Fallout 3

[Adagio]

Getting closer to release and has now been banned in Australia:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6193496.html

[Adagio]

Also in the news:

A new fan interview with lots of questions answered:

http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=856489

[DrSpike]

Australians.

[Space05us]

13) What will the map travel look like? Is it a dotted line that slowly crawls towards the destination on the map, or Oblivion-type fast travel? And will there be random encounters during said map travel?

It works like Oblivion, it's a system we got great feedback on from that game and while we tossed other ideas around, it works best for us. It has a different flavor than Oblivion, in that when the game starts you don't know any locations, so you have to discover everything on foot, by yourself. The world map only acts to get you back to places you have already been.

Who told them the fast travel idea from Oblivion was good? Who!?

[DrSpike]

Anyone sensible I guess. Having to walk anywhere on foot more than once is just silly.

[Spaced Cowboy]

I'll second that, Having to repeat/backtrack in games multiple times is teh suck. That being said, fast travel is an option, you did not have to use it in oblivion.

Likewise, most of the stuff they used in oblivion was good IMO, I spent 120 hours playing that one, did have issues though, big ones, but nothing since has stolen that much time.

[Space05us]

I like the idea of fast travel, but they did a much better job of blending it in in Morrowind. In Oblivion it felt like a last minute "Oh yeah, guys the world is ****ing huge and we took out the teleport spells. The guy that modeled the silt striders quit, so lets just make it so people can go wherever."

[Imran Siddiqui]

Australia

WTF... too realistic drug use? You don't think soldiers in the field use morphene?

[LDiCesare]

You can only have one follower at a time, you have to "fire" the one you have to get a new one.

I knew I'd dislike what Bethesda was going to do...

[El_Cid]

The best I can hope for from Fallout 3 is that it will encourage me to finish the first game(keeping dogmeat alive!) and start the second(I can't bring myself to play it until I complete the first).

Fallout 3 is going to be such a console game, it's got no hope of achieving anything other than disappoint for me sadly.
And from that healthy gut feeling viewpoint I will look to rent it rather than buy it, just to prove my self correct, while not rewarding the downward spiral at Bethesda

[FrostyBoy]

Australia is becoming more and more like America's strongest Christian State.

[Quillan]

Originally posted by LDiCesare

I knew I'd dislike what Bethesda was going to do...

Tell me about it. In the first game, I loved my personal army. It was only after I got my powered armor that I gave them up, since I could survive things they never would. I never finished the second one.

[Nostromo]

Not sure if the game will be any fun, but it sure looks good.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36201.html?type=wmv

[FrostyBoy]

I was told, and I have seen, that you can play this game entirely isometric, like the past Fallouts.

You know you're old when you see posts about Fallout 3 stealing ideas from Bioshock.

[Felch]

Originally posted by LDiCesare
I knew I'd dislike what Bethesda was going to do...

Hopefully you fire them with some buckshot to the face.

I think a smaller party will be fine, as long as the dog isn't included. PC, plus pet, plus one replaceable stooge, makes a fine group. I'm sure it'll be easier to keep the difficulty balanced when you don't have to contend with parties of 1-6 characters.