Yes it seems that Bethesda have been doing other things than give each other piggy back rids for the last 3 years. They now own a good old franchise called 'Fallout' and are determined to drive a stake in it's mutated flesh.
Fallout 3 was a big hype for me until I read the PCGamer interview, seriously the mag has drop a few notches that day. Here are the reasons why:
1. All reasons come down to this: THEY MAKE BAD TRAILERS! Yes they do and that cuts down the hype because they reuse the same game elements over and over.
1.1: STOP WITH THE ARMOURED VAULT SUIT! I had enough of it! I hope it's worth good loot because it's the first thing I'll sell. NO screenshot uses another suit, witch tens to confuse the watcher, I was sure there weren't anything else until I READ it, showing Bethesda's commitment to killing all hype.
1.2: STOP WITH THE SLOWMO KILLS! Another abuse of a good idea, it seems that Fallout's marketing group believe that showing TWO new gameplay elements in every single trailer and screenshot, will make a game sell, especially five months before release, *coughs* hint hint bethesda, show some story and missions.
1.3: Thanks for making the Enclave look utterly stupid at the Microsoft press conference E3 08; 'Oh hear comes the Enclave in a helicopter, I guess they seen me runing around aimlessly and shooting errant enemies, I guess I should kill them'. That Bethesda is killing the immersion, something you should of learned with Oblivion. Fallout is heavey of story. What I seen in trailers is a wide open world were you kill random enemies with plasma rifles and nuke guns, with crappy music witch brings me to my next point:
1.4: WHY THE **** WOULD MARCHING BAND MUSIC BE A 'HOMAGE TO THE SERIES' TODD! Todd Howard is the producer and a tw** if you ask me. He's responsible for all these errors and should be fired and be attacked by angry female emos and become terminally ill. The 'Enclave' channel is a bunch of rubbish for two year olds, the marching band sounds alot the Barney song and it's hard to imagine the tough Enclave soldiers listening to that crap. Witch brings me to 1.3. At the press conference it was said that that was cool, I would of said it would be cool if three year olds liked blowing mutants apart.
1.5: Fallout 3 is an RPG a term Bethesda seem to confuse with 'Bad controled shot em up with no point to playing it other than enjoy bad music, lame gameplay and more'. Todd where the hell are the RPG elements? Of coarse you don't want to give up the story but every humain knows about Megaton, so give us some videos.
Though I force myself to believe that Fallout 3 will be worth playing, I think that the marketing group should finish midle school or play brain age.