E3 08: Fallout 3 demo footage: Glorious headshot edition

So. When mods hits the fan, what else are we going to be shooting out of our cannons? The possibilitys makes me giddy.

LOL, A teddy rocket launcher. FALLOUT 3 OWNS.

I NEED THIS GAME. I'm gonna preorder tomorrow -.-

I am suddenly more excited for this.

this game looks amazing - but i cant take those hosts - the one dude, the old man on the left, does anyone else think hes high as fuck on cocaine?

I want to see videos of the nonviolent parts before I make a judgement.

wow that was even more epic than the E3 demo.

Call 1-888-4VAULT-T(EC) or 1-888-482-8588. Seriously, call it, with your phone, pretty cool!

October 7? are you serious?

HO MAI GAH!

This is easily the Game of the year.

I can't wait for this to come out, and my jaw dropped a good five times watching that video. I also think I just screamed "DO WANT" loud enough to wake up the neighbors.

I've had this pre-ordered since the words Fallout 3 hit the internet.

I found Fallout 2 at Goodwill a few months ago and have it installed on this computer but have yet to give it a good run through (no time!) Fallout tactics was my first fallout game which was given to me by a friend (I know that game is pretty shunned in the Fallout community.) I am a huge fan of Bethesda and the Elder Scrolls an dfeel, quite frankly, their games are perfectly suited to my tastes. This is going to be a smash hit, at least for me ^^

I lol'd hard at the end

I'm not familiar with Fallout, but I love how silly these perks are.

Alright so it looks promising, nice graphic, open ended shooter with a well done cinematic autoaim...but it really is Oblivion with Guns, not Fallout.

Now I know, almost nobody but rabid fans want a 2d turn based game or a very old school game but still the game has very little resemblance to the other 2 fallout games and they should have avoided the "3" and half this criticism would go away.

But alas, they are shamelessly trying to put some elements of the old games into their own formula ( oblivion with guns ) and I don't think is for any other reason that to have the pedigree tied up. And potentially this game can turn to be very sandbox in the bad way more than oblivion: there is no reason to most players to level up the skills other than to get those cool mini cutscene deaths and those will get old after a while. Im thinking the design choice is a bit weird, what exactly will the game offer to encourage me to use that percentage system if I can just rambo my way through like any regular shooter?

[/wet blanket]

I love the story too but to you then another question: Do you really think much of Bethesda in terms of storytelling? I mean not only does sandbox doesn't usually lends itself easily to a story because of pacing issues but both Oblivion and Morrowind were jokes to me when it comes to story.

You might wanna give Bethesda the benefit of the doubt there, but I do not: Their philosophy seems to be get a rich back-story and then any tired cliche like "the chosen one" or "evil from another world" will play itself out interestingly enough cause of the rich setting.

This clearly does not work for anybody but the most dedicated fans that take the time to read endless random books for example. Honestly Ive heard of endless crazy and highly creative things people do on Oblivion and Morrowind and not once do I see people saying "Oh yea the FIRST thing I did on Morrowind was getting to Balmora's Mages Guild and ready every single book there!"

They can improve, and certainly while maybe less detailed the Fallout universe is a lot more interesting and potentially awesome than the elder scrolls generic fantasy world. But I do think Bethesda could end up focusing soley on teddy bear kills and just toss in a lot of "files" for you to read on the clockwatch as the "setting" and follow a random "you are the chosen one...emm....for your vault!" story.

In sort I will be getting this yes, but because of my interest in Morrowind ( and to a lesser extend, Oblivion ) and sandbox games, not because of I think this will be anything like a true RPG experience like Fallout and Fallout 2.

Oh my sweet Jesus... I want this so bad!

That....that was full of so much win. I am speechless. Saying this game is going to be awesome or own just doesn't quite seem grand enough. I want this game. No! Correction, I need this game!

Going to Amazon to order ps3 version as we speak

@Leathersoup: No. You are just flat out wrong here, there are some westerns RPGs that destroy every single JRPG story put together and I will prove it to you: Planescape Torment. Game set and match right there.

And if you want to make up your own story go play Tabletop RPGs.