Bethesda radiates light on Fallout 3 DLC plans

by Randy Nelson { Sep 2nd 2008 at 8:30PM }

~~Vaultnews~~ Shacknews caught up with Bethesda veep Pete Hines and Fallout 3 art lead Istvan Pely during PAX and asked the duo a whole mess of questions about – you guessed it – Fallout 3. One of the most salient responses came to a question regarding how the developer expects DLC quests for the game to shake out.

On the scope of DLC, Hines told Shacknews: "We want stuff that's going to be several hours. Not just like a one-off thing, but something like where you can download it and play it for X number of hours," further clarifying plans by adding, "It'll be similar to what we did with Knights of the Nine in Oblivion, where it's like whole new quest lines, new stuff, that kind of thing."

As for a post-launch DLC roll-out time line, Hines was non-committal, saying only that "we already have folks starting to look into what [the DLC] might be."

Tags: bethesda, dlc, fallout-3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Sep 2nd 2008 8:37PM

Buy now, Iron Plates for your post-apocalyptic Buggy - Only 200 Points!

j0ny @ Sep 2nd 2008 8:41PM

I want a Dog Armor...

eldee @ Sep 2nd 2008 10:22PM

honestly that's not a bad idea.. in Fallout 1, I couldn't get Dogmeat through the master's tunnel without him dying as soon as i started the fight w/ the master. he kept taking damage from that neuro-field and the master has a tendency to target the lowest HP in your party for some reason..

Titanium_Orchid @ Sep 2nd 2008 8:46PM

Horse armor and the new strongholds were kinda useless but Nights of the Nine and the Shivering Isles were worth the money.

Hopefully Bethesda have learned their lessons from Oblivion

Titanium_Orchid @ Sep 2nd 2008 8:48PM

Oh, and two horse armor related jokes is enough. thx u

Ranelar @ Sep 2nd 2008 8:48PM

So are companies just shipping incomplete products now in order to get people to pay a second time for these great "new" quests, or is this really content that we would not have gotten otherwise? I have a feeling it's the former, and that annoys me.

Bennyishere @ Sep 3rd 2008 12:12AM

It's the latter.

M @ Sep 2nd 2008 9:24PM

hmmm, post apocalyptic nights of the nine... just think about that

Triple07 @ Sep 2nd 2008 9:59PM

Ok cool but what would be more interesting to me is if they asked what the hell is up with rogue warrior? I mean is it still a game or was it secretly caned?

Anyway I hope they add some new interesting quests with something new in it not like just ok here's another generic quest.