Fallout 3 Nearing Completion, Has Over 200 Endings

I hope to get the "Scooby Doo" ending.

Didn't think I'd see the majority of comments to the imminent release of Fallout 3 to be so negative.

This game's going to be an absolute classic that I'm sure I'll still be playing years from now.

I can hear it now: "But oblivion sucked, therefor fallout III will suck".

Sure Oblivion may have had some quirks, like the way so much of it looked the same, however if you could see past them it was and still is an amazingly deep and open game that you can get lost in for an eternity building up your character and exploring... and then making a completely different character and taking a completely different journey. In my opinion that puts it above almost all games and makes it a must own. Most people don't seem to truly value that open aspect, unless it's done similar to GTA with a hollywood like story and characters to keep your attention. Alot of people seem to get over-whelmed or bored when they're given too many choices with no clear right one, they never give the games a proper chance and dismiss them.

Look, Resident Evil 4 is one of if not my favorite linear game of all time but once I beat it a few times and completed the extras it just sat there on my shelf ever since. There's no reason to return once you've played through it a few times, short of maybe nostalgically blasting a few zombies and turning it back off. Whereas with these open games there's always a different way to play or different area to get more heavily into. Another great part is you can play as long as you wish, if you want to just play 5 minutes a day or play for 40 hours straight without reaching an end to the game they let you. That's part of the reason Bethesda's massive worlds are great, there's no way to see it all first or even second play through, it encourages repeated plays, there's also no way to use all the skills and strategies in just one character.

My favorite series are Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Elder Scrolls, and of course GTA. I still play all of them regularly. I love being able to wonder around and do as I please at my own pace, the way that every play-through is different. Yeah, there's still the same main-quest but the way you go about it can be completely different every time, whereas when you go play Resident Evil 4 you're going to be Leon Kennedy and you're going down that same exact path as before.

I'm thinking not enough people are raised on MUDs and Ultima's anymore, too many raised on Playstations, first person shooters and hollywood-like action games. No one has any patience anymore.

Sorry for rambling.

I think I read in a magazine that the enemies don't scale with your level this time around? I hope that's true, because that's one of the major reasons why I couldn't get into Oblivion.

Cheap hype.

200 combinations of 'summary screens' and little bits of fmv or voice acting does not as such equal two hundred distinct endings.

Grow up, Todd! Honesty is good, and Fallout 3 isn't going to have the widest appeal, so there's little to worry about having to advertise dishonestly to draw in the dumb crowds.

Nonetheless.. I am looking forward to it. Bastards!

How many endings will proclaim you as the Hero of Kvvatch?

Being that we are Bethesda, everything gets a bit big, so as of last week we're over 200 endings. That's not an exaggeration," Howard said.

I love that quote, because I like the idea of Bethesda games, I just don't like Bethesda games; they have this mentality of more medicore things is better then fewer good things.

Being that we are Bethesda, it will have 200 endings and only 10 voice actors.

You know what made Oblivion for me (on the pc)? I didn't even have the vanilla game experience since I immediately downloaded three must have addons. I can't wait to see how cool this game is... and then further the experience with community patches.

The completionist side of me is crying when it hears "200 endings".

200 endings is a bit misleading. It's probably like the other Fallouts, where you have about 10 or so triggers throughout the game that cause a specific thing to be mentioned at the end of the game, so you quickly run up to 200 endings by counting each possible combination of those 10 real endings.

I am so fucking psyched for this game.

oblivion was cool and all but it felt like they overlooked some of the smaller features and just focused on big stuff...ike random stealing in someones house and out of nowhere a Guard can tell you've stolen something who was nowhere near you...or wearing a dark brotherhood outfit and the guards were just like HELLO there its a FINE DAY isn't it? just how the non player characters in the world felt really bland not as alive as some other games i've played like their facial expressions and body tones were usually this cheery fake crap even after they hear some bad news or their response was way off how it should be in most circumstances ...i mean it was a good game but it just felt like it could have been more immersive because small details weren't taken care of

in a 2D overhead game like those old RPG's you'd use your own imagination to fill in the blanks but with 3D games those things are filled in for you but not always so good like the human interactions and stuff suck balls

200 endings is just silly, but the best part of the article is this: "Howard claims that the game itself is finished and has moved into the polish phase"

YES!