Fallout 3 "better" than Oblivion, says Bethesda
- Posted August 5th, 2008 at 07:36 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 27 Comments
Pete Hines, Vice President of Bethesda Softworks, has stated that he believes the company’s upcoming post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout 3 is a “better” game than The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
"I don't have any doubts that on the whole, and I think this is a belief universally shared on the team that Fallout is a better game," Hines told Videogamer.com.
"But we're also not oblivious to the fact that we have a lot of extra baggage that we're carrying, being the guys picking up this franchise, that are re-imagining this series from 10 years ago, and there's something that comes along with that. We're very well aware of what we're up against."
"I have no doubts in my mind that, at its core and for everything that it provides that Fallout is a better game than Oblivion was. For sure,” said Hines.
Oblivion was met with critical and commercial success upon its release on Xbox 360 and PC in 2006, spawning two official expansion packs and numerous other downloadable content. The RPG eventually made its way to PS3 the following year.
Fallout 3 is scheduled for release later this year on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
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Odium_Generis_Humani
- 7:40am BST - August 5th, 2008
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Oblivion is great, but all it did was make me wish that the other people I saw were other player characters online.
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Odium_Generis_Humani
- 8:28am BST - August 5th, 2008
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@Azu
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Are you a fan of Japanese RPG's, the prior Fallout games or both?
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Smith128 |
smith128- 10:11am BST - August 5th, 2008
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It should be glitch free and have a perfect framerate than plus i hope its nearly as long as oblivion. Ive never spent as much time with a game as i have with oblivion goty edition but i hope fallout 3 will have a good run.
TAWoody if the first few hours hook ya than you might be playing it untill fallout 3
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Altair-Assassin
- 10:33am BST - August 5th, 2008
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It's gonne be tough to beat Oblivion, I played that game til' I died..
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[velocity] |
Velokki (Same in Xbox Live)- 12:49pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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Doesn't really require much to be better than Oblivion... That game wasn't that good, when you think about it. Pretty mediocre.
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WTF?!? I've clocked over 200hrs on Oblivion and it's one of the best RPG's I've played, EVER. Yes, I've played FFVII and FFX and all that, and they were one of the greatest games ever, but so is Oblivion.
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scoutsniper1231 |
scoutsniper1231- 1:31pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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I agree with Gingo. Screw FF. I hate hearing "FF is the best game EVER" It sucks. I hate them. This is a different type of Rpg. Bethesda even said "But we're also not oblivious to the fact that we have a lot of extra baggage that we're carrying, being the guys picking up this franchise" They know they're changeing the franchise then what it was origanlly. That's spelled wrong.
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scoutsniper1231 |
scoutsniper1231- 1:31pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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I agree with Gingo. Screw FF. I hate hearing "FF is the best game EVER" It sucks. I hate them. This is a different type of Rpg. Bethesda even said "But we're also not oblivious to the fact that we have a lot of extra baggage that we're carrying, being the guys picking up this franchise" They know they're changeing the franchise then what it was origanlly. That's spelled wrong.
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chomperbull
- 2:09pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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they should have made fallout 3 coop so it could be better than oblivion
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iliketehps3
- 2:46pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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@ 4 I don't really understand what is so great about JRPGs. I really despise them, even final fantasy. I loved Oblivion though and Fallout will be great too.
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GrugNorg0606 |
L1QU1D_F0X (The I's are ones & the O is a zero)- 2:47pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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OMG All these fallout 3 haters! Have any of you PLAYED the original Fallouts!? Stop whining its going to be great!
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DARKBLADE1 |
DARKBLADE2- 4:52pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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hmm...... I hate how devs would put down thier old games that are great just to sell more of their games. in my opinion thats a horrible marketing stratedgy
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rexdeath |
rexdeath- 7:45pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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I'll get this game when it's cheaper, but I think I would prefer the elder scrolls to this but I haven't played it or anything so who knows. I had no intention of getting elder scrolls IV but it came with my PS3, I had no idea what to do at first because I'm not really into RPGs but about 6hrs into it I started to get to grips and loooved it!!! I hope it's like that with this game.
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gameoholic |
Demented007- 8:46pm BST - August 5th, 2008
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I love Oblivion, the wife and I still play it to this day, going on 500hrs. We are looking forward on playing the crap out of Fallout 3, can't wait. PSN ID- Demented007
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Azu |
Azu-san- 4:48am BST - August 6th, 2008
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"Are you a fan of Japanese RPG's, the prior Fallout games or both?"
Both, but I don't dislike WRPGs either. I just found Oblivion really boring. They ruined it with the leveling up system, compass (there was no real sense of adventure when you always knew exactly where to go), crappy AI & NPCs overall (revolutionary "like real life!" NPC behaviour my ass), craptastic plot etc. etc. etc. The only good thing was walking through the woods and seeing some of the epic environments.
Way overrated. And from the clips I've seen from Fallout 3, seems like they are ruining it with all the new things. Not that I'd wanted it to stay exactly same as Fallout 2 (the best PC game ever), I just don't like anything I'm seeing in Fallout 3. The battles seem really bad and from what I've read from hands-ons, the dialogue is almost as bad as it was in Oblivion.
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Free_Agent
- 2:22pm BST - August 6th, 2008
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I think that Oblivion is a better game than any of the final fantasy titles, just because I like the free-roam do what you what when you want type of gameplay. Plus, the game was pretty in depth with it's crafting system and the storyline was great as well. I like jrpgs, but most are just cookie cutter clones of an era gone by. They do feel nostalgic in some ways, but get boring after some time. I think FFX was the last jrpg that really captured me. If they could implement Online coop multiplayer in oblivion/fallout it would really set those games at a new level.
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