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Fallout 3 (pg. 3)
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| Owsey2008 |
| Holy , looks ing brilliant! |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
Oh man, I don't know who you've heard that from, but they're seriously ed in the head. :p |
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I'm totally oblivious here; from what I understand, Fallout Tactics was the most recent iteration in the series, correct? Where did it up that makes its predecessors that much better? Curiosity...
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
My gaming rig is down right now and it is never coming back up as I ordered all new components. Can't wait. |
Just in time for October 28th! |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
australia s over the entire world. im sorry guys :(
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September 10, 2008 - Bethesda Softworks has taken drug usage out of Fallout 3. This is for all territories, not just Australia. Originally, Fallout featured in-game morphine that gave characters health bonuses, but Bethesda decided to remove any ties to real world drugs after Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification refused to classify the game with an age rating. This essentially banned the sale of the game in the entire country.
In response, Bethesda made alterations to the drug usage. While you can still "use" drugs in the game, the actual usage of it is not shown. This allowed Australia's OFLC to reclassify Fallout 3 with a Mature Audiences 15+ age rating. The board subsequently issued this statement:
The drugs depicted are fictional; drugs are depicted as stylized icons on a menu with the drug use itself not depicted. Whilst navigating a post-apocalyptic futuristic landscape, players can invoke the use of a variety of "chems" listed by fictitious names which include "Buff", "Rad-X", "Psycho" and "Ultrajet". Within the context of the game's narrative, the player may choose to make use of these "chems" to alter the physiological characteristics of their character in the game
Speaking to Edge-Online, Bethesda's Peter Hines explained why these drug edits were being made universal. "An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names. To avoid confusion among people in different territories, we decided to make those substitutions in all versions of the game, in all territories," Hines said.
For players unfamiliar with Bethesda's highly-anticipated action RPG, Fallout 3 puts players in a post-apocalyptic environment and forces them to fend off giant insects and super mutants. The game is set for an October 28 launch in the US, and an October 31 release in Europe/Australia. |
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| enydo |
| Looking forward to this intensely. |
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| Fledz |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
australia s over the entire world. im sorry guys :( |
Rubbish. First of all it's the OFLC who in no way represent any Australian gamer whatsoever. If they did, they would listen to people and put in a R18 rating. Anyway, there's hardly anything taken out. It's just a name change. |
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| Rodrico |
| This game gives me a raging boner. |
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| Philby |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i love how philby comes in here to talk about games his machine will never run :D |
hey man! this machine is like the millenium falcon of pc's. it'll hold together! (come on baby, hold together)
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
Though going from 360, PS3, and even Wii to Fallout 2 is a pretty massive graphical downgrade - I actually had to track down old video card drivers just to get it to run (I didn't have 256 color drivers)! :stongue: |
don't make it worse than it already is! :p
ps
i have a radeon 9600 pro, i didnt need to downgrade nothin.
or maybe thats the point...
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
actually, they've also changed how the drugs are used as well. |
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| zokissima |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
It is more post nuclear war as opposed to underwater mutants. |
That's just the context of the setting, and not what I was referring to. Ok, so whomever did it first, I am only saying that they display a somewhat loose similarity in 'vibe'. Maybe I'm just looking too much into the similar music, and the funky character displays used in powerups.
So...is this more adventure, or FPS? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by zokissima
So...is this more adventure, or FPS? |
neither. its an RPG. |
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| Moongoose |
| I dont care much for the first person wiev, i see that in some instances 3rd person wiev is possible and i i will be able to play like that it will be awesome. Like Mass Effect was for instance. |
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