Infinite Angles

A bit off topic but I’ve been so busy with the coming release of Fallout 3 and work that I’ve stopped for too long to take a look on whatelse is happening.
So this time I’ll bring you the interview of Vince D. Weller to the excelent Alley of Infinite Angles blog:
4. What made you go [...]

Fallout Fries

French CanardPlus Emil Zoulou is asking for questions from fans about what he saw in the Fallout 3 demo, here’s something from NMA:
Here’s some chances to scratch out some more info from the meager offerings of this E3. First, Canardplus (who you may remember from this preview) contacted us to extend the offer to try [...]

Fallout 3: The Mother Of All Interviews

Very interesting and detailed interview with Todd Howard and Emil Pagliarulo at GamesRadar/PCGamer, it’s filled with spoilers though:
PCG: Do you have a rule for a bare-minimum number of ways to solve a quest?
Todd: No, we just do whatever comes naturally. We made a list initially showing the paths, so that we weren’t doing an overabundance [...]

Fallout Sensibilities and Mannerisms At PCZone

PCZone Will Porter
There are still Fallout 3 at E3 previews showing up, you can find a new list at NMA, instead I’ll just point out to this article at CVG/PCZone, that I’ve talked about before, now you can read it in full:
Is Fallout 3 Oblivion with guns? No, not really. While it’s true that when [...]

GamerDad and PC Fallout 3

Mike Anderson from GamerDad (I’m glad Andrew is feeling better these days) went to order Fallout 3 at GameStop, and has a few ideas to share about the endeavor:
The associate at GameStop asked “Would you like to preorder Fallout 3 for the PS3 or XBOX360″? After deciding that I would not immediately kill the [...]

Fallout: BGE

Image Tower of Creation
I’ve already talked about Fallout: Between Good and Evil, a Fallout 2 total conversion made by the Czech modding group Tower of Creation. For those that missed it here’s what they have been up to:
Fallout: Between Good & Evil is a freely distributed modification using Fallout 2 engine.
The mod is being developed [...]

Canard PC Eight Pages Preview Yet Again

I still couldn’t get the CanardPc magazine but, with the reservations that I haven’t seen it by myself, others did and here are some impressions, starting with Seboss at RPGCodex:
Seboss:I have the preview right here. It’s 6 pages long so I won’t do a full transcript but I could give you guys some more excerpts [...]

Canard PC Eight Pages Preview and Follow Up

French magazine CanardPC number 170 has an eight pages Fallout 3 preview that contains some interesting info, for a change, here on a summary by Mr.Bumble:
¤ Teen age gives you access to a few quests which will have an impact on how you are perceived within the Vault

¤ While travelling across the Wasteland, you can [...]

Games Radar Loves Fallout 2

I always thought that the story wasn’t the most important in the classic Fallout games, but Games Radar clearly disagrees, since they placed Fallout 2 in their best stories in videogames list:
Fallout 2 was unlike any other game before it in that aside from a few mandatory plot points, getting to the end of the [...]

Sunday Misc.

Before Fallout was Fallout it was something a bit different, Project GURPS. NMA now has a twelve years old article from the now defunct NG magazine showing how that project was being devised and developed, with a lot of great info for Fallout fans and gamers interested in gaming history. A must read! Great [...]

Top Ten List At 1Up

On the Top 10 Most wanted Games list from 1Up you can find Fallout 3:
What is it? The sequel to one of the most innovative and highly regarded RPG franchises on the PC. With a decade having elapsed since the last real Fallout game (Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel are dead to us), it’s [...]

Screen Savers and RPGs

Even if Next Gen gaming is rampant, old school RPGs still have their space. Rock Paper Shotgun has a terrific interview with Vince D. Weller (nice pseudonym), indie developer of the Fallout inspired old school RPG Age of Decadence:
RPS: Okay – Influences then. What influenced your thinking about the game – and I mean, [...]

Fallout 3: Ask Again later

NMA reports that there’s another “most anticipated video games of 2008” list that includes Fallout 3, this time around from Reax Music Magazine:
Fallout, simply put, is one of the best CRPGs ever made. I remember my joy as a young teen as I ventured out into the wastes with little more than a few [...]

Monday Is a Good Day

A few things that I saw on the weekend, first for the Brazilian Fallout fans (and Portuguese speaking world) news that Vault13, the Brazilian fansite now has a pretty detailed page about Fallout 3. Thanks for the heads up istrupador.
Also if you are interested in discussing the classic Fallout games mechanics head on to [...]

Fallout 3 To The eXtreme

It’s all over for the VoodooExtreme Most Wanted 2008 PC Game poll, here are the results:
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Let’s Talk Fallout

Fanmade Trailer by Roboverall
Another three questions by KTTDestroyer for Bethsoft developers, again made on the Bethesda Games Fallout 3 Forum:
1. What is (or was) your favorite recruitable NPC in past Fallout games, which was the less favorite and what do you think made them your favorite (or not)?
2. (Excluding perks) [...]

IGN PC and 2008

Seems the Most Wanted Games of 2008 season still hasn’t finished. IGN PC places Fallout 3 on their list:
Overview: Bethesda’s RPG take on the Fallout 3 world might not follow the same format as the previous Fallout games, but it’s as true to the spirit and character of the Fallout world as possible. As [...]