The End

This is the last post, today the game was released in Europe, it’s time for me to stop updating the blog.
I wanted to thank Killzig, Ausir, Morbus, 4too, blinzla, brothernone, docconrad, droveri,lithal, Role Player, osiris1975, rilom, s001, Desslock, Gstaff, Mr. Happy, Mr. Teatime, Gimli, Cameron Sorden, zippydsmilee, Defonten, Amasius, Tigranes, all the people that gave [...]

Fallout 180

Excellent exercise at the Brainy Gamer:
Some ardent defenders of the Fallout series – let’s call them Fallout traditionalists – have a beef with Fallout 3 and the RPG they fear it will be: non-isometric, non-turn-based, sans dialogue trees, simplified (i.e. dumbed down) SPECIAL system, and a distinct lack of the offbeat, self-referential Fallout vibe. Such [...]

Fallout 3 v The Originals

With the release of Fallout 3 nearly upon us, Videogamer.com has decided to run a comparison on Fallout 3 and the original games of the series.  They’ve broken down the game over a variety of categories; combat, perspective, quest, and a few other categories.  The author basically states the obvious over four pages and comes [...]

I Give an Interview, World Taken By Surprise

That guy Briosafreak gave an interview to the excellent blog Alley of Infinite Angles. It’s not so bad as you might think, since he barely speaks of him, and instead brings ahead some point for discussion about the Fallout community and Fallout history. One example:
The way they followed the original is still available in the [...]

Fallout Wiki Perk List

Looks like most of us have been letting our curiousity get the better of us. Fret not, some good has come of it and it looks like the Fallout 3 Perk List is nearly complete. Hopefully this gets integrated into the excellent Character Creator by Quinnis.
Edit: Perk information has been removed from the [...]

That’s all folks!

The last Vault Arcade comic is up, it ends with a whimper.  The big news though is that the BethBlog is having a contest to celebrate the end of the PA run (or maybe to celebrate the game finally coming out, could be a little of both)…

Send an email to bethblog@bethsoft.com. In it, let us [...]

Good Fallout 2 Modding

Off topic now, but I love Fallout: Between Good and Evil, the FO2 total conversion, to pass this out:
So, you know the saying – better late than never. We aren’t quite happy that the last post on this page is from May, but we were sort of too interested in the mod to post any [...]

Images of PAX

During the weekend relax a bit and check the Flickr Fallout 3 at PAX galleries. The picture shown above is from beta angel, I love his work, it’s like Ionesco meets Hiroshima that meets Fallout.

Morning Pete

Sidney Morning Herald talks to Pete Hines:
ALTHOUGH the studio might not be a household name, many spouses and partners around the world must curse Bethesda Softworks for robbing them of their loved ones.
As one of the world’s leading specialists in role playing games, Bethesda has been churning out engrossing adventures for more than a decade, [...]

Random Battle Loves Fallout 3

My friend Cameron Sorden went to PAX and loved what he saw of Fallout 3:
The wasteland landscape is appropriately bombed-out and desolate. I actually felt that it may have been a little too cluttered with debris, although that might have been because the areas near the starting point were just designed that way. I thought [...]

Platform For Sillyness

There’s a podcast at Platform Nation featuring Todd Howard, a small transcript from NMA:
Did that ever enter your mind: how are we going to not going to alienate the hardcore Fallout fans.
Well, we had a good idea of what we wanted to do with it, so we were pretty sure we were going to get [...]

Soleil Noir Goes Into Fallout 3

Patrycja “Soleil Noir” Rodzińska played Fallout 3 at GC and published her impressions at Polish gaming site Gry-Online:
No recent game caused as much controversy and emotions as Fallout 3. For 4 years the fans of the series wondered whether the makers of Oblivion will manage to make a game as good as previous parts of [...]

Fallout 3 Survival Guides

During PAX Bethsoft gave away some interesting booklets filled with info and some nice retro flavor called The Vault Dweller’s Survival Guide.
You can find their content at Shacknews, NMA and Madbrahmin.cz. Mandatory read.

Kotaku Talks Fallout 3 at PAX

The good and the bad from the impressing Fallout 3 display at Penny Arcade Expo for Kotaku:
Hands-down the best booth on the Penny Arcade Expo show floor is Bethesda’s Fallout 3 homage.
The central booth features kiosks of playable Fallout 3, singed mannequins, and an honest to god Airstream motor home on a patch of faux [...]

Hines on Pacifism and SPECIAL

I’ve been a bit busy in the last few days, and somehow forgot to post about Guardian games blog posting the second part of an interview with Pete Hines based on questions from fans:
Will weapons require a minimum Strength? Or only a minimum in its governing attribute? (Perception = Energy, Endurance = Big, Agility = [...]

Bit-Tech Returns To The Future Of Fallout 3

Interview with Pete Hines, with a bit more info than usual, at Bit-Tech:
We got a chance to go see Fallout 3 in action recently, and obviously we couldn’t turn it down. Though the event itself was the usual blur of excitement and curiously small burgers on cocktail sticks, we bemusedly came to the next day [...]

Ausirian Days

From the BethesdaBlog:
Just wanted to give a shout out to the folks over at The Vault — a wiki page dedicated to all things Fallout. In the past week, the site hit a new milestone — 3,350 articles (and counting).
If you haven’t visited the wiki, you can learn quite a bit about the Fallout series. [...]