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More Rumored Fallout 3 Graphics, Details
Although not officially announced, both the No Mutants Allowed and Duck And Cover fan-sites for the Fallout series of PC RPGs have much new info on Fallout 3, including some new alleged Fallout 3 concept art, as well as pictures of it on the wall in Black Isle HQ. NMA has a good unofficial FAQ, missing the newest info such as there "..being just one playable race in Fallout 3, humans" , but including many more details from the game codenamed 'Van Buren', as being widely discussed in online forums by lead designer J.E.Sawyer.
While the "Don't fix what ain't broke" philosophy worked well for Fallout 2, I would like to see some upates for the 3rd one. Interplay basically came out and said that the entire engine was going to be the same for the 2nd one because the first one was so well received. For a third one, I would like to see a little more difference in the joinable NPCs and how they respond to your reputation. For example if you are evil and notorious, evil characters will be drawn to you and want to join your party. If you are the good noble character, you will get the "nice" characters. I think it will add to the replay of the game... Vehicles would definitely be nice as well. I don't want a radical departure from what worked, I would just like to see it updated a little
Either way, I love to hear about a 3rd installment of the the only game that can call itself the decendant of Wasteland.
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... what cities are they going to use in it? I mean, will they keep going north or what? They've done postapocalyptic SoCal (in the first one) and postapocalyptic north California (in the second one), now what? Nobody wants to explore postapocalyptic Oregon.