D+Pad sit down with Bethesda on Fallout 3

more heat than light wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:Do you think Joe Public is going to pick up Banjo, Fable 2 etc.? Because I don't.

Ooh, harsh. I think Fable 2 will sell boatloads personally.

If I recall, the original did pretty well - I'm genuinely curious as to why that was, because it doesn't necessarily have much of what tends to sell these days.

Banjo might have it tougher, but there haven't been any real quality platformers on the system, so I think it'll do fine.

Sadly (or happily, depending on how you look at it), it's not a real platformer.

Fallout is a tough sell if you ask me, it looks drab (purposefully, of course) and the RPG aspects might be too tricky for your casual Call Of Duty fan. I honestly think it'll struggle.

But it's from the guys who did Oblivion, and it has guns in. I'm not saying it'll set the charts on fire, but I can't see it doing much worse than those two. And I can't see any of the three being breakout hits. They're all very much gamer's games.

Hero of Canton wrote:But it's from the guys who did Oblivion, and it has guns in.

You think the two are compatible? I can think of quite a few people who loved Oblivion for its fantasy setting. Throw a load of guns in there and you end up alienating those people. I know what you're saying, it's a gamers game and it'll sell to the core 360 audience. But I don't think it'll appeal to a lot of people.

Can you ask them, if you are strong enough in game, can you kick a chicken at an enemy and kill them?

That should be the staple question to ask of all game developers.

more heat than light wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:But it's from the guys who did Oblivion, and it has guns in.

You think the two are compatible? I can think of quite a few people who loved Oblivion for its fantasy setting. Throw a load of guns in there and you end up alienating those people.

That's a good point, but I'm thinking first week. I imagine the combination will stoke the fires in some people's loins, but it may mean it has a pretty steep drop-off, if what you say turns out to be right (and you could well be).

Indeed, one of my problems with the game is the combat - Oblivion's melee combat worked so well because it felt different. Fallout has tons of FPSes which it has to be compared with, and it's almost certainly (barring a late-development miracle) going to fall short on that front. VATS is fun, but I imagine the slowness of it is going to get old after a while. And you can't even use it all the time.

Brerlappins little hat wrote:but itll move shedloads to the original fallout PC players

Maybe, but it is a completely different game.

Question: Can I pile up paintbrushes to complete the main quest before properly starting it?

MHTL, sure it's from the makers of Oblivion and has guns. But it certainly ISN'T Oblivion with guns. There are a lot of gameplay changes. Basically like saying Haze is Timesplitters only without the monkeys. Definitely not the case, even if they are the same genre.

Jaxley wrote:MHTL, sure it's from the makers of Oblivion and has guns. But it certainly ISN'T Oblivion with guns. There are a lot of gameplay changes. Basically like saying Haze is Timesplitters only without the monkeys. Definitely not the case, even if they are the same genre.

Let us hope that Timesplitters to Haze is not an accurate quality comparison! :lol:

Eighthours wrote:
Jaxley wrote:MHTL, sure it's from the makers of Oblivion and has guns. But it certainly ISN'T Oblivion with guns. There are a lot of gameplay changes. Basically like saying Haze is Timesplitters only without the monkeys. Definitely not the case, even if they are the same genre.

Let us hope that Timesplitters to Haze is not an accurate quality comparison!

Nah, wasn't to do with the quality. :lol:

Thank god.

I'm sure it will do fine.

D+Pad sit down with Bethesda on Fallout 3

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