. I play rpgs for the narrative bits.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg9t7uXkLyA
― hyggeligt, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/hands-on-fallou.html#more
ruh roh
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 17 July 2008 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
shit. Oh well, we'll see.
― kingfish, Thursday, 17 July 2008 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeeez. I'm so far out of the loop (I have a Wii, but an out-of-date mac and a lack of friends with a PS3, Xbox 360 or powerful PC) that trailer that put everyone else to sleep looks pretty good to me.
-Luddite
― Z S, Thursday, 17 July 2008 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.destructoid.com/e3-08-fallout-3-hands-on-95691.phtml
Not sure how to react to this one
― kingfish, Thursday, 17 July 2008 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I am still as apprehensive as I was the day I heard Bethesda was taking it. So far no surprises. :(
― Will M., Thursday, 17 July 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Destructoid with terrible writing and lack of genuine insight... not too surprising. Pretty much the reaction of that hollering G4 audience.
Not that Bloody Mess wasn't pretty amusing when I was a teenager myself, but, yeah, I wouldn't put too much stock in that foaming review. But man, it would be nice if one of these previews actually talked about dialogue choices, world changing effects and reputations, non-violent and alternative solution paths, that kind of thing that Fallout is ALSO known for, you know...
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 July 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah that destructoid preview is absolutely fucking terrible. "I shot some old ladies!!! I love this game!!!" Ladies and gentlemen, videogames blogger.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 17 July 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably worth watching... http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/20175
They cover a lot of the same ground as in the microsoft press conference, but since they're talking through it and taking their time, I thought it seemed more interesting. It does look like it might be a world with spending some time in. I'd like to see some character dialog interaction still, however
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 18 July 2008 05:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, that one's much better, even going over (literally) the same ground. There's far less mouthbreather bro yelling over the gore.
― kingfish, Friday, 18 July 2008 07:05 (fifteen years ago) link
-- El Tomboto, Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
seriously. "I. SHOT. A. WOMAN." wtfffff
― s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link
and to think he's not even the worst journo on that site
see one jim sterling
― Will M., Friday, 18 July 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe this has been answered before, but I can't search through the whole thread...
So I never played any of these games before, but now I finally want to (plus only six dollars each on gog). Should I start with the original Fallout, or should I just skip to Fallout 2? Are they basically the same, or is there some kind of ongoing story? I assume the games are fairly long and I never have tons of time for long games (so I worry I won't have time for both)...
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 19 September 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link