Fallout MMO confirmed
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This will be bethesda's first attempt at an actual MMO, and with a licence like Fallout, they better damn well do it justice.
Discuss.
This will be bethesda's first attempt at an actual MMO, and with a licence like Fallout, they better damn well do it justice.
Discuss.
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$5,5 million hopefully ensures that they take this project seriously.
One of the most interesting worlds ever created in the gaming history. This might turn out to be something great.
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Are you serious? How could it possibly end up being good? If it has leveling, then it's gonna be a grindfest, if not, it's not gonna be fallout. This will never work.
Are you serious? How could it possibly end up being good? If it has leveling, then it's gonna be a grindfest, if not, it's not gonna be fallout. This will never work.
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Well... At least we get to grind radscorpions.
1) MMO
2) Bethesda of Morrowind and Oblivion infamy
3) Fallout is a dead franchise, moreso than Duke Nukem. Only ancient gamers will be interested.
as far as I'm concerned mongering will fall on deaf ears
no point to an MMO, or any new game based on it, however, if they can't muster the same humor and plot as the originals... Bethesda makes pretty games, and complicated games, but I'm not so sure I'd say they make particularly interesting or funny games... I don't think they'll have much trouble transitioning to making an MMO though. Let's face it - Oblivion is a single-player MMO already, as is morrowind.
It's going to suck.
1) MMO
2) Bethesda of Morrowind and Oblivion infamy
3) Fallout is a dead franchise, moreso than Duke Nukem. Only ancient gamers will be interested.
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I agree but only because it's Bethesda. I mean look at Star Trek Legacy, they rushed that out to make a quick buck. Now they have mega money to make a mega game, expect another rushed game.
I've never heard of or played Fallout so you're looking at the younger generation of gamers being just as interested as the older.
EDIT: Forgot to argue point one. MMO industry is booming and it's set to rise exponentially in profit just like British houses have in the past 5 years or so. Good move on that part.
With the focus on consoles and kids these days, Fallout3 will just not get made into what it deserves.
I still play fo and fo2 btw.
The only way this could end up good is if they mix Star Wars: Galaxies' player-run cities and player-run economy with a really well crafted world and the ability to target an opponent's crotch with any weapon.
Bethesda is not making the MMO, Interplay is. The last I heard of Interplay, it consisted of that crazed CEO that fired the whole Fallout 3 team and his two accountants. Fallout MMO will not happen, and if it does, it is pretty much guaranteed to be bad.
Bethesda is not making the MMO, Interplay is. The last I heard of Interplay, it consisted of that crazed CEO that fired the whole Fallout 3 team and his two accountants. Fallout MMO will not happen, and if it does, it is pretty much guaranteed to be bad.
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Redford <i>lied</i> to me. He betrayed my trust. For this, he will pay.
The fallout universe should appeal to anyone, even those who never played the original games. let's face it, it's awesome.
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It doesn't really appeal to me; but the games might be fun so I'll put my bandwidth to use tonight.
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Why? I love going to messageboards to complain about games I've never played.
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EDIT: Forgot to argue point one. MMO industry is booming and it's set to rise exponentially in profit just like British houses have in the past 5 years or so. Good move on that part.
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They're profitable games, but they're not any good as entertainment. Only reason people play them is for the whole "3d chat room" effect.
They'll be tearing my heart out if they do something like this....
*searches the web for master of orion 2*
Anyhow, Interplay now has 24 months to get started on doing a Fallout MMO before Bethesda takes over.
Anyone had a visit at <a href="http://www.fanmadefallout.com/?chapter=News" target="_blank">Fan Made Fallout</a>? They expect a demo sometime this ýear.
Even Auto Assault had more variation than that, and I still tired of the barren landscape.
But hey, I bet the demographic of irradiated, barren desert lovers is huge.
For those who play WoW: Imagine an entire MMO looking like Desolace.
Fallout 3 is confirmed being made by bethesta, and there is no word on it being an MMO. A parallel fallout MMO is being developed by interplay, and will that of course will suck ######, like every other fallout title interplay has constructed without the talents of black isle.
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Interplay..damn i want another descent
My issue with Fallout is that all areas look the same. Imagine an entire MMO filled with areas that... all look the same. "Oh look, this area is an irradiated, barren desert. Just like the last three areas I was in. And here's a town... that looks like an irradiated, barren desert town. Oh! Oh! Variation! An irradiated, barren mountain range! Behind which... is an irradiated, barren desert. And look over there: more irradiated, barren desert."
Even Auto Assault had more variation than that, and I still tired of the barren landscape.
But hey, I bet the demographic of irradiated, barren desert lovers is huge.
For those who play WoW: Imagine an entire MMO looking like Desolace.
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There is more then the general irradiated desert, dont forget caves, labs, facilities, farms, radioactive dumps, vaults, underground, mines, even coasts. The whole idea was to find a shred of civilsation in a enormous map of crapped out wasteland made after nukes, take note of the plural.
Sure it isnt as diverce as you could wish but that isn't the thing that made Fallout
You can't deny that irradiated, barren deserts made up the vast majority of Fallout. And I find a world like that to be awfully depressing. Sure, that's what happens when you nuke the world down to bedrock, but that doesn't really help much. Fallout was a game that could be completed in less than fifty hours. An MMO that people only play for fifty hours will usually be a commercial disaster. And I just don't think the irradiated, barren desert-loving demographic is that big. Fallout was a nice game (despite the immensely depressing landscape), but I think a lot of us are overestimating its following. A Fallout MMO will NOT be a WoW killer, and WoW killers are what publishers are looking for.
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If I just could show you that image I saw yesterday, damn where did I see it?
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i can think of a lot of ways fallout wouldn't do well as a mmog. how do you explain being revived or looking for your body when people in fallout have always stayed vary dead once they have been killed? nanits would be great im sure, but theres only so many miracles that can be done to the human body after losing as many cubic feet of tissue from the torso.
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Cloning vats?
I don't know if the desert could be used as a kind of a creative playground for the players. It might actually get interesting if people started creating settlements and such moving the civilization further in to the desert. They'll need something a bit off the wall like that to stand out from the crowd anyway.
Fallout doesn't have any magic as such..
Must things make sense to be fun?
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no, but so far fallout has been science fiction and not so much with the fantasy. actually, i think they have gone a step further and tried to make the science fiction parts as plausible as they could.
if they suddenly put in people getting revived every 5 mins on the tough bits, it would be a big turn in how the world is put together.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it could be cool, but only if they do add stuff like starting settlements, or something else cool like that.
As for the complains about all the desert... they don't call it the Wasteland for nothing...