Game News News Flash: Fallout 3 is a Shooter

[Jason]

Tags: Bethesda Softworks; Fallout 3

GameTrailers is hosting three brand spanking new <b><a href="http://fallout.bethsoft.com/index.html" target="blank">Fallout 3</a></b> videos showing off the first-person shootering. There's one with <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41333.html" target="blank">trench warfare</a>, another with a <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41324.html" target="blank">Brotherhood of Steel battle</a> (note how he fires the nuclear catapult about 15 feet from the target), and another with <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41331.html" target="blank">underground spelunking</a>.
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There's also an interview with Todd Howard over at <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3815/falling_into_fallout_3_director_.php" target="blank">Gamasutra</a> and a nice little <a href="http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=10952515&imageindex=9" target="blank">nugget</a> from Matt Peckham letting us know that the first two Fallouts were overrated.
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<i>Thanks to Kharn.</i>

 

[Darth Roxor]

I really really really really hate gametrailers. 99% of times I want to enter the site I get 'page not found'

 

[MetalCraze]

99% of times I enter the site and watch a video I get a list of comments from retarded people.

 

[Konjad]

99% of times I enter the site and watch a video I get a list of comments from retarded people.

 

[Lingwe]

One thing that the haters jump on is the notion that it isn't a turn-based strategy game. Wrong! Hold down a button in combat, and it stops the clock, allowing you to call your next targeted shot. If you want, you can play the whole game that way.

Turn-based strategy game? Stopping the clock is now considered turn-based as opposed to being real time with pause?

WTF? Just when you think games journalists can't get any shittier they go and post something like that to prove that they can.

 

[barzam]

I think it looks like a shitty shooter too. It reminded me of a Duke3d deathmatch the way the npcs were running around all stiff.

 

[Xor]

The hype train is going full speed, it would seem.

 

[Murk]

i really liked the first gears of war, i think the sequel is really taking things in a new direction

 

[Jazper]

* BANG POW ZAP *

 

[Deleted member 7219]

is this a racing game like flatout

 

[Chefe]

It doesn't look too bad. The dismemberments are a little too over the top. Still, I don't see any RPG gameplay here, which doesn't suprise me give it's not as shiny as bullets, so these trailers are pointless.

 

[NiM82]

I can't believe how bad the weapon animations in particular are, reminds me of the rather static, tag based, animations in games of a decade ago... they really have no talent at all in that department. Given it's meant to be a FPS now, you'd think they'd put some effort into the 'gunplay' at least.

I still can't get over how disjointed and atmosphere breaking VATS appears to be, it's like a cheat mode, or crash camera or something. Fun maybe for watching replays, but not whilst your actually playing and twitching away.

It reminded me of a Duke3d deathmatch the way the npcs were running around all stiff.

How dare you compare this with Duke3D, Duke3d was fun goddamit.

 

[Rohit_N]

Museum of Technology:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41329.html

 

[NiM82]

Museum of Technology:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41329.html

That astrodome projector thing is a dead ringer for Oblivions Orrery, it's a wonder they didn't make it a premium DLC for Fallout 3.

 

[shihonage]

Looks they made a bunch of cool textures and then put them through a grayscale filter, almost. That's not stylish, that's lazy.

Not everything in a post-apoc world should be of the same uniform shade of colorlessness. It just looks like a monitor malfunction rather than a believable world.

 

[Chefe]

Museum of Technology:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41329.html

The music and the narration are atmospheric, but the moment is broken when the two mutants come rushing in, unfortunately. I'm really glad to see that those gory deaths are mainly the result of the Bloody Mess perk, and without it deaths are less stupid. The old rocket is cool. I think the museum will be one of the first places I'll be going. VATS still looks like a cheat mode.

 

[sportforredneck]

Projectors are expensive.

 

[Ogg]

Apart from the Xbox version being pirated, FO3 news now even fail to provide any lulz.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

The worst thing about the combat is definitely the weapon animations, and the design of the weapons themselves. They just look flat, boring and non-responsive. And before someone goes 'lol does it matter', yes it does. First person combat is what this game is meant to be about, according to Bethesda.

 

[Saxon1974]

It doesn't make me angry that this game will sell millions based on the hype, what makes me angry is it will sell millions and be called an RPG.

And it will win all kinds of RPG of the year awards.....

Its a freaking shooter....pretty soon we wont have any stats in RPGs anymore.

I think I need to find a new hobby.

 

[sportforredneck]

I think I need to find a new hobby.

I've never done PnP before. We could become the PnPCodex.

 

[Jung]

Looks lame and repetitive.

 

[Chefe]

Another new vid:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41442.html

I'd totally hit that chick interviewing Todd, if she supported American Hare.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

Looks fun. Hopefully there'll be a mod to increase difficulty.

 

[Jormungandr]

Wow, so open up vats, click on their head a few times, and they die easily. I also like, at the end of the 3rd video, that he shoots the ghoul in the face and blood flies from his foot.

 

[Saxon1974]

I think I need to find a new hobby.

I've never done PnP before. We could become the PnPCodex.

Tempting, but without losing my day job, dont think I would have that kind of time.

I guess Im just gonna hope that real CRPG's make a comeback.