Post Nuclear Living in Fallout 3
- Posted October 10th, 2007 at 14:34 EDT by
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(continued from previous page) ...differentiates itself compared to The Elder Scrolls IV other than in terms of storyline? Does Bethesda feel it's a step in a different direction? Or a step in a more advanced direction?
Absolutely. There are some similarities in terms of being big, open-ended RPGs. But beyond that, they’re very different. Completely different character systems, dialog system, setting, tone, etc. Having the experience of working on one very large RPG certainly helps when you’re making another.
PSU: How does the Enclave fit into the bigger storyline of Fallout 3? Can you please divulge us some juicy details?
Another area we aren’t ready to go into yet.
PSU: Around how many weapons are planned for Fallout 3 and what kind of customization will be possible?
There are different types of weapons, and each group has a variety of different weapons within that type. So there are a variety of small guns, melee weapons, etc. A number of them are back from the previous games, along with some new ones. For each type of weapon there is also one weapon you can create using parts that you find. You have to find the plans for the weapon and then all the parts in order to make the weapon.
PSU: What platform is lead for development? Are you finding one easier than the other?
We usually use the Xbox 360 as our lead platform because it has some very good tools for providing feedback we need in managing things like memory allocation, load times, framerate, etc. But we develop each platform simultaneously and ultimately the game has to run and be tweaked to run on each platform as well as possible.
PSU: How much power usage (CPU, SPU, RSX) would the dev team say Fallout 3 is currently utilizing from the PlayStation 3?
At this stage of the process we are still putting everything into the game so things like that will fluctuate as more things go in, get optimized, etc. At this stage, I don’t know if we know what those numbers will be when it’s all said and done.
PSU: When will Fallout 3 ship for the PlayStation 3 platform?
It’ll be out in Fall 2008.
PSU: Last but not least, though rather premature to develop yet for you guys, are there any thoughts—even faintly---of looking ahead to develop The Elder Scrolls V?
We never stop thinking about what we want to do next, but right now our focus is on Fallout 3 and that’s all we’re talking about. We’ll let folks know when we’re ready to talk about another Elder Scrolls game.
We'd like to thank Pete once again for the interview -be sure to stay tuned to PSU.com for more coverage on Fallout 3.
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Ralod
- 3:54pm BST - October 10th, 2007
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Oblivion 5? What kind of a idiot are you really? Mentally retarded does not even come close to something that could describe you.
Do you Mean TES5 or the Elder Scrolls V maybe?
No wonder people dislike gaming journalism more and more, your all *** kissing hype **** who really have no idea what your even talking about.
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UltimaEnder
- 4:22pm BST - October 10th, 2007
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LOL @ Ralod, freaking hilarious, obviously this guy knows a lot about Bethesda! AHAHAHAHAH, that's too classic from PSU.
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IRONMAIDEN
- 4:39am BST - October 11th, 2007
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play Fallout 1 and 2 and you will be as pumped for this game as much as i am
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motzo
- 8:19am BST - October 12th, 2007
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iv waited so long for all the things that were promised for this year and tey seem to have never come just look at the range of ps3 games in any video rental store its just starting to get pathetic now when you have a console the games people can play sould be decided by choice not by how many the company can make we keep gogin on about how good the games in the future will be but face it our console didnt make it dont relly know why it was a change in the people i suppose im not saying iv totaly given up but i think now im open for differance in the future i think its about time we got somthing new in the gameing world mabye then we willn not have to try and win a war to simply have some fun in our spare time or all our time in some cases sigh i need to be refreshed from all this i dunno i dont think im gonna think about it much more n just wait n see what the world can dish out for every one
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