Good News about Fallout 3!

[Sovy Kurosei]

The player won't be able to drive any vehicles in Fallout 3 so for those of you that are worried that Bethesda won't follow canon and realism involving automobiles in Fallout and the post apocalyptic setting may now breath a sigh of relief.

 

[Lumpy]

What sense does it make that there are NO working vehicles in the player's path? Why would they all be destroyed?
Bethesda probably did it for the same reason they didn't put Mounted Combat in Oblivion - laziness.

 

[jiujitsu]

What sense does it make that there are NO working vehicles in the player's path? Why would they all be destroyed?
Bethesda probably did it for the same reason they didn't put Mounted Combat in Oblivion - laziness.

So, no matter what they do they can't do the right thing?

 

[cutterjohn]

more or less...

[EDIT]
...but now that I think of it, I know a game that would've been PERFECT for bethesda, Autoduel II. It would've been just like shit that they do oh so well, little dialog, lots of actions, lots of upgrades for vehicles, differing vehicles, AND they could've licensed vehicles from all the major auto mfgs just for some added cash to boot!

(Seriously though, I wouldn't mind to seen an Autoduel II, as it was a fun little game if incredibly shallow even for a game made way back when.)

 

[Lumpy]

What sense does it make that there are NO working vehicles in the player's path? Why would they all be destroyed?
Bethesda probably did it for the same reason they didn't put Mounted Combat in Oblivion - laziness.

So, no matter what they do they can't do the right thing?

They can't please everyone, of course. Some fans want cars, some don't. But it's not a crucial issues, unlike combat or gameplay. Which, again, people are divided on.

 

[kingcomrade]

What sense does it make that there are NO working vehicles in the player's path?

If there were working vehicles they would have been scavenged long before the player shows up.

 

[M0RBUS]

The player won't be able to drive any vehicles in Fallout 3 so for those of you that are worried that Bethesda won't follow canon and realism involving automobiles in Fallout and the post apocalyptic setting may now breath a sigh of relief.

Weeehh! Really, where did you get that info? At least one thing is right (they had some others)...

 

[Texas Red]

And this is good news exaclty why? And where did you get this info, a forum post by a dev?

 

[JarlFrank]

The player won't be able to drive any vehicles in Fallout 3 so for those of you that are worried that Bethesda won't follow canon and realism involving automobiles in Fallout and the post apocalyptic setting may now breath a sigh of relief.

There was a car in FO2.
You could use it.
So, they fail.

 

[Brother None]

And this is good news exaclty why? And where did you get this info, a forum post by a dev?

This is from the GameInformer FAQ. I quote:

Q: Are there vehicles in the game?

A: There’s plenty of vehicles visible in the game world, but it doesn’t look like you’ll be driving any of them.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

What sense does it make that there are NO working vehicles in the player's path? Why would they all be destroyed?

Because you'll be busy destroying them, along with ants and anything else in the blast radius.

 

[dragonfk]

Heh...Just on the margin; wonder where they will allocate handheld nuclear catapult.

Big guns
Small guns
You gotta be kidding guns

As for the car I for once can understand them. In enviroment they prepare car would double their work. In FO2 it was not a problem.

 

[Ladonna]

Its funny that people are complaining about no vehicles. From what I have heard about the horses in Oblivion...

 

[mister lamat]

Because you'll be busy destroying them, along with ants and anything else in the blast radius.

destroying the containment casing for fusion cell would actually create a brief and incredibly intense explosion, which would then leak radiation.

the mushroom cloud is just for show.

 

[SlavemasterT]

What sense does it make that there are NO working vehicles in the player's path?

If there were working vehicles they would have been scavenged long before the player shows up.

You could relieve their current owners of them.

What gets me more is why there are apparently so many fucking working toilets to drink out of after the nuclear holocaust. Besides sounding like a sophomoric gag, it doesn't even make much sense that the toilets would have much (if any) water in them - even assuming they're rain-fed, how many intact, water-holding toilets would you expect to find in a structure bombed-out enough to let significant amounts of rain in? If they make it so that you have to scavenge water from wherever it might reasonably be found it could be ok, but the commode-centric tone struck in the GI article was irritating.

 

[mister lamat]

wood degrades at a faster pace than ceramics, especially when said wood is shelter from the elements for the toilet.

 

[Müg]

Better start asking about Brahmin armor then.

 

[Lumpy]

What sense does it make that there are NO working vehicles in the player's path?

If there were working vehicles they would have been scavenged long before the player shows up.

Scavenged, yes. But buried 20 feet underground? Broken apart? Or why would you not be able to find the already scavenged vehicles.
Maybe you could buy or steal one.

 

[mister lamat]

any bets on a warthog + vindicator mod?

 

[Lord Of The Penii]

I can already see bethesda joining Unarmed Combat with Melee and making one skill called GUNZ!1

 

[Sisay]

The car always was a stupid idea. The war was fought over petrolium and uranium, why did they care so much about the former if they could've just used these magical NUCULAR cars. Sure you can retcon/rationalize it as the need for chemical industry products but it just doen't fit well with the first game. I guess these things just happen when you make a cash-in sequel in 8 months with important people leaving in the middle of the project. In a sense Fallout 2 is the prototype for Feargie's slam dunks.

There's still exploding NUCULAR cars in Fallout 3, you just don't get to drive one. Not that big of a plus.

J.E. condenced the gun skills into one in Van Buren and grenades became melee weapons. There important difference, however, is that he had vision and more reasoning behind his design decicions than to make thing easy to understand for console gamers. He also added skills, not just "streamlined" the system.

 

[Top Hat]

Umm, this is Bethesda we're talking about.

Of course you'll be able to drive cars. You'll just have to pay $5.99 for the experience.

 

[dragonfk]

Umm, this is Bethesda we're talking about.

Of course you'll be able to drive cars. You'll just have to pay $5.99 for the experience.

Hahah...True, very true.

 

[Sovy Kurosei]

Wasn't the car in Fallout 2 battery powered and isn't nuclear powered or required gasoline to go? At least I remember having to get out sometimes to recharge it with batteries or fusion cells.

 

[Claw]

Yeah, it runs on energy/fusion cells, so it doesn't really have a nuclear engine or anything. It's sort of an electric car.