Fallout - New Vegas

..just came back from a week long snowboarding trip and found this on main YouTube page...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFupigyIN8&feature=fvhr

loved fallout 3, so i'm pretty exited for this one.

If you're not familiar with Fallout already then this trailer doesn't really have much to show for it

Jazz, squee(i think) but it up a few days ago.

looks good.

apparently it's not being developed by team oblivion ; it's been farmed out to a third-party developer, and rumours are some ex-black isle people are involved too.

i loved fallout 3, but fallout 3 with extra input from people involved with 'classic' fallout would be even better.

  On 2/13/2010 at 5:15 AM, kaini said:

apparently it's not being developed by team oblivion

Exactly - but it's not all bad. Obsidian Games are behind it and they're the guys behind KOTOR II, Neverwinter Nights II, and... ugh... Alpha Protocol. But still, KOTOR II.

  On 2/13/2010 at 5:15 AM, kaini said:

fallout 3 with extra input from people involved with 'classic' fallout would be even better.

It'd be good if they talked to the guys who went on to form Troika Games too. I hope the dialogue has a bit more impact on your game like in the originals.

  On 2/13/2010 at 5:11 AM, Space Coyote said:

If you're not familiar with Fallout already then this trailer doesn't really have much to show for it

Yeah everyone should get around to playing it and FO2. From the video you can see it's set in the West Coast http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/NCR - and the guy at the end looks a lot like Tycho from the first game http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Tycho

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20100216/fallout16_st.art.htm

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At the outset of the game, your character is shot and left in a shallow grave in the desert, lifted of the package you were entrusted with delivering. A robot digs you out and takes you to a local caregiver, Doc Mitchell, who nurses you back to health.

 

"Unlike the previous Fallouts, where you start in a vault and you are a vault dweller, this one starts with a curveball," says Pete Hines of Bethesda Softworks.

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The move to Las Vegas provides "a brand new, fresh experience that has a familiar feel of Fallout, but otherwise it's an entirely new game and a new look, with Joshua trees and tumbleweeds and blue skies," Hines says. "Vegas is up and running. It is not a ghost town. It still exists and thrives. There are casinos, and you can go down onto the Strip. It will have a very different feel from that standpoint."

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Says Hines, "It is a massive game world that will take you hundreds of hours to explore every nook and cranny."

  On 2/12/2010 at 9:49 PM, Muflontillah said:

..just came back from a week long snowboarding trip and found this on main YouTube page...

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFupigyIN8&feature=fvhr

Do we really need to know ?

Meh Obsidian, I'm guessing average.

More importantly, what is Bethesda working on now? New Elder Scrolls?

chris avellone is working on new vegas, so i have high hopes.

  On 2/23/2010 at 12:45 AM, Ego said:

Meh Obsidian, I'm guessing average.

 

More importantly, what is Bethesda working on now? New Elder Scrolls?

Brink

About Elder Scrolls...

Pete Hines from Bethesda posted this on their blog last year:

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This should not be news to anyone that has been paying attention. Both Todd and I have said repeatedly that, of course, we're going to do another Elder Scrolls game. The last one was enormously popular. So was the one before that. You get the idea. So do we.

They're not working on Brink. Only publishing it.

Do Obsidian make their living out of picking up other peoples franchises then or what?

  On 2/23/2010 at 1:32 PM, Echo said:

They're not working on Brink. Only publishing it.

Right - Splash Damage is working on it. Sorry about that.

hehe

  On 2/23/2010 at 5:42 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

http://www.duckandcover.cx/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23754 lol

LOL at someone commenting on the "bethstapo" forums.

woot!

it's awesome that this isn't being handled by bethesda. oblivion was one of my all time favourite games, but it wasn't faultless. i pretty much did everything you could in that game back in the day, maxed out a couple of different types of characters, explored everything, etc. so i did feel kind of disappointed when i played fallout 3 to find it was nothing more than a glorified oblivion mod, right down to near-identical background music/ambience, player animations, menu screens etc. the game engine had the same faults (ie. the clipping error between under/above water threshold that has existed since morrowind) and the voice acting was as stale as ever.

glad another company is being given a shot this time...

on an unrelated note i have to say borderlands was awesome - if that was released as fallout 3 and the storyline changed around to suit, it would have been 1000x more awesome

  On 2/23/2010 at 6:49 PM, alky said:

on an unrelated note i have to say borderlands was awesome - if that was released as fallout 3 and the storyline changed around to suit, it would have been 1000x more awesome

Agreed. It was like a less serious F3.

Can't help but love VATS though.

Mmm...

Borderlands was pretty good but supremely story-light whereas Fallout 3 was like slipping into a real post-apocalyptic world.

I am seriously looking forward to New Vegas

  On 2/23/2010 at 5:42 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

http://www.duckandcover.cx/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23754 lol

wow, the dude that posted that thread is a tool. i can't believe he called chris a flower.

• The tagline says: "A Safe Bet for RPG Fans"
  
• Hardcore mode: Stimpaks take a long time to heal, you need a Doctor's Bag to heal broken limbs, and you suffer from Dehydration so you need to carry water.
  
• Dynamite is one of the first weapons you come across
  
• Obsidian have focused much more on the story than Bethesda did with Fallout 3
  
• VATS now includes a special attack for every weapon
  
• Weapons can be modded - one of the mods involves reducing the spooling time for miniguns.
  
• All of your skills can be used to influence dialogue
  
• A "Command/Companion Wheel" gives you control over your followers - the design of this isn't finalized yet
  
• Nightkin are back and can cloak
  
• The Hoover Dam is intact and produces electricity
  
• Electricity seems to be one of the main things in the game
  
• There are 3 factions - the NCR, Caesar's Legion, and (although unconfirmed) the Brotherhood of Steel
  
• The Helios One solar tower controls an orbital laser platform
  
• You can get a portable controller for the laser platform and use it throughout the game
  
• Lots of "grey areas" in terms of actions and dialogue - a combined reputation and morality system means everything you do has an effect on something in one way or another.
  
• New Vegas will have different endings, "instead of the single, potentially anachronistic 'man/woman saves the Wasteland' finale."
  
• The overall theme of the game is about trying to find out who tried to kill you and why.
  
• New weapon - The "All-American" - a rapid fire Sniper Rifle
  

According to somebody called Nathan.

can you link the source?

only DAC, and from what someone read in an xbox magazine http://www.duckandcover.cx/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23942