Preview Yet another Fallout 3 preview

[Ausir]

Tags: Bethesda Softworks; Fallout 3

<a href=http://www.gameplayer.com.au/>Gameplayer Australia</a> has a <a href=http://www.gameplayer.com.au/Home/PREVIEWS/PREVIEWGAME/tabid/1484/Default.aspx?CID=b63af243-2989-4d69-ac3c-f929066978ba>new preview</a> of <a href=http://www.bethsoft.com>Bethesda's</a> <a href=http://fallout.bethsoft.com>Fallout 3</a>. It's based on the same demo that the NMA ninjas saw and thus has almost nothing new, except for a new screenshots and some comments by Pete Hines:
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<blockquote>The Super-mutants are humans infected by FEV &#8211; the Forced Evolutionary Virus, designed by the military to adapt humans to survive in the post-nuclear world. Sadly, as well as making them tough, near-immortal and super-strong, it also normally renders them stupid and aggressive. &#8220;Once this virus takes hold it makes you sterile,&#8221; says Hines &#8220;so the only way to continue the race of Super-mutants is to capture people and infect them.&#8221; We can&#8217;t guess where the Behemoth comes from, unless they infected an elephant, but as he&#8217;s carrying a car door as a shield and a fire hydrant on a tree as a club, and is about three stories high, we&#8217;re guessing he&#8217;s not friendly. </blockquote>
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Wonder if the part about FEV being created "to adapt humans to survive in the post-nuclear world" is from Hines or from Gameplayer. Well, at least they're still sterile. You can read the rest of the preview <a href=http://www.gameplayer.com.au/Home/PREVIEWS/PREVIEWGAME/tabid/1484/Default.aspx?CID=b63af243-2989-4d69-ac3c-f929066978ba>here</a>.
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41133">No Mutants Allowed</A>

 

[inwoker]

Wonder if the part about FEV being created "to adapt humans to survive in the post-nuclear world" is from Hines or from Gameplayer.

difference is?

 

[Claw]

Whether or not we can add Clint McCredie to the list of retards who don't know shit about Fallout but talk about it anyway.

Although he may already be on the list and I just don't know.

He finds himself in America’s capital, which is the site of the worst damage in the country.

O RLY? Guess there won't be much to explore, then.
I bet there'll be more people living in the capital than in the ruins of LA. Worst damage my ass.

“The first two games were set on the West Coast, so we decided to figure out what’s going on over at the East Coast, what’s been happening in the nation’s capital.

Who cares what's been happening in the bloody capital? It's probably in ruins like the rest of the nation. Oh well, I suppose it's a good thing. If it played in the area of Fallout and FO2 there'd just be more opportunity to shit on canon.


PS:

By the way, how useful would a car door be as a shield weapons anyway? I don't think it's supposed to stop bullets. The fact that you apparently need nuclear weapons to kill a Behemoth implies that its skin is offering more protection than his shield.

 

[Brother None]

Wonder if the part about FEV being created "to adapt humans to survive in the post-nuclear world" is from Hines or from Gameplayer.

difference is?

We've already seen a lot of inaccurate information presented as fact in almost every preview of Fallout 3 so far.

It's amazing how little journalistic schooling these clowns appear to have had, to not even realise the importance of stating what you hear, what you see and what you assume.

The ridiculous way in which they all touted "RAI is improved!" even though no one has seen any proof of actual improvements, only promises.

By the way, how useful would a car door be as a shield weapons anyway? I don't think it's supposed to stop bullets. The fact that you apparently need nuclear weapons to kill a Behemoth implies that its skin is offering more protection than his shield.

Not very useful. That bit of idiocy is a favourite gripe of my fellow ninja SuAside.

I think it works, stylistically, and it's kind of suspension of disbelief just like cops hiding behind doors in action flicks. But yeah, it's not very realistic.

 

[denizsi]

By the way, how useful would a car door be as a shield weapons anyway? I don't think it's supposed to stop bullets. The fact that you apparently need nuclear weapons to kill a Behemoth implies that its skin is offering more protection than his shield.

This bears the ridiculous possibility of hunting down Behemoths to make armor out of their hide.

 

[flabbyjack]

Sterile? I thought it just 'took a few years to get the juices flowing again'. Remember when Marcus busted that hooker a new hole with his behemoth-sized kronk? Good times had by most.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

By the way, how useful would a car door be as a shield weapons anyway? I don't think it's supposed to stop bullets. The fact that you apparently need nuclear weapons to kill a Behemoth implies that its skin is offering more protection than his shield.

Not very useful. That bit of idiocy is a favourite gripe of my fellow ninja SuAside.

I think it works, stylistically, and it's kind of suspension of disbelief just like cops hiding behind doors in action flicks. But yeah, it's not very realistic.

A car door can stop a pistol round but not a rifle round - 7.62 will go through without a problem, not to mention that a FMJ wouldn't even notice that it hit something.

 

[inwoker]

Wonder if the part about FEV being created "to adapt humans to survive in the post-nuclear world" is from Hines or from Gameplayer.

difference is?

We've already seen a lot of inaccurate information presented as fact in almost every preview of Fallout 3 so far.

It's amazing how little journalistic schooling these clowns appear to have had, to not even realise the importance of stating what you hear, what you see and what you assume.

The ridiculous way in which they all touted "RAI is improved!" even though no one has seen any proof of actual improvements, only promises.

So difference is +-1 idiot )

 

[Hory]

The muties are sterile, but they can still fuck you up! GYEAH

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

Sterile? I thought it just 'took a few years to get the juices flowing again'. Remember when Marcus busted that hooker a new hole with his behemoth-sized kronk? Good times had by most.

It was a joke by MCA.

 

[Hellraiser]

Sterile? I thought it just 'took a few years to get the juices flowing again'. Remember when Marcus busted that hooker a new hole with his behemoth-sized kronk? Good times had by most.

It was a joke by MCA.

The female mutants were sterile. Hell you ask the master "did you ask the females?" and after that he realizes he has failed.

 

[Ausir]

All super mutants are sterile. Because the gametes (reproductive cells) contain only a half of the genome, the FEV, just like it repairs other cells, tries to "repair" the gametes as well, giving them the full DNA sequence and thus making them non-functional.

 

[Kingston]

Ausir knows his Fallout.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

*Weeping like a little baby

I just found out that FO3 will have level-scaling, not like Oblivion but form a "other" type...

*Went into autistic mode

 

[Section8]

I don't think a car door shield is that retarded. It fits perfectly with comic book / movie logic. Or maybe, you know, the logic that says a human being can take several bullets and sleep it off or fix themselves with a couple of injections.

The "everything must be realistic!" crowd shit me almost as much as the "everything must be real-time!" crowd.

 

[Makagor]

A car door won't even stop pistol rounds.

http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/buickot3.htm

 

[Section8]

Eyeballs won't stop pistol rounds either.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

I don't think a car door shield is that retarded. It fits perfectly with comic book / movie logic.

Well, it kind of ceases to fit in the logic when the car doors are huge like they would be on the 1950s era style cars a la Fallout's cars. Supermutants could use them as shields, but normal humans probably shouldn't be able to use them.

Speaking of which, how did the FEV and Supermutants get that far East? The Glow is southern California, as is Mariposa. Supermutants moved East and South after Fallout, so if you want them in a game and a capital, shouldn't it be Mexico City? I can't see them moving so far East, they hit the East coast considering there would be no real tie to getting there. There should be lots of reasons for them to stop and set up shop before they make it that far.

 

[Zomg]

Heh, that makes me think what a hilarious opportunity they missed by not showing a post-apocalyptic Mexico that had been previously colonized by 1950's hyper-Americans. They'd have turned all of the Mexican culture into unthreatening kitsch, like putting roller coasters winding around Aztec pyramids and having anti- Spanish language propaganda everywhere.

 

[Section8]

Well, it kind of ceases to fit in the logic when the car doors are huge like they would be on the 1950s era style cars a la Fallout's cars. Supermutants could use them as shields, but normal humans probably shouldn't be able to use them.

In this case it's a "behemoth" - Bethesda's brilliant idea of making a supersized subpar mutant, because "bigger and harder to kill" is clearly more interesting than any kind of intelligent development.

Speaking of which, how did the FEV and Supermutants get that far East? The Glow is southern California, as is Mariposa. Supermutants moved East and South after Fallout, so if you want them in a game and a capital, shouldn't it be Mexico City? I can't see them moving so far East, they hit the East coast considering there would be no real tie to getting there. There should be lots of reasons for them to stop and set up shop before they make it that far.

Wow, you've missed so much in your absense. I'll summarise for you. Bethesda are essentially writing fan fics transplanting the entire known Fallout world into their own backyard, and no, they're not offering plausible reasons for any of it.

 

[gc051360]

Wow, you've missed so much in your absense. I'll summarise for you. Bethesda are essentially writing fan fics transplanting the entire known Fallout world into their own backyard, and no, they're not offering plausible reasons for any of it.

Pretty much.

It's odd how Bethesda managed to get rid of all the important stuff, and keep all the stuff that would have made sense to get rid of for an East Coast romp....

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

In this case it's a "behemoth" - Bethesda's brilliant idea of making a supersized subpar mutant, because "bigger and harder to kill" is clearly more interesting than any kind of intelligent development.

Just kill them when you're level 1 so they're easier. :D

Oh yeah, brilliant name on that, too. The creativity of Bethesda is overwhelming.

Wow, you've missed so much in your absense. I'll summarise for you. Bethesda are essentially writing fan fics transplanting the entire known Fallout world into their own backyard, and no, they're not offering plausible reasons for any of it.

I'm not really shocked. I wasn't really impressed with how they handle their own IP when it comes time to making a quick buck.

 

[Black]

Eyeballs won't stop pistol rounds either.

Speak for yourself.

 

[Kingston]

I don't think a car door shield is that retarded.

What I think is retarded is that he needs a shield at all. He's a super mutant, the biggest one there is (apparently), he don't need no goddamn shield. It just annoys me that they're slightly modifying the Oblivion monsters so that they can go "See! It's not a shield, it's a car door! It's not a club, it's a fire hydrant! It fits the setting! I'm telling ya, it's not an ogre!!!"

 

[Andhaira]

lulz worthy. willy the game have radiant ai?