Your like Sisyphus forever pushing a boulder up a hill trying to convince sum people on this board that fallout 3 might be good.
Honestly the combat looks good and fun, with a few quirks (Headshots blowing off a arm, leg, ect/Killer teddy bears).
I worry more about the over all things that made fallout fun, such as random encounters, dark and sexual humor, turning people into a pile of goo(quirky classic sci-fi).
And most of all a good story line and giving us a damn good reason for the events and time line and giving the proper references to the games before it. I mean its not unlikely that factions such as the BoS or Enclave to spread this far. Both factions are scavengers in nature looking for the best left overs of society, you can only stay in one spot so long before you pick it clean.
As for the enclave being destroyed and the BoS being a bunch of leetist assholes.
The Enclave was supposidly the biggest baddest bunch around. Whats was left of the US government, its not unlikely they had a few people that wouldn't mind the death of the current president for their own chance at power. It was hinted at that they had quite a few bases.
If you read the little bit about the BoS on the website it surprisingly did a decent job of explaining the BoS actions. To sum it up the BoS we see is just a small splinter of the main group (A unsupported group) and even within that group half took off on their own cause of the leaders decisions. So unsupported and with half their numbers gone they look to the people for recruits and supplies in return for the protection.
So far it don't seem that far fetch, but its yet to be seen if they will get it all right.
My main gripe is that on top of a far away location from the previous games they also set it 200 years in the future, practically cutting off most references to the old games and making a much larger room for lore error just pissing off all the old fans.
As for combat that's just a mute point. I love turn based games, but fallout's combat took little tactics and could drag on forever with slow enemies(looking at you mutants/rats). You win combat in fallout with a calculator not tactics, its all about what gives you more damage/shots.
The target system could be a lot better such as less then 90% of my enemies not having the same weak-spots(eyes/groin). For example make sum weapons have more varying advantages and disadvantages such as maybe energy weapons have more of a chance on aim shots but a lesser chance to cause a injury.
Even tho I like the FPS more fallout's bird-eye view and TBC is far from dead, it just needs a revamp with new and highly detailed 3d environments and sum new innovations to the combat.
This a few ideas I came up playing fallout 2, dissect them as you will.
-Que up attacks...attack animations for all Npcs/players play as one. Decisions made
in this phase play out in the animation phase with proper modifiers given for decisions
such as movement, taking cover, receiving damage. Promotes tactical play and predicting
your enemies moves.
-Take cover ...defense bonus for shooting behind cover
-Choose angle of grenade throws, possibly a power meter for distance.
-Stealth kill options.
-World damage and scarring/physics.
-Targeting system changed to chance of hit based off position of player to target. Example if your directly left of the target you have a smaller chance to hit the right leg, if your on higher ground you have a better chance to hit the head. More varying target points with different weakspots for different enemies. Example a super mutant may have a strong skull but weak legs, or a raider wearing a steel cup may not be so vulnerable to a groin shot
.
That's the kinda stuff I think be cool if fallout 3 stuck to the same style like diablo 3.
Either way the whole point is I think most of you guys are judging way to quick. My main concern is the story, do I think they'll get it better then Interplay Productions and/or Black Isle Studios? No, infact I wish they hired a few of the old storyline guys. They still may do a decent job no one can say for sure yet.
If all else fails....we have mods.
P.S. No groin shots was the biggest tragedy to ever befall this game....I wanna see my Supersledge preform a nutcracker in glorious 3D.
