Fallout 3 - New vids

Surfer · 1 Sep 2008 at 01:00

well i guess gotta hope they are deliberately keeping the real fun dialogue under wraps.. and just showing us fancy nuclear explosions.

You gotta remember this aint the fallout dev team this is Oblivion dev team... make of that what you will.

CraigN · 1 Sep 2008 at 01:45

this does indeed look very sweet

but what platform to get it on.

Dj_Jestar · 1 Sep 2008 at 02:34

I was enjoying the vid right up until I saw the Xbox 360 achievement. Console ports suck. Period.

Strife212 · 1 Sep 2008 at 02:52

One of the NPC's has the same voice actor as Oblivion. No way. The voice acting in Oblivion was so annoying and distinctive as well.
Why is Bethedsa so bad at immersion?

Darkwave · 1 Sep 2008 at 02:55

Dj_Jestar said:
I was enjoying the vid right up until I saw the Xbox 360 achievement. Console ports suck. Period.

Hurr.

Strife212 said:
One of the NPC's has the same voice actor as Oblivion. No way. The voice acting in Oblivion was so annoying and distinctive as well.

Minor character voice acting was annoying and not implemented very well, I won't deny that, but you're talking about Lucien, his voice acting was superb. The very fact you noticed his voice at all is, in some small way, testament to that.

Glaucus · 1 Sep 2008 at 10:14

Surfer said:
from all the dialogue seen in the vids. Thats why i said "from what i have seen"

see examples. Arent exactly imaginative..

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And if you remember the originals. With small unimportant people the dialogue was very similar.

saguy · 1 Sep 2008 at 10:52

Strife212 said:
One of the NPC's has the same voice actor as Oblivion. No way. The voice acting in Oblivion was so annoying and distinctive as well.
Why is Bethedsa so bad at immersion?

I too hated the voice acting and dialogue in Oblivion and this is going to be my major concern regarding Fallout 3. Let's pray they are not using the same 6 overly polite middleclass voice actors. I loathed Oblivion due to the game having no soul and that's why I love The Witcher which is so moody and atmospheric.

Apart from the story and dialogue I do hope that they improve their environment design. Oblivion does take a good screen shot, but the actual game environments were so damn repetitive with everything looking the same. Same trees, grass, rocks walls, dungeons towns and the same potato headed people ............ aagh. I know I keep bringing this up, but just look at the Witcher with its stunning varied locations. Unlike Oblivion which looks like all environments were generated by an auto landscape generator.

I do admit that the game play videos I have seen so far do look rather good, but the jury is till out as to whether this is just modded oblivion.

Tefal · 1 Sep 2008 at 14:04

AcidHell2 said:
And if you remember the originals. With small unimportant people the dialogue was very similar.

except that sheif isn't really a unimportant character.

Surfer · 1 Sep 2008 at 14:56

Acid.. Burke and the Sheriff are kinda major characters i would have thought? We dont know more anyway.

Do you remember Bethesda saying that there would be less NPCS in Fallout 3 compared to Oblivion because they were adding more depth to them.

But im not complaining too much i guess because this isnt an area they excel in. *shrugs*

Apart from the story and dialogue I do hope that they improve their environment design. Oblivion does take a good screen shot, but the actual game environments were so damn repetitive with everything looking the same. Same trees, grass, rocks walls, dungeons towns and the same potato headed people ............ aagh. I know I keep bringing this up, but just look at the Witcher with its stunning varied locations. Unlike Oblivion which looks like all environments were generated by an auto landscape generator.

Yep i agree.. game environment very "vanilla". Which is strange as look at the buildings and architecture in Morrowind.. just brilliant! (imo) That had way more "soul" than Oblivion. Was it the same developers who did both???

Tefal · 1 Sep 2008 at 15:00

Surfer said:
But im not complaining too much i guess because this isnt an area they excel in. *shrugs*

But it was the area fallout excelled in. It didn't have great graphics so it had great dialog/text etc

going to miss not being able to try the game without firing a shot, or on a dumb character.

Also it seems they got rid of the descriptions of items.

Adsta · 1 Sep 2008 at 15:01

I cant wait i preordered the special edition. I WANT THAT LUNCH BOX !

saguy · 1 Sep 2008 at 17:48

Surfer said:
Yep i agree.. game environment very "vanilla". Which is strange as look at the buildings and architecture in Morrowind.. just brilliant! (imo) That had way more "soul" than Oblivion. Was it the same developers who did both???

Regarding the environment design it's hard to believe that both games are made by the same company. In its day Morrowind was outstanding.