Three Dog Teases Fallout 4

[Soviet Heavy]

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Yeah, the game mechanics in NV were, for the most part, vastly improved. However, I just liked the setting and characters in fallout 3 so much more! I like both games, but the gameplay versus story makes it impossible for me to pick one that I prefer decisively over the other.

But hey, looks like more east coast shenanigans, which I totally love, because the east coast shenanigans of fallout 3 had a better atmosphere. Less dry

badum tish.

Eh, I feel like Washington DC left a lot to be desired environment-wise. If you're going to do a metropolitan area I actually want to explore said metropolitan area. Not be stuck in the bloody subway as I would likely be in real life. DC felt too limited.

But so did New Vegas. Or rather, it didn't have to be if only they hadn't cut it up into teeny tiny bits.

Yeah, It was a bit limited, but I very much enjoyed the areas above ground that I WAS able to explore. That, and the subway tunnels aren't to bad, they are just all the same (but of course, thats kinda how it should be).

Though I agree that new vegas was much more open (with the exception of new vegas itself ironically). It was just more open in a bad way, which is to say it felt much more empty. But that's mostly just a by-product of it taking place in the friggin desert. If new vegas had a bit more foliage, or some trees or little mini-oasis type places to break up the monotony of the desert, then I would have loved it much much more. Grand open plains are great, just if they have more than dirt and sand.

In settlements or other, more densely packed areas, in which there were people or buildings and such, then it was fantastic not having rubble piles block access, forcing you to walk 2 miles through subway tunnels to get on the other side of some rubble which would have been child's play to climb over. Like, DC5 climb check kinda child's play.

You want to break up the monotony of the Desert? Try out this mod (provided you're pc gaming)
http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/39856

 

[SajuukKhar]

Nonsensical.

Fallout New Vegas was so far above Fallout 3 in every respect imaginable it's not even funny. EVERYTHING MADE MORE SENSE, for starters. Fallout 3 collapses under the tiniest bit of scrutiny.

As for Fallout 4 ... well, as others have expressed, I would much rather have Obsidian handling the story.

Except the terribly dull and uninteresting world that lack almost any sort of personality, or character, where every town was pretty much a copy-pasta "normal houses with normal people", and every location was JUST some abandoned building, or JUST some cave. The Mojave wasteland was one of the singularly most dull and uninteresting places I have ever experienced in a video game.

Fallout 3 didn't make sense, but at least it was interesting enough that I forgave its nonsensical, even by Fallout's "SCIENCE!" standards, setting.

I missed stuff like the Dunwich Building, or the vault that got you high on drug gas, or the vault full of clones of some dude named Gary that could all only say Gary, and places like Wheaton Armory, Fort Constantine, or the National Army Depot, that were full of robots, but with a fuck-ton of loot if you got past them all.

Not to mention the fact that the Mojave wasteland was stupidly linear, full of monster walls, invisible walls, and bad terrain design, that forced you down a very narrow corridor for what amounts to the first 60% of the main quest. for being a "open-world" game, it lacked the OPEN part for the first halfish of the game.

 

[HHammond]

Please, Bethesda, PLEASE just hire Obsidian and let them handle this! Or at least just bring the writers over! Even if it's just Chris Avellone, J.E. Sawyer and maybe Eric Fenstermaker. Just please! Fallout 3 was... okay, I guess. It was enjoyable but it was hardly amazing. Nothing compared to the story, design, characterisation and commentary that New Vegas possessed. Please, oh please just don't write it yourself!

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I've still got GNR tunes on my phone.

Then again I've got Radio New Vegas on it as well.

 

[RaikuFA]

Don't get excited folks, it's just a post-apocalyptic DJ simulator where you have a choice of 4 records to play on a constant loop.

2 more records will be available as DLC.

Only for XBox. PC will wait a month while PS3 will get jack.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Here's to hoping we can do the mentally handicapped playthrough again. Bringer of Pizza indeed!

 

[Lt._nefarious]

Good evenin' Escapist this is Nine-Dividied-By-3 Dogg! Ahwoo! Now, y'all out there keep on the look out for the boys from vault 69, known as "Bethesda". Now word is they're makin' a new Fallout game and 9-Divivded-By-3 Dogg just loved the original, so if you see this fella's walkin' he wastes give 'em some help and tell 'em I said they were cool.

OT: Fuck. Yes. I'd love a new Fallout game. Aw, Fallout 3 was the bomb, only game I ever bought all DLC for...

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

I actually liked Three-Dog. He has a much better personality and taste in music than Mr New Vegas.
Hopefully we'll get a nice hybrid of Fallout 3 and New Vegas for this one. The writing, variety and multitude of dicking around activities as New Vegas but all the style, spectacle and scenery as Fallout 3.

 

[Dead Seerius]

Looks like Three Dog is heading to Boston then? Unless it's just the same voice actor. Either way, if Bethesda is allowing him to speak up then I'm getting excited that we'll be seeing a more full-fledged announcement in the near future.

Perhaps even *gasp* a TRAILER??

Well a guy can dream.

 

[Jeff Gennick]

...

Three Dog's coming back?

...

FUCK YES!

 

[Berithil]

[HEADING=2]Oh, YES! PLEASE!PLEASE!PLEASE!PLS!PLOX![/HEADING]

Three Dog was so much better than Mr. New Vegas and I loved FO3. Due to the Lone Wanderer boosting the signal, the next game could conceivably be set anywhere in the eastern US.

Now I'm excited, even if we're probably a long way off...

 

[Pink Apocalypse]

800 hours of play and *still counting* with Fallout 3. Non-modded on the Xbox no less. It would take quite some time to properly articulate exactly how or why that game has such a grip on me.

About 200 hours of play on New Vegas (a significant portion spent on a couple of DLCs I loved). I got my money's worth, but have no desire to ever play it again.

To each their own.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

If it is as good as New Vegas, I will buy it. New Vegas sold me on the series although I'm going to wait for a good sale before picking up 3.

 

[antipunt]

*backs into a corner

D:

I....I-I thought I killed you >_>

 

[Gilhelmi]

I killed him because I could not stand his voice anymore.

Not like Bethesda ports player choice over anyway.

I hope the next Fallout game is an MMO.

I would like to hunt you down for what you just said.

I still think that his radio station has been boosted to all over America then just DC, why? Of course it's because of the Lone Wonderer, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't do all the work and already in command of the Brotherhood of steel.

Still... I look forward for Fallout 4 because I is going to look like Skyrim (For the graphics) but a little better.
Also because of (hopefully) all the new stuff it will bring.

I do not think he would be in command of the Brotherhood. He did not seem the "Commander" type. Perhaps the Public Relations person. I think the Brotherhood would be able to recruit and increase their ranks because of his calls. With increase of manpower, they could spread out and form a new nation (like the NCR did). Perhaps even explore the... dang forgot the groups name, Commonwealth(?)... and see the new technological advances (or old, because of reinventing stuff) they did. They were not that far away from the Capital wastes anyway.

 

[Jfswift]

You want to know something? I've beaten the game several times and fully explored the capital wasteland however I've never once spoken to three dog.

 

[Berithil]

You want to know something? I've beaten the game several times and fully explored the capital wasteland however I've never once spoken to three dog.

Wait... what?

How do you do that? Don't you have to talk to him to advance the Main quest?

 

[Gilhelmi]

If it is as good as New Vegas, I will buy it. New Vegas sold me on the series although I'm going to wait for a good sale before picking up 3.

3 was better. Sure they did not have some of the game play that made NV good, like the faction standings and a slightly better barter system. But they lost ground on the storytelling, and your character just seemed not to have any back-story (just the base game, I do not know if Lonesome Road added or not).

3 felt like you were changing the political landscape of the Capital wastes, helping the Brotherhood establish their nation, Or helping no one but yourself.

In NV, all the towns looked and felt the same. But in 3, Each one had a different life to it. From Megaton, a town in a crater that was formed by an unexploded nuke (some people worshiped the bomb). To Underworld, a town in the US Natural History Museum made up of goules.

Go ahead and by GOTY edition of 3 now. The only thing you have to lose is the hours you will spend exploring everything.

 

[Radoh]

You want to know something? I've beaten the game several times and fully explored the capital wasteland however I've never once spoken to three dog.

Wait... what?

How do you do that? Don't you have to talk to him to advance the Main quest?

No, you can totally skip him by going to the Jefferson Memorial before meeting him, that's what I did my first playthrough.
Or you could stumble onto the vault that he's at, I think that works.