Games for Windows reaction to FO3 trailer

[Vault Dweller]

1UP has posted an article dedicated to the FO3 trailer and featuring the reaction of Games for Windows' (formerly known as Computer Gaming World magazine) staff:

Sean Molloy: Smart start -- it certainly gave me faith that they're sticking with the original games' tone. You get olde radiola tunes, a quick glimpse at Pip (the original Fallout boy!) in those propaganda posters on the bus. So yup, this is Fallout. I'm also now completely convinced it's gonna be some first-person Oblivion-style thing. ...

Fallout = some FP Oblivion thing? Makes sense.

When the camera pulls out of the bus, and you see that ruined cityscape--I want to explore that s*** in first-person. Imagine that moment in Oblivion where you leave the first dungeon, only you see apocalypse instead of green acres. I don't think Bethesda could pass up that opportunity.

My sentiments exactly.

Shawn Elliott: Good God, this looks good.

It's a fucking intro trailer, Shawn. You might want to save this excitement for a review. We already know how it would start.

Voice what you will about Bethesda not having the knack for ink-black humor it needs to hammer out a true-to-the-series sequel, but think it through first. In my mind, Oblivion more than proved the developer's ability there...

Yep, it was a real eye opener, Shawn.

In fact, if Bethesda decides to take a radically different direction with Fallout 3, I'd rather that than a dull remake.

How very black-n-white.

Jeff Green: Yeah, this looks hot. I'm palpitating here. Okay, so it's just the trailer, and that has no bearings on whether they'll actually make a good game or not. But they nailed the tone here, dead on. Even the choice of that Ink Spots song ("set the world on fire"--get it??) was right on, especially considering that they could have gone with, um, Fall Out Boy, just to pick the worst possible alternative.

You know things are going great when the best argument is "it could have been soooo much worse".

And put me on the list with you two wanting a radically different direction--like first-person perspective.

Is radically the new epic?

I loved the first two Fallouts to death, but now is not the time for another isometric turn-based RPG.

I'd really love to hear the explanation for this bullshit. Anyone feel like emailing Jeff?

Not with the amazing possibilities that Bethesda could bring to this series after knocking it out of the park with Oblivion. I can't wait.

*sigh*

Darren Gladstone: Let me slap on the devil's advocate hat for one second since nobody else here will. It's the blessing and the curse of being a gaming curmudgeon. I'm not gonna lie, Shawn. Prior to seeing the trailer, I was a little concerned about one thing: Bethesda being able to hit the depths of black humor Interplay previously did.

Right. 'Cause everything else was tip-top. Oblivion was a perfect RPG in every way, but the depth of its humor was a bit disappointing. Such a shame, really.

...Minor bitching and general dickery aside, let me say this: Wow. Inside of two minutes, Bethesda confirmed what I pretty much knew all along-that the Fallout franchise is in very capable hands.

Is it some kinda best blowjob competition event? It would help if we know what the rules are.

I'm right there with Sean Molloy. I need to see what happens the second I walk out of my vault and into Fallout 3's apocalypse. I can deal with no more turn-based gameplay...

I too hope that someone will finally make a real-time game. I don't think I can handle yet another turn-based RPG.

[GhanBuriGhan]

Keep going guys, the Pulitzer is almost within reach...
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[Kingston]

I'm just depressed. Grown men with shit for brains seeing as they can't or won't back up their opinions.

Oh and you have to agree, that in today's marketplace turn-based has so been done to death. Totally.
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[Spectacle]

I honestly feel that these people do not deserve the lives they have been granted. They should have been born in sub-saharan africa instead, and some african tribals who have the mental capacitiy to appreciate quality RPGs should have been born in the west instead.
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[Kingston]

Oh yea, that "devil's advocate". How fucking tough was that guy, huh? "The humour might not be spot-on..." BLASPHEMY!!!
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[Ion Flux]

Teh Futar of Gameing! Welcome to the mainstream. This sucks.

[Eclecticist]

Can you send these guys to an island or something.

[Zomg]

This shit kills me. I don't particularly care about FP/Iso/RT/TB, but these guys should have some professional pride. Their status as marketing reagents is so abject... at least fucking try to fool me, please. They'd stand next to a drone reading a feature list and air-guitar for each bullet point.

[Amasius]

Oh my, I'm speechless. One thing is for sure - they are not bribed. Nobody can pretend to be that retarded.
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[Kingston]

[Rohit_N]

Ugh.

[Edward_R_Murrow]

Fucktards every last one. "Gaming journalism" is the biggest joke in the world.
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[Dark Individual]

What Im wondering is if we can survive the next wave of the bribed bullshit, now constantly making references to Oblivion. Will we be able to keep our brain cells or are they going to explode from the EXTREME levels of the retarded hyping and "reviewing"? If this is only the starts then heaven knows what will actually be in the end.

Seriously, I think I lose an IQ point every time I read such bullshit. Their turn-based combat comments were especially strongly imbued with such awful stupidity... words cant describe my frustration.

At least the info on which people should be purged from the gene pool is readily available, in case the goverment wants to remove all of the dumb people.

[The Vanished One]

[Suicidal]

Reading this bullshit really brought my piss to a boil. Cocksucking to the max!

They sound like brainwashed bethesda drones, happily agreeing with everything Todd and Pete say and rapidly dismissing turn-based gameplay and isometric view as unwanted things of the past.

[giantgnome]

What I don't understand is why everything is held up against Oblivion. How did Oblivion become the best rpg of all time? The game has little to no substance to it, nothing you do matters, not even character creation, and the only choice anyone ever has is whether or not to do a quest or to select from 2 dialouge options (with one of those being "rumors") and then hearing a recycled response from one of the 4 voice actors in the game. There are so many games that kick Oblivon's ass. Are these people retarded, bribed, or both?

[Ion Flux]

[Dark Individual]

[Kingston]

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[Commissioner]

How do these idiots summon up enough neurons to respire?

Radically new direction with First-Person? How could that possibly be considered different to anything else on the market at the minute?

[Saxon1974]

This a big reason why I didnt review my subscription to their magazine. Ive been getting computer gaming world for years and always like it. But there are so few real RPG's anymore that I lost interest. Then, when they reviewed Oblivion and praised it, without mentioning how bad the auto leveling was and a few other things, I decided they don't even know what makes a good true RPG anymore.

[Mayday]

So these guys are what, 12?

[Ander Vinz]

I am quite unaware of english gaming sites and don't understand what's so special about these guys. Are they some kind of gaming guru or what? Does their opinion that matter to RPGCodex?

[Red Russian]

Oh, boy. They can't wait to suck Pete and Todd's cocks when they get an "interview".