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Interview The flaming sword of Fallout

Joe Krow

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Will Bethesda HQ be in the game? It's pretty close to DC isn't it? If so will Todd be a mutant or part of the Brotherhood? I guess it doesn't really matter as long as he's killable. He should shit himself as he dies. That would be some great Fallout humor.
 

hakuroshi

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Makeshift swords are not as stupid in post-nuclear as may seem. They are less strange then tons of modern and futuristic weapons in working condition after 200 years of civilisation collapse. Flaming swords on the other hands are ridiculous, there is not much gasoloine for them. Or should be. Anyway, Fallout with swords, Oblivion with guns...
 

psycojester

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Emil said:
<blockquote>We don't allow you to modify existing guns to customize them. For example, you can't take a pistol you've been using and add a scope to it. It's more like finding an old motorcycle gas can and an <u>old sword blade</u> and creating an entirely new weapon.</blockquote>

Sensible and practical engineering has no place in Fallout 3! I can't wait until the end of the game when we get to go to the sky villain, which is built on a nuke that hasn't landed yet.
 

tardtastic

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Wait, swords are terribly rare even now, let alone several hundreds of years into the future - and you're supposed to just "find an old sword blade"?

and "old blades" of any kind aren't particularly useful. i have a 2-year old kitchen cleaver that can barely slice the butter that i use in my sexual fetishplay did you ever see that movie last tango in paris well its kind of like that SO HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO JUST FIND AN OLD SWORD BLADE THAT WOULD BE OF ANY USE TO YOU idunno
 

MF

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We're not going to have the infamous furry deathclaws, we're getting the real deathclaws back.

He got me there. Besides the VATS travesty, over which Emil probably has no control whatsoever, he didn't say anything wrong. In fact, he said all the right things. Now, either Emil decided to play it smart or he's telling the truth.
 

Acleacius

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Every time I see those pics of the mutants, standing there holding a weapon it makes me think of their game last PA game, so I am going with Fallout 3: The Future Shock Years.
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/568/56880 ... 65138.html

Why pay Terminator royalties when you can endlessly rape the great ass of Fallout?

It looks like many polls have about 33% not liking F3 at all, 33% not sure and 33% happy, even on the moderate RPG forums.
When you have 66% of fans saying No or Not Sure, after your 3 month media blitz you have big trouble. :P

Oh, in case anyone missed this pic of todd the mod. :roll:
http://www.duckandcover.cx/gallery/disp ... =79&pos=11
 

MetalCraze

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maybe flaming sword = lightsaber? It's hard to understand the meaning of the ranting of Beth cave savages sometimes.
 

SuAside

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i cant quite imagine a fuelpowered flame sword in a Fallout setting game being anything else but utterly preposterous...

really, come on. the fireaxe in Arcanum fitted nicely, but a flame sword in Fallout?

oh well, i guess it is in the same jest as the weapon that can chuck barbieheads around while doing damage...
 

pkt-zer0

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SuAside said:
i cant quite imagine a fuelpowered flame sword in a Fallout setting game being anything else but utterly preposterous...

really, come on. the fireaxe in Arcanum fitted nicely, but a flame sword in Fallout?

oh well, i guess it is in the same jest as the weapon that can chuck barbieheads around while doing damage...

Eh, the problem is that so far there seem to be about six times as many joke weapons as serious ones. Of course, it could be assumed that you won't see 80% of the weapons showed off so far in a large segment of the game, them being sekrit weapons and all that.
 

obediah

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Gosling said:
I want a nuclear sword.

I'm not sure how the visuals would work for that.

Maybe it could kind be like a chainsword, but instead of teeth it would have tiny little mushroom clouds.
 

Vault Dweller

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Section8 said:
I don't get why so many people have a problem with this. The flaming sword is clearly the ultimate weapon that Fallout's resource war was fought over, and the US of A just couldn't let the Chinese get their hands on it, because they're all trained Samurais and Ninjas and would have made flaming katanas, which can cut a US ICBM in half and split its atoms. The atoms stick to the katana and power it up, so every time you swing the sword it makes a mini mushroom cloud.

It's like you guys never studied history, physics or even played the Fallout games. You should be thankful Bethesduh are imparting their wisdom, because knowing is half the battle.
I'm ashamed of my ignorance now. :(
 

Cassidy

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Vault Dweller said:
Section8 said:
I don't get why so many people have a problem with this. The flaming sword is clearly the ultimate weapon that Fallout's resource war was fought over, and the US of A just couldn't let the Chinese get their hands on it, because they're all trained Samurais and Ninjas and would have made flaming katanas, which can cut a US ICBM in half and split its atoms. The atoms stick to the katana and power it up, so every time you swing the sword it makes a mini mushroom cloud.

It's like you guys never studied history, physics or even played the Fallout games. You should be thankful Bethesduh are imparting their wisdom, because knowing is half the battle.
I'm ashamed of my ignorance now. :(

LOL
 

DarkSign

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Vault Dweller said:
MasPingon said:
VonVentrue said:
Swords are in? AWESOME!!! What about mudcrabs?
I saw a radcrab the other day
Fixed.

Come on, guys. We have to remember these creatures are controlled with AI. How can we hype our game even inside our own game?

Oh....I know...

radiation + insects.... radiation + ants.... Radi-Ants! Radiant AI radi-ants!

You guys suck at Pete Hines's job.
 

denizsi

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Naming a custom flaming sword a short and blunt (acute only at the tip) oriental cooking tool made out of metal or wood is supposed to be a part of the "dark humour", I guess. "Dork humour" is what I'd rather call it though.

The Walkin' Dude said:
I wont be surprised if you get psi powers and youl be able to control fire and shit. Magick in sci-fi is the new rage.

Who (not implying you) was the retard that accepted and defended magic as pseudo sci-fi in games, BioShock in particular?

Matt7895 said:
The only down point of the interview for me was the flaming sword thing.

Y'know, you, what a let down, y'know of a, uh, y'know, human being, that is, y'know, you. Ugh.

Avu said:
Why are people still surprised that logic has no home in Fallout 3? I think we can safely assume by now that the game is either designed by idiots, designed for idiots or both. As long as it's flashy, vulgar or both it will sell.

I don't think many people are still surprised at every turn of idiocy. They do make a good laugh though, so they get some spotlight in my opinion.

and "old blades" of any kind aren't particularly useful. i have a 2-year old kitchen cleaver that can barely slice the butter that i use in my sexual fetishplay did you ever see that movie last tango in paris well its kind of like that SO HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO JUST FIND AN OLD SWORD BLADE THAT WOULD BE OF ANY USE TO YOU idunno

What you don't know, you're not supposed to know, you aren't told, is that just after the States got nuked, Chinese layed an invasion, with swords, thinking they would need no bullets to conquer a nuked out country. They also thought that the effects of radiation was a "western myth". Some of them died, some of them turned into ghouls; all dropped their swords. They first removed the blades from the handles though.

Gosling said:
skyway said:
I want magic.

I want magic.

I want a heart, with nuclear batteries.
 

denizsi

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It's proton, silly. Protons don't cause chain reactions by themselves.

edit: Astonishing, groundbreaking EXTREME News! I, pretending to be a horny underage girl, have been PM'ing with one of the FO3 devs and have finally persuaded him into showing his, ugh, the preliminary clay models proposed for actual modelling. Here are <s>orc</s> the Super Mutant concept models:

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Notice the similarities in the outfit, weapons and the over-masculine body features between these and the super mutant VATS screenshot. Yes, these are apparently genuine.

Now, these are the Brotherhood of Stormtroopers of Steel armours in order of rank, from lesser to higher, with that of the highest, King of Brotherhood, on the right-most:

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One of people's favourite melee weapons, Power Fist, makes a return, as it seems:

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And finally, the radcrab:

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VonVentrue

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Gosling said:
I want a nuclear sword.

I second that.
But I'd love Bethesda to make a sword that causes... a nuclear explosion upon impact! Come on, it would fit the Fallout universe perfectly!
 

Araanor

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Well I'd like a gravitation sword. You can attract crap lying around which then starts to orbit the sword in circular motions. Then, by timing your sword slashes just right you can hurl away your crap in controlled and absolutely fabulous manners. Also, I want to find ancient chocolate fucking milk powder that I can mix with toilet bowl water for refreshing drinks. It's Fallout. Anything goes!
 

Claw

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denizsi said:
Now, these are the Brotherhood of Stormtroopers of Steel armours in order of rank, from lesser to higher, with that of the highest, King of Brotherhood, on the right-most:
Hey, I like the Horde Troopers.
 

fastpunk

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Section8 said:
I don't get why so many people have a problem with this. The flaming sword is clearly the ultimate weapon that Fallout's resource war was fought over, and the US of A just couldn't let the Chinese get their hands on it, because they're all trained Samurais and Ninjas and would have made flaming katanas, which can cut a US ICBM in half and split its atoms. The atoms stick to the katana and power it up, so every time you swing the sword it makes a mini mushroom cloud.

It's like you guys never studied history, physics or even played the Fallout games. You should be thankful Bethesduh are imparting their wisdom, because knowing is half the battle.

Now, you're theory sounds solid... with one minor exception: Chinese don't have Samurai, Ninjas and Katanas. Those are all Japanese trademarks. :wink:
 

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