| Well, the guy who designed the lockpicking mini-game in the latest Thief game is the same guy who did it for Oblivion (I think), or at least they hired some guy who was a developer for the Thief series or something to work on Oblivion, so if he's still working for Bethesda then it wouldn't be much of a stretch to see the same sort of mini-game in Fallout 3.
However, I'm not necessarily in favor of the lockpicking mini-game for Fallout 3, not because it's not fun (it is), but because it's been done before in other games and I would like to see something else. I think there's kind of a limit to the number of mini-games you can have in one game, so if there's anything else that is different yet just as fun, I would just as soon have something else be the mini-game instead (such as computers). I don't really have anything against it, I just think something else might be more fun.
As for the tribal "where did that computer skill come from" issue, obviously there are computers lying around, or else why else would you need the skill to play the game in the first place?  |