Beneath the jump: another cinematic-only trailer that may further anger poor Jim. Bizarrely, it’s the same concept as the original Fallout 3 trailer, to the point where it’s almost a shot for shot remake. Consciously so, no doubt, but similarly it gives no sense of how the game will play. Lengthy in-game footage is way-past due please, Bethesda. But it looks good, and it sounds even better. I can’t wait to see how the vintage soundtrack is implemented in-game. Oh, there’s also a couple of recentish screengrabs below the cut – click to gigantorise ‘em.
I’m crazy-excited about Fallout 3, probably more so than any other game this year. Hush now, Oblivion-haters. Allow us our anticipation.
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Yes they can, from large fines to, incredibly, jail time.
The higher resolution patches for FO1 and 2 work fine, except in a few limited maps, when some strange graphical glitches show up.
My favorite way of playing the game is actually at the original resolution on my 32 inches HD TV.
The trailer is great, but what is really important is the footage to be shown Monday and what will be release later.
As an Aussie who’s had his eye on the amazing collectors edition since it was announced, the whole ban is extremely frustrating. I know I can import from the UK (Thank goodness PAL stretches over there), and I’ll probably have to if I want a 360 edition, but steps like that shouldn’t be necessary in the first place. They released GTA IV over here with minimal censoring a couple of months ago, and Fallout 3 surely couldn’t be that much worse.
Thanks, much appreciated. It strikes me as really odd that someone wouldn’t deem people over 18 capable of deciding what kind of entertainment and/or art they want for themselves. The “children will see it anyway” argument is one we’ve had in the media here as well, but the general idea must after all be that people deemed old enough to consume the entertainment should be old enough to keep it away from minors.
Seems more like a rather sad bureaucracy problem in Australia though.
what a pathethic and boring teaser. Also why did it ask me if I was 18 or older. Maybe a skeleton and a desert are going to shock kids and teenager?
Also I bet the graphics in the game are going to suck. It will be all bland and boring. Mark my words. Bland, dull and boring.
(I know, it is just a teaser, but I’m only making a bet here. I could be wrong, I could be not)
They ask out of sheer paranoia. Much of the western world is a little insane when it comes to videogame violence. We can see five rapes a day on television but god forbid somebody points a pixelated gun at the screen.
Yes yes, enjoy Oblivion fans, drape Fallout’s grizzled skin about yourselves like Jamie Gumb on a friday night.
“I’d nuke me. I’d nuke me SO hard…”
Alright, that’s probably a little extreme, but let’s face it, they’ve killed Fallout to make Oblivion 1.5 and that’s that. Hopefully it’s good, because lord knows there won’t be another real Fallout game without the success of this shinied up, cookie cutter story’d, prepubescent-console-[player] targeted… thing.
Grandpa needs to go lie down now.
I hope there’s an option for 1st person. Not a big fan of 3rd person — especially OTS.
And to be brief, disliked Oblivion immensely, hope this doesn’t turn out like that.
Pretty sure first person is the main view with third person support like in Oblivion, though supposdelly improved to make the game actually playable in that view.
Also pretty sure this is Oblivion with guns no matter how hard Bethesda try to say it isn’t but keep on not showing the game so close to release…
Edit: Yeah, thought this was in the Dragon Age thread at first. Edited to match.
Oh for fuck’s sake. Can people *please* leave off with the total dismissing of a game that’s not out and they haven’t played? It’s insane to decide anything definitive about Fallout 3 from a few nuggets of preview information and a couple of trailers.
I can understand not being excited about it, particularly if you for some reason didn’t like Oblivion, even though I am and I did. But I’m not going to declare it the best game ever, either….because it’s not fucking out and I don’t know.
Well I just called it Oblivion with guns, not good or bad. That’s the vibe I get from all their interviews, they always mention “unlike Oblivion, this is a bit different” or “like Oblivion, but cooler” or whatever. And yet then they say “it’s not just Oblivion with guns” lol. If the game is so different, they can show it already… We’re about to reach release time and we have no clue what the game is if we decide to dismiss the “Oblivion with guns” description.
Anyway, if you think “Oblivion with guns” means the game will be bad then you must have found Oblivion bad. If so, well, Bethesda don’t think it was bad, nor does the mainstream press, so you can bet Fallout 3 will be of similar quality. So, I do believe everyone who disliked Oblivion will dislike Fallout 3. Including me. But I’ll wait for some reputable reviews to pop up (ie not from mainstream press who already call it the best game ever even though they’ve seen little more than we have).
It’s as much “Oblivion with guns” as much Jade Empires are “KotOR in ancient China”. Not sure why the Oblivion thing makes people freak out all over the place when it just means it has some mechanics similar to another cRPG already out there. As it’s not the mechanics but settings, characters and story that made the original Fallout. And the new Fallout rather obviously isn’t going to copy these elements from Oblivion.
Banned in Australia? I find that absolutely bizarre. Even in the bad old days of good old Catholic Ireland, I never heard of video games being banned here. That makes Australia worse than places like Singapore when it comes to censorship.
If any Aussies want to make a complaint (and bloody hell, you should) here’s the government complaint form online:
http://www.classification.gov.au/special.html?n=1&p=227
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@Alexander: I didn’t mean you, really. More people like, say, Chryso.
As far as the Oblivion with guns bit goes….these are the people who made Oblivion (or some of them, anyway). That’s their background, and so, yeah, they’re going to reference it a lot. Plus the engine’s the one they used for Oblivion, with some modification. What, you were expecting “like Baldur’s Gate but…”
That said, I see no reason to believe that Fallout 3 will be Oblivion redux because: a) some of the team is entirely new, others worked on Oblivion but are leading the F3 project, b) nothing Bethesda’s ever turned out has mapped very directly onto previous games of theirs, c) they are clearly, and demonstrably loading it with all kinds of stuff that Oblivion never had, like substantial dialogue, and gore (complete with dismemberment). If you feel that the basic design philosophies behind Oblivion (and indeed, all the Elder Scrolls) games may carry over, and that that would be a detriment, well…I can’t say for sure, yet. Neither can you.
it’s gonna be a good game for sure.
but it shouldn’t be called Fallout3.
I prefered Oblivion over morrowind! and i didnt like fallout 1 or 2, but this looks worth a punt if you ask.
If its a good game, thats great if its bad well aww shucks does the name really mean that much? Loads of gamers have never even heard of it let alone really care, also a few people getting huffy about it round here were the same people laughing at people getting there knickers in a twist over D3’s art direction.
Malkav the point is, almost EVERYTHING they ever discuss is “Like oblivion but…” better, worse, different. It doesn’t sound like a new game ever, it really sounds like Oblivion with guns, even though they always mention “no, it’s not that”.
As for substantial dialogue and all that, all we have is their word, they’ve shown absolutely nothing, and it’s not like they ever hyped Oblivion as having a shallow storyline and simplistic dialogues. If anything, their stupid dialogue system with the mini game was highly hyped itself as bringing a new level of character interactivity or whatever bs like that.
I have no faith in seeing any real improvements from all I’ve seen so far (which is not much). It’s like they’re hiding the game so we don’t see it and can only go by screenshots and the mainstream press’ rave reviews, just like it happened with Oblivion…
sounds to me like they are using oblivion as a refrence point to then build on or give an easier understanding of what they mean, makes things easier to explain if you have a refrance point.
for instance see how B.A Baracus doesnt like flying, i feel the same way about pineapple, also id have to be druged to eat it!
“American football is like football, but…”
Using Oblivion as reference point makes sense when large part of your intended audience (the console players) have likely had little experience with this kind of gameplay beyond Oblivion.
@malkav11
That would be an incredible feat, considering they have developed about 50 games over the years (according to Wikipedia). Especially since they have done a number of sports series (Wayne Gretzky Hockey for example). And for their flagship series, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is very similar to Morrowind in most regards.
same world is it not?
Eek. That was pretty bad.
I can’t believe people are saying ‘This reminds me of Bioshock’. Yeah… because Bioshock completely ripped off the Fallout series, even the little 50s retro dude.
I think this sums up most people’s complaints:
How not to do a sequel.
I like how in that blog complete revamp of game mechanics between Fallout 1/2 and 3 is deemed “lack of creativity and courage” and apparently the display of creativity and courage would be to copy these previous Fallout games, instead. If that indeed sums up most people’s complaints… welp.
Eh. I mostly meant TES, as I’ve had no real interest in most of Bethesda’s other games. Of the main Elder Scrolls series, I’ve played Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion. All of them have major differences in play. Sure, there are commonalities, since all of them are set in the same world, aiming at the same overarching design goal, but even Morrowind and Oblivion, the two closest, still play very differently in a lot of important ways. I have no reason to believe that Fallout 3, set in a completely different setting with very different design goals, will be any more similar.