Comments on: Fallout 3: 500 Ways To Leave Your Shelter

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:17:24 +0000

You sound like a fun time.

By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:01:01 +0000

John Walker, you are a complete retard. It is a wonder that you were not born yesterday out of some vat in an attempt to produce cheap drones for manual labour. You are prattling on like an air-head about the 500 endings and lapping up every spoonful of hype that dribbles your way from the anus of the PR department.

Clearly you have spent far too long sucking on the tits of the industry during your rather lacklustre magazine years.

By: Wildbluesun

Wildbluesun — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:50:39 +0000

“500 hundred.”

Which reads as:

“Five hundred hundred.”

Which is, I think, 50,000.

That WOULD be impressive.

By: Zed

Zed — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:17:24 +0000

You know, I can actually see 500 endings no problem. Am I the only person who read Choose Your Own Adventure books? SERIOUSLY people. I agree they’re prolly not going to do this right, but having a game where you can decide to leave the game at different points (you know, say, okay, this little garden plot of story emphasis is where my character ends up) is BRILLIANT.

mazelmuda@hotmail.com

By: Filipe

Filipe — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:44:29 +0000

Man, I’m so glad I’m not the only male to have played Princess Maker 2. It’s been my secret shame for years!

By: Briosafreak

Briosafreak — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:54:20 +0000

Yes Optimaximal, it’s the same.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:01:32 +0000

Edit: That was meant to be this.

I am a fool.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:45:07 +0000

On the subject of Princess Maker 2, I recommend http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Princess%20Maker%202/Update%201/index.html.

It did have a pretty large number of endings, though. There were a couple of dozen jobs and a handful of people she could end up marrying (or not). With the permutations (successful at her work or not, happy or not, etc), there were loads of endings, but even without, there was plenty of variety, and often you’d have to replay half the game to get a different one, not just reload the last level.

They might have gone for the middle ground, of course – there could be a couple of dozen genuinely different endings, with a few permutations each. As it is though, just throwing the number out is pretty meaningless.

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:19:48 +0000

Yes, but is the Special Edition the same as the Collectors?
Official press releases have only ever referred to the Über-edition with all the collectable guff as ‘Collectors’ whereas other places are referring to a ‘Special Edition’ with no real mention of what you’re getting with it – case in point, the Play.com listing I mentioned above.

By: Briosafreak

Briosafreak — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:36:16 +0000

Fallout 3 Special Edition

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:36:45 +0000

Princess Maker is one of my hobby horses…. but I believe that its endings were actually modular too. There wasn’t 120 actual jobs you could end up doing. Or, at least, I don’t think it was 120. Checking the FAQ says it’s 74.

However, each of those endings is also modified depending on who the princess marries, etc. So those 74 endings multiply out to over 500, I bet.

By: Clicky

Clicky — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:21:58 +0000

There is a rather unknown little Japanese game called Princess Maker 2, that I found on HotU. In the game you were a king and you had to manage the life of your daughter. It was like a combination of Football Manager, anime and Dragon Warrior. Now, on topic again, that game had over 120 endings, all completely different, so it isnt really impossible to do.