More Rumored Fallout 3 Graphics, Details

Although not officially announced, both the No Mutants Allowed and Duck And Cover fan-sites for the Fallout series of PC RPGs have much new info on Fallout 3, including some new alleged Fallout 3 concept art, as well as pictures of it on the wall in Black Isle HQ. NMA has a good unofficial FAQ, missing the newest info such as there "..being just one playable race in Fallout 3, humans" , but including many more details from the game codenamed 'Van Buren', as being widely discussed in online forums by lead designer J.E.Sawyer.

Fallout MMORPG?

[JavaLord]

I thought they were making a fallout MMORPG?

FINALLY

[FiberOpticMayhem]

I just started playing Fallout: Tactics again and really wanted another Fallout game to come out. All the Fallout games are awesome.

Re:FINALLY

[cbirdsong64]

What I want to know is, where's my Jagged Alliance 3?

Re:FINALLY

[TwitchReflex]

I managed to borrow a copy of Tactics earlier this year and quickly remembered everything that made Fallout so great. Bits like humble pie for cocky players being served via Deathclaws, quirkiness like the ancient whore refusing to leave her mattress, and the unforgiving nature of the environment. My big question is about the plot. Tactics had several endings (after viewing them all, I turned to my friend and asked "Okay, so which one was the 'happy' ending?"), and the common ground they all shared was a fo

Player races?

[(trb001)]

Where will the main story be located and will the player be able to pick multiple races?

[...] It also allows the PC to plausibly be any of the races we are allowing the player to pick.

That's good...I like being able to play whatever race I pick.

Player: I wanna play a diseased rat
Fallout3: Nope, sorry, just because it's an option doesn't mean you get to pick it!

--trb

Re:Player races?

[dtolman]

Actually - newer comments by JE Sawyer indicate that they are only going to have one playable race: humans...

This is really great.

[Mensa Babe]

I have seen this graphics already, and I really like it. I wonder when graphics designers are going to follow game engine coders and release their work under a copyleft license, so everyone could use their work in free software games. It would be very useful [worldforge.org] for the WorldForge Project, which I am sort of into. This graphics could be great to start this new trend.

Re:This is really great.

[bad_fx]

Where did you see the graphics? As far as I've heard, they haven't even announce the game officially, let alone released any graphics. Maybe you're thinking of the FO:BoS [interplay.com] game, IMHO a very different beast to FO3.

To me it looks, well, sucky, completely departing from what the originals were all about - gameplay, atmosphere, kickass story, etc over graphics. *shrug* oh well, at least it seems to be a console only title, so I won't be playing it :)

Updated

[tprime]

While the "Don't fix what ain't broke" philosophy worked well for Fallout 2, I would like to see some upates for the 3rd one. Interplay basically came out and said that the entire engine was going to be the same for the 2nd one because the first one was so well received. For a third one, I would like to see a little more difference in the joinable NPCs and how they respond to your reputation. For example if you are evil and notorious, evil characters will be drawn to you and want to join your party. If you are the good noble character, you will get the "nice" characters. I think it will add to the replay of the game... Vehicles would definitely be nice as well. I don't want a radical departure from what worked, I would just like to see it updated a little

Either way, I love to hear about a 3rd installment of the the only game that can call itself the decendant of Wasteland.

Dogmeat

[Anonymous Coward]

My main question is will they ever have another NPC as cool as Dogmeat? I deffinately agree with an above posters opinion about the NPC's you team up with having more to do with your characters karma and the like. I also wonder if the quest will be different depending on the race, for the most part the different races don't have a common enemy. Also who is left to be the bad guy really? First it was Mutants and their creator. Then it was our own government. I suppose now it will be the mutant form of our go

Re:Fallout is a postal ripe off and not even as go

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

You do realise that Fallout and Postal were released on the same day, right? Silly old troll...

Postal Review [gamespot.com]

Fallout review [gamespot.com]

The question is...

[SD-VI]

... what cities are they going to use in it? I mean, will they keep going north or what? They've done postapocalyptic SoCal (in the first one) and postapocalyptic north California (in the second one), now what? Nobody wants to explore postapocalyptic Oregon.

Re:The question is...

[dtolman]

The artwork posted at NMA indicate that at least one locale will be the ruins of Denver.