By John Walker on May 20th, 2008 at 8:00 pm.
Hello significant American proportion of our readership. It turns out, if you pre-order Fallout 3 from “Gamestop”, whatever that is, you’ll get a soundtrack CD thrown in. (And a poster. For people who are students. Or not planning to get married).
The soundtrack (apparently not on offer to dirty, disgusting foreigners like us, not even at our very own equivalent oh-my-goodness-they-own-GameStation-too-isn’t-that-a-monopoly-surely Game) contains five songs, selected from the many in the game – three songs, and two bits of the score – as follows:
Presumably there will be some sort of BioShock-style hack for the rest of us to get the tunes anyway, once the game is out, and then you stinky US-Gamestop-shopping types will be laughing on the other side of your faces. You’ll be so bitter. We’ll have our time.
Good news. Not married, will buy.
Also, I think there is a typo in your text, but I’m not pointing it out because I’m being meta-smug.
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Well I have the Collectors Edition ordered so I hope something like this is included in that :D
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God, don’t get me started on the Bioshock soundtrack fiasco… I’m still pissed about buying the special edition for a measly figurine.
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Love the “45 RPM”.
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Bloody foreigners, being over there, having their special editions. Time to write an angry letter to the Mail! They’ll soon end this nonsense.
Also, i’m one of the lucky few whose partner lets them put game shit all over the walls, so this would be ideal! I’m sure there will be a way to get hold of it before too long, then it can take pride of place next to my Defcon poster ;)
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Too bad it’s not an actual 45. That’d be sweet.
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Hackin’, whackin’ & smackin’! But only in the US. Boo!
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And a poster. For people who are students. Or not planning to get married
That’s what offices and/or garages/worshops/sheds are for. She decorates the bedroom, I decorate (if I ever get around to it) the office. I have posters of paintball guns, currently.
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Aha, “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” by the Ink Spots! I heard that was the song they wanted for the original Fallout but for some reason they ended up with “Maybe” by the Ink Spots instead, the former making much more thematic sense of course. Perhaps the rights were too expensive, but with the size of the FO3 budget that’s at least one thing Bethesda can get right.
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You’d have to throw in a lot more than a CD to get me to shop at Gamestop.
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Well I live in Europe and I have a Gamestop just ten minutes from home. Maybe that’s just a Brits thing?
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I bet they don’t have them in Chad either
edit: wait, we do have gamestops in the UK, as of last year at some point. But only two, and they’re in my lovely hometown of Birmingham (it’s just completely out of the way (well, not on New Street) and no-one is ever in it, hence me forgetting about it) and one in… Stockport. So yeah.
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GameStop is present in, to cite Wikipedia, U.S., Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Austria, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Portugal and Sweden.
So I assume it’s not limited to the US.
Also, to properly play my role: There we no soundtrack CD for the original Fallout! They’re raping the legacy of Fallout in the ear by including a soundtrack CD!!!!!!1111eleventy
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Why didn’t they just put it on an actual 45 RPM as well? That’d be worth the extra cash!
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Ah, but there was a CD of the original Fallout soundtrack. I think I even tried to order it, shortly before Interplay went belly-up.
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Yeah, I know, they gave it away to some people. Never knew they also sold it, tho’, only remember the give-aways.
I was only jokin”round.
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Silly Brits, you should know the Vaults are American. Shouldn’t you have your own? Barrows perhaps?
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I’ve never seen a gamestop down here in australia. We just have EB, and more recently, (since late last year) Game.
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So, as a married guy, if I put the poster up on my wall will I soon no longer be married?
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That’s some pretty wonderful sleeve design.
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Annoying insular marketing ploys. >_>
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I was going to be annoyed that I had already preordered from Amazon, but for five songs, I think I’ll hold my ire in.
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If you married guys can’t put a poster of your favorite games on the wall, might I suggest getting a man basement/space/room/study? Do they not have the concept of the “man’s room” in Merry Olde England?
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what the hell is a “man’s room?”
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Man’s Room:
Colors: black, brown, dirt, hunter green and shit.
Smell: testosterone, beer, WD-40, flatulence.
dimly lite, everything is ‘sticky’ to the touch, sharp pointy things strewn about the floor. Book(s) on shelf: ‘Quantum Enigma, Physics Encounters Consciousness’. Quote on wall: “There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don’t”. I could go on, but then you’d know where my man’s room is.
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What would in olden times be called either a study, or a shed, or my personal favourite, Bear Cave (Grr). Somewhere where you can escape the girlfriend/wife/kids/relatives for a few hours after dinner and potter away at the important things in life such as bicycle maintenance, model aeroplane making, web browsing, gaming, arguing on web forums etc, etc, without being pestered incessantly. ;)
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My wife and I are actually each buying our own copy (possibly one for PC and one for 360, but that is yet to be determined) so we can both play at the same time.
Clearly, you just need better wives.
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Not to dwell on semantics, but he DID say “get married.” I feel like this is an important point.
Also, that’s not a lot of music at all.
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When you find yourself one day wandering through the shopping centre wearing his and hers lilac tracksuits you’ll come to realise having a bear cave would of been a good idea.
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Guns ‘N’ Roses?
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I couldn’t care less. Makes no difference to the game development or what it will be like.
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