If your a fan of the Fallout series like me, your anticipating the release of Fallout 3. So I figured I'd start a thread for any fans that may be here to talk about Fallout 3 or the Fallout series.

Fallout 3 is to be released on Oct 28, there are video's of its gameplay located on Youtube. There are five of them currently, the game looks too be everything promised since 2003 and then some. Thumbs up to Bethesda, though it had better not end up being flat like Elderscrolls IV: Oblivion, there previous release, the engine of which this game is based on.

Though, I think its going to be a great game, after all, nailing someones head to any imaginable surface wall with a Rail Spike gun in the middle of Super-Duper Mart, or wherever the *censored* else you can imagine. The thought of using the power fist in 3d is also VERY promising, pounding off heads with it seems incredibly fun.

Anyway, post any of your thoughts or comments on the game. If your a violent video game hater and you bash this or any other violent video games, don't bother posting, I don't care to hear people whining about "Murder simulators". Moved to Games from Others The Fallout series has been one of my all time favorite series and I'm *real* excited for this latest release it's been a long time and honestly something I didn't think was actually going to happen after the issues with Bioware.

Thanks for the YouTube video. Get me a little distracted from work for a bit.

* Just as a friendly reminder this game and the video has violence and swearing.

Can't wait. I've always been a fallout fan, there was one un-official fallout game for Xbox I never played, Brotherhood of Steel. I've played the rest though, aside from the old fallout 3 demo, never bothered with it. I hate demo's, they just leave me unsatisfied and usually drive me further down the line of boredom.

Anyway, oops, forgot there's swearing in the trailers, was half asleep when I posted this. Oh well, you can turn the language off I think (don't quote me on that, search Google for a definite answer.).

Though I am not a regular posting here, I definitely will disappear when Fallout 3 is released, I HOPE to be working as a night stocker at Wally World by then so I can get money to get my license and a car in 09, maybe even the money I need to get my 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Brougham on the road. Between working 11PM-7AM EST, and Fallout 3, I doubt I'll have much free time. Not that I'm complaining, stocking at Wally World isn't exactly what I'd call a hard job, way easier than bagging for the local GROCERY. I like the graveyard shift anyway, I'm an insomniac.I'm with you there. I'm sure when this game hits the market that if it's as good as it's looking to be that I'll be vanishing for awhile as well. I'm a long-time fan of Fallout; it has been my all-time favorite series ever since I first played. So, I'm definitely extremely iffy about this new game. One of my favorite things about the game was its engine. As BUGGY as it was, it was such a fun gaming engine. And now with it being turned into an FPS, I'm sorely disappointed. It makes sense in a way because Fallout is all about freedom and expansiveness and desolation, and this new game really helps with that. And I have to admit that it does look like a really cool game and it's nice to get a whole new perspective of the Fallout world, but it just isn't the same and...well, that bugs me. Oh well, I know I'll still play the *censored* out of it when it comes out. I may be a bit more excited when the time actually comes. And at least Ron Perlman is still in the game. Without him, it just wouldn't be Fallout.You hit the nail on everything I was concerned about on this game Chris. I'm just trying to remain delusionally (is that a word) optimistic about this game and hoping for the best. But I agree the whole new FPS view is a completely different (hopefully in a good way) at least you can still go third person from the looks of it.Yeah, one of the demos even showed an overhead view. That's promising, but my concerns are still strong. And with all of these new people on the team, I'm worried about it not staying true to the series. Those new robots kind bug me...they look quite a bit like Mr. Handy, but they're Protectionators or something? And is it just me, or are the characters excessively violent? I know people are hostile in the wastes, but this is a bit much; especially considering that you can get through the first game without killing a single person (except for the very end, of course). Also, I noticed in one of the demo videos that they kept referring to that ghoul as a zombie...I really hope they don't change them like they did in that awful Xbox game a couple of years ago.

If Interplay hadn't heartlessly screwed over the BlackIsle team, I think we'd have a better chance of getting a great game, but I will try to remain unbiased until I actually play the new game. It certainly can't be any worse than the demo that was released a few years back.

It would be really awesome if this brought about a revival of the Fallout Bible.



Sidenote: I now live above the site of Vault 12. I know you're jealous.Oh crap man, I have a sudden urge to pick up a rifle and senselessly slaughter ghouls now that I've been reminded of Necropolis. That $*%@ing water chip drove me mad, fallout 2's dreams where worse. Fallout 2's ending was horrible, unclear and horrible. Fun games though, I hope FO3 really brings Fallout back to life.

Oh, and there WAS senseless violence in the wasteland, remember the random encounters? Recall the raiders that shot anything that so much as twitched? The Rad scorpions? The crashed UFO with the alien gun and the "Please return to Area 51 if found." tag? Need I go on? Random encounters where often violent, 'nuff said. Oh, how could I forget, Ghouls and Super Mutants weren't exactly friendly either.

Besides, the very reason I played the fallout series was because of the well played story line combined with the high levels of violence. I never get tired of carnage in video games. This is coming from someone who'll use a couple hundred blast doors in Garrysmod as dominoes just to kill ONE person! So yeah, the thought of the Pipboy targeting system allowing me to graphically blow someones head off by hitting them in the face with a grenade really appeals to me. I LOVE senseless violence in video games, never get enough of it. Though, I'm the opposite about those carnage based movies like Saw, that crap bothers me.

I always wiped out the Raiders camp in FO1, 'lotta goodies there. Fallout Tactics: BOS for PC was good, though I never played the Xbox version of Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. I hear it was horrible though, I mean come on, there not zombies, there Ghouls! There still alive.. Sort of... I guess they COULD be called a Zombie, but I still prefer classic terminology. Like good old Harold the mutant that lived behind that house full of hostile guys, I'd walk by there and the door would be open and I'd randomly get shot.

Regardless that every game has its bugs, ES IV Oblivion had many, and this is the brainchild of the people that made Oblivion. So I'm kind of concerned that I'm going to see people walking into the side of a building like there walking down a street or that I'm going to see a lot of weird glitching like the world going invisible and crap, oh, not to mention where I've seen NPC's sit there in oblivion and constantly loop scenes until KILLED. Kind of like that bug in STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl where the scientist at the Agroprom or whatever it was called kept saying "Hello, Hello.". I'd be killing zombies then all the sudden faintly hear "Hello, Hello." off to my side and turn, next thing I know a zombie would rush me and blow my brains out with a Makarov PM.

Point being, I HATE video game bugs that interfere with game play, NPC's that won't function properly, distracting glitches, items/weapons that are improperly programmed and don't work, and most of all, poorly mapped games. Oh, wait, scratch crappy maps, I hate crappy physics engines even worse. Bullets don't go straight! That's right Bill, I'm referring to the Master Chief, who's rifles always shot straight. Even though the physics engine COULD do bullet physics, the PROGRAMMERS failed to realize that BULLETS don't go STRAIGHT! That has to be the most annoying part of a game, arcade like gameplay, I HATE ARCADE GAMES!

EDIT: I wonder what a game would be like with Starwar's movie physics, where the lasers NEVER hit the good guys unless its gonna be uber dramatic. I cringe at the thought of a six part video game CUT scene. *Insert disc twenty two for cut scene*