I’m disappointed that the soundtrack that comes with pre-ordering Fallout 3 doesn’t have any of those songs on it! Anything Goes? Dang, son!
better than exploding barrels, right?
Squee
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Yeah, the cars are irritating. Lucien Lachance appearing in Fallout is a little irritating. The fact that most of the bandits seem to be really dumb (As in charging straight towards you while firing their guns, or standing in melee with a radscorpion shooting it) is irritating. The really dramatic fanfares of music are particularly irritating. The little snippets of dialog weren’t terribly impressive but weren’t really bad either.
But the faces and lip syncing were decent, the guns on the whole seemed a bit better, and the power fist was satisfying as all hell. Overall I liked that series of movies pretty well. Still lots of parts about it that bug me, but I hope the actual game mechanics work well enough as it looks like it’ll be fun, especially if they release a toolset. Doubly hoping it ends up good since the people talking about Clear Sky not shaping up have me a bit worried about that, it’d be a bummer if both post-apocalyptic style games end up being disappointing.
BlakeD
4005
“I told you, No Zombies Allowed!”
Anyone else catch that subtle reference in the Tenpenny Tower video clip. Close enough for me.
Is that proof of Draikin’s (or was it Foxstab? Or the guy who got banned) insistence that NMA were the lone torch-carriers who saw to it that a Fallout 3 would ever be possible at all ever?
nabeel
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Apparently people at PAX got this survival guide handed out to them. Pretty cool swag I must say.
wow, the DJ totally sounds like Luther Mahoney from Homicide/the mortician from The Wire.
Killzig
4009
looks like the game manual. Awesome.
I have just been made aware that Fallout 3 will allow me to fulfill my beautiful dream from my childhood of punching someone’s head off in slow-mo. I am sold.
Okay, I watched the wasteland vid again. That DJ is so Luther Mahoney/the mortician from The Wire. That’s awesome.
Prodigy
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Not fan of the animations, not fan of the FPS aspects, a little concerned about the NPCs’ lives and the segmented world (every clip ends when there’s a loading screen, very clever), but in the end these videos helped to restore a lot of faith in the game AFAIC. Loved the atomic mushroom, beautifully done.
I tend to agree (though the animations seemed okay to me, generally, just not the VATS slow motion stuff so much). I will reiterate my earlier sentiment that I hope there is a way to find out how much damage I’m dealing/receiving because that’s the sort of RPG stuff that I enjoyed from the first game, but I guess time will tell. It’s a day one purchase for me, I’ve had it pre-ordered for months now.
Upgrading my pre-order to an SE.
I’ve got a new job. My desk will need a bobblehead to go with my Big Daddy.
Yeah, the guide is fun. They had some giveaway at the demo today also (btw, demo was awesome) - everyone got either a poster (from the PA FO3 comic), a hand puppet (also from the strip), a vaultboy/pipboy shirt (forgive me, NMA-ers, I never remember the difference), and there were a couple of other giveaways of the game itself. Of course, I got the (yawn) poster.
I liked the mix of real-time shooting and targeted actions - it’s an interesting mechanic. The 3rd-person animations were flawed (your character seemed to glide when he walks, and some of the physical interactions with the world/opponents weren’t entirely synced up) so I think I’ll be playing it mainly in first-person mode - even so, based on the demo the game moved itself up to a day-1 purchase for me.
BTW, loading times seemed quite reasonable on the 360 - I’m guessing on the PC they’d be even better. Unless they are cheating and using some sort of hard drive image and a dev kit for the 360 demo, which is entirely possible.
It was bothering me for a but there but I figured it out: Mister Burke is Lucien LaChance from Oblivion… or is he… shit.
Squee
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They say that when you murder someone, Mister Burke visits you in your sleep. It’s how he recruits new members.
I did get to play for a bit today, and while it does feel a lot like Oblivion, it also feels a lot like Fallout. The VATS is obviously not just a gore-fest, and you can actually miss when you use it. I VATSed a guy in the leg and his leg did indeed shear off at the knee where I hit him, and his head did not explode, so maybe we can stop complaining about that.
Megaton City is just incredibly well realized, I think. It’s like stepping into Bartertown with a bitchin’ atomic centerpiece.
After watching the presentation today, my girlfriend decided to order the lunchbox edition for the bobblehead. Considering she has played neither Fallout nor an Elder Scrolls game, I was somewhat shocked.
