While NMA are a bunch of raving lunatics for the most part, their points are somewhat valid. Fallout was a great game series largely because if its clever, witty writing and complete lack of political correctness (become a porn star, seduce wife to rob husband, etc). Bethesda is not known for clever, funny writing and the imagery of the game does not look to encompass the full scope of the political incorrectness Fallout was known for. In fact, I’m not even sure if Fallout 3 will attempt to be funny, as I haven’t seen much indication of that yet.
Becoming a pornstar was one of the dumbest things the developers put in the old games.
Holy shit Tom. You got fucking burned.
Fucking burned.
Gosh, I sure hope this thread doesn’t degenerate into pointless arguing about whether or not Fallout 3 will be any good!
Sarkus
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The problem is that most of your examples come from Fallout 2, which went beyond Fallout 1 in its attempts to be funny and consequently annoyed some fans. Bethesda has stated several times that they are basing their interpretation of the setting more on Fallout 1 then 2 so I would expect the humor to be more understated. Besides, given that our knowledge of the game so far is very limited (not that many screenshots, only a few of which show speech options), I’m not sure what conclusions you can come to regarding how much humor is in it.
Hudson
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The FANTASTIC thing about this is that when Fallout 2 came out the NMA crowd HATED all the low-brow gags and the constant stream of pop culture references. They all wanted Feargus Urquhart’s head on a pike.
In somewhat related note, please don’t use “political incorrectness” like that. It makes you sound like a moron.
I think there were plenty of funny bits in Fallout 2 that weren’t simply lowbrow/pop culture gags. Character dialogue, in particular.
Thinking of Morrowind and Oblivion, they really didn’t draw many compelling characters for me. The worlds were expansive, but bland.
I don’t think Fallout 3 will be bad by any stretch. I’m sure I’ll play the hell out of it - I really enjoyed both Morrowind and Oblivion. But I sure wish someone would develop a PC-style successor (if spiritual) to the original line.
Seeing them makes me SO STOKED to spend some time in that world again. I’m actually thinking about running a PnP game in the Fallout world, too. I think there’s some pretty dope support for it out there in the form of fiction, wikis, and Fallout PnP campaigns.
Going back to post-apoc, Fallout-style, is going to be AWESOME, regardless of how well Bethesda makes the GAME part of it.
GURPS Wasteland works in a pinch, just change the lore around.
Awesome, thanks for the tip! I just bought the Savage Worlds generic system, and am stoked to work up a Fallout campaign to use it with.
Fallout 3 will help. BAM! Back on topic!
I give them the first laugh, bet let’s see who’s lauhing in the end, when at least a few people will say that Fallout 3 was bland and so on, and i think this will happen, as it did with Oblivion…
And maybe the joke will then also be on the ones who praised Fallout 3 like it was a new Messiahs…
The game is bland. VICTORY IS MINE!
That’s pretty goofy. It’s not like there was going to be a sequel that this game will be displacing … Interplay can live on thanks to this deal.
That’s the thing which gets me. I realise Fallout is close to these people’s hearts (as it is to mine in a less fanatical, take-off-and-nuke-from-orbit sense), and no-one likes their favourite series defiled, but come on.
If it’s not what you like then don’t play it. You are in exactly the same situation as you were before Bethesda got their twisted claws on the series.
Look at what happened to X-Com!
LOOK AT IT!
Oh, and more X-Com please.
You’re understating the case. Some people are going to think the game is bland, which is the most horrifying, paradigm-shifting event that could possibly happen.
As long as we are talking Oblivion with Guns, open world is nice and goes without saying since this is Bethesda, but no dialog or characters worth a damn.
I’ve suddenly realised, much to my delight, that I have virtually no expectations of Fallout 3. Which is great and probably means I’ll love the game. It’s like Oblivion for me except even more so, because I followed the hype for Oblivion but I had never played any other Elder Scrolls game, so I still didn’t really know what to expect. And I really enjoyed it, despite its problems.
For fallout 3 I really don’t have expectations at all. Yay.
that might be more offensive than tequila time errr i mean VATS.
I’m not even sure what you’re saying. Are you suggesting that Interplay sucks in spite of producing a great series? If that’s the case, then how can the game become any further defiled?
Whatever your perspective on the matter - it isn’t like Fallout was going to spontaneously become a game on its own. Interplay was going to die and take Fallout with it … So what the fuck was the optimal result?
