Fallout 3 at E3 - Gaming Trend

[Tannhauser]

Gaming Trend has a five-page write-up of the E3 Fallout 3 demo, with a staggering amount of detail.<blockquote>Greeted by a robot named Deputy Weld that resembled the Robot from 1960s show Lost In Space. Assuring us that the bomb was perfectly safe, the robot cleared us to enter the city of Megaton. Todd took the brief loading sequence to point out that, although the game is a year away, the load sequences are already faster than Oblivion and that each load screen would be packed with data to help keep the immersion level high.

Entering the town you are greeted by the town Sherriff / Mayor Lucas Simms. Given that this was the last day of E3, Todd was quite tired of playing the nice guy and remarked to the sheriff “Nice hat Calamity Jane”. Our sheriff turned surly rather quickly and warned “This is my town – you so much as breathe wrong and I’m gonna fucking end you.” Similar to the challenge of the Sheriff in Fallout 2, you can keep pressing the sheriff and force him to draw on you. We kept our cool and moved into the town.</blockquote>Thanks to the author, Ron Burke, for letting us know about this preview.

Link: 50 minutes with Fallout 3 at GamingTrend.

 

[Briosafreak]

Staggering amount of detail indeed!

 

[Crowfoot]

One yelled “That’s how we do it in Alliance Pride, you fuckin’ freaks!” as he gunned down mutants across the street from him.

Yeah!! Oh wait, no......

 

[JustusJ]

Pulling the Fat Man from our shoulder pack, we launched several explosives roughly the size of footballs at the feet of the behemoth, making light work of the creature – it only took 5 nukes.

I'm quite speechless here

 

[Per]

A chair that you otherwise might have overlooked in Fallout is there, brought to life by the game engine.

Umm... because it's in first person 3D, a chair is always "there", "alive" and sort of in your face even when you feel like you have more important things to think about than chairs?

As you pass by, Mr Hand comments how the blue jumpsuit compliments your eyes, but then mumbles under his breath that you are a “Stupid Git”. Plenty of Fallout humor to go around.

Was that sarcastic?

Fighting in real time made me wince in fear that Fallout 3 could easily be Oblivion with guns.

One for the Codex.

Todd took the brief loading sequence to point out that, although the game is a year away, the load sequences are already faster than Oblivion

... and as detail is added to the game, they will gradually slow down.

Todd took a moment to mention that they have revamped the Radiant AI system, creating true 24/7 schedules and proper dialog trees, rather than

... Oblivion, where they allegedly had true 24/7 schedules.

Spraying bullets at a nearby tram we noted that the gun was firing somewhat slowly, and the bullet pattern was all over the place. Thankfully we had a second gun of the same type to use for parts to repair our shoddier one. Using the repair skill we were able to create one superior weapon with a tight fire cone and high rate of fire.

That's not how weapons work, but anyway.

Pulling the Fat Man from our shoulder pack, we launched several explosives roughly the size of footballs at the feet of the behemoth, making light work of the creature – it only took 5 nukes.

"When I was a kid we were lucky if they went down with less than 12!"

 

[Joe Kremlin]

Even the loading screens are immersive!

So, have they varied at all in any of the playthroughs? Like, just a tiny bit? And what kind of sheriff drops f bombs?

 

[pexxx]

Pulling the Fat Man from our shoulder pack, we launched several explosives roughly the size of footballs at the feet of the behemoth, making light work of the creature – it only took 5 nukes.

I'm quite speechless here

Here goes the promise that mininukes aren't going to be lieing around everywhere ...

 

[FeelTheRads]

Todd took a moment to mention that they have revamped the Radiant AI system, creating true 24/7 schedules and proper dialog trees

Again, what the hell does Radiant AI has to do with dialog trees?
I assume they'll claim dialog trees is their invention too, like they did with other features Fallout already had.

Liars. Shameless liars.

Pulling the Fat Man from our shoulder pack, we launched several explosives roughly the size of footballs at the feet of the behemoth, making light work of the creature – it only took 5 nukes.

TEH FAT MANZ IS TEH AMEZING WEpON!!11
Tell us, Bethesda lovers, tell us how it is.

Pathetic. Fuckin' pathetic.

 

[Sorrow]

Pulling the Fat Man from our shoulder pack, we launched several explosives roughly the size of footballs at the feet of the behemoth, making light work of the creature – it only took 5 nukes.

 

[Tannhauser]

Aside from the writing of various story-arcs, there are various examples of the general tone of writing in Bethesda's Fallout 3. A few examples, some old and some new, from this preview:

As you pass by, Mr Hand comments how the blue jumpsuit compliments your eyes, but then mumbles under his breath that you are a “Stupid Git”.

Much to the surprise of everyone guarding it, we deactivated the vault door via a giant mechanical ‘key’ of sorts. It unlocks and grabs the door, rolling it out of the way to clear your path. Stepping over a corpse clutching a sign that reads “Let us in Motherfuckers!”, you enter the bright wasteland of Fallout.

Given that this was the last day of E3, Todd was quite tired of playing the nice guy and remarked to the sheriff “Nice hat Calamity Jane”. Our sheriff turned surly rather quickly and warned “This is my town – you so much as breathe wrong and I’m gonna fucking end you.”

It was here that we met up with the Brotherhood of Steel. One yelled “That’s how we do it in Alliance Pride, you fuckin’ freaks!” as he gunned down mutants across the street from him. Moving about in power armor, the Brotherhood of Steel advises that you can stick with them as long as you keep your head down and out of trouble. We “released five more mutants from their torment”, as a Brotherhood Initiate put it, and moved into a bombed out school called Early Dawn Elementary.

 

[lisac2k]

The G.O.A.T., or Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test, helps you determine what sort of job you will do for the vault as you grow up. In a communistic way, this determines your ‘class’ of citizenship and how you will devote your life to helping the betterment of the vault at large.

A prophecy?

Everything appears tracked, just like previous titles, including corpses eaten, locks picked, Mysterious Stranger visits, and much more. Again, a great deal of detail is being paid to making this a faithful Fallout title.

I don't remember these things being tracked in FO1/2.

Popping a few rounds into the side of the Fusion Flea Supreme demonstrated that there might be a bit of juice left in that car – it began to smolder and then erupted into a small nuclear explosion that you could use tactically on the battlefield. Naturally, this mini-nuke spreads radiation everywhere, so you’ll have to be judicious with your own radiation level.

People, people! If it is an alternative universe, alternatively timelined to ours - that doesn't mean their physics works different. Really.


Tabloids strike back.

 

[Sorrow]

It was here that we met up with the Brotherhood of Steel. One yelled “That’s how we do it in Alliance Pride, you fuckin’ freaks!” as he gunned down mutants across the street from him.

That's especially disgusting .

 

[Zaptoman]

I kinda like the dialogue. Given - a sheriff today probably wouldn't be dropping f-bombs, but i've really got no problem with it.

 

[Nonagon]

Yeah, just because it's M rated means that everyone has to cuss, cuzz cussing is k e w l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

This game was designed for morons it seems

 

[Azrael-Arkangel]

Pulling the Fat Man from our shoulder pack, we launched several explosives roughly the size of footballs at the feet of the behemoth, making light work of the creature – it only took 5 nukes.

I'm quite speechless here

Here goes the promise that mininukes aren't going to be lieing around everywhere ...

I think that they placed the Fat Man with a lot of ammo for the demo only... at least I hope so. I know I'm probably be shooted for saying this but, I like the game so far, except for that stupid Nuclear Catapult.

Todd took a moment to mention that they have revamped the Radiant AI system, creating true 24/7 schedules and proper dialog trees

Again, what the hell does Radiant AI has to do with dialog trees?
I assume they'll claim dialog trees is their invention too, like they did with other features Fallout already had.

I think he was talking about the dialog of NPC characters, you know, so there is no more "I saw a mudcrab the other day" "Horrible creatures". They mean, IMO, that the AI characters would have dialog trees when they are talking to each other, that way the Radiant AI has everything to do with the dialog trees.

 

[lisac2k]

Walking past a two headed Brahaman cow...

Brahmin? Brahma? Brahaman..? Ah, Brahaman!

Spin off, 100%.

 

[Zaptoman]

I think that they placed the Fat Man with a lot of ammo for the demo only... at least I hope so. I know I'm probably be shooted for saying this but, I like the game so far, except for that stupid Nuclear Catapult.

Agreed. A demo is just that, a demo. Most likely on God-mode and stacked with tons of weapons to show off.

 

[Sorrow]

The worst thing is that the Fat Man lacks firepower.

 

[I_eat_supermutants]

Agreed. They got to put their dream play toy in the game and now it can't kill a mutant in one shot?
It's a freakin nuclear device, it should kill the mutant, the people around, the vault-dweller MKII, the person playing the game and radiate his neighbors. Why does the Fat Man sound EVEN more pathetic now

 

[Briosafreak]

Aside from the writing of various story-arcs, there are various examples of the general tone of writing in Bethesda's Fallout 3. A few examples, some old and some new, from this preview:

As you pass by, Mr Hand comments how the blue jumpsuit compliments your eyes, but then mumbles under his breath that you are a “Stupid Git”.

Much to the surprise of everyone guarding it, we deactivated the vault door via a giant mechanical ‘key’ of sorts. It unlocks and grabs the door, rolling it out of the way to clear your path. Stepping over a corpse clutching a sign that reads “Let us in Motherfuckers!”, you enter the bright wasteland of Fallout.

Given that this was the last day of E3, Todd was quite tired of playing the nice guy and remarked to the sheriff “Nice hat Calamity Jane”. Our sheriff turned surly rather quickly and warned “This is my town – you so much as breathe wrong and I’m gonna fucking end you.”

It was here that we met up with the Brotherhood of Steel. One yelled “That’s how we do it in Alliance Pride, you fuckin’ freaks!” as he gunned down mutants across the street from him. Moving about in power armor, the Brotherhood of Steel advises that you can stick with them as long as you keep your head down and out of trouble. We “released five more mutants from their torment”, as a Brotherhood Initiate put it, and moved into a bombed out school called Early Dawn Elementary.

That really sounds FOBOSish to me, I hope that's just the writing economy needed for a demo, and not a bad sign...