Kharn said:
That the design decision of FP/RT for Fallout 3 has been locked. Briosafreak was citing VDweller on that.
However, those are unsourced, unverifiable rumours, which might just as well be a bunch of Bethesda guys fucking with his head. I tend to believe VDweller over Desslock, but only because VDweller's unverifiability does not outweight Desslock's lack of professional neutrality. But to be honest, I believe neither one blindly.
Well although I take VDweller and Rosh's info very seriously, that's not the only info laying around. Talking with anyone in the industry that showed some interest in the game the words "first person", "real time" and "very different feel from Oblivion" are always muttered. This is the first time that someone says something different about the first couple of sentences, and it is the second person to admit that saw some of the work being prepared to Fallout3 (the first were French journalists from a mag called Joystick, and they only said the concept art was good), so it carries more weight. Still that sentence is so vague, it can say so many different things...
Sarkus at NMA said:
Desslock is a long-time reviewer and writer. He currently writes a regular RPG column for "PC Gamer" (US) magazine.
He apparently was given access to Fallout 3 and allowed to say a few things about it in his column but was presumably sworn to secrecy by Bethesda about what all he saw or was told. It's not uncommon for gaming media members to be given info and then be told to hold it until cleared to release it.
As a result he can't really say very much. I'm actually surprised that he made the statement he did.
Well I'm not that surprised, since my first post on that forum after registering there for a year and a half was in the context of a rush of several fora in order to get additional info on some things I'm tracking, he just opened new areas of research for us now, which was out of our expectations. A good days work.
And for the rest you are right in every thing you say.
Sarkus at QTB said:
This got noticed by NMA and posted as "news" on their site. As you would expect reactions are mixed but what is revealing is the suggestion that Desslock is flat-out lying, is a tool of Bethesda (they used stronger language), and can't be trusted because he liked Oblivion (which wasn't an RPG according to them.)
You didn't exactly reinforced the mixed thing there, instead choosing to reinforce the hysteria. That's ok, we're used to that, although your pals could have placed the links and full reasoning of the people they used the quotes.
Oh well when someone is that rabid as some of them are that's a hard thing to do, I suppose
And if they are indeed serious in creating an alternative fansite by Bethesda acritical fanboys and defenders that the fallout games should have been made with RT and pause combat then all the best, that already happened in the days of another game, with FallouteXtreme, so we're used to those things by now.
They can check this place for ideas!
On a last note I don't personally dislike Desslock, I read his stuff for a few years now, and he seems a gamer first and generally a nice guy.
He also made some interesting advices to Beth , and he's not one of the nauseating missionaries of the new orthodoxy about gaming and CRPGs like Kieron Gillen.
But in the end like we know GameSpy will hype and praise Fallout3 just to piss NMA and fallout fans in general, many of us also believe that he wouldn't get the chance to be the first guy talking about the game if there wasn't a real close relation of proximity between him and Beth, so for the other folks, that are shocked that a few put in question his partiality about Beth, just relax a bit and think if that's not how things work.
He's a smart guy, and I'm sure he'll do his best to try to stop Beth from doing many blunders with Fallout3, but in the end he will fall into the hype and praising even if things aren't right. And although others go even further in their judgement of the role and past of Desslock I won't go that way, but I remain proud of our independence and prefer our way of doing things.
