Fallout vegas looks like it will be good

[zerocool84]

What the hell do you expect the US to look like after it's been nuked? It's ugly, desolate, and grungy on purpose. I think they did a great job making it look like DC had been nuked.

I'm talking about how ugly the textures were not the art style. The textures were ugly in the whole game. The textures looked like they were recycled from Oblivion and not updated at all. Plus every "dungeon", house, town, all pretty much looked the same. They didn't spend the time trying to make anything look that different. The textures were low rez.

 

[sandorski]

Fallout 3 looked fine.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Gamebryo SUCKS. Most temperamental game engine ever. I could never get Oblivion to run quite right, let alone with a few mods installed (and vanilla was just bland). Morrowind runs badly even on modern computers - it's like the developers put all of the processing on the motherboard bridge or something.

And I agree that the whole Fallout 3 game world looked like mud. It was all a greyish-brown color. I know it was supposed to be desolate and post-apocalyptic, but it could have looked a bit...sharper. I envisioned it as something like the pre-rendered scenes in the original Fallout games. Those were awesome.

 

[nitromullet]

Looks almost exactly like Fallout 3.

To me it looks more like Obsidian took Fallout 3 and added some of their own artwork, only they aren't as good at artwork as Bethesda...

...usually pre-release screen shots are the best the game offers. If this is the best the game can look...

...the game play better be great.

 

[Maximilian]

Fallout 3 looked fine.

I thought so too.

 

[Sylvanas]

Fallout 3 looked fine.

This

 

[loldoctor]

Fallout 3 looked fine.

The only thing that looked odd was the complete lack of environmental shadows. It bothered me that none of the buildings in the game cast any shadows whatsoever.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Meh, Fallout 3 looked perfectly fine to me. Never had it crash either.

Same as Oblivion (on a different pc).

In fact, I've never had major technical issues with any game. Sometimes I think people don't look after their pcs properly.

 

[ViviTheMage]

What engine are they using? Those are rather depressing graphics .... They look like they're from 2008.

 

[StinkyPinky]

What engine are they using? Those are rather depressing graphics .... They look like they're from 2008.

Yeah man. The graphics in 2008 were shit. Games like Crysis....hideous. They're so much better now.

 

[nitromullet]

What engine are they using? Those are rather depressing graphics .... They look like they're from 2008.

I don't think the engine itself is the issue, but more the art work. I get that they might be trying to give the characters a sort of mid 20th century look, but the artwork just doesn't look as professional as Fallout 3 IMO. It's ok, and if the game play is awesome I'm sure I won't care. I was just hoping for as good as Fallout 3 or better.

Meh, Fallout 3 looked perfectly fine to me. Never had it crash either.

Same as Oblivion (on a different pc).

In fact, I've never had major technical issues with any game. Sometimes I think people don't look after their pcs properly.

I've actually had very few issues myself with Fallout 3 on my PC, but it is the only game to ever crash my Xbox 360.

 

[lurk3r]

Loved Fallout 3 so much I barely noticed the constant crashing. I blamed XP64, but it looks like the issue was alot more widespread than just me. It was so bad most of the addons would flat out not work for me.

 

[spaceman]

f03 i loved
but it would crash every time id alt tab out
..maybe once it didnt...maybe

 

[Rhezuss]

Meh, Fallout 3 looked perfectly fine to me. Never had it crash either.

Same as Oblivion (on a different pc).

In fact, I've never had major technical issues with any game. Sometimes I think people don't look after their pcs properly.

Same here and on 4 or 5 different set-ups.

And OT, Fallout New Vegas is gonna be a sure buy for me!

 

[simonizor]

I've never had crashing problems with Fallout 3 either. Most of you that had problems probably just had a conflicting service/program running in the background and were too lazy to google the problem and fix it. You have to remember that developing for PC isn't exactly easy. There are millions of possible configurations, and there is no possible way that the developers can test their games with all of them, or with every program in existence running in the background.

 

[shortylickens]

Fallout 3 crashed a lot on me, but not so much that I wasnt willing to forge ahead and finish it anyway. The only problem I had was the gameplay was mediocre, and having an assload of mods only helped slightly. They tried to take Oblivions gameplay and port it directly over to a futuristic wasteland focused on ranged combat.
It didnt work so great, even though VATS helped a little.

Are they going to have a super platinum edition when this comes out? With everything integrated into all one package, instead of having to install 5 things separately?

Also, keep in mind that while Crysis looked awesome, it only ran on a handful of systems properly. Bethesda is trying to make money and stay in business, so they can produce more games. There was nothing wrong with Fallouts visuals, and you could tweak them with all kinds of mods anyways.

 

[Wag]

More Fallout. What could be bad?

 

[spaceman]

I've never had crashing problems with Fallout 3 either. Most of you that had problems probably just had a conflicting service/program running in the background and were too lazy to google the problem and fix it. You have to remember that developing for PC isn't exactly easy. There are millions of possible configurations, and there is no possible way that the developers can test their games with all of them, or with every program in existence running in the background.

?
the game was fickle
your post is just a tad patronizing.
the fuckin thing crashed alt tabbing out of xp/win7 almost eveyr single time..and ill wager i wasnt the only one with this issue.
across 3 different configurations
im no expert,but this sure as hell aint my 1st rodeo either.
i learned real quick not to alt tab out fo that game..becuase id be screwed.

 

[sandorski]

Alt-Tab out of any game is a crapshoot. I learned not to do it years ago.

That said, FO3 was simply well known to being Crash Prone. Didn't matter what Hardware you used or even what you did in Game, it would Crash on occasion.

 

[lord_emperor]

I've never had crashing problems with Fallout 3 either. Most of you that had problems probably just had a conflicting service/program running in the background and were too lazy to google the problem and fix it. You have to remember that developing for PC isn't exactly easy. There are millions of possible configurations, and there is no possible way that the developers can test their games with all of them, or with every program in existence running in the background.

Actually I worked through 10 pages of "fixes" on Bethesda's forum and none made a whit of difference.

The only "solution" was not to bring about the conditions that caused crashes most frequently (standing in an open area during morning) and save frequently.

But that said, gameplay was awesome enough to compensate for crashing, many times over.

 

[AlgaeEater]

Meh, Fallout 3 looked perfectly fine to me. Never had it crash either.

Same as Oblivion (on a different pc).

In fact, I've never had major technical issues with any game. Sometimes I think people don't look after their pcs properly.

The game did have its bugs. I rarely had any CTD bugs myself, but some quests were broken (especially one important one dealing with the main storyline) that caused a headache.

The only technical bug I ever ran into was the "infinite VATS" bug where you throw a grenade and it gets stuck in the ground / geometry and you never leave slow motion. It's fixed "somewhat" now, but the grenade simply ceases to exist.

In any case I'm really looking forward to New Vegas.

 

[nitromullet]

Are they going to have a super platinum edition when this comes out? With everything integrated into all one package, instead of having to install 5 things separately?

Eventually I'm sure they will, but only months after all the DLC has been released separately. I imagine that FO3 DLC was successful enough that Bethesda will do it again with New Vegas. if New Vegas is good I'll buy it too, even after Bethesda tricked me by releasing the mediocre Mothership Zeta last after some really good DLC.

 

[BoberFett]

?
the game was fickle
your post is just a tad patronizing.
the fuckin thing crashed alt tabbing out of xp/win7 almost eveyr single time..and ill wager i wasnt the only one with this issue.
across 3 different configurations
im no expert,but this sure as hell aint my 1st rodeo either.
i learned real quick not to alt tab out fo that game..becuase id be screwed.

Hell, Fallout3 crashed constantly on the Xbox and there's no room for complaints about hardware or software configurations there. It's buggy, no doubt. But I learned to save frequently (140 save games by the time I beat it) and still thought it was one of the greatest games I've ever played.

 

[zerocool84]

Even though I thought the story sucked, voice acting sucked, missions sucked, and graphics sucked, I'll definitely still be picking up Vegas as the freedom in it was awesome and was fun with mods and being able to just go out and have fun like Grand Theft Auto is.