More Fallout 3 Concept Art

Bytez said:
Great art work with a fresh new look... come on you toads break out of the mold :roll:
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Ahahaha, what a delightful and amusing jest. Such wit and hilarity is not often heard this season, good sir!
 
you guys are looking at it the wrong way, it might not be fallout, but its closer than the first two, and this is coming from the company we all think will just fuck it up
 
Great art work with a fresh new look... come on you toads break out of the mold :roll:
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I'm not trying to be pessimistic by any means. I actually do have high hopes that Bethesda will do a fine job. I personally will accept some elements most others in this community resent (non-isometric, not turn based, etc). I'm a realist and I've accepted that games are just not made like that anymore, as sad as that may be. However, with that said, for me, what I enjoyed most about Fallout was the open ended universe, story, setting, moral ambiguity and retro 1950's style. If those things are implemented properly, I feel as though I'll enjoy Fallout 3 very much.

The concept art I've seen as of late just doesn't have that clunky 1950's retro feel to it. Now, I realize it's only concept art and I can't draw any real conclusions from that, but nevertheless I really hope the next bits of art released will incorporate some form of Fallout's unique style. If not for anything other than to show us fans they "get it". :D
 
Nice artwork, and definitely best of the three, but as a lot of you have already said: I miss the retro 50's touch. I want to see some close-up stuff, not these emotional landscapes.
 
Heh nice, fallout on the eastern seaboard. New York....D.C.
Reminds me of Super Hero League of Hoboken. That was a cool early 90's post apocalyptic game.
 
If anything this is the worst concept art of all 3 in regards to Fallout. If you took pictures of Anacostia I would bet that a lot of those buildings would line up in relation to the bridge.
 
Bradylama said:
If you took pictures of Anacostia I would bet that a lot of those buildings would line up in relation to the bridge.
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Actually, they don't (if I have found the right place of course). Taking a quick glean over the buildings from this area, I say none of them are high rises. It's mostly storage/mall/suburbia. Even the roads don't match.

I don't like the lack of retro future as we all do.
 
i dont like this artwork

its a good artwork for any port-apocalyptic game playing in the present, but i really hate that this was made for fallout

it's just.. not fallout
 
yossa said:
I don't like the lack of retro future as we all do.
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Hmmm... I'm beginning to wonder if they are going to ditch the retro theme altogether and instead say that the "big war" happend sometime during "now" (2007) and "the time of the game".

It could be possible, and would make sense time wise since we can't uninvent everything that happend between now and the 50's. And we know that no major nuclear war of this scale has taken place...

So - effectively the technology that we have now *today* would be retro in the future if you catch my drift....

Still - I do like that 50's feel.... hmmm.... hmmm....
 
TheVaultKeeper said:
yossa said:
I don't like the lack of retro future as we all do.
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Hmmm... I'm beginning to wonder if they are going to ditch the retro theme altogether and instead say that the "big war" happend sometime during "now" (2007) and "the time of the game".

It could be possible, and would make sense time wise since we can't uninvent everything that happend between now and the 50's. And we know that no major nuclear war of this scale has taken place...

So - effectively the technology that we have now *today* would be retro in the future if you catch my drift....

Still - I do like that 50's feel.... hmmm.... hmmm....
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First of all, no.
Secondly, that'd miss the entire point of calling it Fallout.
Thirdly, Fallout's war happened in 2077 in an alternate Earth.
Fourthly, NO!
 
Vault 69er said:
First of all, no.
Secondly, that'd miss the entire point of calling it Fallout.
Thirdly, Fallout's war happened in 2077 in an alternate Earth.
Fourthly, NO!
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Haha... touched a sore point I see. Well - I agree, it wouldn't be good. In fact - it would probably be terrible. It's just that the carrier in the picture looks so modern.... more like something from the recently released futuristic C&C 3 than anything from the 50's. And hence the problem, and why we're critizing it I guess....
 
TheVaultKeeper said:
Vault 69er said:
First of all, no.
Secondly, that'd miss the entire point of calling it Fallout.
Thirdly, Fallout's war happened in 2077 in an alternate Earth.
Fourthly, NO!
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Haha... touched a sore point I see. Well - I agree, it wouldn't be good. In fact - it would probably be terrible. It's just that the carrier in the picture looks so modern.... more like something from the recently released futuristic C&C 3 than anything from the 50's. And hence the problem, and why we're critizing it I guess....
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Well not really. It's not as if carriers have changed that much over the years, apart from size.
The problem is that while better than the last pieces of art, it's still generic post-apocalypse. Which really, Fallout 3 cannot be. You'd think they'd know this after Fallout Tactics and PoS. :x
 
The Big O

The Big O



Autoduel76:
... it's a World War II era Aircraft carrier rather than a modern one.
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WW2 era carriers were modernized over the decades, some were attack carriers during Vietnam years and active Cold Warriors into the '70's.

The USS Oriskany was a movie star.

023442.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/023442.jpg

Tarnopol at DAC noted that the bridge tower was on the port side in the eye candied pic.
The concept art may have used the mirror image of this pic:

023435.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/023435.jpg


http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/34.htm

... Fifty-six years after she was first commissioned, Oriskany was finally laid to rest on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico in water approximately 212 feet deep and about 24 miles south of the coast of Pensacola, Fla., 17 May 2006. ...
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Repeating My Cold War One Antidote on Jeep Carriers.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-escrt.html

Heard talk as kid on harbor tour, long ago. Some WW2 era escort carriers were being refit as evacuation ships for our valiant senators and congressmen to get the hell out of DC via helicopter.
Us navy brats were comforted by the cold fact that no bunker could be deep enough in the Norfolk area to surviver a nuke. Would never know what vaporized us.
Imagine a fleet of America's select lawyers and politicians, nuked out of a job, and let loose to salvage / savage the Eastern Seaboard, Pirates of the Chesapeake!



4too



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Why does the
fail here and DAC for Firefox, after 20 - 30 or so minutes?

This jpg of the decommisioned Oriskany is very likely the image that was ripped for Bethesda's concept art.
 
Vault 69er said:
The problem is that while better than the last pieces of art, it's still generic post-apocalypse. Which really, Fallout 3 cannot be. You'd think they'd know this after Fallout Tactics and PoS. :x
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Well - there's also the possiblity that this is just the "mainstream hype machine" that we're seeing. And that once we fire up the game itself there will be plenty of "non-generic" vibes like in FO 1&2.

FO 1&2 weren't actually that great commercial sucesses from what I've heard. At least not initially, so I bet bethesda want to avoid making the game apear to strange at the first glance since many people simply wouldn't get it.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see....
 
TheVaultKeeper said:
Hmmm... I'm beginning to wonder if they are going to ditch the retro theme altogether and instead say that the "big war" happend sometime during "now" (2007) and "the time of the game".

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I doubt they've dropped the retro theme. Its just that these last two pieces of Art haven't been anything that would show it.

Based on the first concept Art poster, though, had the retro theme and considering that some of the devs on the boards over there have been talking about the retro future theme, I highly doubt that Fallout 3 doesn't have it.
 
The thing I pinpointed about this picture is that the buildings seem to be all steel frame, and the ruined buildings in Fallout were more crumbling concrete. Yeah, there would be steel inside the concrete, but the concrete seems to be missing here. Plus, there were VERY few multi-story, above ground buildings left in FO 1/2. There were the casinos in New Reno and the Cathedral, but certainly no skyscrapers.

I think it's the most "Fallouty" of the concept pieces so far, but those skyscrapers seem to break the vibe. If there are buildings that big, they should be more Empire State and less Sears Tower.
 
jfreund said:
The thing I pinpointed about this picture is that the buildings seem to be all steel frame, and the ruined buildings in Fallout were more crumbling concrete. Yeah, there would be steel inside the concrete, but the concrete seems to be missing here. Plus, there were VERY few multi-story, above ground buildings left in FO 1/2. There were the casinos in New Reno and the Cathedral, but certainly no skyscrapers.

I think it's the most "Fallouty" of the concept pieces so far, but those skyscrapers seem to break the vibe. If there are buildings that big, they should be more Empire State and less Sears Tower.
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We never saw the entire world in Fallout 1 and 2. It's quite possible that areas were hit worse than others. The amount of nukes to destroy every building above a couple stories would be immense and not logical.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I beleive the limitations of Fallout 1-2 may be why there were not as many multi story buildings as we have seen in recent concept art.
 
Re: The Big O

4too said:
Tarnopol at DAC noted that the bridge tower was on the port side in the eye candied pic.
The concept art may have used the mirror image of this pic:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/023435.jpg
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whoa thats the ship .. nice work and thank you i've been looking around navsource.org all morning ... it kind of devaluates the final picture seeing that its components were so easily found :) and are public domain ... still is a nice piece of artowrk .. but for me it just got some of the magic drained instantly when i saw this

somehow i am sure that the ship will be in game since there are a lot of pictures on navsource fom all angles - perfect for modelling and also posters with a 50s vibe - lol i made a sloppy comp quickly showing how the pic fits and other angles:



thanks again 4too and tarnopol
 
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