Fallout 3

MOAR INFO HAS BEEN RELEASED.

http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=856489

I'm going to miss killing children

lol, no traits. At least with traits, I was able to create a little bit of backstory to my characters before I'd even start playing. Now, all new characters are the same old cookie-cutter clean slate classes.

Also, not being able to kill essential NPCs? What the hell? One of the best parts of the originals was that you could pretty much kill anybody you wanted, except for those who were actually essential, who drove the story. You only saw them about twice near the start of the games anyway, so killing them was pretty fucking difficult. Now, you have to follow a set storyline.

Example: Fallout 2 - Lynette, Vault City. She called my character an idiot, so I thought she was a bitch, and did what any other civilised person would have done - I grabbed my .44 magnum and shot that cunt straight in the fucking head, shot up her guards, and then swaggered over to New Reno to fuck some hookers. It was awesome, and actually allowed me to play the role of a post-apocalyptic Samuel L Jackson. Got a pretty hefty amount of exp for it too. In Fallout 3, however, she would be 'unconscious', despite having a great bloody hole in her face, and then wake up, perfectly happy, to give me a fucking fetch quest to get her some flowers or something equally childish and family friendly, to appeal to the ESRB or some shit.

The drug taking aspect of the game better be good.

Oh and did you guys know? Australia saw what FO3 was all about and now it is BANNED! This could be good - lots of drugs and killing shit. It could also mean they've turned it into some shitty run of the mill gore fest.

Better not fuck it up, Bethesda.

I'm not sure, but I believe Lynette would fall under a non-essential NPC.

I'm pretty sure that they didn't fuck up the drugs portion, after all, it was that (not gore) that made the Aussies qq. Quoting from Wikipedia (not the most reliable source, I know, but I'll take its word for it this time.
"On July 4, 2008, Fallout 3 was refused classification by the OFLC in Australia, thus making the game illegal for sale in the country. In order for the game to be reclassified, the offending content in the Australian version of the game would have to be removed by Bethesda Softworks and the game resubmitted to the OFLC.[5][22] According the OFLC board report, the game was refused classification due to the "realistic visual representations of drugs and their delivery method (bringing) the 'science-fiction' drugs in line with 'real-world' drugs."[23]"

I'm not really upset that they're kinda piggy backing off of Oblivion to make the V.A.T.S. combat system or w/e. The 1-2 system was pretty imbalanced anyway. (was there any reason to NOT have 10 agility?)

Bethesda working on Fallout3?

yay, gonna be sexy. It gonna be like Oblivion Nuke War aftermath.

It's going to be oblivion with guns.

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you read the article fago.

you read the article fago.

yeah mu'fucker don't be hatin on a brutha aight?

we cool bro?

ima clap up all why'all muthafuckaz

Kinda makes me wonder why there aren't any retarded oblivion gun mods already.

Oblivion - GUNZ

there is gun mods and have been for a wail

oblivion
oblivion

you read the article fago.

yeah mu'fucker don't be hatin on a brutha aight?

we cool bro?

ima clap up all why'all muthafuckaz

shit negris. bitch be trippin.

guns in oblivion look hilarious

Well, there's some gameplay videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUI0Up4AiQw

God I hate that nerds voice. If you just want to see what the combat looks like, part 4 is all you need to see, really. Looks like it's fairly first person shootery, with that aimed shot VATS thing superimposed ontop of it.

As I damn said, oblivion in future. Just more beautiful.

And I don't get it... when you aim (and actually shoot) does whole world just freeze waiting till you finish your action?