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Interview Todd Howard on the 3 biggest complaints of Fallout 3

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<a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/26/bethesda-on-fallout3-criticisms/">MTV Player scrounged a few words out of Todd Howard</a> on Fallout 3's biggest criticisms:
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<blockquote>[...] we lined up three common criticisms gamers have leveled against his post-apocalyptic RPG to find out if he agreed with them.
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<b>Criticism: #1: “Fallout 3&#8243; is just mediocre when judged as a first person shooter</b>.
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Howard: Agreed.
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<b>Criticism #2: The ending isn’t very satisfying and much shorter than other “Fallout” endings</b>.
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Howard: Based on the feedback I’ve seen, most people are pissed off that it ends, not the ‘ending’ itself.
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<b>Criticism #3: V.A.T.S. is boring once you’re accurate enough to head shot everyone</b>.
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Howard: Depends on what you find entertaining. I like to blow people’s heads off, so, well, it never got old for me.</blockquote>
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This never gets old for me either.
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Thanks <b>Santander02</b>!
 

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Not sure what feedback Howard's been seeing, but the ending just flat-out sucks donkey balls. That's an indisputable fact proven by modern science and the teachings of most major religions.
 

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Criticism from the console crowd:

1. It's a crappy shooter.

2. Not enough cinematic cutscene action at the end.

3. Your half-assed, over-the-top RTwP implementation interrupted the flow of combat.

I predict that Fallout 4 will "fix" these horrible atrocities. Much in the same way that Oblivion fixed the essential problems with Morrowind.
 

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Those complaints are legitimate for anyone who played it.

It's not nearly as good of an RPG as Fallout was, it's not as good of shooter as fucking quake was, and it's not as good of a shooter / RPG hybrid as Deus Ex was. Failing on all fronts to up the ante on games made over a decade ago.

The ending is fucking stupid, put on your helmet! Or have your mutie go in there!

Not to mention you can purify water with dirt.

And I was bored with vats before I left the vault.

Bethesda's games are limited by the fact they think they are an RPG studio. Fallout 3 would have been a better game if they had gotten rid of all the stats and made a straight up shooter with some dialogue. Since the have the right to rape the fallout license in any way they see fit, I do hope Fallout 4 ditches the weak attempts at being an RPG and caters entirely to the console crowd. There would at least be a chance of it being a decent game then.
 

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baby arm said:
Not sure what feedback Howard's been seeing, but the ending just flat-out sucks donkey balls. That's an indisputable fact proven by modern science and the teachings of most major religions.

The ending?

Try the entire main plot.
 

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Brother None said:
baby arm said:
Not sure what feedback Howard's been seeing, but the ending just flat-out sucks donkey balls. That's an indisputable fact proven by modern science and the teachings of most major religions.
The ending?

Try the entire main plot.
The entire main plot?

Try the whole game.

Disclaimer: Have not played game, am just continuing meme.
 

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The game was so cartoony - I was 50 times more scared in the labs of STALKER than I ever was playing Fallout 3. No suspension of disbelief was possible
 

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Sometimes I wonder whether Todd would be the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with.
 

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Somehow Todd reminds me of that Ghost from Spielberg's "Portergeist".

"It says thing only a child can understand(...)to here it simple is another child, to us it is the beast."
 

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WhiskeyWolf said:
Somehow Todd reminds me of that Ghost from Spielberg's "Portergeist".

"It says things only a child can understand(...)it believes it is simply another child, to us it is the beast."
Fixed? I'm just trying to understand what the quote was supposed to mean ;)


we lined up three common criticisms gamers have leveled [against FO3]
Howard: Depends on what you find entertaining. I like to blow people’s heads off, so, well, it never got old for me.

Well, at least he claims not to be catering to the target demographic but developing games that he likes...
 

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I'm suprised he agreed to #1.

But then, his defense prolly is: "But it's a ArrPeeGee, not a shooter!"

Dumfuck.
 

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[url=http://www.bash.org/?top:3vvzc7fa]Bash.org[/url] said:
<hitler> HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU TELL THAT I'M 13 BY LOOKING AT WHAT I'M WRITEING?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 

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Comprehensive comment? Me? Get real.

P.S Well sorry for assuming all of you morons have seen the movie.
 

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It's funny to see how Howard basically says "fuck you, you dumb retards" to his target audience - but they deserve it because they will still buy Bethesda games.
 

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WhiskeyWolf said:
Somehow Todd reminds me of that Ghost from Spielberg's "Portergeist".

"It says thing only a child can understand(...)to here it simple is another child, to us it is the beast."

Ya, it was spielberg's most underrated film ever. :che:
 

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