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

Giggity!

oh damn...

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.

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.

Dogmeat is back?

Whaaaaat??

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...

How different are those endings going to be from each other?

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

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?

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.

I'll beat it once and wait for youtube to catch up.

Good GOD. Two hundred endings AND raping NPC interaction possibilities per playthrough with a nonsensical limit on companions? That's just mean.

That's rather impressive of them to do. That team never knows when to stop. lol

Well.. that's nice.. I'm going to see them all (willl use hax)
:P

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.

Gotta catch'em all!!!

DOGMEAT!!!!

Also, 200 endings!

Fuck yeah! I cant wait

NOT ENOUGH ENDINGS, GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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!

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.

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.

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 :(

Two hundred, where a lot of them are similar yet slightly different.

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

Ok here's what Todd Howard said:
[quote="Todd Howard Executive Producer Fallout 3"]Todd Howard: Being that we are Bethesda…everything gets a bit big. So as of last week we’re over 200 endings. That is not an exaggeration, but it deserves some description. 200 endings…that’s a lot. So originally when we started, we had various iterations of the ending. The ending is kind of cinematic, that’s dynamic based on the things you’ve done.

When we started, it was kind of fuzzy, it was like “well there’s like 9 maybe 12″ and we started adding things to it. So if you had done this or not this, you’d get this other tweak to the ending. And we kept doing that. And you know even just two weeks ago someone had this idea, “Oh we should add this idea to the ending” (sorry I’m not going to spoil what that is). And I said, “oh that’s a genius idea, we have to do that.” But then it became, “oh, but there’s four versions of that.” So i was like, “okay there’s like four different versions of that little parts,” and that multiplies by, at the time we were at about 60 ending…now there’s four versions of that so now theres around 240 versions. So it gets kind of stupid.”

The games are small at first on paper, and then as we go they get bigger…we can’t stop ourselves. We’re have tons of people with good ideas here, and if they’re good and fit the tone, we’re going to try to jam them in there. Fallout is probably twice the size of what we originally had on paper…it’s pretty big, so that’s happened with the endings.

So some of that is the big things of what you do really late in the game, some of its related to karma — how you’ve lived your life from the beginning — you get certain scenes based on your karma. But we kind of like the ending with as much as the game from the beginning — you tailoring your character and then you play throughout this game, and unlike Elder Scrolls where you can keep playing, Fallout 3 has a definite ending. So we wanted to go to efforts to make sure that the actual ending you get when you finish and get the ending, and make that ending reflect and make it individual to the user’s experience.” We’ve got a little overboard.”[/quote]

jesus christ. they're obviously going to be very small differences.
stop the whining and crack on with the homebrew.
HOMEBREW!!!

200!!! Dubya-tee-eff, and I bet I'll only be able to do 13

Sounds creepy to me. Dont think 200 endings are worth it - in the end how much time could they invest / how different will they be? Just some hype number... Remember that supposed to be mortal kombat alternative, which really sucked but had an infinite number of fatalities? Yeah, thats my thoughts. Also, Dogmeat.

I can't wait to get the ending where everybody has moustaches.
Bizzaro fallout!

I don't think you should take it as a goal to hit as many as possible but just lets everyone get their own ending depending on what they do throughout the game. A perfect choose your own adventure game if I must say so myself, though it could really hurt the narrative, who knows?

LOL A mad-libs ending system would be awesome... oh shit don't steal that idea!

Ugh, these type of games I have problems with, I'll be really excited in getting it but I'll never get around to finishing it.It's happened to me with Morrowind, the first Fallout games and now its going to happen with this. :(
Still going to get it though :P

200 endings great!

so who will be the first to score the 'FalloutFreak: Saw All Endings 50G'-achievement?

Anybody remember Star Ocean: The 2nd Story? It had dozens and dozens of endings; only one REAL ending; Good guys win, bad guys die, everything goes back to normal. Where all the others come from is the possible friend/lover pairings among the party members, forged by Private Action events over the course of the game, plus unique endings for a character if they end up alone. You get like half a dozen endings every time you beat the game.
I imagine this will be the same sort of thing with Fallout 3, except the variables are more along the lines of "X person Lived/Died", "X event occured/was prevented, "X settlement was destroyed/prospored", etc.

@TrailerParkJesus

I expect some pretty awesome hats then, if there are going to be 200 of them.

Yeah, I imagine Fallout 3 will have a lot of variables that produce different results in the conclusion. So, the "200 hundred endings" will be combinations of the different possible results.

Meh. To me it'll just add more replay value to the game. Just not all at the same time.

Im gonna lawl when the 200 ending speed run comes out on youtube

As long as there is no achievement for getting every single ending, I think I'm fine with that. Can you imagine playing the game a few more times and being pretty much guaranteed a new ending?

wow. i can't wait until i play through it once, then go to youtube to watch the rest of the endings.

good waste of time had by all.

ehh, i'm just happy the game has "doubled in size" since they started production. Having a game with a single player that can last for a month or so is awesome.

I just hope that they don't put too much effort in the endings aspect of the game verses actual gameplay.