| To be honest I personally didn't know that Bethesda had acquired the rights to Fallout. I remember playing through Oblivion and fantasizing about supermutants, ghouls, and slavers instead of maruaders, bandits, and theives, about crowbars and combat knives instead of maces and swords.
In short, I was thinking about what one of my favorite alltime games would look like tricked out in 3d and with all the new technologies!
I'm at a total loss to concieve of what all you guys are saying about 3d ruining Fallout. I mean, people complained about pen and paper games dying too, but we didn't really hear them because they were drowned out by the people who were peeing themselves to see what they had only previously imagined.
I think these complaints are motivated more by fear that Bethsoft will somehow screw up Fallout 3 than anything else, and I personally have that fear.
A point was brought up earlier about how since now everything will be voiced there will be less if any sillyness. This is, in my opinion, a very clear and present danger.
What made Fallout so awesome for me was that the npc's stepped out of character so often. From cows going "Moo, I say!" to a drunken friar in New Reno giving the character the "Fallout 2 hintbook" the campiness of Fallout is what made it so great.
Losing that aspect would truly be a tradgedy, as it seems to be out of Bethsoft's style. I've spent over 120 hours adventuring in Oblivion and have seen less game acknowledgement (that is, acknowledgement that the player is in fact playing a video game) than in the first two of either Fallout game.  |