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Fallout 3 will have over 200 endings, you will never have a life again photo

Okay, I've played games with two, four, even six or eight endings. That's fine, it's kind of fun to see them all, especially the "easter egg" endings like in Silent Hill where the UFO comes. There comes a point where enough is enough though...right?

Bethesda's Todd Howard recently did the official Xbox podcast and talked about Fallout 3, and revealed somenew tidbits, including the boggling new number of endings available. The highlights list:

-”Fans sending death threats” says one of the OXM guys. Another one calls Fallout fans”rabid Right Wing kind of fans”.

-Over 200 endings, since last week. The 12 endings was surpassed sometime ago.

-The game is twice bigger than what they thought in the beginning.

-Always just one humanoid-type companion, and another NPC like Dogmeat.

-Dogmeat can die, but they are working on his health and how you maintain him.

- Dogmeat can be given assignments, and will try to follow them with his Radiant AI.

-Brotherhood of Steel doing their own thing; already in finished state on the game; they are on the verge of extinction, you’ll interact with them a lot more after a determined point in the game.

-The game is finished, but needs a lot more polishing and testing, they are doing many playthroughs; they keep adding stuff, sometimes it takes 100 hours to play, just the main quest takes about 20 hours.

-Absolutely tracking at fall 2008.

Two hundred endings. See, I love me some Fallout, but this is the kind of sh*t that gives gamers a bad name. Of course, I applaud the creativity and time it must take to create two hundred endings to a game, but you know hardcore Fallout fans are going to try to get as many of those endings as they can, which means no life outside of playing the game and maybe going to a day job if you don't quit the damn thing so you can have more time to play Fallout

What's your input - are hundreds of endings too daunting a goal to consider meeting, or merely a fantastic challenge worth bellying up to the bar for?

[Via Fallout 3 Blog - thanks Justin]








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youkilledmyguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:23
youkilledmyguy
Fallout 3 is one of the games I'm looking forward to most. The sad part is that after playing through 1 and 2 again I realize that today's gamer and gaming market wouldn't accept the sort of style that were a trademark of the Fallout series. I'm scared that I'm going to end up with an Oblivion rip-off instead of a Fallout game.
AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:23
AgentMOO
Giggity!
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:23
tazarthayoot
That seems...a tad unnecessary. I mean I understand the idea of getting what you pay for, but 200 endings? jesus christ..
sleepingagain's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:23
sleepingagain
oh damn...
big filth's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:27
big filth
thats it??

the question remains.. how many beginnings will it have??

hmmmmmm.....
Determination's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:29
Determination
200 endings, and 1 'true, real' ending. Why even bother?

Yes, the Chrono Trigger New Game+ endings were amusing, but in everyone's minds: Crono survives, the Epoch is without a scratch, and all is right with the world.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:29
Justice
That's a bit.... excessive. I bet someone will youtube all 200 endings within a month of release.
Drunken Haze's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:30
Drunken Haze
I recon 200 endings means 200 different combinations of the ending cinematics; Like with the original fallout. All it needs is 15 diferent variables like save city x cut scene, destroyed people y cuts scnene and hey presto, with a few dozen five second videos you get over 200 'different' ending montages.
Raidensolid's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:30
Raidensolid
FFS.

Nuff said.

(BTW if you didn't already guess it means FOR FUCK SAKES"
Twosixteen's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:30
Twosixteen
Dogmeat is back?

Whaaaaat??
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:30
Darren Nakamura
If a game has multiple endings, I rarely play through to see them all. Most recently I finished Bioshock, got the "good" ending, and then YouTubed the other two. I would certainly do that with at least 198 of the Fallout 3 endings.
A Humble Mr Perfect's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:31
A Humble Mr Perfect
I don't know what he means by this. This is Bethesda, btw. We can't take the term "ending" by its face value. Oblivion had an "ending" too, just to the main quest. One could argue that guild had an "ending", as well. I think that it is going to be pulling teeth like chrono trigger...
Tragic Hero's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:32
Tragic Hero
200 endings eh? My guess two of them are going to have to pertain with Dog meat surviving or dying.

And of course this information being given out during a Xbox360 podcast is what is wrong with this game. You can tell who Bethesda is trying to please here and I don't like it one bit.
Rogue Trooper's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:33
Rogue Trooper
How different are those endings going to be from each other?
emotoaster's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:34
emotoaster
Yeah I don't think there are really going to be 200 individual endings, also don't you think there wouldn't be much difference between endings? You go through 200 I'm sure there are going to be many that are pretty close to being the same thing.
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:35
ScottyG
I guarantee that they'll do some dickhead thing to "encourage" people to play through the game to get every ending, either by having a "true" ending, or through achievements on the 360 version. :p
Snaileb 's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:35
Snaileb
I'm just aggravated I will never unlock all 200 endings. Bastards.
Determination's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:36
Determination
hehe, 'ending' doesn't mean 'right before the credits' roll anymore? So, to take Oblivion as an example, completing the Dark Brotherhood quest line is an ending?
Chocobo Knight's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:36
Chocobo Knight
*jumps out of the way as the Hype Machine rolls through*
pixelsword's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:36
pixelsword
Man, I was so hoping to have a life after getting all of the skill points from Ratchet and Clank.

I guess it's back to T.V. dinners and cheap flirting on date sites I'm never gonna subscribe to.
Kurtz's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:36
Kurtz
If anyone has played the other two fallouts will remember that the game had a few different endings, but depending on the player's actions in the game it would also get a "what happened next" to the various places visited and characters encountered...

I would say that's what they mean about 200 endings, not in Chrono Trigger sense.
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:44
Kryptinite
I'll beat it once and wait for youtube to catch up.
Aertyr's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:48
Aertyr
WANNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT .... so ... close... I can touch itttttttttttt .... UHGHHHGHGHGHGHGHG!
PsychosesMan's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:49
PsychosesMan
Good GOD. Two hundred endings AND raping NPC interaction possibilities per playthrough with a nonsensical limit on companions? That's just mean.
stevesan's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:52
stevesan
As long as Dogmeat is back, I'm happy.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:52
Holyetheline
That's rather impressive of them to do. That team never knows when to stop. lol
stevesan's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:53
stevesan
So that's 199 endings I will never see. Oh well. It's still gonna be $60 right?
foxhound009's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:55
foxhound009
Well.. that's nice.. I'm going to see them all (willl use hax)
:P
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 14:59
MrSadistic
Since Liam Neeson is in this game, I hope there's an ending which alters time to make me forget his horrible performance in Next of Kin. Yuck.
Unicorn's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:01
Unicorn
that's awesome.

i see it as something that's a step forward. in light of Will Wright's philosophy of gamers wanting individual experiences and lives within their games.

my ending will be different than my friends' endings and i can see us all sitting together telling stories about how we played the game and how it ended for us.

that's how we talk about almost every other open-ended/sandbox game.

"i just drive around and listen to music when i play GTA"
"I like to shoot all the black people in GTA. Especially if it's Martin Luther King Day."
"I like to run along the buildings in Hulk: Ultimate Destruction"
"I like getting a hooker, then killing her to get my money back in GTA"
"I had flies and horns and all sorts of nasty shit on my warlock in Fable"

that kind of shit.
big filth's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:01
big filth
@ dexter 345

"Most recently I finished Bioshock, got the "good" ending, and then YouTubed the other two"

Your copy of Bioshock has 3 endings??

sweet!

I want a refund :(
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:02
F Whipple
Gotta catch'em all!!!
Nordstorm's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:03
Nordstorm
Faaantastic!
But the part that I'm most excited about is
"Absolutely tracking at fall 2008". So soon...
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:05
ArrestedDeveloper
DOGMEAT!!!!

Also, 200 endings!
MaximusPaynicus's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:08
MaximusPaynicus
I guess I'll start stocking up on canned food and disposable razor blades now, then.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:10
king3vbo
Fuck yeah! I cant wait
Pixel Blue's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:11
Pixel Blue
I think Drunken Haze has the right idea.
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:19
Cheeburga
NOT ENOUGH ENDINGS, GRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:21
Jim Sterling
200 endings is ludicrous. How are you going to make all 200 satisfying and well-produced? I can't help but reckon at least 199 of them are pure shit.
tincow's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:31
tincow
What Drunken Haze said...

As any mathlete knows, multiplication is amazing, for example if you have 5 base endings with 5 on/off switches like (X lived or died, plot element X was completed,etc.)..you're up to 240 endings!
Shawnzzy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:34
Shawnzzy
wow my pants need to be changed
Briosafreak's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:41
Briosafreak
Thanks for the link, but it's probably better for you to link to this other blog post about the 240 endings (so far), where Todd Howard explains what that really means.

It's more or less the same as the classic Fallout games, those that played them know what I'm talking about, but with a stronger push on karma when dealing with the variables to create the endings.
Ryadol's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:42
Ryadol
my bet is that 200 comes from smaller segments of the ending
like if divide the ending into 1/3s and each 3 sections have 4 differnt possiblities, that gives you 342 differeent ending possibilities right there. i think my math might be off.
Remo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:44
Remo
an easier way for Bethesda to make you their bitch would be to drive over to your house and just put a collar on you.
Bus's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:47
Bus
Did Bethesda just curb stomp authorial intent? Any which way (of 200, jeez), should at least be interesting.
Crunshii's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:54
Crunshii
that reminds me of that Ps1/2 game (cant rem which system it was) Tactics RPG, Blood hearts or something, it had like unlimited endings or close.

I always ended up being the evil king with the dying bitch :(
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:54
Wexx
I can't wait.
animateria's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 15:54
animateria
Two hundred, where a lot of them are similar yet slightly different.
WastelandTraveler's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 16:07
WastelandTraveler
200 endings? Mother of god. Well i'll tell you this much, i'll be playing the shit out of this game, but not fanatically to get the 200 points. All this means is that this game will last me well beyond a year of gameplay ;D.
Daynger777's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/24/2008 16:14
Daynger777
Uh oh I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to fuse into my chair like that lady did with her toilet seat... because 200 endings might beat daylight and fresh air for a couple months. Man... maybe getting this game is not such a good idea
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