New Fallout 3 Screenshots

Tycell said:
We're going to have to face reality guys.

When they took away the Turn-Based element it stopped being Fallout. Instead now to play you need a hyper-gyrex speed laser mouse 3000 and a crate of power-drinks.

Take away turn based and the SPECIAL system (<3) is just a side note you can easily ignore. I have no doubt Beth is doing a fine job at trying to make this have some sort of RPG elements. I reserve judgement but I imagine they will be shallow and simplistic roles but roles all the same.

Without the turn based though there is no point having a SPECIAL system other than to restric how much you can use your pistol-owning skills to back hand anything that doesnt come up with a little green "friendly" cursor.

The monsters too I mean oh my word. What were you thinking? Craptics turned super mutants into Dragon-Ball Z styled super tards and I didnt think it could get any worse, but no! Beth have found a way. Giant ogre super mutants with no minds of their own who have been given enchanted skull trousers from the wizards who live in the giant nuclear bomb dropping helium blimp.

Having nukes every ten steps is just... well I cant even fathom why anyone would think that would be cool. "Oh, its just another nuclear explosion... I'll just wait for it to die down anddd... There we go I can continue through this car park now."

Having a town built around a nuclear bomb... people didnt suddenly turn into cardboard cut outs with moving parts after the war. You think somone would build a TOWN around a nuke? Even if they didnt know it was a nuke its a bomb. Perhaps if the bomb was buried under the town or somthing of that nature then fine, but they pray to it FFS. - Oh wait, it reminds me of thinging... what was that game again? Oh yes, Craptics.

At the end of the day beth is going to have to drop the whole "make it look pretty and have lots of explosions" idea and start putting some depth into the game if they want it to even scratch Fallouts treadmarks. That said, I am greatful to them for actually carrying on the name and not letting the game die off into oblivion (no punn inteded). It wont be Fallout BUT I'd say if your reading this theres a 95% chance you completly intend to go out and buy this game when its released. I know I am.

This, perhaps, is why Beth is scorching Fallout's name so badly? USD's? I think its a fair bet.

Like I said though, I reserve most judgement for when I get to sit down and play the game.
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I seem to be the only one that thinks having a cult that worships a unexploded nuclear bomb is just the kind of crazy that fallout franchise has, and I think it fits in well.
 
Yeah, megaton being a sad barely modified rip off of a sequel to planet of the apes is just what I expect out of bethesda's creativity.
 
Despite that people had lost most knowledge from before the War did not mean that they were ignorant about nuclear weapons or radiation. They knew nuclear weapons were dangerous and avoided the 'hot spots'.

Fallout 2 introduced human groups such as tribals who were more primitive than the people of the shanty towns of Fallout 1, but if we take it that some tribals were like an intelligent PC eve they knew to stay away from undetonated warheads and convince their fellow tribals not to go near them or to tamper with them.

Even the sheriff of Megaton knows the nuke is dangerous, if he couldn't dismantle it himself he sure wouldn't let crazy worshippers get near it.
 
Maybe it's just the quality of the scans, but every single screenshot of Fallout 3 I've seen so far gives me the impression that they've got a great graphics engine and set it as their goal to make it look as dated as possible through absolutely terrible art direction.

In other words, the complete opposite of what Blizzard did with WoW's engine.
 
Wow, the more screens I see of this game, the happier I am about the butchering. If they fuck Fallout up, I REALLY want them to fuck it up. These screens help ensure that they are on the correct path to a shoddy sales record. The graphics relatively look like shit, the mini nuclear explosion from the car looks stupid because it's obviously not affecting the mutant, and Megaton looks like it relies more on pixie magic and the absence of gravity than actual physics and engineering to stand up.
At least for this game, reviewers won't be able to give Bethesda a great big ol' blowie about how great the graphics are.
 
TheSHEEEP said:
Sorrow said:
Dominus said:
imho this is the best screenshot from F3 until now

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Heh :) .
Actually, it's the one that strikes me as the most unnatural looking. It gives me an impression that someone tried to make it look realistic and failed because of technical limitations.
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I think the most strange thing about that screen is that it isn't moving... yeah... sounds strange, eh? ;)
But it makes the whole scene look totally incomplete.

A video of this scene would improve this a lot, I'd guess.
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No, I had the same impression when watching the FINO3 trailer.
It simply looks unnatural :? .

Hmm...
It's mostly the textures - no matter how realistic and "next-gen" they are trying to make it, I see those obscene, unnatural looking blurred textures that make me want to puke :puke: .
That's why I generally dislike 3d graphics.
 
omg explosions and gore it is the formla for epik wins f3 rules you nazi-purist scum


edit lookit the losers rage
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fallout 3 will rule
 
This is hilarious! What the feth is the city called "Megaton"? Where are the real-world names?

I always thought the people at FO were taught to FEAR the nuke, not to WORSHIP it!!!

What the feth, MAY I ASK????!!
 
Dominus said:
imho this is the best screenshot from F3 until now

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Yes. Megaton is pimp.

PS: the exploding car looks so wrong. Could've sworn it looked better in the demo. Regardless, it is a stupid concept
 
Well, I'll say these screenies flipped my perception abit.

1.I started to think that Bethassda fucked up the PA completely. But, these screens actually make the PA look alot like the In-game PA from fallout 1. But, not at all like the Art PA for fallout-1, which is what Interplay was going for but turned to the cleaner looking one ingame...since... It was fucking 1997?!?!?! But PA looks alot better in these screen... but still missing the whole point.

2.I was starting to think that the supermutants only looked bad since the only screens I saw were such shit quality. Wrong. The supermutants with the graphics build and the shaders scream ,..... I MEAN SCREAM... (WE STOLE THIS FROM DOOM 3... CAUSE DOOM 3 IS SO AWESOME AND IT MAKES SINCE CAUSE IT WAS IN DA FUTURE AND HAD TO DO WITH THE APOCALYPSE TOOOO!!!! EVEN THOUGH THAT WAS SATAN>>>>. BUT.... LULZ@!!@! WAHTEVER!)

3.Hmmmmm I just hope that the car explosion is fueled by petrol instead of fusion cells. If not... Then I guess Im going to have to pretend that the car had a power level OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!! And it was destroying all the super-sayian orc mutants. "I actually do kinda like DBZ, but only if it is.... DBZ...."



And PS. The whole deal of Megaton building a town around an undetonated nuclear warhead is actually a very awesome Planet of the Apes reference... so I like it. Unfortunately, what I heard about, and see of Megaton... doesnt strike at all a Similarity with the film. So Ill just have to wait and see. I wonder if they have a "Law Giver". That might make the depression and utter shit I'm seeing here turn into personal happiness... even though it has NOTHING TO FUCKING DO WITH FALLOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Is it just me or does it all look terrible? This isn't even the biased fallout fan in me. This is a point of view from part of me who thinks Halo is a piece of shit. The explosion with the car looks pretty retarded too. I never actually saw that feature until now. Now I know what all the fuss is about. It just looks fucking retarded. Theres no other words I can pick from. Its just retarded. Its OK though. World of Warcraft is a great game. The quests are lame but the rest of it is amazing. I was surprised to see how many types of environments Blizzard made in WOW. I'm not too bummed over Fallout 3 anymore. I don't even look at it as Fallout 3. It looks more like a mod then an actual game. I can't wait to see some moron claim NMA is biased again after this. Lets just hope Valve keeps making games and wait for Fargo to actually live up to his claim on bringing back Post Apoc RPG's. Cause if he does, we are in the clear! Really now, F3 graphics don't even look that good. And the only reason I bring that up is because thats what I thought they were focusing on. But now it seems its all very ugly in every aspect. This news is much of the same 'ol. Nothing new, just more diarrhea.
Will I be vatted for this or am I just another one out of 20 people all saying the same thing?
 
Did anyone look at Hulk's grotesque of a left palm? He's got SQUARE WIENERS for fingers!! It's 2008, the hell were they thinking, making the orcs uglier than those in Forgetfullnes? They are ill-proportioned, unnaturally twisted(see: the exploding car ogre) abominations! Why the skulls, somebody asked? Cause Predator is the only holodisk this dumb twin of Nemesis from RE3 ever saw.

And that's not a mushroom cloud, its' a goddamn mushroomed fireball. It's got to be. There's just no other explanation for the peacefully burning wreck and the unharmed orc with the net stockings on his arm, turning his torso MechWarrior style.
No, seriously, just look at his fucking left hand.

I'm definitely not happy with the architecture.
Except for you and the green mean machines, the whole world is dull coloured.
The settlement looks to me exactly like those in Forgetfullnes, only made of tin and plywood instead of wood and stone.
You want to know where the shadows are? They probably can't get it running smooth with shadows turned on yet. Not with all that bloom and PipBoy shaders. Thanks God PA wastelands need no foliage, says Todd to himself right now.

Apart from the helmet, power armor sucks dead gophers. Some guy at Bethesda took the Tin Man encounter literally.

And looks like we're getting to the best part yet! The head explosion!! Serves to show all of you who didn't know, that from the neck-up your head consists of nothing but a mandible, two eyes and MythBusters ballistic gel. Yaay! The same body part-popping shit from Soldier of Fortune 3 is also here - you have a head, I put a small-caliber rifle bullet in it, you don't have a head.

Bethesda should seriously look at what they're doing. Screwing up the graphics in a graphics-driven FPS when you're desperately trying to milk the kids of their money isn't the brightest thing to do.
 
haha =) I'm absolutely loving Bethesda's PR dept!

It appears that CVG weren't supposed to show these screenshots yet, so I assume they were asked by Bethesda to remove these screens from the preview and replace with the old ones, which were published at the official website long ago.
 
13pm said:
haha =) I'm absolutely loving Bethesda's PR dept!

It appears that CVG weren't supposed to show these screenshots yet, so I assume they were asked by Bethesda to remove these screens from the preview and replace with the old ones, which were published at the official website long ago.
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Really? :D
 
Yip, looks like they're gone.

Not the first time something like that happened. Bethesda's PR tries to be restrictive but it's not like it's in full control of the media.

Oh well, it's of no consequence to us keeping the pictures up

LOL EXCLUSIVE NMA SCREENSHOTS!?!?!?!
 
Ooops!

Looks like somebody's gotta their butt kicked in some serious way. Heh heh heh.

NMA scores!
 
Brother None said:
LOL EXCLUSIVE NMA SCREENSHOTS!?!?!?!
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No way, I'm going to upload them to my gallery too later today!


Megaton and the environments look great, special effects look good, models so-so, I don't like the mutants and the Gears of War vibe in some of the pictures. Fallout should be more unique.
 
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