P3Zine Fallout 3 preview

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P3Zine covers Fallout 3 in issue 16 of their freely downloadable mag thing, calling it "the future of RPG" on the cover. It's much the same as other previews as far as I can tell: we learn that "ever since purchasing the rights to develop a Fallout game ... Bethesda have gone to work to make a game Fallout fans - and non-fans - can be proud of"; the game "currently sounds like the perfect blend of Fallout and Oblivion"; the screenshots are old; "the ending alone currently has more than 500 versions" (this is repeated in a floating quote for good measure); and blowing up Megaton is still used as an example of moral choices and gaining karma depending on your actions.

In addition to the preview there's a 4-page interview with an unnamed personage, and again this will be very, very familiar to anyone who's read a Todd Howard or Pete Hines interview in the last year or so. According to the zine the game is 70% complete and 90% good, but we can assume at least the first number isn't entirely accurate, what with the release date drawing nearer and everything.

Spotted on Fallout 3: A Post Nuclear Blog
 
This makes me sick, they're getting free ads disguised as a preview!
I dont get it, how dumb those journalists are? Can you imagine if every news had the journalist personal opinion? They are supposed to report what they are seeing, and that's it!
If having a Gaming magazine its that easy, I wonder if I can get into game journalism too...
Cant complain only about journalists though, people buy this kind of crap, wich is even worse :roll:
 
Logan said:
Can you imagine if every news had the journalist personal opinion? They are supposed to report what they are seeing, and that's it!

Remember Jeff Gerstmann, editor over at GameSpot?
 
They're not dumb, they simply need the money. Dumb are the people who read and believe all these 'previews'.
 
Southpaws said:
Logan said:
Can you imagine if every news had the journalist personal opinion? They are supposed to report what they are seeing, and that's it!

Remember Jeff Gerstmann, editor over at GameSpot?

You mean the guy who put out horrendously badly written material month after month?
 
Eyenixon said:
Southpaws said:
Logan said:
Can you imagine if every news had the journalist personal opinion? They are supposed to report what they are seeing, and that's it!

Remember Jeff Gerstmann, editor over at GameSpot?

You mean the guy who put out horrendously badly written material month after month?

Posh! The ends justify the means! :twisted:
 
They're not dumb, they simply need the money. Dumb are the people who read and believe all these 'previews'.

Question really is, aren't they hurting themselves in the long term, through loosing their credibility (if some of them ever had such a thing).
So they might actually be dumb, but only in the long term ;)
 
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