Thoughts 14 Jul 2007 01:48 pm
Fallout III video
I saw the promo video for Fallout III and they will forgive me if I am unimpressed.
After having seen the potential for exceptional graphics in Oblivion, I expected something more from Bethesda.
Of course the putz they chose to put in charge of this project made a statement to the effect that the graphics on an Xbox are exactly the same as the graphics on a pc.
This guy hasn’t got a clue. Nobody is going to convince me that a game like Oblivion running on a high-end mb/cpu with lots of memory and a x1900xt video card, or two, is going to look the same as it does on an Xbox. The Xbox simply doesn’t have the resources to max out the game.
Judging by the quality of this promo, we are not going to see anything in graphics improvement, in spite of earlier hints.
Lets hope the game play and character interaction are much improved over those offered by Oblivion.
I’m afraid the character interaction in Oblivion got boring fast, there were too few options and the responses were too predictable.
Not to mention that having to listen to someone mutter about mudcrabs ceased to be entertaining the very first time I heard it.
I admit that most overheard conversations out in the real world are also boring, but this is supposed to be a carefully thought out game, designed to entertain.
And what’s up with that “wheel of disposition,” or whatever they call it? Talk about wasted development time, I tried it a couple of times, decided it wasn’t worth figuring out and just bribed everyone.
Given the basics that have been established by the Fallout series, I hope the game, that may not be as pretty as Bethesda’s current best, will be more fun to play.
Anything you see or hear about this latest offering in the Fallout series is purely speculation, and with a proposed release date of fall 2008 none of it matters, because we won’t see the finished game until 2009.