"We went back and forth with the impact of dialogue on the character, and ultimately decided we didn't want to penalize or reward the player for carrying on a conversation. What you say and how you say it will certainly affect how NPCs react to you, and whether or not they'll give you quests, but not the ending of the game. That really depends on some of the big decisions you make during the course of the game, as well as your karma. And your karma changes based on your actions. So if you destroy Megaton a city built around a supposedly inert atomic bomb, your karma plummets, so that will certainly affect the ending. But there are other moments too, key moments during the game, that greatly determine which ending you get."
The fact that conversations actually mattered was one of the defining features of Fallout. I'm okay with changing the POV, even the combat system, that's totally understandable considering the age of the original fallouts, but this is just a clear step backwards in every way possible. This probably confirms it isn't possible to play the game as a strictly diplomatic character either. And what do we get in return?
"In Fallout 3, the player will come across schematics for different custom-made weapons. These might be found in different places in the world, or obtained as quest rewards. Each set of schematics lets you build a certain, pre-determined weapon, as long as you've got all the components, and most of the components are junk objects you'll find in the world."
Sounds familiar? That's probably because MMORPG's have done this since the dawn of... MMORPG's? Is bethesda feature by feature trying to turn this game into a single player MMO? Seriously, he goes on saying how you build guns out of bicycle parts and surgical tubes. WTF? I mean, fallout always had its wierd moments of absurd humour but this isn't a joke. You could as well name the game "MacGyver and the angry supermutants" and no one would notice the differance.
Yep, I've now officially joined the Bethesda haters. Fallout is as dead as it was before the announcement of "fallout" 3.
inoperativeRS
I can't recall a single conversation I had in the original Fallouts that changed the ending of the game. Yeah, you could talk a guy into not fighting you... or you could sneak past him... or you could go in guns blazing. There were multiple ways to solve any one encounter. But the ending of the game wasn't different depending on whether you used stealth or diplomacy or a disguise or anything else to get through a situation. The things that made for different ending were the major things, like whether you completed major (but not necesary) side quests and such. Isn't that the exact same thing he's saying in this interview,
"What you say and how you say it will certainly affect how NPCs react to you, and whether they'll give you quests, but not the ending of the game. That really depends on some of the big decisions you make..."
Sounds like the originals to me. Talk nice to that mutie and he will react favorably to you, ie won't attack, talk trash to that npc and he will react unfavorably, ie wont give you that important quest or even turn hostile.
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