PAX 2008: The Entire Fallout 3 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide

I wonder if they'll make a survival guide on how to deal with the game's terrible dialogue and unintelligent AI.

It feels like they're trying to hard.

I don't trust this game because all they ever do is compare it to Oblivion and Oblivion sucked.

how dark in setting and mood was Fallout 1 and 2

from watching preview videos of Fallout 3 the game doesn't seem that dark or bleak as I thought it might be, especially during the Xplay show where the leader designer guy shows up and goes into this zoom gun mode and blows off limbs and ugh that whole thing really made it seem sort of joke ...especially with the audience laughing and clapping and the leader designer goes along with it and keeps doing it

Thank you joystiq! I would still rather have the actual guide, but at least I can read to my irradiated hearts content.

This seems like a really cool piece of marketing/artwork. I don't understand the above arguments.

I played the first two Fallout games and they were fun. I was worried when I heard Bethesda was heading up the dev, but the gameplay vids look great! As for those who say there's bad AI and it being compared to Oblivion, wait until it comes out so that they have had time to work the bugs out and to judge for yourself.

By the way, how can I get one of those survival guides? I know that they had them as swag at PAX, but I live on the east coast and didn't have vacation time (any chance that a Joystiq staffer has a spare?).

The humor is good.

Wow, they better overmarket this game now, cuz this game will SUCK!!

Those videos make combat look like a complete afterthough, not to mention Bethesda's terrible character animations, same 3 voice actors, and Oblivion's rejected textures.

I had a chance to see the Fallout 3 demo at PAX and I was very pleasantly surprised. Prior to PAX I was more excited about Fable 2 coming out - but the demo changed my mind. It's not just about shooting things in a wasteland - it also has a really great aesthetic, a sense of humor, a neat use of objects (the gun with the spikes that pins people to walls was actually built using in-game objects like rail spikes and a steam compressor, for example) and a very cool plot that lets you take totally different directions.

The example in the demo at PAX was basically a choice between two courses of action -- taking a job that would have huge negative consequences for one community, or spurning the job and earning the ire of the faction who wanted to hire you. Either course would affect the quests available and the storyline as a whole. It looks much more cohesive thematically and storywise than Oblivion did. Can't wait for it.

This pretty cool I hope it is included with the game.

Reminds me of the Sentry ad in TF2 manual.

really hope this is included with the game. if not, looks like i'll just pick up one of the many copies on ebay.

Love these little promo items, really flesh the game out, and take it a step above it being "just a game".

FTR, I played the previous fallouts, and loved em, I also played Oblivion (and Morrowind) and loved em both, to my mind the combination of Fallout and Oblivion sounds almost too good to be true, sure they are both RPG's, but are very different games, I am not convinced yet quite how the turn based combat system of FO3 will combine with the FPS based combat system of Oblivion, and what advatages / disadvantages one will have over the other.

Other than that, I am well excited about it, sad for a 35 year old ain't it!!!!

The Fallout 3 booth was by far the best, and I'm going to take this opportunity to brag about how I got one of four "Agility" cards during the main theater demo. Most of the cards were good for a poster or a puppet, the agility card got me a full hour of playtime INSIDE the airstream, and a bunch of sweet promo items.

Hats off to Bethesda for being great folks at PAX and giving out such great prizes. I got a private hour of playtime in the airstream, a poster autographed by Gabe and Tycho, a pip-boy puppet, a t-shirt, a bottle of nuka cola, and a sim-tech 1000 (an all black viewmaster with a disk of 3D promo images of the game). Thanks Bethesda!

Gameplay was fantastic. I hated oblivion after playing it for about 10 hours, so I was very worried. The addition of firearms with both the VATS and shooter-style gameplay is excellent and wipes out any concern I had over what I thought was the biggest downfall of oblivion. Taking on wandering mutant enemies and bands of raiders was a whole lot of fun, and the style of humor in the game is very appealing. All of my hesitation about the game has been wiped away, and I'm looking forward to it more than ever.

Wow i have sen a good deal of hate about oblivion and this game. funny since its not released yet alot of ppl are just hatemongering. I just want to go on record as saying Oblivion was the single most immersive game I have ever played. Furthermore it ruined mmorpgs for me. After Oblivion, all he rest was just playing with dolls, if that makes any sense to you. As far as recycled voices, oh well. its not that big of a deal. And even If it was Oblivion with guns(which it most certainly is not) I could not be happier. Call me a fanboi or whatever, but those who are hating, dont have to play it. thats all.

Oblivion > Fallout 3 in 1 way: No Sean Bean in Fallout.

Other than that, its fantastic, I have been playing it the last few days. Gotta say, its great.