Fallout 3 at E3 - Gaming Trend

GamingTrend said:
I give a little latitude on these things as long as they are well explained. If they just show up without an explanation then I might have some questions. I pose a counter question - did we ever see an energy cell that powered the car in F2 explode? What would that look like? Would it look like what was described as a mini-nuke? Hmmmm
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We never see fusion cells explode because fusion powered anything wouldn't explode into a nuclear cloud when shot at. i.e. it would be stupid.
And the fact that fusion powered Power Armour and rayguns do not erupt into violent explosions during a firefight shows that this does not happen in Fallout. Period.
 
Briosafreak said:
For a buttload of answers by Ron check part 1 and part two of a series of posts I made with quotes from him. Juicy stuff.



More to come.

Edit:Part 3 is up, together with part 4.
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Whew, good compilation. Too bad Ron couldn't answer a lot of the questions due to the absence of features in the demo. I really hope they make the fatman hard to obtain and exploding cars scarce, but I have my doubts. Bethesda still shouldn't have created either, no matter how rare they are. Both objects just don't fit logically or canonically.
 
This is a pretty wide departure, and fans of the aforementioned games are well aware of that. I didn’t see anyone ‘rabidly excited’ about the game, most were in ‘wait and see’ mode.
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This quote still perplexes me. Unless 34 other previewers are just pulling our leg, I think they were 'rabidly excited' or quickly changed their minds after E3.
 
Well, like I said to Ron here, the no rabidly excited part seems to make sense if you're really, really used to the industry, and have learned to read previews with a certain amount of skepticism and expecting an overly positive tone, because they're always positive.

If you're more innocent/less used to previews, it certainly doesn't read like that
 
Brother None said:
If you're more innocent/less used to previews, it certainly doesn't read like that
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They shouldn't a dun that. I'm jus' a boy.

Well, I hope their reviews are more geared toward the innocent/less used to previews. In their defense, it is a bit easier to criticize the game when (A) you get to play it (B) the way it's supposed to play it.
 
Previews are the curse of the gaming media, as Jeff Green said here. I don't think the gaming media has the introspective capacities to write otherwise, tho', most of them are amateur writers without any background or education in the press, don't forget that. Hell, I have more press experience than half the "professional gaming journalists," I'd bet.

Don't expect a different way of writing for the reviews, depending on how the cookie crumbles. The issue is that it's hard for the gaming media to hype a game right up until release and then cut it down as a piece of crap. After all, they've been saying it's Jesus' Second Coming in game-form since it was announced, they can't suddenly turn around and call themselves wrong.

Ah yes, the flaws of the gaming media. So, so many flaws.
 
I know I'm really too late, but..

Jiggly McNerdington said:
It says that the "nukulur catapult" that you're bemoaning in your signature will be rare to the point of likely not finding it unless you're hunting for it/know where to go, which I would think you'd take as a good thing,
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No it doesn't, and more likely you'll end up finding nukes in the right place for boss fights, much like rockets in Half-Life 2.


GamingTrend said:
Nope, it's just an example. You'd have to hear it to 'get it'.
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Not an example of Fallout humor. I'm sure there's a great audible quality I am missing out on.

Taken in context perhaps - "Fighting in real time made me wince in fear that Fallout 3 could easily be Oblivion with guns. Todd allayed this fear by reminding us that our stats govern our weapon effectiveness, promising that he’d give us a better look at the combat system in action later on. "
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They said basically the same thing about Oblivion: "Oh, it's an RPG alright, your stats govern how effectively you use your weapons."

Correct - his point was that they recognized the shortcoming and fixed it.
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Just like companies that produce detergents notice that their old products didn't actually provide perfect cleansing power just in time to advertise their newest product.
If you call that honesty, you're either dumb or a liar. I won't rule out either.


This is no different than a sword in an RPG that does 9999 damage. You'll quest for 100 hours to get it, and the reward is that you are unstoppable. That's my thought anyway...
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Amen to that.

Wait... you did mean to say that both are absolutely idiotic, right?
 
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