Bethesda Grabs Fallout

[A Black Falcon]

These are the two BIS Fallout 3 screens that came out after its cancellation.




Now THAT is doing 3D Fallout great. Dead on.

What I'm worrying about is what Bethesda will do. TES' combat is so different from Fallout... so simple and arcadish, compared to the much more complex turn-based system at work in Fallout. I would never want to see Fallout play like that. Graphics... 3d isn't bad if they do it right, but it's got to look like Fallout! For Fallout I think the best choice would be a fixed-camera (maybe some raising/lowering it too) overhead view. Like Fallout 3-BIS had. Or Warcraft III or Conquest in the RTS genre. But this game will not have that. This will have a first or third-person (behind the character) camera. As Bethesda said, they'll do what they're good at... and that is first person. But first person Fallout... it just seems so wrong... and it'll have a high chance of losing some of Fallout's unique character. Of course for that plenty of other things will too...

Anyway. In Fallout, when an enemy comes on screen the game pauses. The character with higher initiative gets to go. You can move some and do actions, with a limited number of action points per turn. If it was realtime it'd lose some of the strategy... unless it was a pausable realtime, in which case it'd be close. Faster playing, but close. But that also runs best from isometric... :( I mean, have you ever seen a first-person game with turnbased combat? Me either...