Fallout 3 Q&A

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Written by BuckGB on April 17th, 2008

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(The 360 is our lead development platform, so we got it working on that one first,) he said. I mean, we develop them all simultaneously, but one of them's got to be the lead, so it was 360.)

The choice was made more by the timing of the console's release than anything else, Hines added.

(We had a year's head start on the 360 because it came out a year earlier, so we had final dev hardware to work with earlier on than we did with PS3,) he said. (But as this point all three of them are pretty much on par. The goal is that, if I get three versions in here and hide the console or PC and just had them running on the screen, that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.)

(Thirty frames a second is our goal, so it's running at 30 frames a second and it's nice and smooth,) he said, talking of the PC version.

(Yeah, that's the goal,) he added, when asked if the 30FPS target was the same for Xbox 360 and PS3.

(The goal is that it's similar to what Oblivion was for its time,) he said. (So, it's not Crysis but it's not solitary, and hopefully it's as scalable as possible. So if you've got a shit-hot machine and you've got all the latest video cards, and whatnot, then it'll look amazing, but if you've got a standard gaming rig then it still runs good.)

In terms of a final PC spec for the game, Hines said it was still too early in the development cycle to be able to give a definite list.

(Given how successful it was for us on Oblivion, certainly it's a given that we'll look into it and what we'd like to do,) he said, talking of extra content for the anticipated post-apocalyptic RPG.

(But I can't tell you when, I can't tell you what it would be, or what it would look like. Will it be bigger stuff like Knights of the Nine or smaller stuff? We've no idea. We'll let folks know once we get down the road.)

What happens if he dies?

(Dead,) said Hines.

Is there another dog?

(Nope. One dog. Be careful.)

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