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http://www.oxmonline.com/article/previews/a-f/fallout-3-0?page=0%2C0

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This looks pretty cool. Obviously its not the isometric style from the predesessors that everyone hoped for, but it could be still a great a game.

I'm sure a lot of you won't be happy with this though. 'Oblivion with guns' is probably not what the die hard fallout fans wanted...
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I think I'm the only Fallout fan in the universe that's actually anticipating this game.  I can understand the animosity the game is getting because Bethesda did a really terrible job marketing the game last year and the first paragraph practically summed up everyone's fears; the game was being marketed as OBLIVION WITH GUNS but that's not Fallout.  Over the months the slow stream of information has quickly levied my skepticism about the title and I can honestly say that I'm pretty psyched about the following things:

1: No more buggy ass battle system (I hope).  As much as I loved Fallout's skill system, battles either revolved around having a high small arms (as big guns and energy weapons were so rare and useless) or having a high melee and abusing the Super Sledge.  There's practically no inbetween.  Fallout 2 made this worse with a mandatory final boss that had 999 hitpoints.  Even with party members, a pacifist character stood no chance.

2: All the humor and 50s scare is still there.  They already confirmed the new soundtrack and it's an actual SOUNDTRACK rather than Fallout's single licensed song that plays in the beginning.  They said there's no ingame music but you can hear the soundtrack on discarded tv's and radios.  Hopefully there's a radio built in your pipboy.

3: Even though it's using the Oblivion engine, the face skeleton system has been completely changed which is great because Oblivion had butt ugly faces models.

4: No more Oblivion TOPIC discussion system. I don't think they discussed how conversations in game will happen but Oblivion's topic system wouldn't work for Fallout.

5: I love the new art.  I love the washed out greys and ash covered look of the north east.

6: The dark humor seems to be intact which is always a good thing for me. 

Yep, definitely anticipating this game.  Hopefully it comes out by september or october.
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Honestly, I wanted guns in Oblivion really badly.  And this is taking my dream to an even better level by adding shit loads of gore.  This game sounds amazing, and I can't wait until it comes out.
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I loved Fallout, but couldn't get into Fallout 2 so much.  I don't really know why, but I do look forward to this.  Though I doubt my computer would be able to run it really high.

I don't like weapon degradation at all.  Give me one game where it was actually a good idea, and it would make the game less enjoyable without it?

I was never one to shy away from over the top fantasy violence though :naughty:
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I don't like weapon degradation at all.  Give me one game where it was actually a good idea, and it would make the game less enjoyable without it?

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I think I'm the only Fallout fan in the universe that's actually anticipating this game.  I can understand the animosity the game is getting because Bethesda did a really terrible job marketing the game last year and the first paragraph practically summed up everyone's fears; the game was being marketed as OBLIVION WITH GUNS but that's not Fallout.  Over the months the slow stream of information has quickly levied my skepticism about the title and I can honestly say that I'm pretty psyched about the following things:

1: No more buggy ass battle system (I hope).  As much as I loved Fallout's skill system, battles either revolved around having a high small arms (as big guns and energy weapons were so rare and useless) or having a high melee and abusing the Super Sledge.  There's practically no inbetween.  Fallout 2 made this worse with a mandatory final boss that had 999 hitpoints.  Even with party members, a pacifist character stood no chance.

2: All the humor and 50s scare is still there.  They already confirmed the new soundtrack and it's an actual SOUNDTRACK rather than Fallout's single licensed song that plays in the beginning.  They said there's no ingame music but you can hear the soundtrack on discarded tv's and radios.  Hopefully there's a radio built in your pipboy.

3: Even though it's using the Oblivion engine, the face skeleton system has been completely changed which is great because Oblivion had butt ugly faces models.

4: No more Oblivion TOPIC discussion system. I don't think they discussed how conversations in game will happen but Oblivion's topic system wouldn't work for Fallout.

5: I love the new art.  I love the washed out greys and ash covered look of the north east.

6: The dark humor seems to be intact which is always a good thing for me. 

Yep, definitely anticipating this game.  Hopefully it comes out by september or october.

I was about to type up the exact same thing but I'll just quote you.  As awesome as Fallout 1 and 2 were (my favorite PC games ever dude), making Fallout play more like Oblivion will do nothing but great things for it.  I don't think anyone actually remembers how bad the controls were and how much of a pain in the ass it generally was to play the original Fallout games.
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for me the biggest worry isnt that they will change the interface, but that they will fuckass ruin the universe.  that will be dissapointing.

i have hesitant high hopes though.
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Having never been a "diehard" Fallout fan to begin with, this sounds like nothing but cool to me. I like the clever character creation and tutorials especially. And hey, Oblivion was hours of fun, so I have no problems with them starting there.
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i never got into fallout anyway so even if this is just oblivion with guns i don't care cos then it's one of my favourite games put into a post-apocalypse thumbs up.
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I'm pretty excited about this title, although I haven't played the original Fallout games, a post apocalyptic, action, wide open oblivion-ish game sounds like something I can get into haha, I just hope it doesn't get boring after a while like oblivion did for me in the end, or maybe it was because I played it for like a week straight haha..  :huh:

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Fallout 2 made this worse with a mandatory final boss that had 999 hitpoints.  Even with party members, a pacifist character stood no chance.

that's not true. You can talk to Frank Horrigan's soldiers to change sides, also you can activate the turrets against him. You can win basically by standing in the corner.
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are you sure about that? i mean i know you can get that crew of enclave soldiers to switch sides, but im not so sure about horrigan himself.
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I am. In fact I did the same with my charisma character.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IaljDOi8ApE

You don't need to watch the whole thing, only the part from 06:00 matters. Anyways I'm looking forward to fallout 3 as well, I hope it's not going to be a short consoletard game
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I was about to say that Kassey, yeah. You can beat the game without wielding a single weapon if you so choose. You can't do that in fallout 1 though, because iirc you have to kill the master to 'end' the game.

On a side note, none of this info is new.
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I was about to say that Kassey, yeah. You can beat the game without wielding a single weapon if you so choose. You can't do that in fallout 1 though, because iirc you have to kill the master to 'end' the game.

On a side note, none of this info is new.

Actually in Fallout 1, if you get the discs from the Brotherhood of Steel Lab, and some other data things, you can show The Master that the mutants are infertile, and he will kill himself IIRC.
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I was about to say that Kassey, yeah. You can beat the game without wielding a single weapon if you so choose. You can't do that in fallout 1 though, because iirc you have to kill the master to 'end' the game.

On a side note, none of this info is new.

well I only posted this becuase I hadn't seen any updates on here on the game. Also the article is from march 31st
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I never beat Fallout 2 because the final boss always glitched out in my copy.  I got to him several times on different playthroughs but the game would always freeze up.  I think I might prefer it that way though, because not having finished it, it maintains a certain mysteriousness and mystique.  Did anyone else encounter this?

Also did anyone play Fallout Tactics?  It didn't seem like a very good game until you got into a bit.  The game system is pretty cool once you figure out how to manage your characters' parameters and it's definitely fun to spec up an entire party of Fallout characters.  Also the later missions are much more densely designed than the first ones and the game starts to get more of an RPG vibe than it does when it starts out.  The writing in the game is pretty embarassing though ("Target (pronounced Tar-jay) only has one eye, but it sure is a good'un!").
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I remember playing fallout tactics in multiplayer, I played as a robot and I always repaired myself with a snap-on kit. That was awesome.

Also there was a drunken master perk for hand to hand combat.
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that's not true. You can talk to Frank Horrigan's soldiers to change sides, also you can activate the turrets against him. You can win basically by standing in the corner.

The turrets didn't auto-target him until he turned into an aggressive character which happened either

A: You get close enough to talk to him

or

B: You shoot him first.

Regardless, the guy could do 50-100 points of damage EVEN WHILE WEARING ENCLAVE POWER ARMOR and he could attack 2 or 3 times in a single turn.  Luckily I was playing as a character with the sniper perk and a ridiculously high critical and managed to hit him for something like 300 points of damage in one turn but the guy destroyed every turret and murdered those enclave soldiers well before I got the chance to kill him.

And my god, he has the best death animation out of any villain in any videogame ever created in the history of the universe.