Pete Hines Interviewed By Major Nelson

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Pete Hines Interviewed By Major Nelson

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<strong>[ Game -> Interview ]</strong> - More info on <a href="#Fallout 3">Game: Fallout 3</a>

<p>Pete Hines has been interviewed in a podcast by the official XBox blog <a href="http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007 ... games.aspx" target="_self">Major Nelson</a>. Highlights:</p><blockquote><p><em><span class="postbody"><span>Tell us about Fallout [3] from where you're sitting, tell us what it's all about</span>

Fallout 3 is a big post-nuclear role-playing game. It's our attempt at
bringing back this beloved franchise that hasn't done anything in 10
years and our chance to do a very different type of role-playing game
that we will hope folks will like.


<span>As a gamer, what should I expect? Is it a shooter? We talked about it being a role playing game, how do you explain it?</span>
First and foremost it is a roleplaying game. We make no bones about
that. Yes it has guns, yes you shoot things rather than running up to
them and hitting them with a sword (...)</span></em></p></blockquote><p><span class="postbody">On character creation and leveling up:</span></p><blockquote><p><em><span class="postbody">Unlike in Oblivion or any ES game (...) where
you can really modify your base attributes a lot as the game goes
along, Fallout 3 is much more about making some pretty tough choices
early in the game that really don't get changed as you go along. So
you're not going to be bumping up your strength skill every time you
level up. As you go through, you're going to have to make some pretty
tough choices about which attributes are important to you and they're
going to affect the rest of the game. It's experience points based,
it's not skillbased.</span></em></p></blockquote><p>On weapons:</p><blockquote><em><span class="postbody">
Right. We certainly have a lot of the weapons from the original Fallout
games in and we also added in a bunch of new ones. So you have a whole
range of stuff from the BB gun in the vault when you're 10 and first
learn how to shoot, then there's hunting rifles and Chinese assault
rifles and this really cool weapon called the Fatman, which is a
portable mini nuclear bomb watcher. It's really insane when you see it
go off.
</span></em>
<em><span class="postbody">One of the things that we found out with guns (...), which is much
more difficult to do than with swords, is that when you don't have
bullets or little mini-nukes to shoot then that weapon is essentially
useless. So it's much easier to balance how much you're allowed to use
a particular weapon or by not only degrading its condition over time
but also how much ammo is available over time (...) You can have a
great weapon like the Fatman, but if you're only going to have one
nuke, you're not going to go running around nuking people.</span></em></blockquote><p> </p><p>On console development:</p><blockquote><p><em><span class="postbody">For our desk, the 360 is just a good base
platform for us to work off, in terms of ease of design, the
architecture and the hardware. We basically find that's a good one to
use as a base platform, but we can technically show it on the PC or PS3
if we wanted. But the 360 is, y'know, you have to pick on the show a
demo on. (...) We've got pretty good at modeling our system to run well
on that (Xbox) and run well on everything.</span></em></p></blockquote><p>Listen to the whole thing <a href="http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007 ... games.aspx" target="_self">here</a>. Pete's interview is at 39:07 to 59.20.
</p><p>Spotted @ <a href="http://www.nma-fallout.com">No Mutants Allowed</a></p>
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Post by S4ur0n27 »

pete wrote:It's really insane when you see it go off.
I'll definately be buying that games!1111
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Yes it has guns, yes you shoot things rather than running up to them and hitting them with a sword (...)
Yes, because swords are what make a game an RPG!!
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Ãœberweapon bereft of ammunition ? Tantalus before the tree of exploding pears and the churning lake of napalm, unflinchingly chaste in its compassion. Too much to hope for. :drunk:
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Does anyone else not belive a fuckin thing 'ol pete says ?
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Post by Maximous »

PsychoSniper2 wrote:Does anyone else not belive a fuckin thing 'ol pete says ?
fuckin is spelled fuck'n :-)

Just can't get over how far FO3 is retreating from Paper and Pencil. BIS could have made a game based on Carmack's Escape from Castle Wolfenstein, yet they didn't, they wanted a turn-based game. I don't see the "Evolutionary" changes coming from a standard (lets make $$) company like Beth. The apple won't fall from the tree.
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very lolerific interview
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PsychoSniper2 wrote:
Can you whip up a way to ip-asshat?
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SuperH wrote:
PsychoSniper2 wrote:
Can you whip up a way to ip-asshat?
I'll just proxy then :p
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