Calling all Fallout (1 and 2) fans!!! [Archive]

Carbon Eclectic

05-17-2007, 06:19 PM

I was just wondering who all here loves the awesome gaming experience known only as Fallout, and of course I'm referring to both 1 and 2.

C'mon, how can you go wrong with a game where you can be a hired gun for the mob who moonlights as a drug-addicted pornstar all while trying to save your village in a post-nuclear holocaust California?

What do you all expect/want/fantasize will be in Fallout 3?

comhcinc

05-17-2007, 07:00 PM

C'mon, how can you go wrong with a game where you can be a hired gun for the mob who moonlights as a drug-addicted pornstar all while trying to save your village in a post-nuclear holocaust California?

yeah i think you answered your own question

satori

05-17-2007, 08:56 PM

I'm a huge fan of Fallout, including the not so great Fallout Tactics game. What I have to say though is that I am not a fan of these hypothetical threads. I could say whatever I wanted, but it's not going to change reality. On an up note there's a new design image released this week:
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/134/918428_20070515_screen001.jpg

Carbon Eclectic

05-22-2007, 05:42 PM

How about this week's new art
http://fallout.bethsoft.com/countdown/images/stripmall_m.jpg

Crazy_bAg_MAn

05-22-2007, 09:10 PM

I love the Fallout games even though I never got too far in either or them. Looking forward to Fallout 3 though

xibalba

05-22-2007, 09:25 PM

I love both fallouts got them both here on my desk..I kept hearing 3 was on/off/on/off/on/off so it's back being made?

magunwarrior

05-22-2007, 09:33 PM

I love both fallouts got them both here on my desk..I kept hearing 3 was on/off/on/off/on/off so it's back being made?

Now it's confirmed that it's in production.

Carbon Eclectic

05-22-2007, 09:40 PM

For those who could use some catching up:

Bethesda Software (mother of all things Oblivion) has purchased the Fallout IP from Interplay. This has caused a lot of mixed reactions, because nobody has any evidence in regards to how Bethesda is going to approach making this game. Many Oblivion fans would love Oblivion gameplay with a post nuclear holocaust setting, while all of the hardcore Fallout fans (including me) will only accept a game that utilizes or emulates the same gameplay mechanics of the original Fallout games (isometric view, turn-based combat, etc.)

Bethesda will release a teaser trailer in 14 days from this post.

Interplay has purchased a license from Bethesda to develop the Fallout MMO game.

xibalba

05-22-2007, 09:44 PM

Cool. I would like to see the game machanics stay close to the orignal with full 3d enviroment and characters.

magunwarrior

05-22-2007, 09:45 PM

Bethesda could do great things with this, but if they make it like Oblivion it would just be weird.

Because Oblivion is nice and all, but after you do everything there isn't really anything to do other then wait for DLC, which usually sucks, and Shivering Isles didn't last me long.

So it could be hit or miss with a lot of people, well I guess we'll see in 14 days eh?

xibalba

05-22-2007, 10:02 PM

If its not turn based grid combat it just won't feel like a fallout game. I played the one for PS2 it was pretty cool but completely different than the PC games it was like Baulders Gate 2 style combat.

Carbon Eclectic

05-22-2007, 10:05 PM

I'm okay with Bethesda making an Oblivionesque Fallout game. I'm NOT okay with them calling it Fallout 3. :)

...well I guess we'll see in 14 days eh?

let's hope!

xibalba

05-22-2007, 10:13 PM

Could make Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2 like Oblivion. I agree with it not being called 3 if its like that.

thursvai

05-23-2007, 03:29 AM

Oh man how I love Fallout, got them both again after too many years without playing them, and they are still just as awesome. The new art looks promising so far, but again it's just art, and it essentially comes down to keeping the basic gameplay similar to the originals.

Anyone looking for the "official" site it's at http://fallout.bethsoft.com/ it's where all the concept art and the countdown for the trailer is.

satori

05-23-2007, 04:22 AM

I'm NOT okay with them calling it Fallout 3. :)
let's hope!

So let me guess you named your fallout characters Cranky?

DEal is that I'll take whatever they give me. It was a great universe and if they even gave me a bioware style KOTOR type game I'm going to be happy. The only thing that would piss me off is if they decided to throw it on a console because then we'd have to deal wit lowest common denomenator controls.

xibalba

05-23-2007, 04:41 AM

Would be cool if ya could travel the whole US instead of just the northwest. 100s of citys and shelters. I'll be happy as long as you can go anywhere right off even areas you aren't strong enough to be in yet and do anything kill anyone.

bradschl

05-23-2007, 01:30 PM

Fallout 1&2 are easily in my top 5 games of all time... I always group them together because I've never played them separately.

I'm quite excited about Fallout 3, even though I'm going to have to forcibly remove any expectations about it. As long as they make a quality RPG in the Fallout universe, I'll be happy.

Oh yeah, did anyone here check out the Van Buren Tech Demo? (http://www.fileplanet.com/176640/170000/fileinfo/Van-Buren-Tech-Demo-) I saw some video of it and it really makes me sad that this version never got made. Looks like it would've been a true sequel in every sense of the word.

Carbon Eclectic

05-29-2007, 09:11 PM

How about some more concept artwork goodness?
http://fallout.bethsoft.com/countdown/images/memorial_m.jpg

thursvai

06-05-2007, 01:34 AM

Figured that I'd bump this considering the trailer is coming out tonight/tomorrow!!

I'm quite excited, regardless of how good/not so good it will be.

bradschl

06-05-2007, 02:34 PM

Seems like their month long countdown failed... we only get a "Please Stand By" technical difficulties kind of thing.

I like what Kotaku said about it, that I'd rather have a pleasant surprise when they release some news, as opposed to being disappointed when the news doesn't live up the hype (or doesn't show up at all).

thursvai

06-05-2007, 04:26 PM

Trailer's out!

bradschl

06-05-2007, 06:08 PM

Looking nice, very evocative of the feeling of the first two. And apparently the cinematic is in engine. I also love the ending quote, with Ron Perlman saying "War... War never changes." just like the intros in the originals.

My excitement is kicked up again... too bad we're waiting till at least Fall 08.

Carbon Eclectic

06-13-2007, 02:48 PM

I'm have to give Bethesda a vote of confidence just because they got Ron Perlman back to say "war, war never changes
"

bobafettjm

07-01-2007, 05:28 PM

An interview with the lead producer on Fallout 3.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21125.html

gm_wil

07-03-2007, 02:48 AM

started playing Fallout 2 again to get ready for 3...

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magunwarrior

07-03-2007, 02:50 AM

I saw this on 1up http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3160714

cfuse

07-03-2007, 05:11 PM

filch

07-04-2007, 03:04 AM

I miss Wasteland.

Dude. Wasteland on my 4 color CGA monitor. Loved it.....
LOVED IT.....

Walked into the tent of one family by accident, the Topeka's... they all attacked me, even the infant with .22 pistol, baby Topeka. Las Vegas and it's seemingly never ending supply of roaming killer robots.

Thanks for making me remember this awesome game.

++++++++++++
In 2003, InXile (founded by Wasteland's producer, Brian Fargo) acquired the rights to Wasteland from EA.

On June 21, 2007, Brian Fargo said, "I am indeed looking into bringing back the game that spawned the Fallout series. Stay tuned...." in an interview with fan site Duck and Cover.
++++++++++++

magunwarrior

07-04-2007, 08:39 AM

Cool.
http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/07/03/fallout-3-trailer-theme-and-pictures.aspx

satori

07-12-2007, 06:38 AM

well based on comments on the live coverage from G4 with Bethesda guy Todd Howard: He says that Fallout 3 will be mostly first person with occasional 3rd person. It will be faithful to the lore and texture. It will certainly be an RPG, but they want it to be more immersive. Soooo it sounds like it will infact be a sci-fi version of Oblivion meaning that it will be open ended. I am sooo psyched!

This is good news in my books, I didn't really want a rehash of the 1 and 2. We've come so far, they don't need to simply add a new chapter on that.

filch

07-12-2007, 07:36 AM

I dunno, I'm sure this format will be good. I just really miss the tactical turn based RPG's ala Fallout, X-com, etc. There hasn't been a really good one of those in a long time.

satori

07-12-2007, 12:45 PM

I dunno, I'm sure this format will be good. I just really miss the tactical turn based RPG's ala Fallout, X-com, etc. There hasn't been a really good one of those in a long time.

there was a game announced about two years ago that was a spiritual successor to fallout using the same isometric view. I just did a search for it and can't find it, but it's out there.

If you want more fallout news check the PC Gamer podcast as they do discuss Fallout 3 from a first hand perspective. It really does sound like they aren't simply doing oblivion with a fallout mod, that it will have all the things that made fallout 3 great.

bradschl

07-12-2007, 01:37 PM

satori

07-12-2007, 05:48 PM

You may be referring to the "Van Buren" game that Black Isle was working on for a while. It was eventually scrapped, but they released a very early tech build a month or so ago.

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/dload.php?action=file&file_id=892
http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=35862

No, it was a totally seperate game that looked like a side project from a bunch of students. It was more exciting that they were keeping the same look and feel, but it likely would of been buggy as hell.

On Van Buren, you can DL the tech demo from quite a few sites, it's just nasty.