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Pete Hines (PR Bethesda) was kind enough to drop into our forums and post a little snibblet about why the Developers at Bethesda cannot talk about Fallout 3 yet, and without furter ado:<blockquote>There are no devs to be open to interviews because currently there are no devs for Fallout 3. As we've said several times, we're in pre-production and in the process of hiring people to work on the game. When there are devs, and they are ready to talk about the game, and we have something to talk about, we'll talk about the game.</blockquote>So there, we just have to wait it out...Like we never done that before.
 
Since game devs are always limited with some publishers requests we could know these requests atleast. I can udnerstand that they have no devs yet but I can't belive Bethesda bought license without any principal plans as well as i can't belive that devs will have 100 % of freedom while making game. If it by a chance was 100 % of freedom ( yeah, one can dream ) then it would be ok with me that "it's too damn early to say a shit" but such things just don't happen. Then I want to know limitations and general concepts put on devs.
Well, atleast we should know what criteria dev has to meet to be hired to make fallout 3. Now since it was said Beth is looking for popele they have to know who they hire.
All that "too early" talk seems to be playing dumb to me.
 
IMO they did have a plan, but that plan could be changed. Which is something they're going to discuss when they have the team ready, right now there's not much we can do. And besides we've shown what we want, now let's just wait and see..

If it's another crappy sellout, then we can at least bash it like we did Fbos..

And let's not forget the PA title from Troika, but they too need to try to sell that title as a TB one..
 
That fits in with what the DEvs told me in regards to my interview requests, they'll not be allowed to interview til theres something to say.


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Im actualy glad Pete's not letting anyone talk yet, as it'll take away the cances of a repeat situation like when IGN misquoted him, which caused lots of anger over here.
 
Odin said:
IMO they did have a plan, but that plan could be changed.
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Do you think they had their original plans but changed them when heared fallout fans point of view or maybe because some new man with new ideas poped up or some man with prewius ideas is gone so they need to rethink all stuff ? Or it's just wild guess of your what is going on in Beth ? Do you know something more ?
 
Frog said:
Since game devs are always limited with some publishers requests we could know these requests atleast.
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I believe bethesda is both the developer and publisher (i don't know about distribution), so there's no 3rd party publisher to put restrictions, this is what allowed such a long development cycle on morrowind. I remember reading this awhile ago (around morrowind's launch) so it could have changed (or i could be utterly mistaken, but I'm pretty sure this info was true at some point)


SuAside said:
How about Bethesda hiring Rosh for quality assurance? :twisted:
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With Rosh's standards for a fallout game, i doubt the game would ever be finished.
 
Macaco said:
I believe bethesda is both the developer and publisher (i don't know about distribution), so there's no 3rd party publisher to put restrictions, this is what allowed such a long development cycle on morrowind. I remember reading this awhile ago (around morrowind's launch) so it could have changed (or i could be utterly mistaken, but I'm pretty sure this info was true at some point)
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Still their own publisher. Least in the US. Others (including UbiSoft) publish their stuff in europe.
 
we're in pre-production and in the process of hiring people to work on the game
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How about hiring Troika to make the game. I'm sure you have funds to employ them. :lol:

But anyway, if there really aren't any devs at all, there's no excuse for not properly answering on questions about such basic ''fallout things'' as TB combat and camera wiewpoint(iso, fp, tp). These are so essential aspects, it's just impossible that Beth guys don't know how they will make them yet. And this leads to think that they are trying to hesitate as long as possible because the truth that has to be revealed is too shocking for us. :?
 
You're just being a pessimist. Pre-production to me means that they may not have decided yet, nothing more, nothing less. Asking them to comment on all of those items is pigeonholing them, and they probably don't want to be locked into something before the decision is made, especially if they go back and change their mind.

And the fact that a Bethesda dev showed up here and posted indicates to me that Bethesda is actually concerned with what NMA'ers think, and I am going to stand by that assertion until they prove otherwise.

If you want to be constructive and not just complaining to the wind, why don't you go start a poll in the Fallout forums about all of your questions? Them pm Mr. Hines the result when enough people have voted, showing that its alot more than just you who want a particular POV, TB vs RT, etc.
 
MrSmileyFaceDude said:
Keep in mind, we didn't even announce Oblivion until last Friday -- nearly two years into actual development.
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So I take we can expect the info on Fallout 3 around 2006-2007... :roll: :roll:
 
Death_Claw said:
MrSmileyFaceDude said:
Keep in mind, we didn't even announce Oblivion until last Friday -- nearly two years into actual development.
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So I take we can expect the info on Fallout 3 around 2006-2007... :roll: :roll:
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Only if you want us to really rush things. :wink:
 
BlueDev said:
Death_Claw said:
MrSmileyFaceDude said:
Keep in mind, we didn't even announce Oblivion until last Friday -- nearly two years into actual development.
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So I take we can expect the info on Fallout 3 around 2006-2007... :roll: :roll:
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Only if you want us to really rush things. :wink:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

If you take less time than Duke Nukem Forever I'll be happy...
 
But Oblivions development included making of the new engine. I assume F3 will run using this engine, so development period of F3 should be significantly shorter. Am I right?
 
BlueDev said:
Death_Claw said:
So I take we can expect the info on Fallout 3 around 2006-2007... :roll: :roll:
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Only if you want us to really rush things. :wink:
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Take as long as you need to finish it. No, seriously, 2007 sounds like a good year to me. It's the 10th anniversary too.
We may sound impatient, but most of the intelligent people at NMA realise that it should take a long time to develop. Please don't rush it! :D
 
PsychoSniper said:
That fits in with what the DEvs told me in regards to my interview requests, they'll not be allowed to interview til theres something to say.

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Im actualy glad Pete's not letting anyone talk yet, as it'll take away the cances of a repeat situation like when IGN misquoted him, which caused lots of anger over here.
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It goes with the teratory, otherwise you would have people saying stuff that would not be officail and thus could be changed etc...
Besides which I'm sure they are all under confidentiality contracts (standard practice in IT industry)

At least they give the appearence of wanting to listen to us and the rest of the fan base, which is more than Interplay did
 
Big_T_UK said:
We may sound impatient, but most of the intelligent people at NMA realise that it should take a long time to develop. Please don't rush it! :D
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Amen :D Oblivion should keep me occupied untill then anyway... and there is a tonne of other decent games to keep me occupied until Oblivion.. :)
 
Zajcew said:
But Oblivions development included making of the new engine. I assume F3 will run using this engine, so development period of F3 should be significantly shorter. Am I right?
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The basis of the engine yes, they don`t need to create much new technology, although that has to be planed with a working team. My bet is that it will take less time to produce it than Oblivion.

Wich doesn`t mean 2007 isn`t a possibility though :?
 
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