New Fallout 3 Info

[Desslock]

Thanks, paps, I think maybe it’s time for you to go home now.

Excellent idea. Bye.

[bago]

Damn, 250 was close.

[Gendal]

Also, you could have quit at what, page 30, if you didn’t like people arguing with mental midgets? Why continue reading upwards of 90 pages if it so offends your moral axes?

It’s that tricky naming scheme we use. I too keep clicking on Fallout 3 Info hoping for… Fallout 3 info.

[Eightball]

And yeah, this thread is congenitally meta at this point. I shudder to think what will happen when the game actually ships >-(

It will be glorious!

[Bahimiron]

I too keep clicking on Fallout 3 Info hoping for… Fallout 3 info.

…doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

[BobJustBob]

Obviously we’ll start the “Fallout 3 is out! And we have opinions contrary to a vocal minority!” thread, which will quickly die because we’ll be too busy playing the game to argue with the trolls who post their hatred after not actually playing it.

Well of course they’re going to play it. Otherwise how will they know exactly how it violates the Fallout legacy?

[tiohn]

Well of course they’re going to play it. Otherwise how will they know exactly how it violates the Fallout legacy?

You fail to understand that they already know exactly how it violates the Fallout legacy.

[BobJustBob]

You fail to understand that they already know exactly how it violates the Fallout legacy.

But they need detailed examples so they can convince us heathens. They’re one argument away from winning the internet.

[MattKeil]

But they need detailed examples so they can convince us heathens. They’re one argument away from winning the internet.

Aren’t we all.

[UncleSmoothie]

This thread has certainly developed since Friday. Why exactly do datter and thamer insist on hanging out on a forum where they’ve lost all credibility? This must be what Lyndon LaRouche is like.

Also: I didn’t like datter before any of you.

[salwon]

So, Fallout 3 - How excited are we?

Me, I’m super excited, maybe an 8.8 (I use a full 1-10 scale, in units of Potential Funs/hour).

Although did I miss the discussion on ridiculous collector’s edition shit? I don’t care how many clocks I’m getting, $120 is way more than I’ll pay for a video game. At least they’re giving you something here, instead of the usual “Here’s an awesome poster/map your wife will never let you hang up.”

[Foxstab]

My sole gripe with fallout 3 will be that it won’t feel like fallout to me.
I never said it’ll be a bad game or not a good game.

Although, so help me vint cerf, if it has a drop down menu for inventory because of console dumbing, I’m going to bite someone’s head off and shit down their necks.
Going through this once before with KOTOR was all the traumatizing experience I could take.

[quote=“thamer,post:2787,topic:36275”]

Well, to be fair, children often get confused when an adult berates them for something with the adult being ‘angry’.

Nice to see Ubisoft making fun out of its customers like this. Excellent corporate representation there. Keep it up Charles.Nice to see Ubisoft making fun out of its customers like this. Excellent corporate representation there. Keep it up Charles.[/QUOTE]

Well, enjoy kindergarten, thamer! :) wave

[Zylon]

iron

Not ironic.

Our judges would have accepted “WHOOSH!”, however.

[Ben_Sones]

Although, so help me vint cerf, if it has a drop down menu for inventory because of console dumbing, I’m going to bite someone’s head off and shit down their necks.
Going through this once before with KOTOR was all the traumatizing experience I could take.

Console dumbing must have a time machine? Here’s KotOR’s inventory, for reference:

[Zylon]

I’m really curious why somebody decided to take a 640480 Fallout screenshot and scale it up (badly) to 1024768.

[gordonrumble]

Well of course they’re going to play it. Otherwise how will they know exactly how it violates the Fallout legacy?

The irony is incredible; out of all the people in the world, the NMA loonies are the ones most likely to buy Fallout 3. They won’t enjoy it though, they swear.

[John_Reynolds]

You have to admit, knowing how nervous the hardcore Fallout fanbase is about Bethesda’s involvement in 3, Howard and company really fucked up with what they chose to show while demoing the game at E3. I can see the mistake of thinking, “screw the haters, they will always hate, let’s grab that 360 crowd and the non-NMAers” but showcasing a pretty generic looking post-apocalyptic shooter that pisses the FO fanboys off without really (IMO) grabbing the action crowd was a pretty big mistake.

[NowhereDan]

I’d say they’re the most likely to play Fallout 3, but they’re self-righteous enough to believe that they have the right, or even the duty, to pirate the game to punish Bethesda.

[gordonrumble]

You have to admit, knowing how nervous the hardcore Fallout fanbase is about Bethesda’s involvement in 3, Howard and company really fucked up with what they chose to show while demoing the game at E3. I can see the mistake of thinking, “screw the haters, they will always hate, let’s grab that 360 crowd and the non-NMAers” but showcasing a pretty generic looking post-apocalyptic shooter that pisses the FO fanboys off without really (IMO) grabbing the action crowd was a pretty big mistake.

I’m not sure that Bethesda really needs to listen to the Fallout fanboys that much. They’ve always seemed like a (very) vocal minority to me, and one that is unlikely to be happy no matter what Bethesda does. I loved the original Fallout games to death, realize that this game is not that much like those games, have made my peace with that and greatly anticipate this game. I expect that when the time comes most sane Fallout fans will do the same.

[thurauh1]

I’m with Mordrak, I think, this thread is really just embarrassing. On the one hand we have:

• hardcore fans of the original Fallout who are really unhappy that the new Fallout game isn’t similar enough, in their view, to the original games. As a result they’re really obnoxious and irrationally condescending towards people who don’t share that view, and have thown in some troofer nonsense about gaming journalists/publications all being paid off and exaggerating their self-importance.

vs.

• people who don’t share their views about Fallout and/or are offended by what they’ve said, who are just piling on and kicking the first group in the head, far beyond what was reasonably necessary to refute their nonsense, and without giving any of their legitimate concerns/complaints any credence - it’s devolved into an impromptu game of bully, and it just seems distasteful and such a waste of time.

Scharmers gets points for the Orz though.

Even I am member of the NMA (ducks…) I can certainly see some of the fun aspects in Bethesda’s Fallut 3 game. However, I can also understand the ilk and anger from the NMA crowd. The anger seems to stem from the fact? that Bethesda now is using realtime combat, silly weapons, as well as moving supermutants from the West Coast to the East Coast. And some other stuff…

I don’t care much about the complaining about the realtime combat or the VATS combat. I do care, though, a bit about the silly weapons, a teddy bear?, as a bullet, the rocket launcher?, and most notably, the Fatman?, as well as the exploding cars because cars in the Fallout universe are powered by nuclear power. -ehm - no, they ain’t. They are powered by nuclear fusion cells which is different from nuclear fission.

I have sen pretty much all of the gameplay and preview videos for Fallout 3 that’s been available for E3. It looks like Bethesda at least in part got the setting right. But there just so many small and little things I see wrong with this game before calling it a Fallout game. It is more of an intuitive thing than a rational one, I feel.

Like the Polish guy from NMA I would have been content if Bethesda had just called the game: Fallout (3) - The East Coast Story or something similar. Then they could have made a game like STALKER…