Gamestar.de Fallout 3 preview

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Gamestar.de provides the Germans with a look at Fallout 3. No real new info, though iii tells us that the glowing ones aren't only capable of healing other ghouls but also of shooting shockwaves of radioactivity, which I'm fairly sure is new. Bad_Karma translates a short bit.<blockquote>I'm still not quite sure, what I should think of Fallout 3. The atmosphere reminds me of Bioshock, the beginning in the Vault101 is great and very atmospheric. However, what I saw of the outside world until now didn't: monotonous landscapes, dull rooms, lots of mindless shoot-ups. Bethesda stays still tight-lipped about the RPG-elements, the Quests and the dialogs.</blockquote>Link: Fallout 3 Preview on Gamestar.de.
 
I believe those would be the radioactive magic powers they can use to "zap" the PC, which we heard about in passing, in another preview.

(maybe it was the EGM preview with the "new" ghoulie pics?)

Sounds a lot less like a passive enchantment (iow: radioactivity radiating from them) and more like a diabloesque flame wave when they word it that way.
 
whirlingdervish said:
I believe those would be the radioactive magic powers they can use to "zap" the PC, which we heard about in passing, in another preview.

(maybe it was the EGM preview with the "new" ghoulie pics?)

Sounds a lot less like a passive enchantment (iow: radioactivity radiating from them) and more like a diabloesque flame wave when they word it that way.
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Yes, although I can't find the exact preview right now.
 
Yeah I think this preview is quite ok, not a lot new content but it is written fairly well.

They don't give oldschool fans bad names. :mrgreen:

One fun fact about this review:

They make fun of the whole "You are SPECIAL" Book that you get as a child. If you translate the Attributes of the SPECIAL system into German you would have to spell Special this way:

SWACIBG!

"We are SWACIBG!"


Slaughter Manslaught said:
RADIATION ATACK?!

God, no.
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It is defenetly in :crazy:
 
Brother None said:
shooting shockwaves of radioactivity, which I'm fairly sure is new.
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Not necessarily "new" (there was a preview a while back that talked about Glowing Ones zapping you with their radiation attacks), but seems it's confirmed, now.

This fell into the "they've got to be fucking kidding" category for me, like the Fatman and the flaming sword did. Unfortunately they're dead serious.
 
Brother None said:
though iii tells us that the glowing ones aren't only capable of healing other ghouls but also of shooting shockwaves of radioactivity
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Sigh.

If this bit of info didn't piss me off to no end, I'd actually feel vindicated; so much for the "you're assuming too much" argument from the yaysayer crowd, who actually managed to twist the word "zap" into slang for punch. It seems it's radiation magic for us, after all.

(By the way, it was this Gamespot preview which first pointed this sad news.)
 
Are you surprised? Really?

Surprise, surprise. Every reasonable person knew they were brain-damaged when we heard about the existence of nuclear-powered cars that unleash nuclear clouds after a couple of gunshots... I mean, if some of you more S.P.E.C.I.A.L. ones still don't think that's downright retarded, just imagine two of those cars colliding, say, in the middle of Manhattan. It's not science fiction. It's cretinism imagination gone awry, plain and simple. So, as I said, no surprise there.

What bothers me the most is that they refuse to comment whether or not they are going to release the construction set. If the piece of crap known to the masses as Fallout 3 will not support third-party modding... I'm not a religious person, but... God(s) help us all...
 
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Ranne said:
Surprise, surprise. Every reasonable person knew they were brain-damaged when we heard about the existence of nuclear-powered cars that unleash nuclear clouds after a couple of gunshots... I mean, if some of you more S.P.E.C.I.A.L. ones still don't think that's downright retarded, just imagine two of those cars colliding, say, in the middle of Manhattan. It's not science fiction. It's cretinism imagination gone awry, plain and simple. So, as I said, no surprise there.

What bothers me the most is that they refuse to comment whether or not they are going to release the construction set. If the piece of crap known to the masses as Fallout 3 will not support third-party modding... I'm not a religious person, but... God(s) help us all...
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Heh, I was already way ahead of you with the nuclear powered car bit last year :P

As for modding, as I asked once before, why should the fans have to fix the mistakes the designers made?
 
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Gamespot said:
Their deadlier brethren, "glowing feral ghouls," have an unhealthy fluorescent green glow that sets off your PipBoy's Geiger counter and eventually make your character extremely ill if you let them zap you with their radiation-based attacks. Feral ghouls are extremely swift and vicious, leaping at you with tremendous speed. We dealt with them primarily using real-time combat, using the old Fallout favorite 9mm submachine gun, which did a good job of inflicting lots of damage when fired in bursts.
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tremendously speedy vicious glowing feral spellcaster ghouls.

:clap:

Being right when you jump to ridiculous sounding conclusions shouldn't feel this bad.
 
Brother None said:
A picture says as much as a thousand words.

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Wow that sucks.

Those Twenty-Sided Die (home to the awesome DM of the Rings) posts are pretty neat. I didn't know Oblivion even had those lighting problems on low-end systems.
 
Bodybag said:
Good news, groin shots are back in!
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Ehehehe.

It would've been pretty weird if groin shots had not only been removed from the RTwP targeting system, but you would actually have been unable to point to cursor to the enemy's groin.

"I can't do it, there's like a reverse polarized magnetic field around his groin!?!?!?"
 
radiation magic circle of groin protection FTW!

I thought the "uzi to the groin" was just mild exaggeration on your part BN, but now that I've seen it I can't imagine describing it any other way.

Has anyone noticed that while burst firing that SMG (which is undoubtedly the "old fallout favorite 9mm") the player character has managed to completely miss the ghoul's groin at POINT BLANK RANGE?

Have they not coded real time bullet effects yet?

Is that what happens when your PC's guns skills don't measure up to the task?

I'm not sure I even want to know at this point.
 
DarkLegacy said:
I hate the over-the-shoulder Gears of War perspective.
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Get used to it.

When a game sells as well as Gears did (God knows why, I don't) you have to expect a deluge of imitation.

Though to be fair, RE4 did it before Gears did.

eh.
 
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