The concept art is cool but it still remains if the game will reflect the art.

I must be in the minority cause I don't particularly like the new picture. Something about it just doesn't seem to click in my mind.

That is because my gun jammed. Sorry.

Hey look, a guy with a greatsword.

 

And that's the first retrofuture stuff we've seen.

 

So does anybody know of a "Paradise Falls" stripmall?

Edited May 22, 200718 yr by Pop

It doesn't look bad at all. Now if they'll only do something about the music...

The last picture is probably the one that better comes close to giving a Fallout vibe.

The concept art is cool but it still remains if the game will reflect the art.

I have my doubts. I will not get my hopes up at all.

The last picture is probably the one that better comes close to giving a Fallout vibe.

The last picture they make had better come close to giving a Fallout vibe, or this picture comes close to giving a Fallout vibe?

He's saying the current picture, out of all the art revealed so far, comes closest to giving a "Fallout vibe".

I see. Hard to tell with all that weird grammar.

Edited May 23, 200718 yr by Pop

I once had a Fallout Vibe. The doctor gave me a cream to spread on it, and it went away in a few days. Now I just avoid NMA, and I haven't had another breakout since.

I had a subscription to Fallout Vibe once. That was back when Quincy Jones was still trying to merge post-apocalyptic retrofuturistic roleplaying games with hot urban street culture and life. I remember the Jay Z / Gizmo rap battle like it was yesterday...

 

And I'm done.

This one's rather "blah". DC it is.

Surely the tall pointy thing in the background would have toppled over at some point, no? I feel like I could almost reach into the picture and give it a prod.

You mean the Washington memorial? Yeah, the only explanation I can muster for the lack of destruction is that DC was hit by neutron bombs. Minimal destruction, optimal radiation contamination.

 

I'm back to wondering at what point in the Fallout timeline this takes place. If they follow the pattern and have it take place 80 years past F2, radiation shouldn't be an immediate problem outside ground zeros, mostly.

Edited May 29, 200718 yr by Pop

The new picture isn't ugly.. it's just.. not noteworthy.

Okay, so it's the Jefferson Memorial (although the front entrance seems to be facing slightly in the wrong direction, relative to the Washington Monument).

 

 

The interesting thing to me is the very tall building complex in the background to the right. I think we have already seen it from the reverse angle in the background of the second picture, the one of the U.S. Capitol. Given that a building complex that doesn't exist in today's world has been featured twice in early concept art, I'd say it should play a pretty important role in the storyline. Former Vault-Tec headquarters, maybe??

I see too much focus on US monuments, and in conjunction with orchestral music I begin to smell some "epic" and "patriot" type of crap. But maybe it is just me.

I see too much focus on US monuments, and in conjunction with orchestral music I begin to smell some "epic" and "patriot" type of crap. But maybe it is just me.

 

 

Well, if its to be set in DC, monument avoidance is impossible. The place is rife with them as I assume most country capitals are.

Dang those monuments!

Those pictures have a unique beauty to them. The world would look good this way.

This concept art was commissioned during pre-production, from a guy who "had trouble getting into" Fallout. There's a big stink over at the Fallout boards about it. Apparently the concept art that's being used for the game is in-house, and we haven't seen it yet.

Maybe i am getting a wee bit off-topic here, but what if, WHAT IF Bethesda changes the location of the setting to Japan? Same post-apocalyptic feel, but in Japan. Think about it, there would be a resurrection of the old Samurai clans, but with new weapons. Some self-proclaimed daimyon and shoguns here and there (Mutant-shoguns!). Weird post-apocalyptic hentai and crude jokes about the land before, the arise of the mutants and foreigners seeking a new home for their people.

 

It wouldn't be THE fallout 3 that fans would want, but since it isn't done by anyone previously involved in the other fallouts, so why not break away and make something a little more different, yes?

I see too much focus on US monuments, and in conjunction with orchestral music I begin to smell some "epic" and "patriot" type of crap. But maybe it is just me.

 

 

Well, if its to be set in DC, monument avoidance is impossible. The place is rife with them as I assume most country capitals are.

I wonder if Canberra is full of monuments...

Silly Gorth, Canberra isn't a real capital.

 

A properly understood Japan Fallout would so, totally, kick ass. As would a Fallout in Africa. Think about it, that woudl be fantastic. Some remote corner of Africa where vast masses of the populace, despite their knowledge of the outside world as a vague concept, are so shaken off by the explosions, that their understanding of that history, and the history before, has been severely distorted - perhaps on a magico-religious concept, perhaps relatively realistic with a hint of eschatologia, etc, etc. Perhaps Africa's landscape has survived a lot better than areas like US with less bombs being struck. Stuff like that.