Fallout 3 Facts That Could Save Your Life 75
This past weekend Bethesda released a few new tidbits of information about Fallout 3. Game journalists were invited to an event with the production team, and came away with a much better sense of what the title is like. "Fortunately, you never had to experience the horrors of a nuclear holocaust. Unfortunately, your mother died during childbirth, and you were raised by your father (in a very scientific fashion). Your early, developmental years play an important part of the character creation process and double as a basic game play tutorial. The G.O.A.T. (Generalized Occupational Aptitude TEST) determines what some of your starting skills and skills will be. Physical, artistic attributes can be customized as well. Much like the first level of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you can manually alter your starting stats and skills before you venture forth." For an epic amount of coverage on the game, Bethesda's new blog has two posts with copious links to previews and hands-on pieces.
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The G.O.A.T. (Generalized Occupational Aptitude TEST) determines what some of your starting skills and skills will be
At least it wasn't the Generalized Occupational Aptitude TEST for Specialized Education.
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Maybe it will be, if you volunteer to shoot a porn movie but lack the necessary stamina and charisma...
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Can you shoot porn movies in Fallout 3 ? Or engage in prostitution ? Or sleep with the head of slaver's guild to get a discount ? Or has the world been cleaned up to match current standards of morality (meaning you'll get exploding heads, but no sex, drugs or slavery) ?
I don't think you can make a Fallout game with modern-day graphics without ending up with AO rating. M only gets you gore.
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You made me snort hot coffee through my nose.
Thanks a bunch!
Just what all us fans wanted (Score:2)
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Re:Just what all us fans wanted (Score:4, Informative)
Sounds great, except that it lead to some real problems. You could complete the game's main questline while at level 2- it was quite easy then since you fought absurdly easy monsters the whole way. Conversely,if you were high level you would constantly meet bandits on the road who would be decked out in epic-quality items such as full Daedric armor. Why a generic highwayman would be wearing armor that even the highest level characters in Morrowind would have trouble getting was a bit of a puzzle.
There have been a lot of user patches to try and address this, mostly by capping the level and equipment of many of the random encounters and upping the difficulty on end game encounters.
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This might not be so bad, except that the leveling system was obviously designed to work in a "natural" way so that the player can mostl
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For the most part I think it's silly and leads to situations where that sewer rat you had to kill at the start of the game ends up being as powerful as the gigantic dragon that you have to slay near
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I had Morrowind and appreciated the graphics though it would have been nice had they harnessed the 360 horsepower for it. And if the AI wasn't so stupid.....
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Let's just wait and see what the game's actually like before we engage in mindless Bethesda-bashing, please? You can hate Bethesda all you like if Fallout 3 does turn out to be just like Obli
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Voice-overs (Score:1)
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*points back in the direction of NMA* Shoo!
Fallout 3 Facts... (Score:5, Funny)
-Fallout 3's tears can cure cancer. Too bad Fallout 3 doesn't cry. Ever.
-Guns don't kill people. Fallout 3 kills people.
-Fallout 3 is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
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But the real mystery - Can Chuck Norris's characters die in Fallout3?
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For every video game, Chuck Norris has unlimited continues. However, he's never actually used one, as Chuck Norris's video game characters have never died.
When Chuck Norris plays Pitfall, the crocodiles get eaten.
Chuck Norris played the very first game of Pac-Man. Tbad guys wern't originally ghosts; he just beat them that badly.
Chuck Norris always get the Pole Position.
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Nothing pisses me off more than people who are convinced it sucks before they even play it, except maybe people who think it's awesome some equally bad reason.
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Re:Why must it be a FPS? (Score:5, Funny)
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Too much of a good thing? (Score:2)
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As for Fallout... I was a huge Wasteland fan. I was exceptionally disappointed in the first Fallout because it wasn't Wasteland 2. Now that Fallout 3 is my kind of game again (even t
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Try killing Umbra for her armor and sword early on. She is in a crypt right outside the Imperial city, shouldn't be hard to find her.
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Hope Destroyed (Score:3, Interesting)
A: You gain points in your skills (not specified if they're automatic or assigned?) and on even levels you gain perks. The maximum level in the game is 20, mainly because the game has a definitive ending which is triggered by the main plot. They mentioned anywhere between 9 and 12 possible endings to the game, possibly depending on side quests and choices made during the main quest lines.
Q: Explain more about the style of Dialogue / Storylines?
A: Again they stressed the fixed ending, with multiple possibilities, and that your actions throughout the game would determine how the main plot resolved. Also that your choices of dialogue can open up more quests, more options for places to go and things to do in the game. Emil really seemed to stress a high level of detail written into the game as far as Dialogue and Quest interaction.
A: There are a few events which cause extreme levels that will never go away, but most radiation from things like blown up cars (nuclear engines) and the mini-nuke weapon will dissipate given a little time.
Q: What is the main quest? (this person may have been sleeping through the demo...)
A: The main quest centers around your dad mysteriously disappearing from the Vault one day, and your quest to find him and find out why he left and where he is/has gone.
Q: Will there be unkillable NPC's?
A: There will be some, but they expressed sadness at this, and said they are putting as few unkillables as they possibly can.
And the new Fallout 3 world keeps all the humor and flavor of the original series. You will find broken down nuclear cars (that will still explode if shot up), crazy robots like Mr. Handy, and a host of sometimes quirky wasteland dwellers. At one point we set one of the exploding nuclear cars on fire and then hopped into a portable nuclear shelter (which costs a quarter to use and looks like a phone booth) to avoid the blast.
http://www.gameindustry.com/review/item.asp?id=85
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Sounds great. (Score:2)
What about a Mac version? (Score:1)
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Sellout 3 (Score:1, Flamebait)
Me thinks the one fact that could save my life (or rather soul) isn't there: don't buy this pseud
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