Interview Fallout 3 and things learned from Oblivion at Play.tm

[Sarvis]

Fallout 3 is true to the Fallout series; it's an RPG. That doesn't mean that we don't spend a lot of time on the combat and making it as fun and as good as possible. Most people spend a lot of time in RPGs exploring around and killing things. We want to make that as much fun as it can be.

Fallout 3 is an RPG. No, no, folks, please don't go away. Even though it's an RPG the combat is fun. Did you know that most people play RPGs to kill things? You see where I'm going with that? If you think about it, RPGs and shooters are pretty much the same genre. In fact, RPGs *are* the new shooters, improved and repackaged. Yes, son, you can buy two copies.

The funny part is there's no way to tell an RPG from an FPS under Codexian Dogma!

 

[kingcomrade]

Fallout 3 is true to the Fallout series; it's an RPG. That doesn't mean that we don't spend a lot of time on the combat and making it as fun and as good as possible. Most people spend a lot of time in RPGs exploring around and killing things. We want to make that as much fun as it can be.

Fallout 3 is an RPG. No, no, folks, please don't go away. Even though it's an RPG the combat is fun. Did you know that most people play RPGs to kill things? You see where I'm going with that? If you think about it, RPGs and shooters are pretty much the same genre. In fact, RPGs *are* the new shooters, improved and repackaged. Yes, son, you can buy two copies.

The funny part is there's no way to tell an RPG from an FPS under Codexian Dogma!

Only if someone is as stupid as you. Guys what do you mean by choices and consequences? I must go look at my dictionary.

 

[JarlFrank]

Fallout 3 is true to the Fallout series; it's an RPG. That doesn't mean that we don't spend a lot of time on the combat and making it as fun and as good as possible. Most people spend a lot of time in RPGs exploring around and killing things. We want to make that as much fun as it can be.

Fallout 3 is an RPG. No, no, folks, please don't go away. Even though it's an RPG the combat is fun. Did you know that most people play RPGs to kill things? You see where I'm going with that? If you think about it, RPGs and shooters are pretty much the same genre. In fact, RPGs *are* the new shooters, improved and repackaged. Yes, son, you can buy two copies.

The funny part is there's no way to tell an RPG from an FPS under Codexian Dogma!

Only if someone is as stupid as you. Guys what do you mean by choices and consequences? I must go look at my dictionary.

Dictionary? Heck, a Codex dictionary would be awesome!

 

[DraQ]

Dictionary? Heck, a Codex dictionary would be awesome!

Would it be better than the one by Ambrose Bierce?

 

[Riso]

A Codexionary. Oh, may the Emperor protect us.

 

[elander_]

The funny part is there's no way to tell an RPG from an FPS under Codexian Dogma!

Trying to derail this thread with another 'what's an rpg' discussion are we?

What we think about this needs not to be discussed. What matters is that Bethesda is not even trying to make a Fallout rpg. They are trying to improve Oblivion and see Fallout as some sort of crpg junkyard from which they can grab some concept art and ideas to realize their own idea of crpg. If you truly love a game you respect it's ideology and either try to expand on it or leave it alone.

 

[Nutcracker]

Having C & C does not define an RPG. For example, there was no C & C in Betrayal at Krondor, yet who would dare call the game anything but an RPG?

 

[Jasede]

Oh god not this again. Also, Nutcracker is of course right. C&C is a modern add-on that makes RPGs niftier, but you can perfectly make an RPG without any C&C at all. Like, for example, nearly all old RPGs, or pretty much every jRPG.