The guys posing for the picture don't seem like raiders to me. They look more like redneck survivalists. If you've never lived in the MD/DC/VA area, I can tell you these are the type of yahoos you'd see in the post apocalypse. Still, I agree that they look a bit too "modern," though maybe it's just the style of art that was used, which looks a bit too 80s (and cluttered) for my tastes. The composition is not so great, but as someone said earlier, maybe the piece was cropped. Plus, as stressed by InfinityDUCK, this is CONCEPT art, not a screenshot or box art or what have you.
As for them looking too "weak," that's just plain retarded. Hell do you think these kind of guys look like in real life? (Have you ever lived in rednecky regions of the US?) Should their guns be bigger? Should they be working out at the gym more so they can look more bulky and muscular? Maybe they should be wearing meaner expressions?
The dead guy is definitely wearing some sort of heavy armor or "light" power armor. Hmm, just wondering if the Enclave will be featured in FO3.
Well, I think he had some valid points and the whole banning thing is pretty bitchy and cliqueish. I mean, it gets to a point where you're nervous about the whole project and intense until you realize how nerdy and worthless wasting any more air on it is. How far away from pompous, whining Star Trek nerds can we be? And these poor guys slaving away on this game: well, fuck, I can understand how at this point they'd have nothing else to say but "fuck you." Regardless of how good or how bad FO3 is (yeah, probably bad), we will pick it apart to death, maybe rightfully so or maybe unfairly, but the fact is that the original creators of Fallout (Cain, Fargo, Boyarski) had nothing to do with this game, and so it's not going to be the same thing. It may have a similar look and feel, but it will not be classic FO. Will it possess all the magic of FO1, the cleverness, the profound sense of isolation and gloom? Probably not, and my expectations are pretty low. But what non-creative people don't understand is that you can't just take something that was created by one artist and expect a second to reproduce it to a T. It's just not how it works. I'm sure they're going balls out in an attempt to (it seems to me that guys at Beth like Pete Hines are getting older and more mature and now desperately seek artistic credibility, and a dark post-apoc game like FO is the chance to gain it after spending so much time with foofy fantasy crap), but any creative endeavor is in large part a matter of luck and timing and the reception of fans and to be sure they are fighting an uphill battle. In a way I feel sorry for them. Am I a Bethesda fan or a troll? Am I expecting FO3 to be good let alone the best game ever? Negative to both, but God if I'm not exhausted even debating anything at this point. In two weeks hopefully we will know a good deal more. I'm pretty excited about that.
As for them looking too "weak," that's just plain retarded. Hell do you think these kind of guys look like in real life? (Have you ever lived in rednecky regions of the US?) Should their guns be bigger? Should they be working out at the gym more so they can look more bulky and muscular? Maybe they should be wearing meaner expressions?
The dead guy is definitely wearing some sort of heavy armor or "light" power armor. Hmm, just wondering if the Enclave will be featured in FO3.
Mr. Teatime said:
Well, I think he had some valid points and the whole banning thing is pretty bitchy and cliqueish. I mean, it gets to a point where you're nervous about the whole project and intense until you realize how nerdy and worthless wasting any more air on it is. How far away from pompous, whining Star Trek nerds can we be? And these poor guys slaving away on this game: well, fuck, I can understand how at this point they'd have nothing else to say but "fuck you." Regardless of how good or how bad FO3 is (yeah, probably bad), we will pick it apart to death, maybe rightfully so or maybe unfairly, but the fact is that the original creators of Fallout (Cain, Fargo, Boyarski) had nothing to do with this game, and so it's not going to be the same thing. It may have a similar look and feel, but it will not be classic FO. Will it possess all the magic of FO1, the cleverness, the profound sense of isolation and gloom? Probably not, and my expectations are pretty low. But what non-creative people don't understand is that you can't just take something that was created by one artist and expect a second to reproduce it to a T. It's just not how it works. I'm sure they're going balls out in an attempt to (it seems to me that guys at Beth like Pete Hines are getting older and more mature and now desperately seek artistic credibility, and a dark post-apoc game like FO is the chance to gain it after spending so much time with foofy fantasy crap), but any creative endeavor is in large part a matter of luck and timing and the reception of fans and to be sure they are fighting an uphill battle. In a way I feel sorry for them. Am I a Bethesda fan or a troll? Am I expecting FO3 to be good let alone the best game ever? Negative to both, but God if I'm not exhausted even debating anything at this point. In two weeks hopefully we will know a good deal more. I'm pretty excited about that.
What are the advantages of the 'ma Deuce'? Extreme firepower at extreme range. Now in a clusterfuck of a junkpile that 'ville seems to be, the last place you would set up your 'ma deuce' is on the street level. 
