New details, 'over 200 endings' for Fallout 3

That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Bravo.

I have spent over 125 hours on my first character in Oblivion, and I still pick it up and play on that character at times. I've seen the speed runs of Morrowind and Oblivion, but I don't consider that to be an acceptable way to judge length. I think their claims are completely plausible, but if you aren't playing for the experience and are just grinding to the finish - well why are you playing that kind of game at all?

This makes me anticipate Fallout 3 even more highly. Feel free not to buy it if you don't agree.

No one likes a party pooper

He actually wants to say there is over 9000 endings.
Okay I'm truly sorry for that.

The "miscalculation" is something Joystiq can't disclose officially.

Who said the endings were equally weighted?






(I know that's essentially a pointless point, but hey everyone loves the Devil's Advocate, right?)

I don't know what you guys are talking about, all I see is '0.5%' up there :D

According to my calculator, 1 out of 200 is actually 0.005, so actually, both you and Joystiq fail math.

^ which is the same as .5% after you move el decimal point over.

Bet you wish there was an edit button.

percentages are essentially hundredths themselves, so 1 two-hundredth is a half of a hundredth, and therefore half of a percent. .5% = .005 = 1/200

sorry to be condescending, but armimann's comment woke up my inner pedant

good times

The 200 endings are problemly minor and semi-minor variations of-- still a ton, but vastly less-- true endings. Different characters with you, etc.

ArmiMaan fails hardest

"You just just never took a basic math class"

I just just revised history.

You should be able to solve this:

X-7 = 19+X

Hahahaha...ArmiMaan's post made my day. Good laugh. I'm voting his post up for that reason alone.

Ending: 176 - character in distance is holding a green object
Ending: 177 - character in distance is holding a red object
This of course, is based upon coming across a green or red object more often throughout the game.

I'm hoping they can tie it all in right, thus being amazing.

I have been waiting patiently for this game since it was announced. I like the cool art style on the website. The little comic type characters remind me of the Bioshock plasmid animations. I think this game is going to be incredible. This is not because it is made by Bethesda but because the other Fallout games were so sick. In other words, I am not hyping it because it is made by the people who brought us Oblivion but because of the content and previous games.... As much as I want to play this game I still want MGS 4 & Gran Turismo 1 Billion times more.... Those are the greatest franchises of all time IMO... Fallout 3 is in my top 5 anticipated unreleased titles of 2008.... PS Hot Shots Golf Out Of Bounds is incredible..... Just picked it up yesterday and it is a must buy for any PS3 owner... Same as MLB 08 The Show for PS3 owners and baseball fans....



Forgive if this is trolling but I have something to get off my chest and I do not know where else to post this....

Just a suggestion to future online games from Nintendo.... I am already getting sick of playing Brawl because 2/3 of the people I added from Joystiq never added me or never play online and there is no matchmaking or ranked matches... I mean what is the point of playing online if there is no true rankings system?... I am not big on chatting with strangers but it would be nice in this instance to get a random players friend code... I know the PS3 gets a bad wrap for its online component (rightfully so although improvements are promised to come soon) but the Nintendo Wii's online component are pathetic... They also need to release a HDD especially if they plan on selling VC & Wii Ware content beyond a few games to me... I refuse to buy SD cards and swap out stuff to my memory and SD card when I want to play content... Its one thing to have memory cards its an entire different thing to have them on SD cards without the ability to launch said content from said memory....

Again I am sorry to anyone who reads this as trolling but I always hear how the Wii is so revolutionary and it is a next gen system alongside the 360 & PS3 but in reality its still in a premature state in comparison to the PS3 and waaaaaaaaay behind the Live... Just had to get that off my chest

/Rant & Trolling

McPoop: The character on the website looks like it's from Bioshock? It's the mascot from the first damn Fallout, there's nothing Bioshock about it.

And wtf with the random trolling.

Curse you for posting faster than me!

Using Bethesda's metric, Fallout 1 had almost a thousand endings and Fallout 2 had over a million endings.

In true next gen fashion, you get less, but prettier.

Another example would be cumulus versus nimbus clouds.

Why do people always cream their pants over gaming news for, STOP THAT SHIT ALREADY!

...I'm eating a twinkie, and I don't wanna think about your cream "in my twinkie"...


That didn't come out right.....wait???

It's for dramatic effect.

It also reminds all the ladies out there that us gamers do actually produce sperm. Just don some overalls, a red hat and a tash, and I'm away...

He had over 200 options there for what he could have put. He could have chosen from wet, creamed, drizzled, lemon aid, heating from the inside in liquid form... no matter what we got the same ending.

9000 is the new 300 didn't you hear?

The above person works at Joystiq..?

Yeah your right... It has to be something related to items or people you have met and interacted with.... Just slight variations on endings... I think it makes a better press release to say they have over 200 endings... The game will be awesome but I am convinced there will be a core set of 4-10 endings with slight variations.... Your right on Superstar 90

you still have 194 endings to go

then you ll have 200 ways to end your marriage...

Go back to Sony Defense Force.

@Arcaynn

Well he does make a valid point.... Judging from the size and the amount of endings I do not see this fitting on 1 DVD-9... I recently purchased Blue Dragon & Lost Odyssey and there are a combination of 8 discs.... Its not to far out of the question for this game to run on multiple discs on the 360 and 1 Blu-Ray on PS3... To be honest that doesn't mean the PS3 version is better and its not a huge deal to pop in another disc so long as its not that often.... But he makes a valid point wether you want to accept it or not..

No, instead there's going to be a good game.