Malygris on 7/5/2007 at 13:37
So we know the engine, some of the staff working on the title, and "the style Bethesda knows best," whatever the hell that means, which all sounds to me like a roundabout way of saying that we don't know dick. And when did "fairly safe to assume" become a justification for "the 10 second tubgirlings and goats'ing from the Codex crowd, the rampant dumbfuckery and blatant trolling, the desparate attempts at moderating, the tortuous reiteration of every single Bethesda/ Fallout 3 argument ever created and perhaps most miraculous of all a bit of genuine discussion?"
Koki on 7/5/2007 at 13:48
Quote Posted by Malygris
So we know the engine, some of the staff working on the title, and "the style Bethesda knows best," whatever the hell that means, which all sounds to me like a roundabout way of saying that we don't know dick.
I fear you might be in the minority, here.
Rogue Keeper on 7/5/2007 at 13:54
But if you think about it, at this point we basically still don't know a dick.
Renzatic on 7/5/2007 at 14:56
The virgin thread up in Commchat can offer advice on that.
Zygoptera on 7/5/2007 at 22:46
Quote Posted by Malygris
So we know the engine, some of the staff working on the title, and "the style Bethesda knows best," whatever the hell that means, which all sounds to me like a roundabout way of saying that we don't know dick.
<Gallic Shrug>
When a company which has only ever done real time first person uses the same engine and the same dev team and says they will 'do what they know best' the assumption that it will be real time and first person is a fairly safe one. Your Mileage May Vary, of course.
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"the 10 second tubgirlings and goats'ing from the Codex crowd, the rampant dumbfuckery and blatant trolling, the desparate attempts at moderating, the tortuous reiteration of every single Bethesda/ Fallout 3 argument ever created and perhaps most miraculous of all a bit of genuine discussion?"
Hyperbole, it's the inter-galactic version of the superbowl.
Aerothorn on 9/5/2007 at 01:10
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6170274.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;4)
So apparently the new setting will be Washington, D.C.
Which bums me out a little bit.
I'm not one of those total fallout purists who think that the entire series has to take place in southern California - it will be interesting to see what the rest of the world is like. That said, DC seems like a poor choice, because it's a dense urban area - Fallout is a world of wastes, with towns scattered hither and thither. Can they change that? Sure. But DC seems so...easy, almost.
Personally, I though a Pacific Northwest fallout would be AWESOME - and if you want deserts, Eastern Washington is one big one. A while back one of the Gamespot editors wrote up 3 potential Fallout 3 plots (after the closure of Black Isle) and there was one really good one involving a base hidden in Mt. Rainier.
But DC? Eh. Wading through rubble in first person just makes me think of STALKER, and I'm already burned out on that.
Phatose on 9/5/2007 at 01:48
Eh. FO1 and 2 were both set around major metropolitan areas, but you were far from confined to LA and SF. I'm sure there's still plenty of room for huge tracts of wasteland. The Northeast would've been a major target, and it's not like it's one megalopolis from Atlanta to New York. Plenty of dead space.
Liam can do a fine job. Nice to have a name people can recognize.
I wonder if he'll last more then 5 minutes.
Anyway, I doubt anyone was seriously concerned about having stars for voice acting, except maybe Perlman, but that's just tradition.
Vigo on 9/5/2007 at 01:48
Well if they're going to go the star voice talent route again I hope for gods sake they do it well and give him more than a few lines of dialogue. Hopefully there's still some money left to hire some quality actors for the rest of the characters too. Oblivion was pretty bad for that.
Phatose on 9/5/2007 at 02:10
It's not even so much the quality of actors as the quantity. A common gripe about oblivion is that there are exactly 6 voices for everyone who's not uber special to the plot, and there was practically no real dialogue with nobodies.
