You’re insane. If your gripe is that it doesn’t make sense, fine, don’t take it. I can totally understand that kind of over-the-top violence not appealing to you, which is probably why it is optional. But don’t pretend that shooting a guy with a 9mm pistol and having half of his face and torso fly backwards and form a few bloody piles on the ground it any less silly just because it was done with less technically refined graphics.
I’ve a soft soft for sprites myself. A good artist can lovingly craft an animation exactly as he wanted it to appear.
3D engines are getting better all of the time, of course, and they offer much more flexibility - but still sometimes feel a bit cold by comparison.
I think it was a very pre-canned “gameplay” trailer (with quotes). It was short, only with combat, in god mode, and with instagib weapons. They didn’t show the exploration, or the quests, the dialogues, the AI, nothing. It was a bad trailer, boring, but thanks god i don’t see how it is going to be representative of the final game.
The gore wasn’t very well done, true. I remember the death scenes in Fallout 1/2 as being much more distinctive. Here is more “oh, some limbs fall with a blood decal”.
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Yeah, I’m pretty disappointed by that footage. The AI looked pretty dumb, the guns didn’t seem that satisfying (Shotgun barely jerks in your hand for an animation and the guy you shoot gets a few spots of red on him and doesn’t seem to notice? Really?), VATS looks like it could get “Annoying 5 minute spell animation PS:T syndrome” pretty quick, the guy flying to pieces by getting sniped in the head seemed stupid even with bloody mess, and the cars exploding is pretty goddamn silly.
And as for looking at it in “RPG mode”, I’m sorry, that didn’t really show anything to make anyone think “RPG mode”. Maybe if some raiders said “Your HP or your GP!” and then they switched to combat, but since everything was hostile and the character was running around with 3 rifles, 2 grenade types, and 2 rocket launchers it didn’t really promote the RPG aspects.
I’m more inclined to agree with the NMA crazies at this point. Maybe it’ll get better, but that video didn’t do much for me at all, except think about Stalker.
did any of the enemies react to shots?
Yeah, but it looked better with sprites. Then again, so does pretty much everything. sigh
Whoops, I came back and it looks like I had forgotten to submitt this post. Please dis-regard!
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It actually DOES seem less silly since there was an internal consistency to it before. A single shot critical death/blood mess death would give you the “Big hole” death. If you were spraying with an automatic gun, you’d either get the “Dancing” death or the “Oh Jesus I’m getting sprayed with bullets whoop there goes my arm and head” death. If shooting a guy in this causes all of his body parts to unhinge and pop off, that’s less “Immersive” than having a hole in his torso even though you shot him in the head.
To me, anyway.
Sprite based porn vs 3D porn? Are you kidding? Hand-drawn boobs vs. 3D blocks? Let’s say a boob has 1,000,000 shapes making it up… it still loses to a good sprite animation.
Just look at what the Japanese are doing. No, don’t really, you’ll go blind and feel guilty for years.
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The chick on the bridge with the turret dropped her gun. I’m not sure if that was because he shot her gun or if the AI decided to… Drop the gun and take five steps and then turn and face the player to get shot. Watched that bit again and I’m still not sure, since she was already turning away from him when she dropped the gun.
Where did we just go with this thread? I’m not sure how debating the finer points of naughty bits drawn by a computer artist is relevant to the previous discussion of Fallout 3.
yeah just watching it now again. Doesn’t seem like it has anything to do with getting shot, then when she gets hit again with the red laser bolt no reaction again… animations look pretty terrible. Not sure how useful their version of the rolling text is. Bot is frenzied, critical on raider (why are all the raiders wearing blackface?)…
btw, we need some sprite based porn now.
yeahhh!! fucking racist army people and their facepaint!
is that what it was? looked odd in the GT video. The Enclave armor at the end looks a lot like the antlers armor from Fallout Tactics.
Wow… is this thread an NMA magnet? I think qt3’s blood-brain barrier has failed.
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Hm … very uninspiring video. I love the 80’s monochrome pipboy look and the environment, but the combat seems clunky. It has a checkmark next to everything on the list, but from what I saw, gameplay has the technical bethesda feel to it; the whole less than the sum of its parts.
A slightly better trailer, found on RPS
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No kidding, that’s actually pretty cool. The cynic in me says it’s because it’s a bunch of fast cuts, so you actually can’t get a good look at anything, but I have to admit it looks much better than the gameplay demo.
The little commercial in the beginning is quite good too.
Thanks, Naeblis, that was pretty good.
I’m somewhat uncertain about the combat, but the sense of scale, fighting in and among the huge buildings, is probably the best I’ve ever seen.
And I couldn’t avoid a tingle of joy at the dog encounter.
