New Fallout 3 Teaser Trailer

[Bodybag]

The overiding lasting impression: "Holy shit, is that entirely in-engine? Better than I thought!"

OH MY GAWD! Is that really in-engine? Never have human eyes happened upon such piece of awesomeness.

Who knew "Better than I thought!" would be the code word to arm FeelThe Rads' crazy bomb? (I did, that's who)

Are you fucking blind?

This is such a great question.

Too much bloom affects the vision and the brain , you know?

It sure sounds like some bad shit, man.

Even friggin' Half-Life 2 looked better than this piece of shit, and please tell me when was it released?

Even friggin' Half-Life 2. Way to lose the battle even harder, FTR. HL2 is still one of the better looking games released since its debut (Nov 16, 2004 FYI). The view in the distance for the F3 trailer reminded me quite a bit of HL2, actually, and I scored that in the "for" column.

Note that it was you, in your screetchy meltdown post, that suggested my eyes happened upon such piece of awesomeness[sic]. All I was saying was it looked better I thought. Keep in mind all I've really had to go on were some crappy screenshots up to this point.

Bethesda keeps dragging on the same old and clearly dated engine and it still takes them YEARS to release a game and that with outsourcing and everything.

Yeah, fuck those guys! Also: Indians.

And their games are barely, BARELY more complex than your average shooter.

Are we straying away from the previously "purely visuals-related" rant? Because the average shooter nowadays looks pretty good.

It's really amazing to me how there are people who can't see how pathetic Bethesda is.

More like Pathesda, am I right? It's amazing to me that you conflate a simple difference of opinion with an absolute lack of vision. Well, I guess amazing is a strong word.

I'm going to have to go "beware" at this point.

Hey, hey - ease down there, Smokey. Are you telling me the trailer was too good to be true? You'd better watch out for FTR, he's probably going to try to talk you into Lasik.

Incidentally, Oblivion runs just fine on my machine, as does Bioshock, STALKER , SupCom, and anythig else not Crysis (which runs OK!). I saw nothing in that teaser that would be unattainible on my end. If you have some inside info which corroborates that F3 looks nowhere near that good spill it already.

 

[Brother None]

Hey, hey - ease down there, Smokey. Are you telling me the trailer was too good to be true?

No, I was saying - in fairly clear terms - that the trailer's graphics might well be of higher quality than the final game. I say this because the teasers are both in-engine, not in-game, and because Bethesda has a history of showing videos that are of higher quality than the final product. Since you appear to be most excited about the graphics, I'd just thought I'd helpfully point out that while Bethesda graphics tend towards the pretty, they also tend towards the "not as pretty as shown".

Which is the case for a lot of games these days, really.

Incidentally, Oblivion runs just fine on my machine.

Good for you I guess. It's still a terrible optimized piece of software. Now that is an example of an indisputable fact.

If you have some inside info which corroborates that F3 looks nowhere near that good spill it already.

Never said I did.

By the way, if you're interested in thoughtful postings it might be fruitful not to harp on the weakest reply to your post (please resist the temptation to formulate a clever reply to this remark, B), but rather look to Ashmo's or fedaykin's.

 

[the4thlaw]

Looks okay I guess... it's just the same as the first teaser only instead of a radio it's a TV and instead of a BoS fella it's "you"

it was really unimaginative and well.. lazy

 

[ushdugery]

But this thing from Bethesda had no damn point to it. Nothing was told. Nothing there could possibly foreshadow a future development. No character was established, no information was given, nothing about the story was revealed, and nothing was even done to familiarize the premise of the Fallout universe to new players. "Sugar bombs?" Just stupid.

It's an obvious example of Bethesda just regurgitating something that struck them as "cool," and doing so with their trademark lack of judgement, humor or artistry.
Was there anything memorable in this? Anything haunting? Anything original? Anything of any remarkable quality?

Said better than anyone else could say like fallout 1 only duller more lacking less interesting and having no creativity you've changed or destroyed all the other gameplay elements/cannon from the first game why just carbon copy the intro now?

 

[horse]

ya, except they didnt cc it. the fallout 1 intro was artfully done, with many aspects combined in it, one of them i have mantioned in an earlier post. it made the whole thing... more believable. it succeeded in depicting not only a scenerie, which this new trailer does, too, but manages to implement a bleak undertone... that opposite between what has been, and what is now. and it achieved that within the technical restrictions of this time. somebody really took his time and thought about this trailer, and made good decisions.

that trailer indeed looks more like something that was on a to-do list and had to hit the timeline, but not much more besides that. to polarize even more: the fallout 1 trailer is like a very good independent movie, the fallout 3 trailer is like an over-budgeted a-movie with b-story relying on cgi. ha!

 

[astupidretard]

Look at the "room" -
There's a teddy bear in perfect condition, a couch faring very well (though this was the case with various pieces of furniture in FO1/2 also) a candy or pill box of some sort (someone else called it a Mentats box, I'm not certain) a few hypodermic syringes, a pristine television... Maybe I've just read too many Sherlock Holmes stories, but the only logical conclusion is that a n addict with a child (or a childish mind) with a sadistic sense of humor set up an old skeleton in the midst of a room being regularly and presently utilized for TV-viewing.

...which is interesting to consider as a really cool encounter, but highly unlikely as being Bethesda's intention.

Did any of you catch any of those documentaries about "what the earth would be like if humans disappeared?" They showed cities and towns disintegrating over the course of first days, then months, then years, decades and centuries. Neat stuff, and Beth might've gotten some better ideas for "immersion" had they watched it too.

Provided, of course, that they didn't just "procedurally generate" those features.

 

[horse]

ah

that has that bloodlines-innuendo... garys room

i like the idea, but you think WAY ahead of bethesda, i guess, as you guessed

come to think of it: from everyday life i know how terribly fast things deteriorate if you dont care for them. i had a piece of land once, with a little hut on it, which we used for outdoor fun, barbecues etc. ive bought it for a few 1000s with some friends. well, after we all went to study elsewhere, we left it alone for half a year, and met again after that. there we had our personal little fallout irl... took us 2 days to clean it up.

in 'i am legend', this deterioration is depicted artfully. i dont know any documentation... sauce? i just know a bookthat describes this.

 

[Bodybag]

Hey, hey - ease down there, Smokey. Are you telling me the trailer was too good to be true?

No, I was saying - in fairly clear terms -

I knew i should've thrown in a winky smiley in there. I figured riding in immediatley behind the context of the main reply would've covered that, but I was just doing a little playful juxtaposition here.

Which is the case for a lot of games these days, really.

Hmm. *rubs chin, nods*

Good for you I guess. It's still a terrible optimized piece of software. Now that is an example of an indisputable fact

.

It's an example of all kinds of things, honestly. Whoever pitched that original "undisputable fact" comment had better duck, because there's a wild zinger charging the mound!

By the way, if you're interested in thoughtful postings it might be fruitful not to harp on the weakest reply to your post (please resist the temptation to formulate a clever reply to this remark, B)

I think you did most of the heavy lifting for me (as usual ), but yeah, we're *almost* on the same side here; I'm not really looking for trouble. Seriously, I was just replying to the people I saw quote me directly in their replies (sorry Ranne, but I saw your post to late.) I don't know if I've made this clear enough, but I'm not that sold on the visuals myself; I'm just relieved they don't look as assy as all those screenshots. SO FAR.

but rather look to Ashmo's or fedaykin's.

Neither of these guys came close to calling me fucking blind, why would... oh, thoughtful discussion ect.

Let's see then

fedaykin and I are basically on the same page, though he seems too defensive to let his graphics whore skeleton out of the closet. (dude, it's OK to want sick visuals. Anyone who questions your cred because you do is retarded. You cred is fucking golden.)


Ashmo seems to have more artistic differences, which I'm not EVEN going to begrudge him. Still:

Using the in-game engine is no excuse. Using the in-game engine for a clip like that isn't a good idea to start with -- it's just being lazy and wanting to be a real film-maker (games are not movies, retards!).

That's what you wanted me to reply to? I think you know exactly where that discussion was headed.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Note that it was you, in your screetchy meltdown post, that suggested my eyes happened upon such piece of awesomeness[sic]. All I was saying was it looked better I thought. Keep in mind all I've really had to go on were some crappy screenshots up to this point.

Well, I'm so sorry... I must've mistaken you for a proud Bethesda kneepads wearer what with all this supposed smartass attitude and sarcasm you try to throw around and fail painfully whenever someone here says something bad about Fallout 3.
Of course HL2 is a good looking game, the point is it's older than Oblivion and Bethesda still wasn't able to get better than that and yet waves and waves of mooing children (category in which I had no trouble putting you in - again, you fail at sarcasm, it just doesn't suit you) are still drooling at their graphics.

 

[fedaykin]

he seems too defensive to let his graphics whore skeleton out of the closet. (dude, it's OK to want sick visuals. Anyone who questions your cred because you do is retarded.)

It's not OK to prefer sick visuals to sick gameplay, though. Now that would be truly retarded
So when are you going to open your closet?

 

[Pope Viper]

"Sick"

For us oldsters, is that good or bad?