"Bethesda appears to have nailed it"

[Tannhauser]

PC Zone has a posted a short preview of Fallout 3:<blockquote>The game is causing the expected grumbling in the Fallout community, but for my part, I certainly didn't expect so many of the hallmarks of Fallout's gameplay to be returning. The SPECIAL system remains with its perks and traits.

The gore remains. A robust 'karma' morality system remains. The PipBoy remains, now in its 3000 model, with familiar quest and record-management duties.

Most interestingly, though, the action points formerly found in Fallout's turn-based combat remain - now twisted and used in combat that's halfway between stop-start shootage and real-time. You can blast away from your FPS or over-the-shoulder viewpoint, but also freeze the skirmish and spend your action points by choosing different body parts to fire at - each with a certain percentage chance of success. It's still Fallout, but a Fallout adapted to better suit our tastes and times.</blockquote>Somewhat interestingly, the purpose of this preview apparently isn't to inform, but to simply praise the game.

Link: Fallout 3 PC Zone preview on the CVG network.

Spotted at RPGCodex.

 

[Brother None]

Still waiting for Will Porter's full preview, in the next issue of PCZone. Wonder what he has to say. A bit weird that'd he'd even try to equate the turn-based action points with Fallout 3's fatigue points, just because they have the same name.

Are PCZone and CVG the same thing? This is a PCZ preview, methinks.

 

[Tannhauser]

Yes, it is a PCZone preview, stamped at the bottom of the article. All part of the CVG network, in which everything looks identical.

 

[lisac2k]

We're meeting up with Bethesda next issue to ask whether adult themes of sex and drugs, dogs called Dogmeat and a parade of glorious brown will also be making a return.

Right. I just need to hear how the new Dogmeat is at least dozen of times better than the last, 4-pixel-high one.

 

[Crowfoot]

Sounds like they've nailed it alright. "Boiler Suits" for all.

 

[Vault 69er]

Yep, they nailed it.
The lid of the coffin that is.

The PipBoy remains, now in its 3000 model, with familiar quest and record-management duties.

Yeah. Only now the Pipboy does *everything* from stats to quests to data to inventory.
Gotta make it easier for 360 users, after all.

 

[Noneoftheabove]

Yeah. Only now the Pipboy does *everything* from stats to quests to data to inventory.
Gotta make it easier for 360 users, after all.

Bethesda has confused Vaultboy from Pipboy?

 

[Vault 69er]

Yeah. Only now the Pipboy does *everything* from stats to quests to data to inventory.
Gotta make it easier for 360 users, after all.

Bethesda has confused Vaultboy from Pipboy?

No but they seem to have turned Vault-Tec into the OCP/Umbrella Corp/Weyland Yutani of Fallout. In that they now have a hand in everything.
So now they make targetting systems, Vault Boy is in the Pipboy and the Pipboy does everything! Nevermind that Vault-Tec did not design the Pipboy.

 

[Noneoftheabove]

But not to worry though... "It's still Fallout, but a Fallout adapted to better suit our tastes and times."

 

[Paladin Solo]

And those times are run by pre-teen console kiddies who manage to get their hands on M-rated games.

God, I hate capitalism.

 

[Joe Kremlin]

We're meeting up with Bethesda next issue to ask whether adult themes of sex and drugs, dogs called Dogmeat and a parade of glorious brown will also be making a return.

Right. I just need to hear how the new Dogmeat is at least dozen of times better than the last, 4-pixel-high one.

If it's anywhere near as immersing as their take on the chair, then it'll be amazing.

At least they didn't call VATS turn based.

 

[generalissimofurioso]

And those times are run by pre-teen console kiddies who manage to get their hands on M-rated games.

God, I hate capitalism.

Well, I'm pretty sure that soon, the corpse of Lenin will rise from his glass coffin and crush Captalism in his mighty hand!

But lets not forget the horrible immature antics of frat boys and people who are impressed with exploding heads and repeated usage of the word "fuck".

 

[Imperial Guard]

LOL sounds like a sermon

Cheesy sales pitch

 

[Imperial Guard]

a Fallout adapted to better suit our tastes and times.

/facepalm

 

[knightablaze]

Yep, they nailed it.
The lid of the coffin that is.

The PipBoy remains, now in its 3000 model, with familiar quest and record-management duties.

Yeah. Only now the Pipboy does *everything* from stats to quests to data to inventory.
Gotta make it easier for 360 users, after all.

Bah! I take offense to the 360 User remark!

I take offense, but I agree! Lol. Why does everything console have to be "dumbed down?" Grr!!!

 

[Stag]

Because the consoles are mass marketed to, and bought by, retards.

 

[Seelix]

Yep, they nailed it.
The lid of the coffin that is.

The PipBoy remains, now in its 3000 model, with familiar quest and record-management duties.

Yeah. Only now the Pipboy does *everything* from stats to quests to data to inventory.
Gotta make it easier for 360 users, after all.

They should rename PipBoy to for example "PipBoy x360". That'd make this whole circus even more funny.