Game News You don't understand because you have not played Fallout 3

[DarkUnderlord]

Tags: Fallout 3

<a href="http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/fallout-3/preview/the-infinite-potential-of-fallout-3/a-2008100312283974082/g-20070327151320531089">GamesRadar spent four hours with Fallout 3 and blew their load all over the keyboard</a>. The article is appropriately titled "The infinite potential of Fallout 3":
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<blockquote>You've probably read a lot about Fallout 3. Until you've actually played Fallout 3, however, you don't understand. You don't understand just how big the game feels, just how open the game seems and just how much freedom the game appears to offer.
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We've only had four hours with the post-apocalyptic RPG and we're already overwhelmed. Although we have yet to complete a single mission or quest on the main storyline, we've already made dozens of momentous choices and altered the fate of the world and characters around us in irrevocable ways.
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Showing restraint, however, could reward you in other ways. Fallout 3 tracks your karma and reacts accordingly. Develop a bad enough reputation and the game’s good guys will send contract killers to take care of you. Develop a goodie-two-shoes reputation and bad guys might do the same.</blockquote>
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Be a good guy and have guys try to shoot you or be a bad guy and have guys trying to shoot you. That's real choice and consequence, Bethesduh style.
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[aron searle]

So either way, thee same contract killers come after you.

Fucking classic.

 

[Jabbapop]

I think it's a good idea to reward active players with contract killer encounters. It allows them another chance to gain xp. It's like in morrowind with the tribunal expansion, every time you'd go to sleep you'd be rewarded with a dark brotherhood encoutner that would score you nice loot to sell to the talking mudcrab.

 

[ghostdog]

If these hitmen are Lithuanian, the player doesn't have a chance.

 

[inwoker]

I like step-by-step confirmation of what codex hivemind initially thought on fallout 3 by bethsoft.

 

[sportforredneck]

Everyone thought that it would be the best game ever. Confirmed.

 

[Micmu]

It's not the same! Evil bounty hunters sent by Evil people will drop Evil Fingers to collect!

 

[Derek Larp]

Wow, it seems everybody who plays the game kinda likes it.

 

[John_Blazze]

it just hit me... maybe they'll let you chop YOUR OWN finger if you are playing the evil character! AWSUM!

 

[VasikkA]

What? No neutral bounty killers?! Yet they call this abomination an RPG.

 

[FalloutBR]

I bet they will use the same encounter for both and change just one line of voice over to tell the player whoever sent them...

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

You don't understand because you have not played Fallout 3

Well duh.

 

[Black]

Until you've actually played Fallout 3, however, you don't understand. You don't understand just how big the game feels, just how open the game seems and just how much freedom the game appears to offer.

You motherfucking douchebag, that can be said about ANY game, ANY film or ANY book.
"Until you've actually played/seen/read [insert shit we're hyping here], however, you don't understand. You don't understand just how LOL DEEP it is and Pete just came on my face."

You stupid fuck, you call yourself a journalist? Video games have been around for ages and yet pre/reviewers managed to say a lot about them without having players to play them first.
There are two possibilities:
1) You are just another piece of shit that just blindly follows hype.
2) Bethesda with Todd Howard in charge managed to create the greatest video game ever made in the history of the fucking time and cannot be described by mere words of puny mortals.

Yeah, 1) or 2), my god, choices! I think I'll roll with 1).

It's funny how few years ago gaming journalists got Planescape: Torment and many of them managed to describe how it feels and how it plays. Nowadays gaming journalists get FPSs disguised as wannabe RPGs and they can't find words.
Back to the fucking kitchen you moron, the woman you left there would probably do a better job

and just how much freedom the game appears to offer.

Hurrr.

But please, describe it to me. How does it feel? How is the freedom in this game? How did you feel when you played as a heartless childkiller? How did you feel when your vault dweller had sex with prostitute? How did you feel when you played as a retard with low Intelligence?
Oh, right, you can't.
Boo-fucking-hoo.
Get the fuck out to the kitchen.

 

[St. Toxic]

Great work. I just love insults that revolve around cooking.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Regardless of our decision on the fate of Megaton, we certainly didn’t want to harm the town’s lone protector, the sheriff. He seemed like a real straight talker and, better yet, he wore a badass hat. Who knew that telling him about the creepy businessman in the bar – a seemingly throwaway conversation choice at the time – would cause him to immediately run towards the drinking hole to dole out justice? Who knew that, after a mild exchange between the two, the suit would shoot the lawman in the back, killing him instantly?

Who knew that the sheriff had a son, now fatherless because of our one utterance? Who knew that that badass hat would look so good on our character... or that the bar would leave the sheriff’s body lying on the floor for days afterward? And who knows what would happen if we hadn’t chosen that line of dialogue... or if we had, but then hadn’t followed the sheriff back to the bar?

AHAHAHAHA

They are actually pretty good at describing how broken and stupid the game is.

 

[bozia2012]

But please, describe it to me. How does it feel? How is the freedom in this game? How did you feel when you played as a heartless childkiller? How did you feel when your vault dweller had sex with prostitute? How did you feel when you played as a retard with low Intelligence?

Cease it at once. Srsly, dumbfucks around the intarnets already picked it up as our main beef with Bethesda. While the problem is far more subtle for them to grasp...

 

[elander_]

Re: You don't understand because you have not played Fallout

Be a good guy and have guys try to shoot you or be a bad guy and have guys trying to shoot you. That's real choice and consequence, Bethesduh style.

The stupidity of Karma is that you can do a ton of 'evil' quests and damage the business of lots of 'evil' people but if you do another ton of 'good' quests and balance your Karma everything you have done to the 'evil' people is automatically forgotten. It's just Bethesda fate they simply can't do a game where reactions feel emotionally believable.

 

[MetalCraze]

Re: You don't understand because you have not played Fallout

You don't understand just how big the game feels, just how open the game seems and just how much freedom the game appears to offer.

Even less than I expected?

 

[Pastel]

God this shit is so fucking stupid. Elander makes a great point. Besides, why the fuck would evil people be angry that you help grannies cross the road or whatever?

 

[inwoker]

God this shit is so fucking stupid. Elander makes a great point. Besides, why the fuck would evil people be angry that you help grannies cross the road or whatever?

Because they are evil. This is obvious.

 

[MetalCraze]

Because you don't do it for a price

 

[Pastel]

I lolled.

 

[DraQ]

EAvil?
Plausible, actually.

 

[Anaglyph]

"or that the bar would leave the sheriff’s body lying on the floor for days afterward"

Still haven't fixed that one eh.

 

[Data4]

God this shit is so fucking stupid. Elander makes a great point. Besides, why the fuck would evil people be angry that you help grannies cross the road or whatever?

Because they are evil. This is obvious.

Not evil, but EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL! All evil players must commit a horrible atrocity every walking, breathing moment. Your piss must be pure, seething, liquid malevolence.

Best post in the thread.