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Good idea. Someone should start photoshopping from here. Clipping errors ftw. It's most probably an unfinished model by the way, since the super mutants in those old screenshots looked almost all like the Fallout 3 one except for a couple of retextured ones (Nightkin). I don't particularly dislike the Nightkin using a grey-ish Fallout 3 model, but I hope they rework the head as they did with the normal muties, since the difference in quality is quite noticeable. Even the same new head just retextured (grey skin and pale mad eyes) would work imho.

Can we haz vehicals? I can understand why they post questions about things answered by articles (not everyone buys mags or reads scans), but do they really need to ask about things we know since the teaser trailer was revelead? GEEZ.

Maybe he has been tempted by the dark side and he will become Obsidian's new PR guy? After all he's as much 'Alpha Protocol's face' as the programmers, even more actually. Edit : Scrap it, now that I think about it I'm not making any sense. Another edit : From the last answer I'm really getting a 'as long as sales are decent we'll do a sequel'. After all, now that Obsidian has the tone, characters and the systems down, they can just concentrate on fine-tuning them and work on the presentation department (graphics mainly, I believe that if the game was at the same level of graphic detail as ME2 people would be drooling about it by now... sad but true).

Jokes aside, the Bethesda Q&A is quickly turning into an 'ask-questions-about-things-we-knew-about-before'. Meh. Things like 'What's the size of New Vegas?' when pretty much every preview mentioned 'same size as FO3'. I really hope they don't choose the easy way out and actually answer questions about the mechanics and the lore. On a secound thought, if I had to choose between the two I'd choose the questions about the mechanics, the lore can wait until I play the game.

I just hope you like the game when it comes out! Oh .. wait..

Well Fallout : New Vegas sounds lame, I think they should change it. Maybe Fallout : The house always wins? Or Fallout 3 : Now with Mariposa Super Mutants ?

I'm pretty sure FALLOUT + guy with a revolver and gas mask + VEGAS on the box means more sales. Then again I've been wrong about things like that in the past...

June 1st can't come soon enough. I just perorder the ps3 verison So is sega handling the ps3 version or is obsidian Alvin? I'm not a developer, but I guess answering to you would be quicker than letting you wait their answer (nice guys developers, but also pretty busy) : all the three versions of the game have been developed in-house at the same time, which is what you were asking I guess, so no port done by some SEGA's company or anything like that.

I don't know, the whole 'gas mask don't fit Fallout' debacle I've read on NMA and DAC seemed pretty stupid to me. And Fallout cover art has always been pretty sucky, it was even worse with Fallout 1 and 2 (and no, I don't think Power Armor helmets gave a particularly good idea of the setting either) so I can't really complain about this (it even has the Lucky 38 in the background! ).

Just remember that Alpha Protocol fits perfectly the spy genre tropes, and from what we have seen from the videos, it looks like the plot could have taken straight from a 24 season. The execution seemed pretty good from what I've seen so far and the character varied enough, though I want to see/hear all this in context (meaning : after I've played a bit of the game) before giving any impression.

June 1st can't come soon enough. May 28th for us europeans. I can't ewait...i envy you Worstuser. I'm ordering it from the UK though (it's cheaper that way) so I'll probably be playing it in June too, like everyone else. I probably won't even have that much time, considering pretty much all my exams are in June.

I can definitely agree with that. Lose the guy and it would be pretty awesome with just the Vegas strip in the distance and the great logo. I see that as well. I guess that guy is bit too generic, maybe? Killzone called, they want their soldier back Oh please, not again. Combat helmet + gas mask is not THAT uncommon.

I can see it growing stale if it was longer, considering they exhausted all the ideas for the mechanics they implemented.

I'm almost tempted by a more lethal playthrough after all this coverage lately. Then again, I need to get accustomed to the controls before deciding my build (so I'll probably end up playing the tutorial 3/4 times before I'm convinced about it ).

June 1st can't come soon enough. May 28th for us europeans.

Playing it right now. Don't feel particularly ashamed to be honest. Well, you should It's just a very quirky and unique game, something everyone should try. Also short-ish. I'm already Very fun though, I'll give you that, and the mechanics are original and clever.

So Saudi Arabia, Rome, Moscow and Taiwan (I hope I'm remembering correctly) ? Plus, possibly, some mysterious end location inevitably set in the US?

I can quite agree that probably the matter has been discussed or will be discussed by Bethesda & Obsidian but it still seemed strange to me, since I don't believe posting things like that was against the rules of the forum. Then again, box art or not, there will still be a lot of people that will give credit for the game to Bethesda, so I don't care that much.

WOW. The moderators immediately closed the topic about the box art with 'I have no doubt that the box art was discussed and agreed upon by both companies involved. Since this topic seems to have been started just to stir up trouble it's going to be closed. If Obsidian has a grip with it, I am sure it will be addressed via an appropriate venue. '. That seems quite.... defensive to me.

So, Alvin, is there someone on the team who plays Rambo-like? How does the feedback for the shooter mechanic sound, especially for them? I did one of my playthroughs as rambo and loved it. Building up my skills and gear to able walk into a room and just open fire was really different than my usual play style, but it was great. It also lead me to work on my favorite build, which was the stealth, shotgun, and hacking build. Stealth + FRIGGIN' SHOTGUN? Now.. that's an interesting combination.

Adding to the 'strange european things' : here in Italy we actually use the comma to separate the decimal points from the rest of the number.

So, Alvin, is there someone on the team who plays Rambo-like? How does the feedback for the shooter mechanic sound, especially for them?

Yup.. asked on the Beth's blog comments section though, just to be sure.

I guess he already has seen, but, yeah, I sent it yesterday (a day later, sadly). It's also pretty ****ty as far as the grammar goes, hope it's readable.

Considering that image was already showed inside the Collector's Edition and considering it was heavily featured in magazines and the likes, it seemed pretty obvious that it would end up as the cover. Also : it's the first box art without a power armored dude unless we count FO:BOS!