I always assumed that Fo3 orignally was meant to take place right after the war, as opposed to 200 years later. Specifically, players could find a Chinese Paratrooper's corpse and everything looked burnt. As for Megaton, I thought that the people stayed, because it was the only place that was not directly bombed. Of course, in a setting that takes place 200 years after the war, none of it makes sense, especially a 200 year old corpse left exposed in a desert.Many of the elements Bethesda did in 3 could be easily explained with the logics of FO's world. For instance, you could have made Megaton into some sort of mini dictatorship or religious cult, and say this is the reason why people live there (because they can't leave). This also could help you to explain other small elements of this world. Like the Republic of Dave being an effort to stop being as evil as Megaton, just to produce a new kind of evil. It made me mad to realize that Dave was marked as a Good character (if you kill him you get bad karma) but he just seemed to be an asshole imo.
Don't hold your breath. This thing will crush all the sales records, now matter how many pages of whining we produce. The nu-Fallout fanbase is far too big for it to fail.
You're overestimating their core audience. I have an inkling of hope that maybe some of people who played New Vegas will compare that with FO4 and come out disappointed. But I assure you that most probably won't give two poops on a stick about the story and C&C.
I didn't mean C&C or story. Those leaks are full of bad graphic, extremely retarded dialogue choices, very cheap looking things like a dog AI. It looks like those leakers notice those. Maybe leakers are smarter than general public, who knows, but few weeks ago there were not even a slim chance for a backlash.
No way in Hell.I have read those last several or more pages and I must confess nothing I have read recently made me so much uplifted. It looks there is at least a slim chance this turd will backfire. Nothing could made me more happy! I wish bethesda to burn so much that even writing words "bethesda" and "burn" in one sentence makes me unconsciously grin. Burn bethesda! Burn!
If you ask around Megaton, you're told the cultists were a large part of the original population and wouldn't accept living away from the bomb. The bomb lacks the mechanism that makes it explode anyway so it's harmless...unless some bored asshole finds a spare one somehow and installs it for the lulz, but what are the chances of that?To further expand on this, a quote from someone on /v/
Why would they make a place with planes debris and stuff and live in there while an active nuclear bomb is on the center of that place, while just couple blocks away there's a supermarket that's bigger than the place and perfectly viable to live?
I always assumed that Fo3 orignally was meant to take place right after the war, as opposed to 200 years later. Specifically, players could find a Chinese Paratrooper's corpse and everything looked burnt. As for Megaton, I thought that the people stayed, because it was the only place that was not directly bombed. Of course, in a setting that takes place 200 years after the war, none of it makes sense, especially a 200 year old corpse left exposed in a desert.
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Y'know, I had this strange deluded notion that Fallout New Vegas might of taught them something, I don't know why I'm surprised that every game they make seems to just get worse. I had middling expectations for Fallout 4 and they failed to meet even those based on these leaks.
New Vegas was made by Obsidian and it didn't sell as much as Fallout 3, that's why they are going the F3 route.
No way in Hell.
Try to read that incredibly masturbatory "Making of" mega-article from GameInformer, one that was posted a couple of pages ago. Hell, just skim over it and read a few bits.
After that, it is nigh impossible that this game will receive anything short of glowing praise from that publication. You can be assured that it will be the same with basically every single major site and magazine out there.
http://kotaku.com/5078237/fallout-3-moves-47-million-copies -4.7 million.New Vegas was made by Obsidian and it didn't sell as much as Fallout 3, that's why they are going the F3 route.
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-m...as-sold-14-million-units-guess-how--27491624/I thought it sold more.
That makes my brain hurt. At this point, maybe I am giving Bethesda the benefit of the doubt with regards to a complete change in direction of the story. Otherwise, I cannot imagine Bethesda's thought process behind 200 year old Chinese ghoul paratroopers and Megaton.You can find living (well, ghoulified) Chinese troopers still waiting for invasion instructions. Don't think about it too much.