Fallout 3 DLC to be several hours long

By Robert Purchese Published 2 September, 2008

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Bethesda voice Pete Hines has claimed downloadable content for Fallout 3 will be several hours long and will include an entirely new quest line. What no horse armour?

"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," Hines told ShackNews.

"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.

"We want to do stuff like that, where it's adding hours of tangible stuff to the experience. And it plugs into your existing game, so whether you're starting a new game, or you're playing for 40 hours, you can go off and play this," said Hines.

Bethesda revealed during E3 that downloadable Fallout 3 content would only be available on Xbox 360 and PC, but not PS3. Apparently work on is well under way, too.

"We stopped doing content a pretty good way before we finished the game in terms of adding new stuff. So we already have folks starting to look into what [the DLC] might be," added Hines.

Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic and mature role-playing game due out for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on 31st October.

Head over to our Fallout 3 gamepage to find out much, much more.

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Comments (34) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Krun #1 3 years ago

    Nice

  • groovychainsaw #2 3 years ago

    Now this, in contrast to the mirror's edge story from earlier, is how you sell the benefits of exclusive DLC - give us some information so we can make a decision. If it's like the longer tales from oblivion, then this is a good reason to get the xbox 360 version I reckon

  • penhalion #3 3 years ago

    Several hours. Er how short is this game if several hours is being bandied about like a major addition?

  • ThePissartist #4 3 years ago

    If this is decided already, then why the hell is it not included in the full retail game?? I hope developers don't start getting the idea of chopping their games up in order to have some DLC.

    Fucking crazy if you ask me.

  • miiiguel #5 3 years ago

    but..., but... this has to do with money so it's filth! Sony and EA don't care about money they just want to please the consumer.

  • ThePissartist #6 3 years ago

    "Sony and EA don't care about money they just want to please the consumer."

    I hope you meant that as a joke...

  • ps3owner #7 3 years ago

    DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC
    HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE

    I've fucking had it. why the fuck do they start hyping shit 2 years (month) in advance?

    DLC is a funfuckingtasting invention innit. Micro transactions next... for each QUEST/PERSON you talk to...

    fuck them and thei DLC. If the game sucks (which it may well do) then they can shove their DLC up their arse.

    why has this day not endet yet!!! THE TIME HAS STOPPED!! !QAAHHAHAHAaaaaa

  • miiiguel #8 3 years ago

    pissartist: yes, and I'm not very good at it. Sorry. :/
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/08 @ 15:47

  • M83J01P97 #9 3 years ago

    Oblivion was a long game, and both Knights of the Nine, followed by Shivering Isles were just as long as well, so I trust Beth to do an incredible job with DLC for Fallout 3.

    Just no more Horse Armour scams please!

  • Dizzy #10 3 years ago

    If it is like Shivering Isles that would be great.

  • miiiguel #11 3 years ago

    Shivering Isles: best DLC ever.

  • Krun #12 3 years ago

    @thepissartist
    It sounds like they have done all the content for the game (as it stands) and the next few weeks are just bug testing. So this new DLC they speak of hasn't as yet been made, but they have started to think about it. Doing it any other way would actually end up costing them more. If you make a game to sell in chunks and do all the content before its out you have to pay all these people to make all this content before any money comes back in to pay them. then you have this huge risk that the game bombs and no one buys the extra content you already invested in.

  • septimus #13 3 years ago

    Shame this game will probably end up being either rubbish or broken in some way.

  • Bulbatron #14 3 years ago

    "We stopped doing content a pretty good way before we finished the game in terms of adding new stuff. So we already have folks starting to look into what [the DLC] might be,"

    That sort of sounds as if they held back some of the content so that it could be sold later as DLC - although if they are only STARTING to look at what the DLC could be, then perhaps I am wrong. I've probably completely misunderstood that quote. :-)

    Are people STILL on about the bloody horse armour? It may have been a scam, but surely Bethesda have made up for this - several times over, with all the content that followed it in Oblivion.

    EDIT: Good point, Krun.
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/08 @ 15:54

  • ThePissartist #15 3 years ago

    @miiiguel

    That's alright, you had me worried for a minute there. :)

  • andywilkie35 #16 3 years ago

    Finally got round to finishing Oblivion a couple of weeks ago, along with Shivering Isles. Completing the game and the factions (including shivering isles) but completing none of the sidequests you get from random characters took my just over 60 hours.

    So if they've dedicated as much time to this as they say they have, then that means this is gonna be a massive game, and with Bethesda behind the wheel, its gonna be a fucking great game as well

    Fact.

  • ThePissartist #17 3 years ago

    @Krun

    Fair point.

    If you look at the DLC for CoD 4 though, they reused some of it from the single player game. It's bad practice. I fricking paid for it too.

    I hope you're right, Krun.

  • M83J01P97 #18 3 years ago

    The world of Fallout 3 is smaller than Oblivion's, but according to the devs there are a lot more side quests and random things to do/discover.

    So yeah, I can see this being as much of a time sink as Oblivion was.

  • SpikeRocks #19 3 years ago

    Do you know what i hate, whiners. All these fu**ing whiners. You are never happy. Whiners doesnt deserve to own a Xbox 360, PS3 or a Wiii. They dont even deserve to own a fricking Pong! You have awekening the fury of SpikeRocks, gaaargh!
    Edited by 1 at 02/09/08 @ 16:13

  • asphaltcowboy #20 3 years ago

    That sort of sounds as if they held back some of the content so that it could be sold later as DLC - although if they are only STARTING to look at what the DLC could be, then perhaps I am wrong. I've probably completely misunderstood that quote. :-)

    Well, there's a significant time after "finishing the game" that you need to dedicate to testing and bug fixing, especially in a game like this. When you hit that point, you can't go around adding new stuff otherwise you risk royally f*cking it all up!

  • Madafunkola #21 3 years ago

    After the willy waving of the exclusives have long worn out, there will still be people showing off the size of their dlc(k)s...
    My dlc's bigger than yours!

  • Xerx3s #22 3 years ago

    Does anyone else see a marketing pattern here?

  • Xerx3s #23 3 years ago

    Bethesda has some of the best and some of the worst DLC on it's name. This can go either way.

  • onyxbox #24 3 years ago

    it'll be on PS3 GOY edition etc. etc. just like shivering isles.

  • Royal Fool #25 3 years ago

    Dog armor!

  • Bulbatron #26 3 years ago

    Dog Armour! LOL!

  • Silvervein #27 3 years ago

    Meh. Game itself is action adventure loosely based on fallouts, focusing on blowing everything to bits because it's 'friggen hilarious'.
    Established players of oblivion might like it, some people might like it on consoles. And now they say that there will be downloadable content. Which I guess translates into: Our hype didn't make you shell out the cash yet? What kind of person are you...ok, we will throw in downloadable content (for which you'd have to pay extra, but shhh). How about now? Will you buy it now?

  • Kazzahdrane #28 3 years ago

    If there's sizeable DLC I'll probably just wait for the GotY edition like I have with Oblivion for 360.

  • haldier #29 3 years ago

    Hope MS payed them enough to leave out a couple of PS3 owners from paying for DLC. I´m getting the PS3 versiion, dont wan´t to get deaf by the ever spinning DVD.

  • Vanmunt #30 3 years ago

    Looking forward to Fable2 more than this... ^^^dog armour lol+1

  • Orange #31 3 years ago

    Fucking shysters Bethesda are, putting out all those paid downloads for Oblivion when it was buggy on release and then painfully repetitive in clearing the gates. I'm giving this a wide berth.

  • Gearskin #32 3 years ago

    @ThePissartist and all the DLC naysayers.

    Have you ever heard the term "content complete?" It's when developers lock down what's in the game and start to polish everything up. It happens months and months and months before the game sees release.

  • IronCladChicken #33 3 years ago

    I didnt like Oblivion.
    I liked the graphics, just not the game.

  • Skooch #34 3 years ago

    I still can't decide if I can bothered sinking hours into this game or not...I have a horrible feeling I will play it for 8-10 hrs and then just give up. I sunk 60-80hrs into Oblivion before it just started getting on my tits, not sure if I will last this long with this game or not.....ho hum....