| Written by Dana Olson Published at 2010-02-08 17:09:00 Tagged: [PlayStation 3] |
It's no secret that Fallout 3 was 2008's Game of the Year (it even says so right on the box). So, you can understand my excitement toward Fallout: New Vegas when I hear that it's confirmed to use the same engine as Fallout 3, but with tweaks, including some VATS improvements.
The dialogue system is being made more robust as well, including a new Reputation system, which is in addition to the Karma system.
Further to this, the game will include an optional hardcore mode, where you must monitor details such as water consumption, ammo weight, and slowed health restoration during healing.
As for your character, you play as a courier who is rescued from wreckage, and you eventually meet a Vault Dweller who will give you a Pip Boy. The story itself is said to center on the battles between New California Republic, Caesar's Legion, and New Vegas residents. New Vegas, as revealed in the first teaser trailer, made it through the nuclear war practically unscathed - somehow.
There are more little details at Duck and Cover, if you wish to read it all. The information originally stems from various magazines already mailed out to some lucky subscribers, but it sounds like it's pretty accurate and legit information, as developers have commented on the various details.
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13 comments:
 |  Dana Olson
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933 @Apotheosis: did you try the old Van Buren demo? I know you can find it around the web, but it's not much.. but a taste of what might have been.
I find myself preferring Fallout 3, but back in the day, I loved the first two, but they were buggy back then, too.
 | RAMPAGE_64
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Dang it i don't want to have the same engine, i thought the engine sucked because of the graphics that didn't even look better then Oblivion thats 4 years old already. Well ill get the game anyway but its a let down to me and the game company thats making it. I wanted a new game engine with the new story, all its going to feel like is a expansion and i don't want that. Bethesda has let me down once again.
 | BamBamBoozled
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Bring it on. Hopefully a car dealership survived and they offer something with lots of trunk space. I got tired of Fawkes pulling his Leroy Jenkins bs pretty early on. (I know you can change the tactics but thats no fun)
 | Apotheosis
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Any of you guys play Stalker? It's Fallout 3 esque- FPS/RPG for pc, it's pretty good. Unfortunately, I can barely run it.
 | Jason LaFave
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@BamBamBoozled: Heck yeah...and then one of the gems you're always keeping an eye out for, would be gas. Spotting a gas station sign in the desert distance...digging through abandoned homes' garages, looking for gas tanks. Maybe you find a guy that can convert your fuel system, to run on a mixture that you can make yourself, with base ingredients...
I'll gladly take the same engine, even if it feels like an expansion. Heck, it would be badass if you played as The Lone Wanderer, and could carry your game save over. Just have the game scale the difficulty, like Borderlands does. I know that's not going to happen, but it would still rock.
I don't think I've ever loved a game so much, that I happily overlook the bugs, because even just the environment is somewhere I love to be. Meaning Fallout 3, of course.
 | Josh Rai
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I enjoyed Fallout 3 but I do not want another wasteland filled with some quests. I gain some hope from the teaser trailer that there will be a full fledged city and won't be coloured with just shades of grey. What excites me the most is Obsidian bringing in their story expertise and for us to finally experience a good story in a Bethesda game. If it is just more Fallout 3 I will be completely indifferent.
| RAMPAGE_64
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To me if Bethesda screws up and dose that stupid Microsoft only expansions for 5 months thing then ill never buy a Bethesda game ever again. Thats why i just wont let Bethesda have some slack but since this game is being partly developed by a different game company then yes ill give it a try.
When Jason LaFave said The Lone Wanderer i was thinking about when me and my brother was trying to come up with a name for my movie and i said The Lone Wanderer and how he said that it was from Fallout and i just didnt know, so the movie has no relation to the lone wanderer from fallout, it was just a thought for a title that i liked and stuck to.
| Dana Olson
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@RAMPAGE_64: ? It's been over 12 months and all Bethesda did was expansions for Fallout 3... What on earth are you talking about 5 months and "if"?
| Jason LaFave
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@RAMPAGE_64: Eh..."lone wanderer" isn't really something new, just from FO3. It's more of a character type than anything.
| RAMPAGE_64
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@Dana Olson: I'm talking about the 5 months or however long it took for Microsoft's contract with Bethesda to end and then to release all the Fallout 3 expansions to the ps3, I wouldn't want Bethesda to do that again.
| Dana Olson
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@RAMPAGE_64: gotcha. I misunderstood what you meant. I don't really care what they do regarding DLC; I'm sure it won't be permanently exclusive once again anyhow. Maybe this time I will keep my copy of the game so I can play the DLC.
| RAMPAGE_64
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@Dana Olson: I wonder if Obsidian is in charge of what happens with DLC and stuff but if this game really takes off then i hope Obsidian makes more games and make a whole new Fallout then having the same engine.
This is awesome. Just wish they'd use a different engine... I guess I just really want to play the first few again. I still maintain the notion that the gas masked fellow in the trailer is a chinese operative. This is all pretty baller.