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 Digg.com Facebook Google Bookmarks N4G Gamerblips del.icio.us Reddit Slashdot.org StumbleUpon So they haven't made a complete balls up of it then? People rather did expect them to, myself included. I hope that it lives up to the first one, which I still think was the best. Glad to see it appears to be progressing well. Well, we shall wait and see!! However, I do feel a little sad when most people say they expected Bethesda to fail. Even the best of the best old games need some updating. Would you rather play Elite or X3??? I, for one, have always had high hopes for Bethesda and the rejuvinated Fallout franchise... I get the feeling Fallout3 will either be a resounding success hailing the rebirth of a classic franchise or else it'll be a huge turkey that will tar Bethesda for a long time to come. Here's hoping for the former. Bethesda made Oblivion. They know what they're doing. I'm 100% that one mission in Fallout Tactics involved helping a town that worship an unexploded nuclear bomb. The bomb was used on a later mission in the game.
I hope Bethesda aren't going to rip off the plot from an earlier game. That really depends on who you ask though, doesn't it? I hope their right.... But gamers, you have short memories and that's why most PC games are crap. You have completely forgotten the pre hype to Oblivion haven't you?!
There was no talk of the levelling, no talk of the radiant AI being not great and no talk of all the bugs. Just lots and lots of screenshots and hyperbole!
We were also told by the media what PC we needed to run Oblivion, and that turned out totally wrong - and I still do not understand how THAT happened accidentally, and so on and so on.
So as long as no game is actually out, and no User (not magazine!) reviews are out, I will wait patiently and see.
In PC gaming we are seeing more and more bad to average games getting way overboard hype prior to the reality of the game when it appears.
With fewer AAA PC titles being released there must be a temptation for the media to hype the few that now come along - regardless of the actual quality - just to keep you buying the magazine for a couple more months to read the pre=previews and the Director interview and the screenshots released every few days and the movies every few weeks - with very little information that is telling you anything of subsistence.
So I wait. And I hope. But I don;t go crazy over any game now. As a PC gamer these last 2 or 3 years, I have had my fingers burnt too often... Anyone who says Oblivion wasn't a well crafted game is a cock tbh. »
Laughed so hard my coffee came down my nose :!: Meh, to be honest I wasn't that optimistic to begin with and most of the recent previews haven't really suprised me too much. I'm guessing if Oblivion was your cup of tea (and for most people it was), this'll be right up your street but I think I'll be giving it a miss.
And who could argue with such an obviously deft use of logic. well time will tell but features such as handheld nukes and drinking out of toilets doesnt really sell the game to me.
aside from that, no game mag, including pcz, has the balls to say a game is naff upon release.
just look at doom3. when released, PCZ gives it high ratings. months later, they say that the gameplay is old and trivial.
blablabla. Personally I think we PC gamers (Generally being older than most console gamers on avarage) are to cynical. In regard to Oblivion, sure it had short-comings, and sure it wasn't perfect, but it was a danm good game. I hate the way many people go on about how forinstance Morrowind was so great by Oblivion is crap. But when Morrowind was out the same people complained about it and said Hammerfall was better. But i digress, its too early to judge Fallout 3 yet, but if I get it, I'm not going to compare it to oblivion or the previous fallout games, I'm just gonna play it and enjoy the good bits. | 
