VentureBeat interviews Todd Howard

[Seto]

One might also want to notice that a pacific approach of the game was almost impossible during that fist hour of hands-on since we were a lot more the attacked than the aggressor.

Is anyone surprised?

It's like George Carlin said: "if we don't talk about it, it's like a big f*cking elephant in a living room full of guests that everybody fails to mention" - fallout fans everywhere where shouting from the very beginning, trying to avoid this and exactly this.

To be completely honest I can't say it's a bad game, at least not at this point, but how exactly is it Fallout? I always wanted to have some FPS in a post-apocalyptic world where you REALLY had to fight for a survival, almost like a MMO, but I never thought of calling it a Fallout

My question is: now what? Do I get to see a true spiritual Fallout-sequel? Wasteland 2 or some new project done by Obsidian? Or do I have to live until 2077 to experience it first hand (and try to find a Vault where the experimenting is not that bad)??

This whole thing seems almost ironic - the wasteland is ruthless and unfair. If you enjoy that environment, that surely you won't mind all this now, would you? I wouldn't be surprised to see Fallout fans become paranoid and isolated, living in abandoned fallout shelters, eating canned food and MREs

 

[Steel_Ball]

One might also want to notice that a pacific approach of the game was almost impossible during that fist hour of hands-on since we were a lot more the attacked than the aggressor.

Is anyone surprised?


My question is: now what? Do I get to see a true spiritual Fallout-sequel? Wasteland 2 or some new project done by Obsidian? Or do I have to live until 2077 to experience it first hand (and try to find a Vault where the experimenting is not that bad)??

To the point about pacific approach: I thought the same way. I know that there were hostile NPC in FALLOUT1/2, but for the most part, NPC didn't automaticlly attack unless you "said" or "did" something to piss them off. I am worried that in FALLOUT3 you are going to just have to kill everyone for no apparent reaason. Todd only mentioned STEALTH as a alternate approach, but STEALTH is not the same as talking to NPCs and working your way through situations in a diplomatic way. STEALTH just means that you sneak around and avoid contact with NPC. So it is looking like you either have to avoid cntact with NPCs or you have to kill everything in site...gezzz, talk about a lack of choice :/