Bethesda To Develop Fallout 3

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• I hear seach engines like google will help you find the answer : tunis5000

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  tell me about it. After I killed that god in vivec (just to see if i could) there was no point continuin... : llamameat
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    I became super-powerful by accident. : Liquid
    • Same here. I leveled up remarkably fast because I had Athletics and Acrobatics as Major/Minor skills. Not... : Dante
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    Like Fallout wasn't like that, steal a power armor and a plasma rifle early on in the game and you're uns... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      That was HARD, though. HARD. : Rice-Rocketeer
      • ...and there was enough direction in the game to prevent this from happening the first time you play it. : Rice-Rocketeer
      • Not really. I did it the first time I played the game. : Ebu
• The first board? : Fred Garvin
• IAWTP. Bethesda makes bad RPGS imho. : Chrono Trigga
• I agree. Morrowind was a turd after a a short time and the realization that you are more powerful than a... : vitek r

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• oh, and keep it turnbased as well. Thank you. : aaarrrgh
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  Fuck this isometric shit. Fallout 1 and 2 were awesome, sure, but it had nothing to do with that persp... : Vincent Grayson
  • Gotta agree with that, the isometric back then was the only choice. System Shock / Deus Ex like gameplay ... : Erwie
  • Disagree, my favorite RPG perspective is still overhead, like the older Fallouts, Neverwinter Nights and ... : tunis5000
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    Disagree. You'd lose a lot of Fallout's beauty by dropping it in a first/third person environment. Not ... : walker270
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      I don't see what you'd lose about the combat by moving it from the isometric, to say, a 3rd person view. ... : Vincent Grayson
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        My only complaint with First Person in an RPG is that you don't get to see your character decked out in h... : Backspace
        • Yeah, I could go for that. If they *must* retain the isometric thing, I'd like it to at least be NWN-e... : Vincent Grayson
      • I always prefered the isometric view to 3rd/1st person. There was just something more tactical about bei... : walker270
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      i want a Jagged Alliance 2 combat system in Fallout 3 if they decide to stay true to the style of the fir... : cygnus
      • No way; the combat rocked. I have yet to see another game with combat as deep as Fallout's (think aiming... : walker270
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    I'd play it in a third person view that is something like GTA3 - far back so as to retain some of that is... : SpaecKow
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      The best thing about the old system was called shots. I cannot see that happening w/ a real time system. : walker270
      • uhh.. you just aim at their body parts instead? : Anti_dentite

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• Oh, and 1st/3rd person ala Morrowind with real-time, albeit stat-based combat derived from SPECIAL. I kn... : Poor Yurik
• I'm completely fine with that. I'll take a wild guess and say that most fans probably are apprehensive... : Sexpansion Pack
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  Just as an aside, the 'Morrowind engine' is actually NetImmerse - it's quite versitile (Freedom Force was... : hellspit
  • Dark age of camelot uses netimmerse too. : vitek r

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• Just see STALKER. : lechuck59

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• The DS would be perfect for an RPG like Fallout 1/2 actually. : SenorSpine

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• they must speak the truth ! no seriously, how retarded is that ? : bluegrapefruit
• Uh, don't read shitty sites. : synapse420
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  it seems quite possible that it'll be rather lame : artillery
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    Well if you think that why not go post there instead of playing dumb in here? : SpiderMonkey
    • Holy he just said it was a possiblity, chill out. : SenorSpine
• These guys are sooooo fuckin hardcore, i mean who plays a game (even fallout2) for that long, morrowind w... : synapse420
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  i don't know about suck , but it's safe to say it'll be buggy as hell : roushimsx
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    Morrowind really wasn't that buggy. It was sluggish, yes, but not buggy. I think in all the 50+ h... : Anti_dentite
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      Try playing Sea Dogs 2 (aka Pirates of the Caribbean). : Ratsofatsorat
      • Published by Bethesda but not developed by them. : Sexpansion Pack
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    Morrowind buggy? Heh, try Fallout 2. Now that's buggy. : Pettytheft
    • Not after the patch!!! :) : Rice-Rocketeer

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  yes you do. : substaticma
  • I was afraid of that. :( : stelth
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  If you like RPG's at all, then yes you do suck. If you can't stand turn based games, or aren't into RPG'... : SenorSpine
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    I found the first 15-20 minutes of the game quite boring. Would I enjoy the rest of it? : Scotty22
    • Once you start getting better equipment it gets to be a bit more fun, and a lot of the characters you mee... : SenorSpine
    • I thought the same. Then at about minute 21 it became the best RPG I've ever played. Seriously. : Ratsofatsorat
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  yes, but you don't suck as much as the people who didn't play System Shock 2. of course, if you didn't pl... : mulu
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    I still haven't beaten SS2 :( : Scotty22
    • Don't ever beat SS2. Play up till the final battle and then quit. You're better off never seeing the en... : mgoldsby

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  eve you mean ? : Neech
  • Bahahaha... Funny joke sir. : Carfaz11
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  You mean like System Shock 2, MDK2, Thief 3... oh wait, all those games rule! : Vantage
  • Way to name the only three exceptions to the rule... :) : Liquid
  • Yeah, because usually sequels by the SAME company fare much better... *cough*deus ex 2*cough*=) : karhgath

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  daggerfall was another near miss imo. i loved the game, but the bugs crippled it. : systatic
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    Eh, the patches took care of that mostly. But yeah, it was buggy at launch. The good thing was, the gam... : EvilDolemite
    • i patched it up and later encountered a bug preventing continuation of the main quest. i gave up on it af... : systatic

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  they may as well do it first person since that's what all their games are... i just hope they can cut dow... : systatic
  • I'd prefer something more akin to the camera system of Splinter Cell (3rd person view when walking around... : YamatoTwinkie
• Classic fallout style definitely. They can do their other Elder Scrolls game in FPS style. : derelict515
• Scenario 1 would interest me a heck of a lot, although I don't see it happening as the internet would com... : silentzero
• IAWTP. Both scenarios could lead to great games. : Poor Yurik
• Scenario 2 plzkthnx : tunis5000

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• damn, beaten by 1 minute : Novad
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  What an annoying group of complete and total dolts over there. : x-eyd|mary
  • Yeah, they are "masturbate in a pile of your own feces" types. : Fred Garvin
• Good lord, what a bunch of damn morons. Screw 'em, they can just burn in hell not buy the game. There is ... : hellspit

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• Yeah, but all those people are easy to ignore, too. You can always tell a nitpicky anting fanboy when yo... : Zann
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  Even if the NMA people universally hate it (which I'm sure they will, regardless of quality), they make u... : Vincent Grayson
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    That's what I would have said about Deus Ex 2! What I worry is that they will make a decent game and p... : Sexpansion Pack
    • I could use some heroin-laced hot cakes. Especially if they''re Fallout flavoured. : Rice-Rocketeer
• See, those people are looking for a reason to rip Bethesda a new one. Also, they'll have this game on su... : Derringer

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  erm afaik it was a demo for a publisher, a proof-of-concept, there was a lot of work left to do : grimiv
  • Be that as it may. They still had a working one. Of course it wasn't complete, but I felt like using so... : digitalstarmaster@speakeasy.net
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  http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3354 Just a teaser as to what BIS had developed for F... : digitalstarmaster@speakeasy.net
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    actually, I do know that the second picture was from a very early alpha when they were just testing out w... : aaarrrgh
    • Feargus Urquheart: See even slathering business guys like me are right sometimes. I wasn't kidding when : aaarrrgh
  • A couple of pics != nearly complete game. Hell, half of the games at E3 that look almost done are a farce... : Fred Garvin
  • Whoa I didn't see those pics before. /me drools. : DinK
• Not a chance that they were done or that close. Just because they had a conceptual demo for the publisher... : systatic

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• I so beat you! : Fred Garvin

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• 100% agree!! : lonestar3
• )*#&U$%(*&U# why did you have to open the old wound : thane2

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  HOLY FUCK : Sivart13
  • holy fuck : TrptJim
• H0Ly fuck : Sgt_Boomstick
• fuck! (I'm such a rebel) : cdbeckman

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• as sad as it sounds... They were DONE with the game. They had a WORKING DEMO. and the people at Interpl... : digitalstarmaster@speakeasy.net

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• Yeah...I don't know...I'm not sure if Bethesda is up to making Fallout 3 the best it can possibly be... : Rice-Rocketeer

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• No. An updated improved faster less-cpu eating Morrowind engine on the other hand.. : MrLonghair

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  I'm guessing Interplay SOLD the license to Bethesda so they could keep their doors open. : PenicillinX57
  • That wouldn't be a bad outcome at all, but it doesn't sound like that's what happened. :( : node

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  ps. I really do <3> Bethesda. : Rampancy
  • :( : Rampancy
• I agree, but I have pretty solid faith in these guys. If nothing else, they might let modders have a go a... : Syixxs
• -signed : multisync
• -signed in triplicate : Piotyr
• - Concur'd : tunis5000

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  the characters looked awful : Neech
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    i didn't mind that. what i minded was how boring and redundant it got. i hated vivec. that's where i stop... : systatic
    • not enough variety in monsters is what i mean. not population of monsters but variety in monster types. t... : systatic
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      My main gripe with morrowind wasn't variety, I mean there was so much shit to explore it was crazy. My c... : SenorSpine
      • It was like GTA3, there was a plot but you didn't really have to follow it. I never got to far but the ch... : Backspace
      • yeah... it could have been great. too bad black isle or bioware aren't doing fallout 3. : systatic
      • Freedom has a price, the game doesn't hold your hand. To an extent, you have to interest yourself in the... : DinK
  • nah that just made it funnier to play. : substaticma
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  oh yeah, one more gripe... what's up with the prevalance of easily attainable items that NOBODY IN THE GA... : systatic
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    IA with most of the above. I did love the open endedness of it I just wish the non core path stuff was a... : johnny rotten
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      Yeah, it was annoying to fight your way through a bunch of bandits, free some slaves, and then find some ... : SenorSpine
      • There's tons of awesome loot hidden away in random dungeons. Granted, it's not everywhere, but some of t... : filtersweep
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    Use the creeper, man. Jeeez. :) : jason bergman
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      nah, arranging for him to have enough money to buy the expensive stuff feels too much like i'm exploiting... : systatic
      • Even if you don't use the exploit, he's got more money than anyone else in the game. So you can always se... : jason bergman

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  I understand they got nothing of the existing FO3 work. : Amadan
  • Thank god. It looked like they were developing it on PCs from 4 years ago or so. I don't think I'd ev... : Vincent Grayson

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  agreed on all counts : synapse420
  • except for the 'thing' thing : TrptJim

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• Negative, I believe Interplay retained the rights to make a Fallout MMO and sold all other types of right... : Caboose

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• IAWTMFP. Wasn't a huge Morrowind fan but if there's a company I would want to try to keep alive Fallout's... : derelict515

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• Too late! You didn't play the console game, Brotherhood of Steel, did you? : Killrig

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  not really. the difference is as broad as that between Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance and Baldur's Gate 1 & ... : systatic
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    that analogy doesnt help =/ : acidravelamp
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      you've never played baldur's gate on the pc? or baldur's gate 2? how about planescape torment? : systatic
      • i quit playing d&d games when i couldnt remember if +armor was good or -armor was good. i like it simple ... : acidravelamp
• oh god no! Brotherhood of steel is a shoot 'em up / pure action game... The Fallout 1 / 2 are RPGs with t... : SilverSnake
• no brotherhood is quite a bit different. fallout 1 and 2 were "standard" RPG's set in a post-apocalyptic... : judge
• no, F1&2 were pure awesomeness in turn-based RPG form. : DinK