Fallout system requirements revealed, gold confirmed

kikomiko said:
If I do, then I know you guys will just bash my opinions to death,
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The reason your statement is being bashed is because it's very general and pretty much the generic PR line about what's great about the game. You need specifics to convince people, especially here and general statements will receive ridicule (though I agree that it should be more balanced).

kikomiko said:
Also, the game hasn't come out yet, so I don't know how any of us can really have a solid opinion on it yet.
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You might wanna tell that to this guy.
kikomiko said:
I'm getting this on my 360! God, I just CANNOT wait for this game. I don't care what ANYONE tells me about it. It is going to be insanely fun, and that's that.
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My point is simply that if there is enough information for you to be that excited about it and think it's going to be that good then how can there not be enough information for the opposite?

kikomiko said:
I loved Oblivion because of its amazing open environment, creative quests, and deep RPG elements
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The environment is a given but do you have examples for the latter two? I'm not trying to be a dick here, (I know of at least one quest line which is praised) I'm just looking for examples to support your very general points.
 
Oblivion didn't have any "deep rpg elements".

But it did have some fairly good quests, eventhough they usually had only one possible outcome (but there were exceptions).

I liked DB and Thieves guild quest lines, some of the standalone quests (painter, hackdirt, lost painting..) and a lot of SI.

But still, I wonder what FO3's quests are gonna be like, because they are the MEAT of the game. And FO3 was mostly written by Pagliarulo, unlike Oblivion which was written by...Rolston? And the difference between main quest (rolston) and DB (Pags) is quite big.
 
I for one do not see what is so 'deep' about the DB questline. Maybe I didn't make it far enough in, but everything seemed shallow and consistent with the rest of the game. Some of SI was decent, but the voice acting and acting managed to screw over the eccentricities of the characters.

As for the requirements, nothing unexpected. Hopefully it'll be better optimised than Oblivion and not slow to a crawl with a lot of stuff onscreen even when you have a relatively powerful system.
 
Video card compliant lists are always incomplete. You should of been able to to test the game on your system with a demo release, which is part of the purpose for a demo. Unfortunately we aren't getting one.
 
frosty_theaussie said:
Got an X800XT here... guess I won't be able to run it?
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You will...X850 is the same thing as X800, its just differently clocked.

I finished Oblivion the first time on X800 256MB, and it ran quite well on medium - high, except for forests. And again, there are no forests in FO3. I think you will be okay.
 
But still, I wonder what FO3's quests are gonna be like, because they are the MEAT of the game. And FO3 was mostly written by Pagliarulo, unlike Oblivion which was written by...Rolston? And the difference between main quest (rolston) and DB (Pags) is quite big.
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Rolston didn't do the main quest. Kurt Kuhlmann did. And the Dark Brotherhood questline wasn't as amazing as everyone always says it is. A couple of the earlier quests might have been considered good in a stealth game, but as it was Paglirulo just transplanted a stealth game's gameplay into an RPG and forgot to add the choices and consequences as required by the genre. The latter half of the questline doesn't even have any story. You just go around and kill a bunch of random dudes. Even the main quest was, dare I say it "deeper" than that. And the final part where you couldn't warn the other Black Hand guys about the traitor...I mean WTF?

Regarding the OXM "review", it's from the same magazine that called Halo 3 "the best Xbox360 game ever". ROFL.
 
I'm getting it for my PS3, although my PC could run it on medium - low settings.

I'd rather play the game on my 42" plasma though.

As for Oblivion having "deep RPG elements," hell, I'd say that even Morrowind (I game that I love) doesn't have "deep RPG elements."
 
Lingwei said:
Rolston didn't do the main quest. Kurt Kuhlmann did. And the Dark Brotherhood questline wasn't as amazing as everyone always says it is.
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Okay, I was wrong there. Anyway, I never said that DB was amazing, just that I liked it..and I consider it better and more entertaining than the main quest. But you are right - the inability to make choices and consequences permeates this questline just as it does the rest of the game. But from the beginning, Bethesda said that FO3 will take the approach of Fallout's, not Oblivion's, in this regard. Hopefully those quests with choices and consequences will be well written, that remains to be judged.
 
Paul_cz said:
Okay, I was wrong there. Anyway, I never said that DB was amazing, just that I liked it..and I consider it better and more entertaining than the main quest. But you are right - the inability to make choices and consequences permeates this questline just as it does the rest of the game. But from the beginning, Bethesda said that FO3 will take the approach of Fallout's, not Oblivion's, in this regard. Hopefully those quests with choices and consequences will be well written, that remains to be judged.
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But you don't find the fact that an optional side-quest chain was quite a bit better (and more enjoyable) than the main quest troubling?

To me, that's nearly a deal breaker in and of itself.
 
rcorporon said:
But you don't find the fact that an optional side-quest chain was quite a bit better (and more enjoyable) than the main quest troubling?

To me, that's nearly a deal breaker in and of itself.
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Well, Oblivion was designed in a way that was completely open, so you could play it for hundreds of hours and never even touch the main quest...so it didn't get the preferential care it was supposed to get.

And as I said, the main quest of FO3 is written by someone else than the main quest in Oblivion. If it was the same person, I would be quick to judge it off too...but it is not, which means I am going to give it a chance.


..and since I enjoyed Oblivion for what it was (consequence free action freeroaming game with beautiful world), I am sure I will enjoy Fallout 3 as well, even if its not as good as I hope (which would be something like Bloodlines in terms of quality).

But one thing is for sure - bad animations and voice-acting is NOT a deal breaker for me.
 
Herr Mike said:
I have an NVidia 8600 XFX. I wonder if that'll work.
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Of course it will work. Don't expect maximum details or resolution higher than...1280*1024, but it will work.
 
Info from Desslock on qt3:

"The PC version runs much smoother than Oblivion, and looks better, for what it's worth (very good frame rate on a system with a single 8800 GTS at 1920x1200). But I suspect there's the usual bunch of hardware issues with the PC version that will become more apparent once it's stress-tested by the zillions of possible system/driver configurations. My main system explosed a bug with SLI support (on my specific cards only - 8800 GTS, not GTX) for which Nvidia is working on a fix."

See? No forests, no "speed"grass, no fps problems.

EDIT - rest of his specs -

"2.67 Core 2 duo 6700, XP32 bit, max ram.

Loading times are much faster than in Oblivion once you're in the game (so leaving buildings, etc.). Initial boot time may be lengthier though."
 
Hey guys!
I was hoping to get an opinion, and this seems the place to find one :)

I just recently bought myself a new computer, the first in about.. 6 or seven years.
So i really have no idea what system specs mean what.
But since right after I got a bought I found out there was a Fallout 3 coming I decided I had to get... now it doesn't seem to.. live up to the standards of the predecessors, but well.. I still want to try it out so.. do you think this would work?

Amd Athlon 64 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2,70 ghz
3 Gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3650

Like I said I cant really tell wether this is enough seeing as how the last time i shopped for pc games 500 mhz was a pretty powerful processor.. so.. grateful for any replies!
 
Bentley said:
Hey guys!
I was hoping to get an opinion, and this seems the place to find one :)

I just recently bought myself a new computer, the first in about.. 6 or seven years.
So i really have no idea what system specs mean what.
But since right after I got a bought I found out there was a Fallout 3 coming I decided I had to get... now it doesn't seem to.. live up to the standards of the predecessors, but well.. I still want to try it out so.. do you think this would work?

Amd Athlon 64 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2,70 ghz
3 Gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3650

Like I said I cant really tell wether this is enough seeing as how the last time i shopped for pc games 500 mhz was a pretty powerful processor.. so.. grateful for any replies!
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You really just bought that computer?

My god man! It's like age-old. It really won't cut it.
These days you need at least:

Pentium Core50 75Ghz
6 Tb Ram
ATI X250075320.1

I suggest you bring that back to your PC vendor and ask your money back.
 
Yeah see, I have no idea if that was sarcastic or what...
But thanks man.. real helpful there...
 
Bentley said:
Yeah see, I have no idea if that was sarcastic or what...
But thanks man.. real helpful there...
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Tee-hee, just kiddin'

't Is because you're a Swede, y'know: you people are already so rich and good-looking, it takes a swindle like this to get you down to our level sometimes. Y'know, just to make ourselves feel good.


But no, that's a good rig. I think it's better mine, even, so it should run everything without problems.
 
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