Fallout 3

It occurs to me that I haven't mentioned this enough.

So, I'm here to remedy that!


It has come to light that Bethesda finally got around to letting the world see what's coming for the Fallout series.

If you haven't read before, I loved the original series. It's not that I don't love Orcs and Wizards, but I'm very very tired of them. Seriously, Goblins are great, as are Dragons and the like, but, for me, I fell in love with the idea of a post-apocalyptic future with a decidedly different flavor than anything that had come before it.

There are 2 RPG's that I've really gotten into before, Fallout and Vampire the Masquerade. I think that it should be obvious why, given the previous paragraph, but I will still spell it out: They are different worlds than what we're normally treated to. Don't get me wrong, it isn't that I don't appreciate the D&D license, because honestly, that's where it all started, but there's something about playing the same basic settings over and over again that really starts to lose it for me. It's the same reason I'm tired of Lost, because they're still on that damn island, and we're no closer to the truth than we were when the plane crashed.

Fallout 3 has been called the gamer's holy grail, and for good reason. The original Fallout came about in the mid-90's, and Fallout 2 followed close behind. Fallout 2 was follow by a couple of crappy titles that held no interest for me, but there was feverish work on a Fallout 3... until Interplay realized that money didn't grow on trees and was forced to fold up shop.

Enter Bethesda. After years and years of stagnating on a shelf, Bethesda stepped in and said, "let's do this thing!"

And, it seems they have. There is a list on their blag of many articles relating to the new Fallout, and all of it seems favorable (duh!). I really enjoyed this article from Voodoo Extreme over at IGN.

Now, even though the game is already looking pretty polished, it's important to bear in mind that there's still over a year before we can even EXPECT the game, and on top of that, you have to add several push backs. Right now they are quoting a Fall 2008 release time frame, so I would expect it around quarter 2 of 2009.

I'm trying not to get my hopes up, especially because it's being released for the Xbox 360 as well, and it's going to be first person, rather than top down. But, if they can pull off a game like Oblivion, than there's gotta be something to hope for with Fallout 3.