Fallout 3 Gameplay Videos
Sep 1st, 2008 | By Debbie "Weefz" Timmins | Category: OpinionsI find myself strangely disturbed by Fallout 3 Gameplay video 4. For some reason, the chainsaw bayonet blood splatter in Gears of War is nasty but appropriate. This level of gore in Fallout seems plain Wrong.
I don’t know if it’s the slow-motion action or the exploding body parts that are more distateful. Perhaps it’s just that I always had the Fallout series pegged as “safe” and “funny” so this level of over-the-top violence is shocking. I also had Bethesda down as fairly innocuous, based on my experiences with Morrowind and Oblivion.
OTOH, I seem to recall that there was a good deal of comical cartoon splatter in the original Fallout RPGs. Is realistic graphic violence the necessary successor to cartoon violence?
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Brilliantly violent video. I can only think that Bethesda are quite happy to push the envelope here. Those machine fist things look great.
how were fallout 1 & 2 safe? do you remember the bloody mess perk? how about the obscene language? sex acts? drugs? i have always considered this franchise to be more adult than nearly any other franchise out there and i will not be surprised when the ‘right’ makes a media mess after the release, just like with the GTAs.
I’m big fan of the Half Life 2 games and the like, however for me there is a definite line at which I stay at one side of – certain games seem to overly play on the level of violence over the actual gameplay and that puts me off.
Is Fallout 3 going to be one of those games?
I’ve stopped playing it because of the gore. The slo-mo death scenes don’t add anything to the game play and they are a distraction. I played 1 and 2 and although there was clearly violence, it was just an outcome and not so … celebrated.
Well I’m I’ll have to disagree with you all. I think if you don’t snigger at the violence then you’re missing something. Fallout 3 is over the top in a few senses of the word – with huge weapons, drugs with comedy names and illicit sex just waiting for you at the Megaton bar. Yes, if you take the violence out of the context of the rest of the game then it’s a spoiler. But, consider it with the piece as a whole and it completely fits in. It’s over the top and silly, but I doubt it’s a hugely emotional, realistic portrayal of violence.
go mr butterscotch go. as a die hard Fallout fan, i love the gore. one must take into account the fact that in Fallout 1,2 and tactics there is a perk called 'bloody mess' simply making every one around you die horribly. the realism is just a product of better graphics. look closer at the little animations in the old games and you will see chunks of skull, and intestines.
Yeah, I have to say… I do giggle every time I come across one of the many decapitated bodies or detached limbs that I've left behind.
It's the slow-mo rather than the gore that gets me – much as with the Burnout series, it looks good but after a while, gets tiresome. In Fallout's case, the camera direction comes a little too close to glorification for comfort. Or at least, it would do if I could shoot straight. For the most part, I get beautifully-crafted slow motion shots of my bullets missing the mark by miles…
I didn't mean "safe" as being in opposition to adult entertainment. I suppose I just see realistic blood spatter as being across some imaginary line in my head from where I'd previously pegged Fallout.
Tom and Jerry cartoons are incredibly violent but because it's cartoon violence, it's treated differently and seen as "safe". Fallout has always lain in a comic parody sort of vein. I think this more realistic type of blood spatter physics is, for me, too similar that of more "serious" games to see it as part of the humour.
Put it this way… I was expecting Evil Dead 2 and got 28 Days Later instead.
I'm still having quite a lot of fun with Fallout 3 – there's just so much to explore. However, as an aside to the argument debate, I am wondering whether I actually have time to play a game of this nature anymore. There's just too damn much, but sticking to the main quest can be boring.
Fallout 3 will be a great game, I really like to play this game!
Relax, it's a game. It isn't meant to be taken seriously, and if you can't handle the blood and gore maybe you should think twice before you play a rated mature video game.
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