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Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down...
Here is the OXM UK preview which, if nothing else, are the best scans and thus the best look we've had so far.
- Scans removed at copyright holder's request -
Some core points:
- The Brotherhood of Steel is back, but the core story revolves around the NCR and Caesar's Legion.
- SPECIAL now has descriptions - eg CHA 10 = Cult Leader, EN 1 = Basically Dead.
- Those descriptions for Strength: 10 - Hercules' Bigger Cousin 9 - Doomsday Pecs 8 - Circus Strongman 7 - Beach Bully 6 - Barrel Chested 5 - Average Joe 4 - Lightweight 3 - Doughy Baby 2 - Beached Jellyfish 1 - Wet Noodle
- You get a Vault 21 jumpsuit from the doc who revives you, along with a pistol and a Pip Boy 3000.
- Weapons can be modified, but modifications only have positive results. The magazine implies you won't need to make a choice between different mods, because they won't be mutually exclusive.
- And a little later the magazine contradicts itself by writing that adding a larger magazine increases reload times.
- Every weapon has a special attack, not just the golf club. It seems that Fore! does not mean groin shots are back for every weapon.
- Guns have different knockback amounts, pistols don't do much, shotguns blast people away.
- There's a town-specific reputation, and Obsidian has 'hinted' that the reputation will impact endings.
- Karma has been overhauled, tracking the factions and ideologies that you agree with.
- Nightkin are back, as blue-skinned Super Mutants who've gone schizophrenic through Stealth Boy use. They attack you while cloaked, deactivating cloak at the last minute to hit you with a club.
- The Tabitha situation can also be resolved by convincing Tabitha to revolt against the other Super Mutants.
- Helios One is not only a power plant, but also the location of the controls of a solar weapon developed by Poseidon Energy which you can employ yourself.
- You can now choose the main character's age.
OXM also lets us know they have much sympathy for the plight of the fans of the Fallout franchise, now that the games are being developed by a completely different company:Clearly, you have a responsibility to push the series forward, but there's also nothing worse than a misguided attempt to differentiate a folow-up that only ruins what everyone loved about the original. Throw in a new developer - New Vegas is being developed by Obsidian rather than Bethesda's in-house team - and there is no doubt that a fair few Fallout fans will be more than a little concerned that this could be a recipe for nuclear disaster.
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Well, at least something about the game has to be a very high quality. Owned! |
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Thanks Predator Man.
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| But RickRoll? |
I said it because I think people were doubting I was gonna post scans. 
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Maybe that was because it took you MORE THAN FOUR FUCKING HOURS to post them.
Good job tho'
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| How Rybicki of them to criticize Fallout 3's predetermined black and white moral choices now. |
Yeah, I noticed this especially when I was reading through it.
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| Love how the writer keeps referring to Fallout 3 as "the original" and "the first game". |
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This preview is a depressing read, by the way. OXM just acts as if the older games don't exist and Bethesda's iteration is the franchise, talks of "Fallout fans" being worried because a new developer is taking it on.
Fuck, at times they even pretend Bethesda is developing the game, with "Bethesda reckons" this and that.
It's goddamn depressing how idiotic this preview is.
Oh look, and their they go "one thing Fallout 3 was criticized for was its pre-determined black-and-white choices". Two bits says if I go to their Fallout 3 review they won't have mentioned that at all.
How is Obsidian going to explain all the intelligent Supermutants anyway? Those have always been rare, this preview makes 'em sound common.
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I noticed the part about all True Fallout Fans™ thinking that Obsidian developing this would be a recipe for disaster. 
edit: Pesky ninjas!
Also, did Reconite just get a new title for doing this?
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| PlanHex wrote: |
| Also, did Reconite just get a new title for doing this? |
Huh, I didn't even notice.
Thanks guys. 
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Thank you. Petition for ban revoked.
and re: FO3 being the ultimate source material...
I love how they put this little blurb about the original games as if they're as fucking irrelevant to the series or Obsidian's developers as the memory of DOS prompt, ffs.
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Like BN says, the preview itself is absolutely horrible. It's obvious that noone had done any research whatsoever on the older games and how New Vegas could relate to them. Seeing as they're both on the West Coast, you'd think they'd take the time to at least look back on the older games, but nope.
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Well played OXM, well played. Truly, that is a fine game design principle to follow. What's odd is that in the text, it says that one particular modification (bigger magazine I think it was) lengthens the actual reload time while decreasing the reload frequency. Isn't this a situation where you'd have to think on what modification you want for your weapon? |
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| Myron Rolle wrote: |
| How is Obsidian going to explain all the intelligent Supermutants anyway? Those have always been rare, this preview makes 'em sound common. |
Were they really that rare? There were more than a handful of them in Broken Hills and that's even after all the ones we killed in Fallout 1...
The vats have been out of commission for quite while for so many muties to be carelessly throwing their lives away in any case...
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I think we're gonna hafta redefine the term "intelligent mutant" after seeing Tabitha anyway.
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Also, best quote from the article:
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Really, OXM, now you think that?
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