Fallout 3 Launch a success

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Press release.<blockquote>Fans Celebrate Launch of Fallout 3 at Midnight Sales Events

Thousands of fans jammed stores to purchase one of the most anticipated videogames of the fall, Fallout 3, at midnight launch events across the country last evening. At the Best Buy in Rockville, MD, which is located near Bethesda Game Studios, members of the development team, along with Lynda Carter, actress and wife of ZeniMax Media CEO Robert Altman, were on-hand to celebrate with hundreds of fans who lined up in the rain as early as 1:00pm and came as far as North Carolina to buy the game and meet the developers.

Fallout 3 is now available in stores and online in North America and will be released in Europe and Australia on October 30 and in the UK on October 31. Developed at Bethesda Game Studios – creators of the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® – Fallout 3 is available on the Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION 3(TM) computer entertainment system, and Games for Windows.

Fallout 3 features one of the most realized game worlds ever created. Set more than 200 years following a nuclear war, you can create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of Washington, D.C. however you choose. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders, and other dangers of the Wasteland.

Hailed as one of the most anticipated games for 2008, Fallout 3 has already won numerous awards including Best of Show from the official Game Critics Awards at E3 2008 and a perfect 10 out of 10 from Official Xbox Magazine. The game also scored perfect marks from Gamespy.com who awarded the game a 5 out of 5, Eurogamer.com who gave the game a 10 out 10 and the Associated Press who rated the game a 4 out of 4.

Fallout® 3 has been rated Mature by the ESRB. For more information on Fallout 3, visit www.BestBuy.com/Fallout3, http://fallout.bethsoft.com and www.prepareforthefuture.com.

About Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a premier developer and worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software and has produced numerous award-winning titles, most recently with 2006 PC and Xbox 360™ Game of the Year and RPG of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion®, and the 2002 PC and Xbox® Game of the Year and RPG of the Year, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind®. Among Bethesda’s more popular franchises are The Elder Scrolls® series and Fallout®, as well as its licensed properties, such as Star Trek®. Its product line spans the sports, racing, RPG, strategy, and action genres. For more information on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit www.bethsoft.com.</blockquote>
 
Even here in Northern Ontario, the EB was filled up with people picking up Fo3 today.

Beth must be happy campers right about now.
 
Meh, every time I saw that bloody cardboard cutout in the local EB it caused my lips to curl in revulsion involuntarily.

(Plus all I see is an e-z-bake oven with arms, legs, and a head :D )
 
Genma:TheDestroyer said:
Brother None said:
Fallout 3 features one of the most realized game worlds ever created.
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Really? Really?


Off the top of my head I can think of a few dozen or so that trump it in that department.
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So you have already played through FO3 and have full knowledge of the game world in order to make those comparisons?
 
Matt Helm said:
Genma:TheDestroyer said:
Brother None said:
Fallout 3 features one of the most realized game worlds ever created.
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Really? Really?


Off the top of my head I can think of a few dozen or so that trump it in that department.
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So you have already played through FO3 and have full knowledge of the game world in order to make those comparisons?
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Through, no. I'm switching between it and some other new releases (Saints Row 2, Fable II, hoping to get Red Alert 3 tomorrow).

Between what I've played, and what I've read, watched and heard for the last several months, I think I've got a pretty good hold of it.

But if something magically changes and I have a revelation, I'll mention it.
 
Fable II's "story" makes Oblivion's cookie-cutter main quest look ingenious. Also, the Fallout 3 previews have been annoyingly scant in the last several months. If its game world is as densely packed with quests and treasures and such things as pretty much all reviews have said, I believe it will take you a good many days to be able to accurately judge the quality of FO3's world.
 
sonicmerlin said:
Fable II's "story" makes Oblivion's cookie-cutter main quest look ingenious. Also, the Fallout 3 previews have been annoyingly scant in the last several months. If its game world is as densely packed with quests and treasures and such things as pretty much all reviews have said, I believe it will take you a good many days to be able to accurately judge the quality of FO3's world.
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Who said I was playing Fable II solely for the story? I've had it a couple days, and there's fun in just messing with the economy and seeing what happens. In the space it took a chunk of folks to breeze through the main quest and complain about the length of the game, I was still in Bowerstone trying to make it have a 5-star economy (buying up businesses and homes, messing with rent and prices, trading between cities), so higher class NPCs would show up and I could get new items that wouldn't normally be available at that point.



Anyway, you're forgetting that Fallout 3 got leaked awhile ago. Anyone who cared to could have had access to live streams, youtube videos, and any number of sources that don't fall under Bethesda's gestapo information grip.
 
I was at the Rockville event with the Bethesda guys. Got my copy signed by Todd and Emil as well as the Lead Artist and Producer, whose names escape me at the moment. Everyone was really nice. Some other random employes were walking around the line chatting with people about the game and answering questions which I thought was cool as they didn't even need to be there.

I've played the game for about 9 hours thus far and I think it's great. I mean, there a bunch of niggling problems (some awkward animations and occasional wonky combat situations) but they feel pretty insignificant considering how massive and immersive the game feels. So far it feels worthy of the Fallout mantle.

I'm sure most of you guys will hate, but I think you've already decided that.
 
Sweetness. That sounds awesome man. Did you get to chat with them? Maybe ask them a few questions that gaming journalists never seem to ask?
 
Sweetness. That sounds awesome man. Did you get to chat with them? Maybe ask them a few questions that gaming journalists never seem to ask?
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No, unfortunately. The big guys didn't really have any time to answer in-depth questions as there were tons of people in line for autographs. I didn't want to be "that guy". Good, friendly people though. The random employees (artists, programmers, etc.) talking with the crowd I really should've asked some questions but to be honest I was kind of intimidated and couldn't think of anything interesting to ask.

I overheard one employee (who apparently worked on some of the dialogue) talking about how after all these years, it's kinda like saying goodbye to your baby. He said it was a kind of bittersweet, sending it out into the world only to see it get the piss beat out of it. That got some laughs.
 
Being in Taiwan I'll most likely just order it off of Steam, but more so I'm waiting to hear if the game can be modded.
 
I went to my local Best Buy in the Boston area around noon yesterday and they hadn't even bothered to put it out on the shelves yet! I nearly bought the empty pre-order box by accident until I saw what it was. To actually get a copy I had to ask two different people before someone wandered to the back to dig one out.
 
I overheard one employee (who apparently worked on some of the dialogue) talking about how after all these years, it's kinda like saying goodbye to someone else's baby
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corrected.
 
"Fallout 3 Launch a success"

How could we let THIS happen? I blame NMA. (for posting 10/10 reviews, more generally... for posting F3 news.)
 
cue the influx of people telling us that we have to play the whole game before we can say anything bad about it..

jesus christ!

You'd think people would have better things to do like playing that "awesome game" for it's supposed 100 hours, than to come here and tell us not to hate on it because they assume we know nothing about it.
 
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