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Wasteland Stories · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 16:29 Post subject: RPG Codex - Year in Review

Another year has passed and RPG Codex sums up the results in an "A year in Review" article. A significant part of it is devoted to Fallout 3.

It seems Bethesda likes all things nuclear. By shooting at abandoned cars, you'll be able to provoke small nuclear explosions. One of your weapons (called "Fatman") will use nuclear bombs as ammunition. The game also has its own Fargoth, but this time it's a whole city! Creatively named "Megaton", it was built in (or around, if you prefer trusting Desslock to believing Pete Hines) the crater of an unexploded bomb. And you can bet your vintage Ink Spots collection that the magnificent example of choice given to the player (you can explode the bomb, or NOT!) will be mentioned a hundred times in the game's previews to come. The screenshots we've seen contain almost exclusively bloom; the teaser we've watched was uninspired at best. (The magnificent concept art we were shown turned out not to have anything to do with the game.)

All in all, it seems that Bethesda vaguely know which direction they should take to stay true to the original game, but unfortunately it also looks like they're failing at doing so. For example, perhaps they heard someone somewhere praising Fallout for exploring the „shades of grey” approach to morality, so... (if you trust a recent interview with Hines) Fallout 3 will have Good Folks and Bad Folks, but the player will be able to stay neutral!

2007 - A Year in Review.
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PlanHex · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 16:38 Post subject: Re: RPG Codex - Year in Review

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d2duke · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 19:04 Post subject:

Now he's following the space opera style gameplay, and want it to be implemented in Fallout 3.
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goffy59 · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 20:40 Post subject:

Normally I would see all kinds of talk about an article like this. I'm surprised cause its kind of what everyone already says. Thats probably why. heh
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Wasteland Stories · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 21:24 Post subject:

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goffy59 · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:28 Post subject:

Ah, I see. I wasn't aware.
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Madbringer · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:20 Post subject:

I approve of this article. Good job, you Codex people. Thumbs up

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Forhekset · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 18:51 Post subject:

I missed the whole controversy over The Escapist's "review" of The Witcher, so I went and found the "review" and subsequent forum thread after seeing it mentioned in RPG Codex's year in review article. Entertaining stuff. Good job out of Brother None in that very thread, too.

PlanHex · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 21:27 Post subject:

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Morbus · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 22:46 Post subject:

Indeed.
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Forhekset · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 15:28 Post subject:

I haven't played The Witcher either, but I know a bad review when I read one. Hooray for previews being slapped together and called reviews.

I loved what one of the mods said in defense of the guy who wrote the review - I'm paraphrasing, but it went something like "Why should Corvus continue to do something he doesn't enjoy if he didn't like the first 10 hours of the game?". Uh, because that's his job? You don't put a book down after the first 10 chapters and say "This book sucks. Well, time to write my review."