Interview The Old-School Charm of Fallout 3

[szoreny]

I can't wait to 'go into old computer screens.'

Is he talking about the tandy-green GUI? wowowow! What a communicator!

 

[Kaiserin]

It's interesting to me. I will lurk in a lot of forums -- never post, but see -- and one of the things you hear a lot is, when we've released a couple dialogue screenshots, "Oh, those dialogue options are so short!" Well, if you look in a lot of --

Todd Howard, executive producer: (Pokes head into interview) Emil lies!

EP: It's all true! I swear! I created Fallout.

But really, if you look in Fallout, there are a lot of short dialogue options. So you're right, there is a bit of a mythical quality there.

Wow, he actually just tried to convince us that we're full of shit and that we actually imagined those dialogue options.

 

[LarsTheSurly]

I think he needs to pay more attention. It's not so much "Those dialogue options are so short!" but more "Those dialogue options are so generic and poorly written!"

 

[elander_]

And those dialogs are not very cheesy or so badly acted either which is a point for Emil, but when writers are forced to create choices that fit into the simplistic Karma system which is nothing more than a popularity meter don't expect Fallout 3 to be very interesting or mature in the intelligent and deep definition of mature.

 

[DefJam101]

Duke Nukem 3D shits upon Fallout 3's humor.

 

[uhjghvt]

the only reason there is reading is the voice acting is so shitty everyone is going to turn it off and read the subtitles

 

[elander_]

Duke Nukem 3D shits upon most games humor.

Fix.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Duke Nukem 3D rips off Fallout 3's head and shits down its neck.

Fix.

Revised.

 

[Longshanks]

<a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3775/revitalizing_a_heritage_the_.php?page=1">Gamasutra</a> interviewed <a href="http://bethblog.com/index.php/2008/05/08/inside-the-vault-emil-pagliarulo-redux/">Emil Pagliarulo</a> on the writing and design of <b><a href="http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/home/home.php?fbid=Buwxg_">Fallout 3</a></b>.
<blockquote>My background is very much hardcore PC gamer guy. Now, I'm a big Xbox 360 player too, but I definitely still have those PC sensibilities, and those have definitely worked their way into Fallout 3.

You look at Fallout 3, there are a lot of old-school PC clues -- reading text, going into old computer screens. It's charming in a way. Old-school PC games have a lot of depth, and I think we definitely bring that.</blockquote>

Thought this was an old interview at first, said the same thing some time ago, with the addition that he worries every day that console gamers will reject the game because it's too hardcore (ie. too much reading).

Emil actually seems decent enough, and I'm sure Fallout 3 will be better for him being the lead designer, certainly better than if it were Todd.

 

[Claw]

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Fix.

Revised.

Hexadecimalized.

 

[The Vanished One]

Cloaked Figure wrote:
Vaarna_Aarne wrote:
elander_ wrote:
DefJam101 wrote:
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Fix.
Revised.

Hexadecimalized.

Size fix-a-dized

Rated.

 

[Micmu]

*snip*

Snipped.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Cloaked Figure wrote:
Vaarna_Aarne wrote:
elander_ wrote:
DefJam101 wrote:
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Fix.
Revised.

Hexadecimalized.

Size fix-a-dized

Rated.

Snipped.

restored

 

[MasPingon]

Retardolize

 

[Volourn]

"so Emil basically said that console gamers are dumb? By implying that reading text is teh hardcore.
Bethesda laughs at its target audience openly and those retards will still buy their games."

Not as dumb as the idiots on the Codex who bash FO3 nons top yet will be amongst the first in line to buy/steal/play it.

R00fles!

 

[Helton]

Fallout 3 is coming out on my dad's birthday and he wants it...

Codex what do I do?

 

[MetalCraze]

Fez's signature has your answer

 

[Texas Red]

"so Emil basically said that console gamers are dumb? By implying that reading text is teh hardcore.
Bethesda laughs at its target audience openly and those retards will still buy their games."

Not as dumb as the idiots on the Codex who bash FO3 nons top yet will be amongst the first in line to buy/steal/play it.

R00fles!

I'm really tired of this baseless "argument". It's the equal to the one saying that we actually LIKE FO 3.

 

[Unradscorpion]

Fallout 3 is coming out on my dad's birthday and he wants it...

Codex what do I do?

Don't remove it from the inventory.

 

[Carrie Underwood]

Fallout 3 is coming out on my dad's birthday and he wants it...

Codex what do I do?

Get a new dad.

 

[Licaon_Kter]

Fallout 3 is coming out on my dad's birthday and he wants it...

Codex what do I do?

Send your dad out of the Vault. Wait a bit. Then assign yourself the quest to find him.

:D

 

[Texas Red]

Helton, I'll adopt you.

 

[Licaon_Kter]

Helton, I'll adopt you.

Even better.
@Dark Individual: out of the Vault now.

 

[MINIGUNWIELDER]

ISn't this the same thing as the Oblivion hype about quest compass?

 

[Burning Bridges]

Wouldn't it be time now the codex started simply ignoring FO3?