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Preview Fallout: New Vegas previewed

VentilatorOfDoom

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Tags: Fallout: New Vegas; Obsidian Entertainment

Over yonder at NMA they <a href="http://nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53793">have scans from the OXM UK preview</a> of FO: New Vegas.
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OXM does, however, express their concern that New Vegas isn't developed by the original devs (Bethesda).
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<p style="margin-left:50px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-top-color:#ffffff;padding:5px;border-right-color:#bbbbbb;border-left-color:#ffffff;border-bottom-color:#bbbbbb;">Clearly, you have a responsibility to push the series forward, but there's also nothing worse than a misguided attempt to differentiate a folow-up that only ruins what everyone loved about the original. Throw in a new developer - New Vegas is being developed by Obsidian rather than Bethesda's in-house team - and there is no doubt that a fair few Fallout fans will be more than a little concerned that this could be a recipe for nuclear disaster.
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I can imagine all the diehard FO fans are weeping right now.
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thanks Ausir!
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53793">NMA</A>
 

Multi-headed Cow

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Beat you by half an hour. I claim this newspost in the name of Multiheaded Cowtonia.
 

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OXM said:
Fallout 3 is, quite literally, a tale of following in your father’s footsteps, but you choose how closely or how distantly you toe that line in everything from a slew of tough moral conundrums to the exact route you take. You can be the saintly savior of all you encounter, a vile murderer of all you see, or more probably, you’ll find a comfortable gray area somewhere in between.
OXM said:
One of the things Fallout 3 was criticised for was its predetermined black-and-white moral choices - the developers decided which actions were right and which were wrong.
 

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Wow, that quote really coudn't be any more ironic.
Makes me want to rip off his head and puke into it. Since it is obviously empty it might just have enough room for all my vomit.


And they claim Fallout-fans are rabid and vitriolic. Pah.
 

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Jim Cojones said:
OXM said:
Fallout 3 is, quite literally, a tale of following in your father’s footsteps, but you choose how closely or how distantly you toe that line in everything from a slew of tough moral conundrums to the exact route you take. You can be the saintly savior of all you encounter, a vile murderer of all you see, or more probably, you’ll find a comfortable gray area somewhere in between.
OXM said:
One of the things Fallout 3 was criticised for was its predetermined black-and-white moral choices - the developers decided which actions were right and which were wrong.
Pretty much sums up professional journalism as whole.
 

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"Fallout 3 was both developed and published by Bethesda. New Vegas is being made by Obsidian. Why the change? [...] Obsidian was founded by former members of Black Isle Studios, which developed the original Fallout games on PC - there won't be any explicit connection to those, though."
Phew! I was getting worried there for a second.
 

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Jim Cojones said:
OXM said:
Fallout 3 is, quite literally, a tale of following in your father’s footsteps, but you choose how closely or how distantly you toe that line in everything from a slew of tough moral conundrums to the exact route you take. You can be the saintly savior of all you encounter, a vile murderer of all you see, or more probably, you’ll find a comfortable gray area somewhere in between.
OXM said:
One of the things Fallout 3 was criticised for was its predetermined black-and-white moral choices - the developers decided which actions were right and which were wrong.

The Rybicki Maneuver in action. He could've just called it flip-flopping, though.
 

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VentilatorOfDoom said:
Clearly, you have a responsibility to push the series forward, but there's also nothing worse than a misguided attempt to differentiate a folow-up that only ruins what everyone loved about the original. Throw in a new developer - New Vegas is being developed by Obsidian rather than Bethesda's in-house team - and there is no doubt that a fair few Fallout fans will be more than a little concerned that this could be a recipe for nuclear disaster.

Thats an epic irony right there. Can't believe how stupid people can get. Well, not people, just gaming journalists.
 

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next gen reviewerator said:
there won't be any explicit connection to those, though.
nightkin, ncr, and bos do not count as explicit enough connections to fo1 and 2?
 
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I think he means "It won't look like this"

screenshot_walking.jpg


Game journalists wouldn't really care about characters, organizations and such.
 

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Jim Cojones said:
OXM said:
Fallout 3 is, quite literally, a tale of following in your father’s footsteps, but you choose how closely or how distantly you toe that line in everything from a slew of tough moral conundrums to the exact route you take. You can be the saintly savior of all you encounter, a vile murderer of all you see, or more probably, you’ll find a comfortable gray area somewhere in between.
OXM said:
One of the things Fallout 3 was criticised for was its predetermined black-and-white moral choices - the developers decided which actions were right and which were wrong.

Who knew this would happen? :lol:
 

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Odd, this story seems to read exactly like a thread posted by Pipboy4000 some months ago. I wonder if ol' PipBoy is a game journalist?
 

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Clockwork Knight said:
I think he means "It won't look like this"
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Game journalists wouldn't really care about characters, organizations and such.

There's a high res patch for Fallout (2?). How did I not get told about this?
 

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but there's also nothing worse than a misguided attempt to differentiate a folow-up that only ruins what everyone loved about the original

This is so ironic it hurts.
 

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the irony hurts indeed...though not as much as the grim reality of Fallout 3 actually ruining what everyone loved about the original.
 
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but there's also nothing worse than a misguided attempt to differentiate a follow-up that only ruins what everyone loved about the original

The thing they loved? Furry nude mods and other shit. That's all Bethsda's games are good for.
 

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Life is good. If game journalists and gamers and developers and publishers all weren't being so retarded all the time, things would have been very dull.
 

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Can we at least be sober enough for a moment to admit that this is probably the best thing imaginable given the dissolution of Black Isle and the existence of FO 3: a sequel produced by former Black Isle people? This is as close to what you wankers want is you will ever get, try to be a little more optimistic.
 

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MisterStone said:
Can we at least be sober enough for a moment to admit that this is probably the best thing imaginable given the dissolution of Black Isle and the existence of FO 3: a sequel produced by former Black Isle people? This is as close to what you wankers want is you will ever get, try to be a little more optimistic.
Please shut the fuck up.
 

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