http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_3
Link to HD teaser
http://media.pc.gamespy.com/media/568/568806/dl_2012341.html

It doesn't do much other than establish atmosphere, but it does that very well. Can't wait for more.

Hopefully they can get the cars so the trunks stay attached this time. After watching that I'm tempted to load up Fallout Tactics on this PC and see if it works under Vista.

Fallout rocks!

I tend to lose games that are older than my underwear I might have tactics still, that was some fun. The Trailer just looked like their engine they are using.

This game is gonna kick ass, I never played the first fall out but part 2 was the shit.

I have Fallout, Fallout2 and Fallout Tactics. I never got the Brotherhood of Steel game for Xbox or whatever, I'm really not sure if it's Tactics renamed, or if it's a different thing all together. I usually don't have a problem finding things.

I circled Tactics... things may be messy here, but I normally know where something was left... and that should be where it still is. I did have to stand up from here to read the title though.

What the hell is that?



I mean your TV is kinda small but a naked barbie?

Ah, that's a 5" B&W TV that's connected to outside cameras.

And the other thing isn't a barbie... it's a Christy Canyon. One that's open. I've got a signed one that's on the wall and a pic of her signing it. Part of the VividGirl line that has xrated actresses with removable clothes.


I guess you could say she could 'fallout' of her costume.. which she did, the costume is actually around her ankle there. With the heat in the room, she really doesn't like to stand on her pedestal, she starts leaning. So I figured I'd let her lay down rather than be bent over.

Due out October 7th?. The collector's edition is available for preorder and has a duck and cover bobblehead. What more could you ask for?

I'd heard that the preview was actually in game views.

Ummm, zomg? Everything Bethesda puts out is gold, and I bought both collectors edition of Oblivion. I would love to get this as well, but fuck. Eighty bucks is steep.

EDIT: I hadn't even watched the trailer until now. Ron Pearlman's voice at the end sort of suprised me. I forgot he narrated these games.

Richard Dean Anderson even did a character in the first one!

This is going on my must buy list 4 sho.

Never played the originals but always wanted to. Definitely love the post apocalyptic genre.

I did a full prebuy for mine, I'll just go pick it up when it comes out. They better have the full collectors set, they burned me once before by shorting me a bobble head.

Well... maybe I jumped the gun. I did a PreBuy from Gamestop, but from what I understand the PipBoy3000 clock is an Amazon exclusive. :/


Edit: I'm so bad... I went ahead and preordered it from Amazon too, just to get the clock. I'll unload my collectors edition from Gamestop as a 'gift' to my nephews or something.

If you ever feel like giving a gift, I'm here for you... and your gift.

Feck you can't preorder it over here! I want that too!

Apparently you can recruit Dogmeat again in Fallout 3. As much as I liked him in the prior games, how the heck is he still alive?!

Maybe it has to do with that gate from Star Trek... you know, the one that you go through and accidentally break something from Fallout 1 while playing Fallout 2. Perhaps you use it again in 3 to go get Dogmeat from 1 or 2.

I love the fall out games had some great humor in them and the first true RPG game I can remember.

this thread, hell, fallout it self, is better for you having posted that...


on topic...getting a new laptop this month that will actually be able to run game, so i am contemplating this for the pc...i might also see if i can download buy download fallout 2 for a refresher...

You know... even with the patch my car always breaks in two when playing F2.

Little editor to speed you on your way: FALCHE2.EXE

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

its like fallout, oblivion, and bioshock, all in one game...this might end up being one of the best game of all time

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/888/888731p1.html

demo movies

Why would you actually pay more for this game to play it on an xbox360, when you know the cheaper PC version will allow more control and be better overall?

your computer is too far away from your tv...

secondary question...which is better to hook a computer up to a tv - hdmi or the vga?

1) move your computer closer to your TV, or get a new computer and set it next to the TV. I think I have a computer within 5 ft of each of my TVs, and each of those supports video out of some sort to the TV. My ATI-AIWs support video out through composite, which on a CRT TV softens the picture and lowers the resolution to 800x600max and also has some underscan, 640x480 would work ok and shouldn't have much over or underscan.

2) Depends on what you want to do: Using HDMI from your video card will allow you to play back protected content from Blu-ray on your TV, if your TV and video card recognize each other for the protection handshake. However using HDMI usually will trim your resolution slighly due to 'overscan'. Meaning the edges of what would show on your desktop would be off the edge of the TV. Using the VGA port should show the full desktop without edge loss, if your video card supports the resolution of your TV. Imagine playing a game and not being able to get through an area simply because a vital item or clue is a few pixels off screen and you never see it due to that. Like Rad-X is sitting on the edge of a bench, and is off your screen, so you die horribly from radiation over and over again simply because you couldn't see the Rad-X which would normally be in plain sight. Of course if you use a converter in between those, you are likely getting the worst of both worlds. Me, I think I'll stick with the VGA since my TV supports it at 1280x1024 and it looks crisp.

With HDMI you get signal loss after about 50ft unless you have a booster in the cable, and I'm not sure how well that would work with protected signals. With VGA you start to get breakup after 100ft or so but could still work for up to 500ft if you have good quality cable, or of course have a booster.

I'm not sure who would actually run HDMI through a wall to get from one place to another, but they do sell HDMI wall jacks and HDMI cables rated for in the wall, so I guess someone must be doing it. I tried to think of an advantage of running an HDMI cable from this PC to the TV on the 1st floor and didn't really come up with a reason to do so. I guess if I wanted to play a game from here to there I could do it, I'd have to figure out what to use for controls. Not sure if bluetooth would get between the 1st floor and the 2nd to control things or not.

Course if this was the world of Fallout, we'd be getting rid of all this hokey digital stuff, and switch to analog.

This is pretty cool. I remember playing Fallout 2 back in... oh, 1998 and loving it to death. I also remember it was a big ol' processor hog and took at least 2 minutes to load a saved game on my auld K6-2 system back in the day.

If they're bringing back Fallout, Bethesda needs to buy up the rights to the Thief franchise and crank out Thief IV.

I may play through Tactics again. Fallout is ignoring Tactics, it's supposed to continue after Fallout2, so I'm guessing 'the rise of the machines' never happens in it, or hasn't happened yet.

The main thing I dislike about Tactics, is it is so linear. Each mission only uncovers the next mission or sometimes a couple. There's a cheat to unlock an extra mission (with the town I live in!) Tactics is set in the midwest. After playing through Fallout/Fallout2, I like to try and get the good weapons/skills first. Like in 2, I run down to SF before even going to Klamath, then hit the two bases for armor/weapons.

According to Game Informer, Fallout3 is supposed to let you start anywhere, including downtown DC, but they don't recommend that as it's supposed to be way tough there.

to doa...

i didnt realize you were addressing me with the 'why xbox' question...cause the answer is that i am getting that new laptop and will most likly by th pc version...

i have my laptop hooked up to my tv (50 inch samsung 1080i) which i use to watch movies on...my current lapper only has vga, but the new one will have hdmi...i havent played any games o it though, but i might try it out...

Ah, just because the link you had was for the xbox trailers.

The game situation is why I got a 4ms response TV. I figured if I was going to buy one, I wanted one that would do everything my old tube could do. Although I never played Fallout on my old TV, I could have if I wanted to.

I like how they worked Mr. Handy into the Vault-tec commercial at the beginning of the trailer.

"It's Mr. Handy! He's sooooo handy!"

That reminds me, I ought go back and finish Fallout Tactics some time.

DELAYED!

I got notification that it's now due out Oct 24, 2008.

nope

Son of a motherf...

I haven't bought a thing for almost a year now. All I was getting was this and fable 2. Grrrr.

amazon is a lie

Are any of you fine English personages able to obtain a copy of Fallout 3 from your shores and send it down my way? I can paypal you.

Because there is no way by the 3 cock hairs on the infant Jesuck that I am going to buy this altered content Australian version pish that the local classifications board is trying to hawk on us just because they are to fucking lazy to introduce an R rating into the classification system.

Like hell I am going to give up shooting speed or doing meth in game in exchange for some rooty-poo disneyland made up fake shit

Any clue as to what the shipping would be? I actually have 2 copies preordered and I'll likely only keep the superduper Amazon copy, and not the Gamestop Collectors edition. The prebuy for Gamestop came to $75.41. I know the non-collectors edition is cheaper. BestBuy had a nuka-cola bottle opener with their prebuy... I'm not sure either that I'm getting will have the bottle opener. But, how many bottles are still around that require an opener?

I dont see it passing 10 bucks in either currency. Unless I want insurance which might be prudent

Actually thanks to you guys everyone is getting the censored version.

To be honest, I don't mind that - real drugs have never really had a place in the Fallout universe.

I agree, calling it Med-X makes no difference to me. But I'm curious as to what effect it has, since they already have drugs in the game that should have similar effect. (Healing powder or Voodoo)

So, in honor of Falout 3, I grabbed my old copy of Fallout and Fallout 2, and this, for some reason cracked me up:

From the Manual of Fallout 2:



Humongous, 681 megs. Don't know, just makes me chuckle. Each game save is 80k, same thing, chuckle.

That is funny, because I remember Fallout 2 taking FREAKIN' FOREVER to load saved games. Like, I'd die, then go to the bathroom, go to the fridge and get a beer, and it'd STILL be loading.

My machine wasn't that bad, either.

I've played through F1, F2 and Tactics several times lately. Started again with Tactics last week after unsuccessfully trying to get the ~ working in ToEE with the 2nd patch on Vista. I'm on the Mordin mission I think.

Hopefully F3 works on Vista ok

Between this and Fable 2, I think I should just clear leave in October.

Thank God BioWare is not releasing anything this time also or else that dead Korean kid starving while gaming thing is going to happen all over again.

On September 30th the Sonic the Hedgehog RPG that BioWare made is launching... for the Nintendo DS.

I would like to apologize to all the brain cells that are to die as I adventure into the wee hours.

My life for this weekend may be over, for I have just booted up Fallout 3.....let the greatness begin. I'll post impressions later tonight :-) The opening CGI sequence has amazing music. I love the old song, nice hula dancer, then bam, you're hit with the post nuclear war thing. OMG, I am disappearing into this game I'm sure.

Remember, don't play online.

It's being played on an alternate profile that's only on a memory card, when I unplug the memory card, the profile isn't on my 360. It never goes online with this profile

Oh yeah, and this whole being a baby thing is really freaking me out, but it's fucking awesome. I love Bethesda, I want to marry Bethesda.