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Fallout 3 time-lapse video special Comments by Richard Leadbetter

16 August, 2009

DF mucks around in the Wasteland.

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flanker22
16/08/09 @ 10:10
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F3 uses the same day and night assets right? i hear some games have separate assets like pgr4 they have a set of textures for day, dusk, and night
ACCH
16/08/09 @ 10:14
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I'd kill for a video like this of Stalker
Ruruja
16/08/09 @ 10:37
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You should check out the skies in Test Drive Unlimited. Although there's no night-time in it, the clouds move dynamically and it can often get darkish when many dark clouds form together. I'd like to see more games, particularly racing games, use this dynamic sky where the clouds move and such, instead of static pictures. It just adds a lot more believability to the location.
Bloodhunter
16/08/09 @ 11:11
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stalker would be interesting i agree ACCH

other than seeing how well it runs and how good it looks, were there any other purposes to this?

It would be interesting to post a comparison video of this and some of the early gameplay trailers/videos that were released

also the mp4 video you posted on megaupload, is that meant for playing on 360/PS3 only? or is it too high res for my laptop to handle, it seems to lag out realplayer, vlc, quicktime whenever i try to play it, only vlc can play it and even then its badly synced
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Sharzam
16/08/09 @ 11:37
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Got to hand it to them, fallout 3 engine handles well under so many circumstances. There are alot of pretty looking pc games but alot of them either need a beast of a machine to run well or just dont scale well (then there are the bad looking games that run poor on beasts ofc)

Fallout 3 on the other hand looks pretty on loads pcs and i run at 1920X1080 with high settings yet my machine is no where near the one used in the video.
Demiath
16/08/09 @ 12:16
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Fallout 3 can be beautiful, but much like Oblivion, it's far too sterile for its own good. I know the former is supposed to be a post-apocalyptic game and all, but would it kill Bethesda to include some actual, you know, life into their game worlds? I would gladly sacrifice texture quality and other aspects of visual "fidelity" (after "immersion" that's got to be the most non-sensical industry buzz word ever) just to get some sense of a living, breathing world and not just a glorified tech demo.
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Adi-C
16/08/09 @ 12:59
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Great movie, though it's a pity that fallout's engine doesn't support shadows for terrain, trees and such.

And for those of you wanting to watch time lapse of stalker- well... just type "stalker time lapse" on youtbe:)
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16/08/09 @ 13:32
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oops! that page doesn't exist anymore :/
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Sharzam
16/08/09 @ 13:55
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@Demiath

Good point althourgh a technically sound engiene, art direction can lack at times. Thats why games like WoW are liked for there style not because amount polygons but for there amount imagination and art direction.
UberFrog
16/08/09 @ 16:05
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@Sharzam + Demiath: Yea agree, Fallout3 is a fantastic great game and I really really enjoy it but there's a reason why a jewel like Baldurs Gate 2 is so much better: it has better gameplay overall.
AphoticCosmos
16/08/09 @ 16:32
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The Oblivion/Fallout engine is pretty dang good, IMHO. It does a better job at most at building a world and not just a tech demo.

The only one off-hand that I think trumps it is CryEngine 2.
squarejawhero
16/08/09 @ 20:41
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It's not quite almost a year old and still staying relevent.

Things don't move as fast as they used to.
Skurmedel
16/08/09 @ 22:04
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I think the Fallout 3 world had plenty of life and I didn't feel it was sterile either. Some areas were perhaps somewhat empty or "same everywhere", but overall I felt it very living. I think it would take them ages to make every room meaningful, and to be honest, there are truck loads of stuff laying about that isn't really relevant to the main storyline.

A very pretty game and a very well realized "universe". No Baldur's Gate, but comes close.
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smelly
17/08/09 @ 02:33
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I liked fallout 3 .. best game i've played all year. But the art direction sucked balls. Endless subways looking so similar that it's too easy to get lost? Blurgh.

Games can look great without tech IF the art direction is great (look at mario galaxy - crap hardware, stunning looking game).

Alternatively you can have GREAT tech (like in fallout 3) and with bad art direction the visuals suffer.

But visuals arent what makes games FUN anyhow. When I was playing fallout 3 - at no point did i really even notice the graphics.. I was too busy enjoying the game (well apart from the awful carbon copy subway tunnels)
Simplex
17/08/09 @ 07:44
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gorf
17/08/09 @ 08:30
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@smelly
partly agree with what you are saying. Mario Glaxy was gorgeous with its sparkly landscapes and varied worlds. On THE Fallout side tho' I thought the art direction was very original and effective in evoking a post apocalitic landscape circa 1950. The main problem was the assets were reused too many times throughout the game. This is understandable given the huge scale of the game. creating unique scenery for every location would have been prohibitevely expensive and time consuming to achieve. Agree with the sewer levels tho' these were a trudge. Im just waiting for the plethora of fallout wanabees that will follow using a 50s inspired wasteland.....ID SOFTWARES Rage comes to mind?
EarlBassett
17/08/09 @ 17:26
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so glad you are posting these highly useful titbits instead of spending time reviewing games that are ALREADY out and don't even get a mention here.

Just do some sort of catch-up of releases if you can't be bothered reviewing them properly.
Kaminari
17/08/09 @ 20:36
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Your "bullshot" mode is not different from Oblivion. I could crank it up even on my Celeron D330 + Radeon 9550. The only reason why you can't tweak the PS360 versions to the max while optimizing the parameters in the process is because there's no console mode at your disposal. And I bet your bank account that the Cell of my PS3 literally trumps the shit out of my old P4.
SL33PY
18/08/09 @ 06:54
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I'd kill for a pc that runs so smooth as yours... priorities (wife) hold me back to get one :D
OAKside24
18/08/09 @ 09:41
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Wow. What a video! I'm sure quite a bit of planning, working, editing, etc. went into this awesome video, so... Thank You guys and gals. (You even uploaded the full HD video to the awesome Megaupload!)

@smelly: Stay out of the tunnels for a bit? It's just reality that there's lots of subway tunnels near the area Fallout 3 replicates. There's a whole world of awesome up top, though, as this video showcases. Amazing graphics engine, fine art direction.

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