No Mutants Allowed

[Odin]

Josan of Winterwind Productions informed me that he had posted the part 2 of his interviews with Damien 'Puuk' Foletto (former Bis employee), here's a bit about Van Buren/Fallout 3 from that interview:

WW: As every Fallout fan knows, the story of Van Buren has the player falling asleep in one prison cell and awaking in another, not knowing how or why they're there, and managing to escape into the desert being pursued by robots. There was also a mad goddess with a cult of worshippers. Can you tell us any more of the story line?

DF: I’m sure I’ll miss a lot, but I’ll try. The overall story involves the player discovering he is a carrier of a nasty virus that if it does not kill you, it makes you sterile. After “escaping” the prison because of a strange assault by what looks like NCR soldiers, the player immediately has the freedom to go where they want. During the course of his adventures, the player discovers that in order to get the prison robots to cease their pursuit, the player must hunt down and retrieve several escaped prisoners and return them to their cell, where the prison computer checks off the prisoners from its list. The player later discovers that returning the prisoners conveys to the computer where the prisoners went to and how far the virus has been spread throughout the wasteland. Once enough prisoners have been tallied, the computer unlocks an orbiting nuclear missile station and begins a countdown to “cleansing” the land. As it turns out, this is the situation the main bad guy wants, because he wants to “cleanse” the earth’s surface (at least the American portion) so he can start the human race anew. The player is then tasked with finding a way to the orbiting station to stop the bad guy – or help him, if he so chooses. I’m sure I forgot quite a few things. Oh, and the orbiting station looks like the round, spinning 50’s conception of orbiting stations and the rocket that takes the player there looks like a cone-shaped rocket with fins; very 50’s as well. In fact, the concept art was based on 50’s illustrations from pulp sci-fi publications from the time. No space shuttles, to quell the sceptics.

There are some more goodies in that interview, so get on over and read it.
Link: Damien Foletto interview part 2
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[Dove]

Damn, I sure would have liked to play it.

The virus thing has been done to death, but it would have worked well in this situation, and I was glad to hear about fifties style rockets instead of a space shuttle.
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[SimpleMinded]

[Josan]

We all do. I was almost seriously depressed writing the interview. We had about 10 questions we didn't ask because it was just sad.

I still cackle over his answer to my question about Herve though. Good fun.
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[Briosafreak]

[Josan]

Thanks Briosa and yeah, from what I've heard, Molitor did.
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[deadr4tz]

A very interesting interview. I like it how with every new interview Puuk spills a bit more info about Van Buren. Judging by what he divulged so far, I would say the team really listened to 'hardcore' fans and strived to make Fallout 3 more like the first game than the second. How unfortunate that it was canned.

The comment about Herve and FOOL was priceless. I like a developer with an attitude, so I hereby officially proclaim Puuk my role model. May his statements and actions continue to inspire me for years to come.

By the way, Brios, that link doesn't work.
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[Briosafreak]

I just asked someone to try it and it works, are you sure Ratty?

[Tannhauser]

I fixed it. You had an extraneous letter at the end of the URL, which was sending the link to a 404 page.

[Brother None]

Link works for me.

[Briosafreak]

Oh thanks Koty baby

[NCR_Ranger]

[deadr4tz]

[SimpleMinded]

Damn it, every word just adds tears to my eyes. This morning driving to school, I thought about what it would've been like if FOBOS had never been developed and instead, those resources went to FO3. Can you imagine a world with fallout 3? I can... It has pixies dancing around and mermaids swimming in the seas. Sigh, I want my pixies .

[Pope Viper]

Our pixies were grabbed, their wings ripped off, and had two evil Frenchmen pissing in their eyes.

Damn you, pissing Frenchmen.

Damn you to hell.
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[kumquatq3]

O, more on the ending puuk talked about, because it sounded just so fuckin great:

After Presper (bad guy) and his crew are dealt with in the usual Fallout way (combat, diplomacy, stealth, or science), the Prisoner is still left with a countdown to launch. Unfortunately, he can only do so much. There are two certainties on the BOMB-001: missiles *will* launch, and a lot of people *will* die. The Prisoner will face the difficult choice of determining which part of the wasteland gets blasted. He can't cheat by blowing up empty land; the BOMB-001's computer is too smart for that, and won't fire on invalid targets (Note: the "targets" are towns supplied to the computer by another computer, kind of a long story). A high Repair skill will allow the PC to disarm some of the bombs, but there's not enough time for them all. Same for the Science skill and hacking the computer.

I just think it's a great ending for a FO. Even if your good, someone is going to lose, and you have to decide who.

Apparently, tho I'm not sure on this, the evil option is to target extra places to get nuked.

The bombs drop, the satellite blows up (either self-destructing or just falls apart from being in orbit so long), and the Prisoner and companions escape in an emergency pod.

Cue movie, maybe "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" is playing as the pod arcs over the Earth. Large nuclear blasts can be seen dotting the lands beneath the clouds.

End slideshow presentation fires. Of course, there's not complete destruction, or there wouldn't be much of a slideshow. Just enough to give an emotional kick to events, especially if the player spent time making a place better and than had no choice but to nuke it in order to save some other place.

[Dove]

Wow.

If there ever was a Fallout ending, that's it.
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[Jebus]

I... I don't know what to say.

That ending would've rocked on so many levels.
Damn, I'm half in tears here

[SimpleMinded]