Preview Fallout 3 preview at TVG

[Vault Dweller]

Tags: Bethesda Softworks; Fallout 3

<a href=http://www.totalvideogames.com>TVG</a> has posted a timely <a href=http://www.totalvideogames.com/articles/Fallout_3_-_First_Look_12322.htm>preview</a> of the Fallout 3 demo:
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<blockquote>Bethesda certainly haven't forgotten where the series came from though as Pete Hines, Vice President of Public Relations and Marketing at Bethesda, told TVG:
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"<u>The original Fallout games are primarily what we're trying to replicate as much as we can</u>, and we're trying to bring as much of that as possible into Fallout 3 to make it a true Fallout game. The kinds of things we've focused on are the tone, theme, settings, characters, story, dialogue and the kind of humour they had; things like that.
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The weapons throughout Fallout 3 are rated with certain attributes: how much damage per second (that's a new one on us to!) they can inflict ...</blockquote>Very Fallout-y. Good job!
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[MetalCraze]

It's not a 'timely' TVG preview. It simply a way of bethesda to keep the memories about their shit alive and keep fallout true fans and fallout3 fanboys to fight the war the result of which is a more hype for F3.
A way to never forget about it. Right until the very release.

 

[TheLostOne]

Well considering the lack of any new information and the rehashing of the same old catchphrases, it certainly isn't breathing any "life" into the hype machine.

If anything reading this review if you've read all the others just makes you even more bored with the whole mess. Even Beth fanboys won't get anything out of this article.

 

[Brother None]

It's not a 'timely' TVG preview. It simply a way of bethesda to keep the memories about their shit alive and keep fallout true fans and fallout3 fanboys to fight the war the result of which is a more hype for F3.
A way to never forget about it. Right until the very release.

They forgot about it for the Golden Joystick, apparently. Fallout 3 didn't even make the top 5 most anticipated games, losing out to future classics like Super Mario Galaxy and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

If Fallout 3 was being made by any other developer it would bomb. Bethesda's F3 will only do well because of the name attached to it. People will buy it because they want a sequel to Oblivion.

 

[Chefe]

It sounds like blowing up Megaton will account for 90% of the game.

That's all I ever hear them talking about.

It is nice to know that the only adverse effect it will have is that you lose some quests there.

 

[MetalCraze]

Well considering the lack of any new information and the rehashing of the same old catchphrases, it certainly isn't breathing any "life" into the hype machine.

Maybe there's no new information and won't be?
Beth already told us the most idiotic things one could imagine. Now they have a year to implement them.

They forgot about it for the Golden Joystick, apparently. Fallout 3 didn't even make the top 5 most anticipated games, losing out to future classics like Super Mario Galaxy and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

Their hype was huge. Probably it's just a fault of classic fallout fanbase. If you will constantly tell even the hardest fanboy something negative about franchise - he will eventually start to doubt what hype-machine says. Not that this has something to do with the fanboy's intelligence... It's just too much people saying shit about F3.
And now imagine that the hype of WH Online and Super Mario Galaxy has no resistance.
So here's the result.

 

[Saxon1974]

I wonder how many fallout previews total there have been and will be prior to release? Hundreds?

 

[CrimsonAngel]

Can we dare dream that this will bomb and troika will come back from the dead and get the rights...dare i Dream.

The hype Machine will not truly start before the release is imminent.
Right now they are pushing some awareness out there latter there will be the full fledged war between Fans and Universe rapers.

 

[MetalCraze]

Can we dare dream that this will bomb and troika will come back from the dead.

Tim Cain loves MMO

 

[Saxon1974]

Can we dare dream that this will bomb and troika will come back from the dead and get the rights...dare i Dream.

The hype Machine will not truly start before the release is imminent.
Right now they are pushing some awareness out there latter there will be the full fledged war between Fans and Universe rapers.

If your expecting the masses to actually make their own decision on what is cool and what they want to buy you are solely mistaken! They will buy what they are told and thats that!

 

[Mefi]

The quest system is actually very different. Rather than having lots and lots of quests where you can do any of them that you want without being locked out, Fallout has a much smaller number of quests and how you do one may lock you out of doing other stuff," Pete told us.

Apparantly the quests were so awesome that they had to shut some of them down to prevent the NPCs killing each other. Hence the smaller number.

 

[VonVentrue]

I wonder how many fallout previews total there have been and will be prior to release? Hundreds?

There shall undoubtfully be too many of them to bear...

 

[fastpunk]

Beth already told us the most idiotic things one could imagine.

Don't count on it. Something tells me they're saving the "best" for last. :wink:

Prepare for the future!

 

[Brother None]

Their hype was huge. Probably it's just a fault of classic fallout fanbase. If you will constantly tell even the hardest fanboy something negative about franchise - he will eventually start to doubt what hype-machine says. Not that this has something to do with the fanboy's intelligence... It's just too much people saying shit about F3.
And now imagine that the hype of WH Online and Super Mario Galaxy has no resistance.
So here's the result.

We're in a lull now, though, so it's hard to analyse how successful their hype has been. It might be they'll just barge all over us when the machine kicks into gear again, much like they did with Oblivion, and NMA and the Codex will just be lost voices drowning in the ocean.

I wonder how many fallout previews total there have been and will be prior to release? Hundreds?

Counting magazine reviews, there's already been something like 50. And the beat goes on. There are about 4 good ones worth reading: Game Informer (it's one of the most informative, ok?), Gamernode, Gaming Trend and NMA.

 

[Badesumofu]

I'd add the PCPP Australia one to that list. Not available online as far as I know, but it was pretty solid.

 

[Brother None]

Ah, true, heard a lot of good stuff about the article.

 

[MetalCraze]

We're in a lull now, though, so it's hard to analyse how successful their hype has been. It might be they'll just barge all over us when the machine kicks into gear again, much like they did with Oblivion, and NMA and the Codex will just be lost voices drowning in the ocean.

Oblivion have won because until it's very release only a very few people doubted it's greatness, while now there's like a whole resistance against F3 out there plus a true review of NMA - Oblivion didn't get one - and see how much resonance it created. Plus TES series were active franchise at the time, unlike Fallout - all those casuals heard about it for the first time this year - they don't know what to expect. And as you know - new gamers are afraid of something they don't know about. So all these is a plus for the true fallout fanbase.

 

[User was nabbed fit]

WTF. Isn't this shit coming out in Q4 2008? Why the fuck are they doing "previews" for it one year away?

"Preview" my ass. I guess it's never too early to get the hype train running.

 

[Fresh]

WTF. Isn't this shit coming out in Q4 2008? Why the fuck are they doing "previews" for it one year away?

Yeah... it doesn't make sense. (?)