Project V13 Screenshots and more Concept Art

Actually, the power armour doesn't look as bad as I'd feared. It is sort of reminiscent of the old Iron-Man mark 1 armour- or possibly a suit of Space Hulk armour. Now, If only I could convince myself that MMORPGs aren't the cesspool of the gaming universe...
 
The Super Mutant looks much closer to Tactics than the original Fallouts.

I would like to see actual "this is it" screens, but I don't think that's going to happen for awhile. Then we can tear them and each other up. ;) It is still good to question and voice likes and dislikes.
 
One that doesn't work out as much. :lol: It's like a mix of Tactics and Fallout 3, only cartoonish. I just can't really say "wow, at least their going back to original Super Mutant design!" because it's not coming off as that to me.
 
Rufus Luccarelli said:
I just can't really say "wow, at least their going back to original Super Mutant design!" because it's not coming off as that to me.
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Absolutely, by all means, it still looks like shit, only slightly less shit than tictacs and fo3
 
Those screenshots look pretty good. Yes, they look dated and I hope that is not a vault suit -nor a vault-anything- but I like them nonetheless, specially when they must barely be proof of concept or whatever the earliest stages of development are called.

What does amaze me, though, is how the main physical feature of supermutants seems to be lost after FO2: they were largely hunched. I mean if someone had asked me for the main SuperMutant physical characteristics I would've said 1) green 2) large 3) muscular 4) hunched backs.

But apparently hunchbacks ain't kid friendly.
 
Looks like Fallout 3 running at 800*600 with a cel-shading filter.

Meh.

Can't say anything good about design so far either.
 
Rufus Luccarelli said:
Dragula said:
How would a correct 3D render of a super mutant look anyway?
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That's freaking amazing... You can see the vestiges of humanity in the lower right picture... He really looks like a mutated human and not an orc.
 
Screenshots look pretty good for a project that Interplay supposedly couldn't raise the money for! Not only does it look more "Fallouty" than F3 (or Fallen Earth!) it looks better to my eyes than Fallout3. "Realistic" graphics aren't necessarily better than artsy graphics imo. When you are trying to make everything look true to life the downside is that if you don't get it quite right everyone notices.
 
the stuff in these screens looks decades old and embarrassing.

What the hell are you talking about, Twinkie Gorilla? EQ was 10 years ago and I guarantee you that if 1000 people compared this to original Everquest graphics, all 1000 of them would say these are much better. Did you ever even play MMOs a decade ago? Let alone several decades ago? And for that matter 3D graphics themselves are hardly more than a decade old. NWN came out less than 10 years ago and it was Bioware's first 3D game. Did NWN have better graphics than this? Bleh. Who you trying to fool?

Graphics look fine. And I'm *picky* about graphics, so if I say it, it must be true :p

You know what really doomed original Fallout 1/2? Vicious and anal retentive fans.
 
programmer.craig said:
Screenshots look pretty good for a project that Interplay supposedly couldn't raise the money for! Not only does it look more "Fallouty" than F3 (or Fallen Earth!) it looks better to my eyes than Fallout3. "Realistic" graphics aren't necessarily better than artsy graphics imo. When you are trying to make everything look true to life the downside is that if you don't get it quite right everyone notices.
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How much I agree with you. The real point here is that games were NEVER supposed to have realistic graphics in the first place.
Do you expect from books to have realistic graphics ? No. Can they be immersive ? The hell yes.
Do you expect from board games to be realistic ? No. Are they fun ? The hell yes.
Do people snob animated movies or comics because they aren't realistic ? No. Simply no.

Then why the fuck is the entire game industry overflown with realistic games and dumb gamers bitching about every game that isn't as being "ugly" ?
I don't have a clue. But it despairs me to a point I just want to isolate myself in a cave playing totally unrealistic great games like Fallout, Vampire, Thief II, etc...

So, I really don't care if these graphics are outdated or if the Super-Mutant is too smooth. They still have an atmosphere thousands times more faithful to the originals than Bethshit3. But they're just early screenshots, and besides I'm guessing most of you don't play MMORPGS anyway. So, relax, really.
 
Arr0nax said:
Do you expect from books to have realistic graphics ? No. Can they be immersive ? The hell yes.
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Uh, books don't have graphics, pure text. Unless you're reading "Go, Dog. Go!"
 
Arr0nax said:
Do people snob animated movies or comics because they aren't realistic ? No. Simply no.
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Actually people do, but that's neither here nor there.

The graphics aren't super amazing but it's an alpha build and the art style seems to be going in the right direction based on these three screens (which isn't a large enough base to say either that the whole game is fucked or great). Are the giant, barely touched buildings in the background okay? No but that's a seperate issue from whether or not the style of what's presented is right. Is it legitimate to complain about it being semi-cell shaded? Yes, I feel that Fallout was going for a fairly realistic appearance but the technology of the time and specifically what they used limited that.

End of the day, it's a Fallout MMO that, even if the setting and style is right, most likely will not be Fallout due to it being a MMO.
 
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