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Gamepro ranked its 48 most anticipated games of 2008. Right after Grand Theft Auto IV and Metal Gear Solid 4.<blockquote>Why you should care: Post-apocalyptic wastelands have never seemed so inviting. Players create their own character, customize him, and set him out into the world, killing and exploring in either the first- or third-person perspective. Stars such as Ron Perlman and Liam Neeson have already signed up to do voice acting in the game, and the genuine hope is that this role-playing game lives up to its heritage: Fallout and Fallout 2 were classics.

Why you shouldn't: This is Bethesda's first crack at a Fallout game...then again, they made Oblivion, which was stupendous.</blockquote>Interesting reasoning for why you shouldn't.

Link: Gamepro 48 best games (2-4).
 
If you enjoyed...

* Mass Effect
* BioShock
* Oblivion
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.........

Not the previous Fallouts, by any chance? ;x

Oh well. The hype machine is rolling mad deep, yo.
 
Why you shouldn't: This is Bethesda's first crack at a Fallout game...then again, they made Oblivion, which was stupendous.
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That is until Fallout 3: The Faking, is released.
Then soon Bethesda will admit that they made mistakes in Oblivion but that they have learned from it and that they incorporated these lessons in Fallout.

Guys, please stop spinning around it.
Its okay now to admit that Bethesda has 'convinced' you to like Oblivion, we won't hate you more or less for it.

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Okay I am overreacting here, but I just saw those pages, and it is just... 'wrong'.
 
then again, they made Oblivion, which was stupendous.
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The word you were looking for was... ahh nevermind...
If you enjoyed...

* Mass Effect
* BioShock
* Oblivion
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.........

Not the previous Fallouts, by any chance? ;x
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They do this with almost all the games.
(There's a few exceptions, oddly. Project Origin, Far Cry 2 and Soul Calibur 4 and some others.)
I guess they think anyone who liked the previous iterations will automatically like the new one. Because, y'know, when they put the name on the box they're supposed to meet the expectations set by the previous games.

I don't really get why they think people who liked Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War will like Metal Gear Solid 4 though...

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Could someone please alert Qwinn to the existance of nuclear catapults?
 
Okay, this is my first posting on this particular subject, so if I speak heresy, go easy on me :D

I didn't really care all that much for Oblivion, but that wasn't so much because of the engine or anything. I just thought the plot and roleplaying opportunities and such were very weak. But, I did actually like Morrowind quite a bit, and obviously that was also Bethesda, so...

If it's strictly "Oblivion with guns", yes it will suck, but I don't expect that to happen. From what I've read, you can play it in real time mode but you'll also be able to effectively simulate turn based play, is that correct? And it'll keep the SPECIAL system, traits, perks, all that? Those things alone would make it significantly better than Oblivion... if they make me have to skip and jump like a ponce everywhere I go in order to raise my new Fallout 3 "acrobatics" skill, I'm going to be super super stabby. But I don't see that happening.

I'm willing to wait and see. Skeptical and hopeful both. It -could- turn out to be a surprisingly good game, and believe it or not, we might even like it better? No one thought Fallout 2 could be better than the first Fallout, and no one thought BG2 could be better than BG1, but they were...

Qwinn
 
Qwinn said:
From what I've read, you can play it in real time mode but you'll also be able to effectively simulate turn based play, is that correct? And it'll keep the SPECIAL system, traits, perks, all that? Those things alone would make it significantly better than Oblivion... if they make me have to skip and jump like a ponce everywhere I go in order to raise my new Fallout 3 "acrobatics" skill, I'm going to be super super stabby. But I don't see that happening.

Qwinn
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It's not simulating TB in any way. The VATS system allows you to pauze the game and issue commands. That's not simulating TB. I know some people see at as such but not me. It's RTwP.

Yes, it will keep special, traits and perks but it's 'modified'. Speech, for example, is not dependent on inteligence anymore but it has taken the pure 'AD&D' route (ie dependent on charisma). Again, some are in favor of this, but it means no more 'stupid char' speech. Perks and traits will have to be 'modified' to allow gameplay with the new combat engine. You can't have the same perks and traits under a pure TB engine and a RTwP engine. Some of the favourites of the 'old' players will be gone (fast shot) and others will have to take it's place (and from the incredible 'creativity' that Beth has shown i'm very sceptic).

You wont have to hop around to raise a skill, Beth has made that clear from the start. Otoh could they get away with including it ? Maybe, but it would piss off the 'old school' fans even more.
 
Qwinn said:
From what I've read, you can play it in real time mode but you'll also be able to effectively simulate turn based play, is that correct?
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:sigh: No, it's not.

Qwinn said:
And it'll keep the SPECIAL system, traits, perks, all that?
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Not all that, it's a cut down system.

Qwinn said:
Those things alone would make it significantly better than Oblivion...
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Would they? The combat is probably going to be less suckful, but the systems are pretty identical, except for the fact they Oblivion's is hit and learn and Fallout's is xp based. Otherwise, and considering that Oblivion's system is also based on GURPS, they are very identical in their concept.

Qwinn said:
No one thought Fallout 2 could be better than the first Fallout
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And it's not...

Qwinn said:
and no one thought BG2 could be better than BG1
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I did. BG1 is pretty weak...
 
Madbringer said:
If you enjoyed...

* Mass Effect
* BioShock
* Oblivion
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.........

Not the previous Fallouts, by any chance? ;x
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Not to mention Arcanum for example, which is closest game to Fallout -,-

Question for authors- what if I enjoyed Fallout, Arcanum, P:Torment but hated Oblivion, Mass Effect and BioShock?
 
Fallout 2 is generally (allowing for statistical noise) only considered better than Fallout 1 by those who played it first.

You can't really call a new product "much better" if few people migrate from the old one (inverse migration is a non-topic, as there's an inherent tendency to stay with whatever you have and prefer it over anything else -- it's more of a matter of threshold with added bias in favour of newer versions). It applies to game series too.
 
More hollow hype.

Most anticipated game. That means nothing.

It's like beingpicked a pre-season favorite to win a championship. You ever hear a team say "sure, we didn't get to the Super Bowl, but Sporting News picked us as pre-season favorites"?

Shameless hype whores.
 
I know and it makes me sad.
I enjoyed previous FO games and games similiar to Fallout, like Arcanum, while I hate FPS (BioShock) and action_pseudo_rpgs- Oblivion and Mass Effect.
And they're telling me that FO3 has more to do with pseudo_rpgs and FPS games than with my Fallouts.
Yay.
I bet if you told one of these gaming journalists "Oblivion sucks" he wouldn't understand and his head would explode- how can you NOT like oblivious!?
 
What Cimmy said.

Alsoplustoo:

Players create their own character, customize him, and set him out into the world, killing and exploring in either the first- or third-person perspective.
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You know, I still have to find a single gaming magazine that doesn't suck huge slimey godzilla balls. It seems I haven't come across a honest review (or preview, for that matter) ina magazine ever since the death of a semi-indie Polish publication called 'secret service' I used to read in my pre-high school years.

Not only are these guys idiots for not doing proper research, they also forgot that Oblivion isn't "jazzy" anymore in mainstream media.

In fact, gaming mags are becoming more and more like the trashy "fashion" mags for teenage sluts and stupid women: Pretty pictures, lots of ads, and no relevant content whatsoever, all packed in a single sparkling bundle for a public of retards.
 
Wooz said:
In fact, gaming mags are becoming more and more like the trashy "fashion" mags for teenage sluts and stupid women: Pretty pictures, lots of ads, and no relevant content whatsoever, all packed in a single sparkling bundle for a public of retards.
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Gotta agree with you there. The best portuguese gaming mag has just gone through the process of becoming one of those... Uninformed trendy flashes of light and HD goodness...
 
And I am a hot chick. Just look at my avatar.

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Oh, wait, where are my boobs? :( Torr Howard stole my boobs!
 
Serbaside said:
Don't be so hard on them, I think the reviewer is blind:

Fallout 3 looks faithful to its old-school predecessor
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I think that's true. We need to change our expectations when it comes to gaming journalists.

Think about it, when you see a retarded kid, you don't expect much from him, right? That's the same deal as with gaming journalists- don't expect too much, actually- don't expect anything. They're just people who write about stuff they know nothing about. So when one says "FO3 is faithful to its old-school predecessor" just nod.
 
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