Fallout 3 launch party Oct 18th

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Joystiq is reporting of the Fallout 3 launch party.<blockquote>Bethesda is throwing a radiation-hot launch party for Fallout 3 next Saturday in Los Angeles, complete with even more Vault Boy retro graphics. The party features headline music by the Foo Fighters, and it's hosted by Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Odette Yustman, Ben Harper, and it's being co-hosted by the Bethesda / Zenimax board of directors, which includes bigwig producer Jerry Bruckheimer, bigwig CBS president Les Moonves, bigwig MGM president Harry Sloan and and bigwig baseballer Cal Ripken, Jr.

That's an odd mix of folks to kick off this post-apocalyptic video game, but given the current state of the economy, maybe everyone is embracing impending disaster and learning to love the bomb. Joystiq will be on-hand to take photos and collect thoughts about Fallout 3. Plus those frolic-inducing spirits sounds pretty damn goon. </blockquote><center></center>
 
Good to see our economic troubles aren't impacting Bethesda's PR budget.

wtf, guys. Could you at least pretend it has something to do with the game?
 
Foo Fighters?

:shock:

Damn. That must cost a lot.

Nice flyer, though. I like the printing technique.
 
OMFG! RELEASE NOW! :P

All of those celebrities, producers, etc. scare me when it comes to video games. A couple of them sound normal like Foo Fighters, David Arquette and maybe that Ben Harper guy, but it's guys like Les Moonves and Jerry Bruckheimer that don't really make me feel happy inside. It just makes Bethesda look like more of the mainstream cloning facility than they already are, cause I don't really see guys producing half the world's media sitting on their asses playing Fallout 3. These are friends I could do without. Oh well. Just let me know when Paris Hilton shows up so I can put my head in the Rock-It Launcher and aim it toward the nearest bullet train.
 
Maybe they're trying their best to bridge the gap between games and movies? In the most pointless way possible, mind you. I mean.. seriously, isn't this basically an excuse to have a celebrity party? That's what it looks like to me.
 
alec said:
"Don't miss... influential people."

It's the lingo of the suits.
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If the influential people are Les, Jerry and Harry, then I am starting to rethink defending Beth at all. Celebrating Interplay's Fallout 3 like this? OK, kind of exciting. Celebrating Beth's Fallout 3 like this? WAY premature and kind of arrogant.

PaladinHeart said:
I mean.. seriously, isn't this basically an excuse to have a celebrity party? That's what it looks like to me.
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That's why I don't like it. Like I said, Foo Fighters and Arquette are cool in this setting, but those producers are just way too much.
 
Outbreak said:
All of those celebrities, producers, etc. scare me when it comes to video games. A couple of them sound normal like Foo Fighters, David Arquette and maybe that Ben Harper guy, but it's guys like Les Moonves and Jerry Bruckheimer that don't really make me feel happy inside.
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What are you on about? Having a band makes sense, celebrity appearances don't.

Leslie Moonves and Jerry Bruckheimer are both in the board of directors of ZeniMax: this is their game.
 
Our game has leaked three weeks prior to release and fans seem to hate it ! Let's pretend nothing happened and PARTY ! Wooh !
 
What are you on about? Having a band makes sense, celebrity appearances don't.
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Well, the only celebrities that would make sense are Neeson, McDowell and Perlman.
 
Brother None said:
What are you on about? Having a band makes sense, celebrity appearances don't.
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Although having this band for this game doesn't make that much sense, but it's a party so whatever.

But ehm, a launch party like this for a video game is ridiculous, even moreso when you figure out that this does basically nothing for their sales.
 
Odette, Odette...

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How much money do these guys have to throw away?

Party on global elites - AIG, Barclay's, et al. Everybody else is fucked, but good for you.
 
What? Seriously?

I don't remember a launch party for Gears of War, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, GTAIV, etc

WHAT THE ******* IS GOING ON?

Now I just know everyone at Bethsoft is crazy, if anyone from this site goes there. Please PLEASE make some kind of announcement or attention-getting event and ask them why they are celebrating that the game is leaked?

I really hope some people from here go there to ruin it for them. Oh god, now I just gotta cancel my preorder, that I haven't even made yet.
 
But ehm, a launch party like this for a video game is ridiculous, even moreso when you figure out that this does basically nothing for their sales.
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With all the journos invited, it will do lots for the reviews.
 
wasent it said by bethseda they would have a huge launch-marketing back month or 2 ?
doubt its their last marketing ploy

now heh likin foo fighters i cant help but wonder wth they got to do with fallout 3 .

but hey bethseda is still in denial about the bad critics its starting to get on their game from the xbox 360 leaked streams , oh well at least fable 2 gonna be out
 
Mrxknown said:
What? Seriously?

I don't remember a launch party for Gears of War, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, GTAIV, etc

WHAT THE ******* IS GOING ON?

t.
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Apart from Foo fighters all of thoes people are either Stockholders of record or members of the board or offficers for Bethesda or are with Providence Equity Partners, the outfit that gave Zenimax 300 million last year.


http://www.zenimax.com/news_pressrelease10.25.07.htm

IE its a Butt kissing party
 
Brother None said:
Leslie Moonves and Jerry Bruckheimer are both in the board of directors of ZeniMax: this is their game.
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Well then you're telling me something that I didn't know. If that's the case then, I'll change my comment: "Because Les and Jerry are producers of this game, I am reluctant to suggest Bethesda acquire this game from the beginning." :) I have no problem with, at least, Jerry when it comes to TV, etc., but the overly mainstream & whitewashed tone brought on by such a heavy hitter party is what I don't like. This makes me think they could have made Oblivion II, changed nothing, and yet touted it as the biggest game in history. (sold it like that too)

My point about Foo Fighters and Arquette were that it isn't that uncommon to hire a band, (a pretty cool NORMAL band who might even PLAY games) and not uncommon to get B or C list celebs showing up, like David, that also might actually PLAY games. (a good example is like when Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan and a couple more of those guys constantly did and showed up for things relating the the LOTR games. They actually had a natural interest and weren't just/always paid to show up) I agree with Ausir who said that Perlman, Neeson and McDowell could have shown up. That would have made sense, and might have even come on their own accord. (if they were cool about it)

Now if Justin Timberlake and Beyonce showed up as the musical act, I'd be singing a different song. :shock:

You pointing out that Les and Jerry may have had a hand in this beginning just makes me rethink some of my defense of them, and also explains quite a lot, IMO. I like game developers who work independently away from major media, even if they aren't small. Plus the money in this....bleh. Maybe I am riled up without focus, but it just comes down to me not liking these major cookie cutter producers working with what used to be an independent and ingenious franchise. Especially not as soon as Beth touched it without it even being released yet. I just think it's arrogant (and as the poster above put it) ass kissing. It's like, "now WE have it. It will be a REAL game now; not that obscure sh*t like it used to be."

(wanders of mumbling to self) :aiee:
 
This is very very strange to me (and I'm sure it is for the rest of you too) that an obscure RPG from 10 years ago could come to be on so many people's minds who may or may not know a thing about it. It's simultaneously a wonderful and terrible time to be a fallout fan.
 
Confalone said:
This is very very strange to me (and I'm sure it is for the rest of you too) that an obscure RPG from 10 years ago could come to be on so many people's minds who may or may not know a thing about it. It's simultaneously a wonderful and terrible time to be a fallout fan.
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EXACTLY!!! :clap:
 
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