Pete Hines on Fallout 3 Comments by Kieron Gillen

Considering that one of the RPG gods went tits up, the other sold their soul, Bethesda is the only one left that might have a chance of making this into a good rpg.

What a sad world this has become.

GOTY.

Hines is a pretty boring interviewee.

I am not one of the rambling NMA-crowd, but I am still a huge fan of the Fallout series and have resigned the moment Bethesda admitted using a 3d first-person perspective. It's not Fallout anymore, but hopefully it'll be a decent RPG in a post nuclear setting that plays more like Morrowind than Oblivion.

I wish that I could have another game like Fallout whether it uses the Fallout name or not. Having a company make a game called Fallout 3 but in a different sub-genre almost feels like a calculated insult.

Some of the ridicule that Bethesda gets is over the top. After a while it's almost like kicking a puppy to death just because it keeps on pissing on the carpet but blanket praise from the press is just going to make the old fans kick harder.

Fallout 3 is looking very good. I am hearing more and more good things from those that have seen it in action. Yes, a turn-based isometric game would be great, but it would sell to a much smaller number of people and that just isn't financially viable. At least it's almost certain to be better that Fallout Tactics or the shocking console version.

Hopefully, where some people see a title that would not be viable if made with an American AAA budget other people will see a gap in the market that can be filled without spending AAA money.

Well, I love the original two games ánd I love Oblivion... Seems like there's no way I won't like this :)

BTW, for the hardcore fanbois who want it to be isometric, I don't see Ninty doing sidescrolling Mario/Metroid games anymore... Maybe the franchise just needs to move on to stay alive.

I suppose that I must be a hardcore fanboy, or at least someone who is playing the part in this thread.

Nintendo have done 2d Mario on the DS recently, and very well received it was, probably sold more than can be expected of Fallout 3. They also have a 2d Metroid game in the works.

Also, Marios evolution to 3d on the mayor consoles still kept the basic gameplay from previous titles - last I checked Galaxy was still a fun, pretty and casual platformer, not a shooter or adventure or puzzle game... genres which Nintendo have touched on in spin offs and never in the main series. The same can be said about Metroid.

Compare that to how Fallout is brought from a genre defining masterpiece which still today has some of the genres best implemented features, to the RPG-lite shooter with stats and lame gags that Fallout 3 appears to be developed as. No, VATS is not turn based nor a complete option as you have to reload AP's in real time :p Now I don't want to sound too rabid, but surely there IS some reason for some fans not liking the direction the series seem to take? It's not that it shouldn't evolve, but rather that it should stay true to the roots.

IF the Mario series had evolved like Fallout seems to, the outrage... it would make the world shake.

Don't have to stretch your imagination too much there. Send an email to UKResistance saying that 2d Sonic was fine in it's day but that things have to move on...

That's the best analogy I can use.

Really? Holy shit.

I feel really bad for them that they consider the NMA crowd the 'hardcore fanbase' and I seriously hope they aren't taking onboard things they say. They are a small community of bitter little trolls.

Hating Fallout 3 before it's out doesn't make you a hardcore fan, it makes you a prick.

@easychord: Just forgetting for a moment how revolutionary and popular the 3D iterations of Mario are as well then?

Mario 64 is one of my favorite games and marks the point where 3d games really came of age to me. It would probably take a few house bricks to the noggin for me to forget about it. Didn't like Mario Sunshine as much.

I would probably disagree with the NMA community, if I chose to join in. Such specialised communities are great for finding obscure information but the groupthink can be pretty bad. They have decided amongst themselves what the perfect game was years ago. Are NMA any worse than other communities or do they just get more hassle from outsiders, I don't know. I certainly don't hear about game journalists winding up Sonic fans then telling all of their readers how horrible they are.

NMA does come of as too hatin' pretty often - but they raise many good points that I as a Fallout-fan agrees with.