Tim Cain a két legutóbbi Falloutról

Tim Cain, aki a Fallout első részének atyaúristene volt, az RPG Codexnek nyilatkozott az új részekkel kapcsolatban:

"Given that you left Interplay midway through Fallout 2's development, how did the resulting game differ from the original design you had in mind for it?

I don't remember the specific details of my plans for Fallout 2, but I do remember playing the game and seeing it was different from the storyline I had proposed for it. I think my biggest disappointment with the game is that each area was made in almost complete isolation from the others. There was no over-arching theme and no attempt to make sure the different areas were cohesive. It felt like a lot of Fallout-y areas, placed adjacently and connected with a storyline. Those areas were individually well-done, but they suffered from the lack of a strong central design.

You claimed to enjoy Fallout 3, and I'm going to assume you also enjoyed Fallout: New Vegas. From a design standpoint, how would you compare Fallout 3 and New Vegas? What did New Vegas do differently from Fallout 3, in your view?

I did enjoy both Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I know that surprised some of my fans, who wanted me to hate the games and rail against their design choices (which I have repeatedly pointed out were different than the ones I would have made), but there is no arguing that more people enjoy the modern versions of the franchise than the older ones.

If I were to compare the two games, I would say that Fallout New Vegas felt like it captured the humor and style of the Fallout universe better than Fallout 3, but I have to hand it to the FO3 designers for developing VATS, a cool twist on called shots for a real-time game. I also loved the set decoration FO3. There was so much destruction, yet obviously everything had been meticulously hand-placed. So much story was told entirely through art. I ended up naming these little art vignettes and creating side stories in my head about what had happened. There was "The Suicide", a dead guy in a bathtub with a shotgun, and I figured he just couldn't handle life after the bombs. There was "Eternal Love", a couple of skeletons in a bed in a hotel room, forever embracing each other. There was "My Last Mistake", the corpse in the temporary one-man fallout shelter which obviously didn't do its job of keeping out the heat and radiation. My favorite was "Desperate Gamble", where I found a feral ghoul in an underground shelter filled with lab supplies and lots of drugs... except for Rad-X. I imagined that a scientist found himself irradiated and desperately tried to synthesize some Rad-X to cure himself before he succumbed, but he was too slow. I did notice that whatever was left of his mind sure did seem to enjoy toilet plungers.

If I had to pick something I didn't like about FO3, I would pick its ending. I hated the ending. There, I said it. I didn't like the sudden problem with the purifier, and I especially didn't like the lack of real, meaningful multiple endings beyond what I chose in the final few minutes (FEV or not, me or Lyons, and that was it?). But the worst thing about the ending was there was no mention of the fate of places I had visited. In my head I had already imagined slides for Megaton, the Citadel, Rivet City, Underworld, GNR, the Enclave or the mysterious Commonwealth. But I got... pretty much nothing.

I liked FONV's ending much better. It had a nice set of slides at the end of the game. They covered everything I was wondering about. I went with Mr. House at the end... and that seemed a worse choice after the slides, but still OK. It led to a law-abiding but somewhat impersonal Vegas. I wish I didn't have to kill the BoS, but I want House to control the future, so I had to do it. It was a great morally ambiguous choice, and the decision made me pause. That's a sign of good design, right there."

Fallout 3 - fan interview

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Újabb Fo3 intejúk

Azt hiszem fölösleges mondanom, melyik oldalra mutat a link...
Eurogamer szemezgetés
ActionTrip interjú

Az NMA-interjú fordítása

Az RPG Vaultra felkerült a múltkorában említett NMA-féle Fallout3 interjú fordítása.

1UP interjú az RPG Vaulton

Ide kattintva olvashatjátok el. Utána érdemes megnézni ezt.

Fallout 3 - GamingTrend fórum Q&A IV.

Itt a negyedik rész.

Kiegészítés: ez tkp. a harmadik rész, csak az RPG Vault-osoknak sem tűnt fel. (aug. 22.)

Fallout 3 - GamingTrend fórum Q&A III.

Felkerült az RPG Vaultra az interjú harmadik része (az első kettő már volt linkelve).

Fallout 3 - GamingTrend fórum Q&A

Fallout hármas infók fordításai az RPG Vaulton: első, második rész.

Fo3 interjú az RPG Vaulton....már megint

Az RPG Vaulton újra megjelent egy Fo3 interjú fordítása, itt a link.

Interjú

Az RPG Vaultra felkerült egy Fo3 interjú fordítása (itt a link).

Amit érdemes lenne lefordítani...

Ha már ennyire benne vagyok ma a Fallout3-ban, belinkelek még ide két oldalt az NMA-ról: ez egy Fo3 GYIK, amibe mindig beleírják az újonnan kikerült infókat, érdemes böngészni, mivel minden benne van, amit tudni lehet a játékról. A másik pedig egy interjú, amiben kiderül egy-két érdekes dolog (például, hogy nem lesznek a Fo3-ban alienek).

Fallout3 az RPG Vaulton

A múltkor már belinkeltem egy RPG Vaultos cikket az E3-as Fo3 infókról, ennek itt van a folytatása, valamint a itt van a már emlegetett Desslock-féle előzetes fordítása is.

PC Gamer Fallout 3 előzetes

Egyre-másra áramlanak a Fo3 előzetesek, noha nem sok új infó derül ki egyikből sem. A PC Gamerben viszont érdekesen oldották meg, a preview tulajdonképpen két jóember (Desslock, Dan) párbeszédén alapszik (itt van az NMA-s linkje: 1,2,3,4).