Fallout 3 preview on Gamebanshee

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Gamebanshee has published a Fallout 3 preview. Written by Thomas "Brother None" Beekers, it's based on the same notes and impressions that made up the basis for NMA's own preview by Brother None and SuAside, but there are also musings on fan reactions, so check it out.<blockquote>There're few things as ugly as the reaction this game has garnered from the traditionalist Fallout fans. And considering that most of their worst fears came true, it's not so much a question of whether or not Bethesda's Fallout 3 so far lives up their standards of a sequel, but more what one can really ask from a sequel like Fallout 3.

Is it really fair to directly compare a sequel to its 10-year old predecessor? That's not really a question I can answer here except in saying that in calling it Fallout 3, Bethesda is calling forth these expectations themselves.</blockquote>Link: Fallout 3 @ GameBanshee.
 
If it is still set on the East Coast, this li'l bit on page one may need correcting. :D

For their iteration, Bethesda has chosen to set the game in 2277 on the West Coast of post-apocalyptic America.
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Cheers, Thorgrimm
 
Hehe, you said really at least 8 times in this short article. I counted "real", "realistic" and other similar terms at least 20. That shit gets to me unless it was intentional. Sorta like using the improper wording "is because" 50 times to get a point across.
 
Mad Max RW said:
Hehe, you said really at least 8 times in this short article. I counted "real", "realistic" and other similar terms at least 20.
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I do say really a lot. 5 times in the last page.

If I don't count real-time or real water refraction, which are both technical terms, I can only count 2 times I said realistic, tho'. Nothing wrong with that. Where you got the 20 from?

an odd choice of words, dear Mr Beekers.
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Is it?
 
Brother None said:
an odd choice of words, dear Mr Beekers.
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Is it?
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well yeah. realism has little to do with it as far as i'm concerned... it's like saying Schreck looks more realistic than The Hulk.

it's rather pointless since both are pretty much fantasy.

i suppose you mean bonestructure etc, but i think the originals reflect a mutation far better than beth's supermutants... (and they've got more character to boot)
 
The Beth Mutants have more veins; i.e., more realism. Stop being so dumb Su.
 
"" ... Never The Twain Shall Meet ... ""

"" ... Never The Twain Shall Meet ... ""




""East is east ...""

""West is west... ""

If the context be global, the end is at the beginning ... circular argument ...

If global, which way is up?

Geographical orientation is cast adrift on an extrapolated continuum.
We can presume the writer is living large at the x,y,z, and t (time) of personal convenience.

BN at G-0 (Ground Zero).

Heads up be North.

If Brother None volunteers to be all things, including:
ego, id, AND Euro --> centric,
then FO3,
coasting on the right side of the continental United States,
is on the left side, THE WEST SIDE, of the Atlantic Ocean.

Therefore the case for ... point of view ... writer's world view ...

'may' allow ""west coast"" as a geographical convenience.

Brother None, stand tall at your Ground Zero, take a page from the Double Speak Text Book and have the world SPIN around you!

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East -- west? Maybe BN asked that mythical marketing American target demographic for directions.




4too
 
SuAside said:
well yeah. realism has little to do with it as far as i'm concerned... it's like saying Schreck looks more realistic than The Hulk.

it's rather pointless since both are pretty much fantasy.
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Not quite. 7' foot green Schwarzeneggers simply look more realistic than hunched hulk-types who look like they could not possibly biologically support that muscle structure.

The hulk-type mutants from Fallout 1 have more verisimilitude, they're more accurate depictions of mutations as determined by Fallout's setting. But the Fallout 3 mutants have more realism in the conventional sense of the word.

Thanks, 4too! I think.

PS: the errors are fixed now.
 
OK, I got the point. Comparing "Dragostea din tei" from O-zone (that ****** song they played all the time a year or two ago which was extremely popular) to Armstrong is not fair because Armstrong is 70 years old.
 
Karel said:
OK, I got the point. Comparing "Dragostea din tei" from O-zone (that ****** song they played all the time a year or two ago which was extremely popular) to Armstrong is not fair because Armstrong is 70 years old.
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I fail to see what this remark has to do with anything.

So:

Huh?
 
Good work Kharn. It was very fair in my humble opinion. But I felt it lacked some soul, which was there in the nma-James Bond-sneaky-preview.

Easier accepted by the general gaming crowd, without selling out.

Nicely done.
 
tfp said:
But I felt it lacked some soul.
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Yeah, I know. Little wonder, though, it's hard to write with passion on the same subject with pretty much the same text twice. That's just for this piece, tho'. I'm more proud of my BioShock review for GameBanshee and the upcoming previews I'm working on for that site.
 
Passion or no passion you have a great writing style, and put your thoughts out in a very pleasable fashion. Like Junkevil wrote, good read.
 
* "Let is in motherfuckers"
* Giant crater made by a chunk of metal that fell from a plane
* Exploding nuclear cars
* Nuke catapults
* Toilet drinking
* Stupid gags

Um... I'm glad to see that the next Duke Nukem title is this far in development and am looking forward to playing it. Now, if only someone would start making Fallout 3...
 
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