Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

More grey, less brown

On June 5, 2007, Bethesda released the Fallout 3 Teaser trailer. The press kit released with the trailer indicates that Ron Perlman is on-board with the project, and cites a release date of Fall 2008. The trailer also features the Ink Spots song "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire", which the previous Fallout developer Black Isle Studios originally intended to license for use in the first Fallout game. The trailer, which was completely done with in-engine assets, featured a closing voice over by Ron Perlman.

And this has been confirmed for PC, 360, and PS3

well fuck them then

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200706/N07.0605.1221.21984.htm

Latest ish of Game Informer has several pages on the game, actually showing gameplay.

Find scans here

You start at birth in Vault 101, and they kept the SPECIAL system.

And they will have a dog in the game.

Also, Tombot, 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.

I'm not spending $400+ for a platform to play it on though

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.

this is different from IRL how, lol

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.

I guess I could go find a copy of xp and dual-boot or whatever

XPpro damn well better be cheaper now that shitty vista is out. my win2k doesn't like the new games coming out.

lol paying fr windowz

lol capitalism

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 :(

http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=755135

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

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

http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=154

Chris Avellone(of Kotor 2/black isle/obsidian) gives an illustrated monologue to writing dialogue.

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.

Someone should tell Fable 2 fans bout a little game called Fallout 1 that came out in, like, 1979. With a dog companion.

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

im looking forward to this a bunch.

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.

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.

ha!

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.

a $50 plastic clock

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.

The $70 Collector's Edition includes all that.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36039.html

Fuck, man, they're really playing it close to the vest. I want gameplay vid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_3#Film_festival

they're starting to ramp up the promo events.

here's your gameplay vid...
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36197.html

almost put me to sleep :(

holy smokes; all anticipation I had for that just went out the window

looks AWFUL

fallout 2 on lots and lots of downers?

sorry I meant half-life 2, duhh

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36238.html

This one looks a bit better.

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.

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg9t7uXkLyA

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/hands-on-fallou.html#more

ruh roh

shit. Oh well, we'll see.

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

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-08-fallout-3-hands-on-95691.phtml

Not sure how to react to this one

I am still as apprehensive as I was the day I heard Bethesda was taking it. So far no surprises. :(

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...