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Our good friends at Strategy Informer have done a Fallout 3 preview/interview and...uh...well...<blockquote>After seeing the demonstration, it is clear that Fallout 3 is going to be a great RPG and an even better return for the much-loved series. After Oblivion, it would be hard to think of a developer better suited to bringing Fallout back that Bethesda and from what they have so far, even the most hardcore Fallout fan will find a lot to love here. In closing, I asked Pete what they wanted to get out the release of Fallout 3.

Pete Hines - “I'd like to see two things. I'd like to see people who played the original Fallout and say “That is exactly what I wanted from a new Fallout game” or maybe be so bold to hope that folks will think it was even better than what they expected. We want fans who loved that series to find a game that is true to what they remembered. We also want bring a bunch of new fans to this series – maybe people who weren't old enough or weren't into it ten years ago that now have a chance to experience this really great world that Tim Cain and all those other guys created and hopefully have a great time playing our game.”</blockquote>Fallout 3 preview on Strategy Informer.

Spotted on BethBlog.
 
I read "overzealous fanboys" and it's really enough for me to know this is more of the same bullshit. I don't even need to reach the "it is clear that Fallout 3 is going to be a great RPG" part you quoted...

Blergh blargh blugh bugh bah blergh. There, I made my very own Fallout 3 (p)review.
 
Jeez its always like "If Fallout 3 was a girl we would make sweet love with her. Know what? We will make sweet love with Fallout 3 anyway."
 
Brother None said:
Pete Hines - ...“We want fans who loved that series to find a game that is true to what they remembered..."
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Is it 100% certain that he has definitely played (and is "a huge fan of!!!!!one") the original Fallout and did not mistakenly play, say, the original Doom? Or Wolfenstein 3D? Because something in these quotes simply does not comply.

Or maybe he plans to include a memory implant in the game that will give us different memories of Fallout, who knows.
 
Morbus said:
I read "overzealous fanboys" and it's really enough for me to know this is more of the same bullshit. I don't even need to reach the "it is clear that Fallout 3 is going to be a great RPG" part you quoted...

Blergh blargh blugh bugh bah blergh. There, I made my very own Fallout 3 (p)review.
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Strategy Informer is good people, though. I have nothing but good memories of cooperating with them. Maybe it's different for them, I dunno.
 
Pete Hines said:
[...] or maybe be so bold to hope that folks will think it was even better than what they expected.
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I usually expect less and less after each preview so odds are the game is going to be actually better than expected...but still fail.
 
Brother None said:
I'd like to see people who played the original Fallout and say “That is exactly what I wanted from a new Fallout game” or maybe be so bold to hope that folks will think it was even better than what they expected. We want fans who loved that series to find a game that is true to what they remembered.
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:crazy:

As I see it: he has lost his mind if he believes in his own words, OR it is some kind of a very clever way of telling us: I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU SO MUCH THAT I WILL KILL WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT THE MOST. HA!
 
"I'd like to see people who played the original Fallout and say “That is exactly what I wanted from a new Fallout game” or maybe be so bold to hope that folks will think it was even better than what they expected. We want fans who loved that series to find a game that is true to what they remembered."

Unfortunately, for this to happen I would have to jampack my body so full of illegal drugs that I would most likely die shortly thereafter.
Will the collector's edition come with a large quantity of dope and funeral insurance?
 
Someone get Hines a straight jacket because he's obviously off his rocker if he thinks that dumbing down all the moral implications and story elements of the original Fallout can somehow still appeal to original fans of the series.
 
I just don't think FO3 will touch anywhere near the subtlety of mechanics that lurked under Fallout's surface.

Things like high Awareness alerting you of items in a nearby locker, for instance. The game was chock-full of these background mechanisms, and these mechanisms aren't that obvious to a casual observer.
 
Actually I think I'm confusing them with someone else. A site we cooperated with for a Pete Hines Q&A

Can't remember who
 
Brother None said:
Actually I think I'm confusing them with someone else. A site we cooperated with for a Pete Hines Q&A

Can't remember who
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StrategyCore?


The interview ended with the eager interviewers getting kicked out of the conference room so Emil could do a video interview. I would like to thank Emil Pagliarulo for his time and gracious patience and No Mutants Allowed for their extensive list of Fallout 3 questions!

Mike Nino, StrategyCore
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Dang. Right you are.

Stupid mix-up. I always mix up my strategy specialist sites

Nevermind then. These guys just suck.
 
Ok, so usually I'm an optimist, but how can anyone take this seriously??
I'd like to see people who played the original Fallout and say “That is exactly what I wanted from a new Fallout game"
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Pete, perhaps if that was what you wanted to hear when you were finished, maybe you should have listened to those same people when you started. They told you what they wanted. You chose not to listen.
 
Pete Hines - “We want fans who loved that series to find a game that is true to what they remembered.”
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I can only paraphrase Madonna:

Wanting, needing, waiting
For you to justify my love
 
I don't know.. I am getting more excited.. It probably won't be perfect. But this kind of IS what I would have "dreamed" of as a Fallout game.

I really liked the idea of the Fallout setting.. more than any mechanics.. so getting me experience closer to being the VD and less of controlling him, is all good in my book. I mean it was all what we were "imagining" when we were playing the game anyway.

And for those saying the imagination is enough.. sure imagination is good. But how many people would choose imagining going on vacation over actually going on vacation.

Now obviously there are concerns about character choice and story quality, but from a "concept" this is absolutely what I would have chosen.
 
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