Fallout 3 - PAX '08 Video Demonstration
by Eddie Turner on August 31, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Straight from this year's Penny Arcade Expo comes a five part video demonstration of the much anticipated Fallout 3. The demonstration is being shown off using the Xbox 360 hardware. Fallout 3's official release date is October 28th for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, with standard and collector's editions available for all three platforms. Enjoy!
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Tindytim - Monday, September 1, 2008 - link
Eh, it won't bother me if the combat is okay. The combat in Morrowind and the Oblivion sucked (it was an FPS engine with Melee weapons tacked on, but whoop).Justin Case - Monday, September 1, 2008 - link
Combat was the only thing about Oblivion that didn't suck. It wasn't great, but at least there were a lot of different monsters and a lot of weapons. The AI and scripting were atrocious, the story was boring and full of plot holes, and the voice acting was dreadful. Nice landscapes, sure, but this was supposed to be a game not a screensaver.I wasn't a huge fan of Fallout's turn-based system, but the story was pretty good, you did have multiple choices, and your decisions usually had an influence on more than the current mini-quest (which is really what defines a true RPG). Fallout 3 looks like Oblivion with guns. Even the voices are the same. Maybe it'll be a good FPS, but that's all it'll be.
I guess this way we don't need to worry about EA taking over Bethesda and turning them into a "sausage factory" churning out FPS games with flashy graphics and brainless gameplay - they did it to themselves.
JarredWalton - Monday, September 1, 2008 - link
I don't know that I'd complain much if they get rid of the slow turn-based combat of the earlier Fallout games. In the end, it's more about the story and environment, and you DON'T have to select the "Bloody Mess" perk in Fallout. It irks me that they seem to have 100% hit rates and Bloody Mess, plus god mode in all of the FO3 movies to date... but the final game won't have that, so who really cares?Basilisk - Monday, September 1, 2008 - link
What a week... first Palin as VEEP, now this. Good grief... what were they thinking of? Do they really believe folks will transfer former allegiances to these incongruous new offerings?