Fallout: New Vegas

^ I believe I read a Let's Play. The art direction is hilariously bad, and so it's part of the writing (surprisingly enough there are a couple of good ideas there). From a purely gameplay standpoint it seems like a Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance reskin.

i did

it is made of fail and AIDS

I never played 1 or 2, but I what I liked very much about 3 was the atmosphere - it definitely feels very 1950s American, as exactly intended. Artistically, it was perfect.

Now if they just made characters and cutscenes that didn't feel like puppet shows...

Three new screenshots

Hurray for the good ol' Super Duper Mutants.

I call dibs on the grenade machine gun! BOOM! Hehehe.

Anyways, do you think there will be any chance you can play as a ghoul?

no

I hope stupid characters make a return

I hear they are going to go back to the special dialogue choices for characters with less than 4 INT but I think they also said they'd be handled "differently".

Indeed. Instead of the way the first two Fallouts did it, low intelligence in New Vegas will apparently lead to your character Completely Missing The Point of things in dialogue.

will we have to save moo-moos

Emphasis on “different.”

This looks more awesome every time it's updated. The graphics definently look nicer.

Indeed. Instead of the way the first two Fallouts did it, low intelligence in New Vegas will apparently lead to your character Completely Missing The Point of things in dialogue.

Precisely. Depending to the character you're talking too this apparently will have negative or positive effects.

The question is, are the lulz worth the skill point loss.

If you're doing it only for the lulz I'd say no, they're not worthy (unless it's you 3rd/4th playthrough), I suspect one would put less points in intelligence to go for the incredibly heavy route (tags : Big Guns, Melee, Unarmed maybe? USING THE BOXING GLOVES TO KICK SOME SUPER MUTANT'S ASS??!!!!!) or for some other similar builds. Knowing the developers behind this I also suspect some unique quests or at least solutions will be ONLY available to stupid characters.

Hm. <4 INT, big guns and unarmed melee...

ENTIRE VAULT IS BABIES!

I really hope this time there's isn't enough skill points to make you an expert in everything and let you max out your SPECIAL with bobble heads, etc. That made replays of FO 3 feel really samey, though the main quest was so one sided it would have been pretty much the same anyway.

They could go with 'same points' in normal mode and 'less points' in hardcore mode, so that players who liked vanilla and liked being experts at everything will be satisfied. They're making skill magazines temporary boosts at least.

I actually kinda liked Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for the simple reason that blowing the shit out of super mutants really never gets old. The Champions of Norrath engine was at least servicable, and post apocalyptia is a place I enjoy being. Playing through with a buddy from out of town over the course of a weekend was a good bonding experience.

Anyways, Fallout 2 had different quests depending on whether your character was an idiot or not; normally, in Vault City, you have to do a big quest for them (involving the nearby ghoul city) before they'll let you into the vault to look for their G.E.C.K., but if you're a gullible moron, they just give you a broom and shove you into the Vault to tidy up for them, bypassing all that nonsense.

So I expect that a new Fallout game made by Obsidian will have that sort of The Dev Team Thinks of Everything stuff.

^That's an example of the 'positive consequence' Sawyer was talking about I believe, so yeah, I'd expect things like that to be in the game, though I guess you will be less 'caveman' and more 'The Ditz'.

I think I'll miss some of the grunting dialogue options, though. I first discovered it via playing around with drugs, I believe.

"Guh!"

"Oh, I see that you are dim."

"Buh!"

^They were fun for some time but they really could become unnerving after a while, especially in Fallout 1. I'll have to play New Vegas before deciding if New Vegas' take on stupid dialogues is better or worse than the original's. I think this just shows how much more Obsidian focuses on dialogues, story and characterization compared to Bethesda.. I believe I read a Feargus Urquhart quote in the Game Informer preview, it was something like 'Bethesda thinks dialogue is important, we thinks it's vital'. I'm not sure how important Bethesda really thinks dialogue is considering some pretty bad lines in Fallout 3 and Oblivion (I don't remember any cringeworthy lines in Morrowind, though I don't remember any good lines either)...

^ Does bad grammar count as cringe worthy?

"You cannot rest here enemies are nearby" comes to mind.

^ Not as much as some really bad lines in Oblivion and Fallout 3 but I guess you could count that. It probably stemmed from the lack of an editor anyway. And I really shouldn't be the one talking about bad grammar.

^^

what was so bad about that

This is why I want to play this game!◊

Look at that hat. Beautiful.