Recent content by katja86

Bethesda promised a lot with Oblivion. Reviewers ate up their promises and spit them back out at us. I was naive enough to fall for it at the time and then when I played it I didn't want to admit to anyone I'd been duped so I talked up RAI and its other much-hyped features when asked about...

Good point. Guess there's enough I'm suspicious of in F3 that I don't need to be angry with a PR guy for being a PR guy. :)

Is Megaton the only example of this he can give? When he's asked specifically for another example, he just dodges the question. It's like they can't release any new information without filtering it through a bunch of fawning magazines/game review sites first.

Well, this is probably the most significant interview from Pete Hines regarding Fallout 3 so far. I also agree about the moral choices bit being good news. Somehow I doubt the positive comments on this thread will stop reviewers from using the 'rabid fanbase' smear, but oh well, I do think...

I'm coming into this a little late, but I wanted to add that I think the real reason Bethesda doesn't do demos is due to their games being so, err, buggy. To their credit, they have gotten more stable since the days of Daggerfall, but I still recall Oblivion crashing an awful lot - like...

Far be it for me to defend bad design, but this isn't a very good example. This is a case that pretty obviously wouldn't get scaled according to what was said in the interview (since this would seem to be something you could "run away from" if you end up there by mistake.) A better example...

Re: The Media Is The Message I have to be honest with you. I have no idea what you're talking about. But if you're saying that they put a big explosion in the background to sell more copies of the magazine, then I'd have to agree. :D Then again, maybe it's not an explosion at all, but...

Paris Hilton? :)

Seconded. As far as I'm concerned, Todd's all about inflating hype for fallout 3. He's entitled to do that, but we shouldn't expect anything useful out of him.

I'm kind of hoping that Bethesda is just overdoing the nuke explosions for these demos. I think we all know how the game media gets all teary-eyed for it, so I can't really blame Hines for doing this to drum up hype for the game. The line about "only getting one shot" makes me think that the...

I think that if a game has to have a long dungeon crawl, I'd rather have it be realtime than tb, just cause rt is usually quicker. Ideally, there wouldn't be any long, painful dungeon crawls and the game would just have areas with tb tactical combat where it actually makes sense in the overall...

Hopefully, the level design will be better than Oblivion's. It's been a while since I played it, but none of the dungeons stand out in my memory at all as being fun or unique. Then again, that's the problem with Oblivion in general - the game with no personality. I can hope, but I'll...

These bethblog "Inside the Vault" posts are pretty much worthless. I already know what these guys think they know about Fallout, and if I want to know about the devs personally I'll read the Meet the Devs threads. I guess it's kind of fun to mock them though...

Their record of using bloom is second to none! :twisted: