New Fallout 3 screens show Pip-Boy statuses, leg dismemberment
by Ross Miller 
{ Jun 3rd 2008 at 3:30AM }
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Meet. Albert. Poor Albert has a wounded right leg, and an extremely wounded left leg. He's also got some major issues with his head. We haven't seen Albert before, mind you, but we do have an image from his Pip-Boy, one of three new images that Bethesda has released for Fallout 3. The image also gives a good indication as to how menu navigation will work.
Another new screenshot released shows the Vault dweller literally shooting off the leg of a mutant adversary. Come to think of it, we really hope that wasn't Albert he just hurt. Rounding out the trio of new images is a landscape portrait of what we believe is the first town you visit in the game. Fallout 3 is due out this Fall.
Gallery: Fallout 3
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ihavepants @ Jun 3rd 2008 3:56AM
Complete lack of any footage so far worries me as much as Bethesda making Fallout.
Also why isn't this filed under PC as well >.>
colin @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:03AM
I don't understand your problem with Bethesda ... Everything they touch turns to GOTY gold. Morrowind? Oblivion? They do the rpg thing pretty well.
Ihavepants @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:09AM
Uh yeh, sorry but not everyone agrees with you. Or me for that matter, and that's the catch with these discussions.
Morrowind was a great game. I am fine with the makers of Morrwind making Fallout3, I am not fine with the makers of Oblivon making Fallout3. Do you see my problem here? To me Oblivion was only made interesting a year after it was released with 50+ mods.
GenBanks @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:15AM
The problem some people have with Bethesday making Fallout 3 is that the Fallout universe is dark and sinister. Oblivion, meanwhile, was 'swords and sorcery' airy. Also, based on the screenshots we've had, it looks like a lot of the annoying things about Oblivion (even if it was a great game) are being carried over into Fallout 3, like the slightly off-looking characters, the hit and miss dialogue and voice acting, and a few other things.
The screenshot of the guy's leg getting shot off is promising though, that's definitely a departure from Oblivion.
Stoo @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:48AM
@GenBanks: Based on the screenshots it looks like the bad voice acting is being carried over? Really? You can tell what the voice acting in a game is like based on screenshots...incredible.
Anyway.
Some Fallout fans are never going to be happy with Fallout 3 no matter how good it is simply because its not the previous Fallout games.
RVOtaku @ Jun 3rd 2008 11:07AM
Bethesda makes gold...uhuh...maybe chocolate gold...mass produced rpgs with maximum sugar (gaussian blur) and minimum substance.
GenBanks @ Jun 3rd 2008 11:50AM
Well done for misquoting me stoo. What I meant was that based on the similarities between screenshots of fallout 3 and oblivion, some people are assuming that some of the annoying things about oblivion might make their way into fallout 3... like the sometimes iffy dialogue.
For the record, I have played no other fallout games, and fallout 3 looks great. If you had read the whole thread rather than just go for scoring easy points on me, you would have seen that I was pointing out to ihavepants why some people are worried about Bethesda being in charge. I wasn't saying that was MY opinion.
Oh, and please please please joystiq stop the black screen ad pages!
Pimliconite @ Jun 3rd 2008 2:35PM
"Some Fallout fans are never going to be happy with Fallout 3 no matter how good it is simply because its not the previous Fallout games."
No. There was a lot of support for Fallout 3, just with Bethesda making it.
Two other companies were trying to buy the Fallout license in 2004. One was Obsidian (Fallout 2, Torment) who were going to try to purchase and complete the "Van Buren" version of Fallout 3 that they had made at Interplay/Black Isle.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1uuDKrY7eW0
The other was Troika (Fallout 1, Arcanum) who were trying to buy the license as well, and even had a publisher set up to fund it and a hybrid 1st person/isometric engine, which you can see here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NvgSGxNTADI
Either one of these "Fallout 3"s would have been accepted by "some Fallout fans" (it's a much bigger proportion than you think) as either would have been vastly preferable to the developers of The Elder Scrolls getting the license, which they successfully did when they outbid both the original Fallout developers and the reformed Black Isle developers.
colin @ Jun 3rd 2008 8:30PM
haters will always find something to hate. say what you will about oblivion and morrowind. also say that halo 3 sucks. also gears of war sucks, and so does metal gear solid 4, and ninja gaiden 2, and bioshock sucks, and the orange box sucks, and COD4 sucks, and SMG sucks, and MKWii sucks, and Metroid sucks. nothing is as good as it was in the past. nostalgia has ruined my tastebuds. now i hate new games because they aren't as good as i remember older games being.
*plays dolphin olympics 2
JontheNinja @ Jun 3rd 2008 4:16AM
What an asshole. That man was clearly attempting to spin around on his head when that some jerkoff walks by and blows apart his leg.
First thing I'm gonna do is jump off a cliff twenty times. Payback.
GenBanks @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:16AM
You don't have to wait for the game to come out to do that o.0
#28 @ Jun 3rd 2008 4:29AM
Game looks great.
Jnas @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:02AM
Can't wait for this game.
Eggy @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:23AM
The thing I fear the most is the mainstream-ising that will probably be done to it. The same thing happened when Bethesda decided to do Oblivion for the consoles as well.
Ihavepants @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:31AM
And the fact that Fallout 3's focus platform for development is the 360.
Ihavepants @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:33AM
Oh and don't take this a bashing directly against the 360, it just means that they're limiting the graphical capabilites and control scheme of the game for those who are playing it on the PC.
t_m @ Jun 3rd 2008 5:56AM
Bethesda have made other games than oblivion. Personally I always rated Future Shock & Skynet above any of their ES games.
Rockstar made lemmings... that didn't stop them making GTA awesome (and manhunt sucky)
Godmil @ Jun 3rd 2008 9:23AM
Good point... but you can't seriously be saying that Lemmings isn't a good game?
t_m @ Jun 4th 2008 10:41AM
i loved lemmings back in the day.
I'm just saying that games studios aren't limited to making only one specific style of game. So many people seem to expect fallout3 to be an oblivion-tc.
(and bungie seemed quite able to switch between awesome RTS and FPS games)
Chase @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:28AM
Dismemberment has never looked so adorable.
AwesomeTown @ Jun 3rd 2008 7:29AM
I like the pip-boy, very small and simple, the way it should be. Not bad for both PC and console.
Number 1 game for me this year.
I don't really understand the hate about Bethesda and Fallout, all I know is that I'm just happy to have another Fallout game in a capable developer. I really do not need it to be the best game ever.
Poisoned Al @ Jun 3rd 2008 8:55AM
The hate is there becuase they took a franchise like the Elder Scrolls and made a game normal people actually wanted to play. That's blasphemy to an RPG nerd.
AwesomeTown @ Jun 3rd 2008 11:50AM
Ok, I can see that, Morrowind was better, but I still am a sucker for Oblivion. I love RPGs, but then again I find some games, like ones that use the D&D rules, too complicated sometimes. I can definitely see the appeal, and I like depth, but not so much so. Fallout was perfect to me. I guess maybe I'm the one oblivion catered to. :P
But I'm excited because the concept art looks great, and at the very least, Bethesda can make a damn fine looking world.
valdemiro @ Jun 3rd 2008 10:10AM
I'm not making any comments since it will most likely be delayed and I will have to hold back my tears.
Geist @ Jun 3rd 2008 4:56PM
One thing I'm worried about with Bethesda making this game has to do with Oblivion: the world in Oblivion was very large, but very shallow. Everybody looked the same, every town looked the same, every dungeon looked the same. Every mission involved charging into a dungeon and killing dudes until you found the doohicky/big dude at the end of the dungeon to complete the quest. There was no real substance to the game, and after playing for a few hours, you had seen every character, location, and reason for playing. Fallout's world is different, and they had better not screw it up.
Duncan @ Jun 4th 2008 1:14AM
I'm worried that Fallout 3 will lose a lot of the openness the previous games had. Oblivion let you wander around wherever you wanted, but (ignoring the guilds) there was really just the main story line you had to follow. If you tried to kill certain characters, they would just become unconscious.
One of the great things about Fallout was how the game didn't care if your actions destroyed core parts of the narrative. If you killed an important quest giver, you could still beat the game... There would simply be no one to tell you how to do it.