It looks pretty damn normal to me.

She IS a portal to the dimension of the Old Ones. What exactly do you think she’ll be giving birth to?

I am shocked that we’ve let this thread sink down to the second page.

So, to remedy this here’s a neat interview based on fan questions.

Sure. We recently had someone play through the game and finish it while only killing one thing very early in the game…a Radroach. I’m not saying I recommend everyone run out and try to play the game as a pacifist, but if you want to give it a try, it has been done.

I don’t think I would ever play though fallout without killing anything, but I definitely do like knowing that there will be non-violent paths through the entire quest line.

That is a very encouraging revelation, for sure.

How’s the support for my preferred ultimate carnage approach? Is it like Morrowind, where you could gleefully murder everything in Vvardenfell and still save the world, or will quest generators be immune to my macabre ways?

I think Emil said you can kill 99.9% of NPCs… so given that there’s roughly 200 NPCs that means you can kill everything except for 1/5th of one person. My guess? It’s impossible to kill Malcom McDowell’s head.

Nah. It’ll be his torso, his head was clearly shown to be vulnerable in Tank Girl.

You can play MUCH of Fallout 3 without killing people, and there are options to talk your way through just about every situation in the game. But it’s a crazy, violent world out there, and you’re going to have to defend yourself at times

There are a lot of paths through the quests and some are non-violent. That said, you can’t wander off into the wasteland and expect to live.

But obviously, when you’re talking about supermutants, dialogue really isn’t a viable option. So I can’t really say whether or not you can finish the game without killing anyone, but implementing alternative paths is very important for us.

Sure. We recently had someone play through the game and finish it while only killing one thing very early in the game…a Radroach. I’m not saying I recommend everyone run out and try to play the game as a pacifist, but if you want to give it a try, it has been done.

#1 and #2: Emil the developer
#3 and #4: Pete the lying bastard PR

Yes yes, Fallout 3 stabbed your father. You and the guy commenting would get along well:

and how melee combat works

  • really badly?

sorry, i’m a little pessemistic (based on all videos of this game making it look like a lump of shit)

games which you play whilst thinking ‘if this was a little better it’d be flippin amaaazing’ are like going out with a girl who looks a little bit like naomi campbell, but has a wonky nose

See, his girlfriend looks like Naomi Campbell and has a perfect nose too! SUCK ON THAT BETHGAYSDA!!!~one!

YES, BUT CAN YOU MURDER CHILDREN?!?!?!?!?!?!

That “feed me a stray cat” bit made me fuckin larf

It needs to be put in any game that has significant interaction with an ATM (Deus Ex, perhaps).

… do those statements contradict each other, in your world?

We’ve been pretty upfront before about the fact that we haven’t designed the game so you could complete it without killing anyone

We recently had someone play through the game and finish it while only killing one thing very early in the game…a Radroach.

Pete is lying.

Hey Draikin, post a pic of yourself.

Unless one of the testers figured out a convoluted and unforeseen way of completing the game that didn’t require any killing except for the Radroach (which would probably be a required tutorial kill). But surely that couldn’t be it, because no player has ever done anything in an open world game the developers didn’t predict and plan for.

It’s just sad now.

Some new-ish really low quality footage, link definitely not horked from NMA. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/251221.html

Kind of a shame he didn’t use that sort of thing for their E3 combat demo. This one was a bit more interesting.

They spoiled the vault exit; I wasn’t expecting that. I dug the welding mask, and it was great to see VATs in action on a non-hacked character. This game looks like it’s shaping up nicely.

BUT I LOVDED THAT ONE RAD-SCORPION! I lovded him so much! Bethe$da made me kill him!