A better shot of the Gasbot to include F3 logo!

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri May 30, 2003 11:25 pm

I'm going to have to agree with whatever Red says in this topic. I'm going to be pessimist.

chrisbeddoes · Post by **chrisbeddoes** » Sat May 31, 2003 12:24 am

I do not care what they will write in the box.

Fallout 3 can only be made by Tim Cain .

Fallout 3 can only be turn based.

Fallout 3 is a name and a trademark .

In my heart
and in my mind

Fallout 3 can only be made by the team that made
Fallout 1.

And i ask you .

What is better ?

No Fallout 3 or a sellout Fallout 3 ?

My 2 EURO cents.

Zetura Dracos · Post by **Zetura Dracos** » Sat May 31, 2003 12:32 am

Demon-X wrote:*
I hope Iplay uses any cash they make on FO:BOS, to use it to fund FO3 production....

You would sully the game so? No, just joking theyve got to get the money from somewhere right even if it is dirty money. As to no more Brothelhood of Shit news thats wonderfull though I will miss mocking it so. Then as to the New picture and logo that is going on my desktop NOW.

DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k · Post by **DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k** » Sat May 31, 2003 12:36 am

PiP wrote:maybe it's not 'F3' but 'FJ' ;P

Maybe the '3' is actually a Cyrillic Z

I dunno, the logo seems... different. Not necessarily wrongly different, but it seems to me like change for the sake of change. That's kinda disconcerning.

Mr Carrot · Post by **Mr Carrot** » Sat May 31, 2003 12:37 am

I think the production has been pushed foward due to the fact they have an expensive new graphics engine for a game they cant legaly sell so they have had to review their licenses to see what they can use it for.

The last IE game didnt sell so the only real contender has to be Fallout 3.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Sat May 31, 2003 12:53 am

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has it been removed? or possibly taken down to keep Fallout 3 a secret?

damn, i just want some confimation, yes or no... its that simple!

DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k · Post by **DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:06 am

avenger69ie wrote:damn, i just want some confimation, yes or no... its that simple!

LOL. This reminds me of the FOBOS announcement, although this one may not be back up so quickly. Until then,

Also note that the link saying "Fallout Pre-Viz" on the website has remained, at least as of now. :mrgreen:

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:30 am

Chris,

Sadly I think most of us here are actually looking at Fallout 3 for a sense of closure. Fo2, while a disappointment, was still good enough to keep us interested in Fallout as a world and I think that this down time has been made so much worse by the spin offs. I mean already look how jaded we are with just a concept drawing. Your average fallout fan can name at least 3 things wrong with it #1 it sprays petrol then lights it (equivalent to you gluing 100$ bills to your enemy and lighting them on fire,) #2 it's disproportionate, and #3 it's not very 50s sci fi. Just like that our expectations for FO3 are lowered. Yes, we're excited that they're finally working on FO3 but at the same time it's tempered by things like taking the world we've gotten way too familiar with in 5 years of down time and turning it into something else. So you're probably right in saying only the original developers of FO1 can make a proper FO3 given that the world existed and evolved in their minds first but at the same time we have to accept that a FO3 by the original devs will never happen.

I'm looking forward to other games now. ToEE, STALKER, Project Phoenix, and Republic The Revolution... not to even mention Half-Life 2. I'll play all those games and then I'll get to FO3. Unfortunately for IPLY the only thing they have working for them is nostalgia because I can promise you they can't afford any cutting edge innovations like the aforementioned batch of games do. Just a decent story, a weak combat system, and hopefully a heavy dose of that Fallout 1 atmosphere without the easter eggs.

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:34 am

DJ SlamÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¡k wrote:
avenger69ie wrote:damn, i just want some confimation, yes or no... its that simple!
LOL. This reminds me of the FOBOS announcement, although this one may not be back up so quickly. Until then,

Also note that the link saying "Fallout Pre-Viz" on the website has remained, at least as of now. :mrgreen:

Linking is gone now... also hosted in my folder... dac.net/Killzig/gasbot.jpg

Thoral · Post by **Thoral** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:40 am

Did i get blind whithout noticing or was that "Fallout Pre-Viz" link on the frog's site taken down as well... Maybe Mr. Sawyer got his Butt kicked for early spoiling about fo3's existance and now everything is back under nda again. And everyone who openly talks or shows something about it will probably disapper under mysterious circumstances as well

Hm, but hey, maybe someone's just at this moment laughing his ass off as he fooled us really bad just by adding a (not very creative kind of looking, though its somewhat ok) F3-Logo and "Gasbot" writing to a zoomed version of the previously shown wallpaper with photoshop or a similar programm; to make it even more looking like concept art. Anyway, isn't this picture looking too much like a part of a pre-release-internet-commercial-concept-art-gallery somehow ? I mean, what sense would it make to re-release a nevertheless rather uncertain kind of spoiler in a more certain kind of way ? I doesn't need to mean anything, but while the origin of sawyer's wallpaper is rather unkown (though we can all make a good guesses), the second edition of this gasbot smells too much like "whishfull thinking" to me. Just my oppinion, though, and the pic being taken down so quickly from the Artist's site supports the idea that it was somewhat "real". A little bit, at least.

BTW you can easily review the new and improved gasbot by looking up this Newspost in the archives (however, i do realise that this is quite a useless statement cause if you are reading this you've already seen it in the post above).

Briosafreak · Post by **Briosafreak** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:41 am

On a sidenote, we here at NMA have decided (together with DAC) to stop posting news about Fbos. Anyone who's been paying attention lately will understand why.

And if Aptyp doesn`t behave we`ll stop posting aboutMegaton too!

j/k

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Sat May 31, 2003 2:51 am

Well, that's not just a blown up picture from the original background screenshot, it's got more detail that you cant get from resizing in photoshop. The logo could have been added, but whoeever would have done that had access to the original gasbot picture. Dunno, from what I can see, if it is real, there are definately gonna be some stylistic changes, the obvious gasbot / anime kinda thing, but more importantly the F3, with the large 3, is a bit more dynamic and stuff than previous fallouts. Dunno, seems like they're definately tweeking it a bit.

spyder07 · Post by **spyder07** » Sat May 31, 2003 4:09 am

Wow, if they are making Fallout 3, I hope that this thing isn't in it. It's so damn stupid! The logo looks nice though.

You know I don't really care about the graphics or anything like that anymore. I'd be happy with an add on for FO2 that finished the game the way it was meant to be. Hell an FO3 using the same engine as FO would be nice right now.....

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat May 31, 2003 4:11 am

Hopefuly it's all for the best.

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Sat May 31, 2003 7:13 am

Killzig wrote:unlike Jeffy, IPLY owns the fallout license outright and it's pretty much the only one worth a damn. Consider that IPLY is not in a position to pimp a new license right now and that they've lost the publishing rights to BG on the PC. (Note that they can't even sell Planescape Torment anymore)

And IPLY owned that license all the other times they've canned Fallout 3. It was in production after Fallout 2 was released, then canned. The opportunity to make Fallout 3 came up before TORN but they decided to make TORN instead. Fallout 3 was cancelled in favor of IWD.. It's never made it out of pre-production.

Ever considered this gasbot image was created during one of those earlier efforts?

As a side note, I'd like to inform our readers that we will not post anymore news concerning FO:BOS for x-box or PS2.

You can stop posting about it. I'm not.

Post by **DarkUnderlord** » Sat May 31, 2003 8:22 am

Saint_Proverbius wrote:Ever considered this gasbot image was created during one of those earlier efforts?

Either way, it still looks like arse. It's head's too small and it (the head) looks like something out of Star Wars.

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See the robot's head. FALLOUT: STAR WARS!

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:45 am

this 'artist' has just deleted the gasbot image from his website. bastard. BIS made him do it?

DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k · Post by **DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:46 am

Did i get blind whithout noticing or was that "Fallout Pre-Viz" link on the frog's site taken down as well... Maybe Mr. Sawyer got his Butt kicked for early spoiling about fo3's existance and now everything is back under nda again.

Yes, the link has been removed too, though much later than the picture itself.
This guy's name is Chris Appelhans. I don't know about JE; did he get into any trouble with the Jefferson desktop?

Thoral wrote:Hm, but hey, maybe someone's just at this moment laughing his ass off as he fooled us really bad just by adding a (not very creative kind of looking, though its somewhat ok) F3-Logo and "Gasbot" writing to a zoomed version of the previously shown wallpaper with photoshop or a similar programm; to make it even more looking like concept art.

As SuperH says, it's got more detail than you could achieve by resizing the wallpaper image. But even if soeone is fooling us, they've got to have some guts to abuse the name of a Black Isle artist. Another option would be that Chris and JE have way too much time on their hands... Neither of them seems all that likely to me at the moment.[/quote]

Stevie D · Post by **Stevie D** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:47 am

*shrug* It might just be someone's doodle and not make it into the game at all. Mind you, that medium's oil, isn't it? Bit expensive to waste on a doodle.

I like it, anyway. Yeah, it's a bit top heavy, but I can live with that. The point that it would be firing the most expensive commodity on Fallout's brown earth is a good one, though.

EvoG · Post by **EvoG** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:58 am

PiP wrote:this 'artist' has just deleted the gasbot image from his website. bastard. BIS made him do it?

When stuff like this happens its quite clear that something is going on, and in this case of course, that something is Fallout3.

Almost silly they don't just get it over with and announce. Fuck if these developers don't take themselves too seriously.

Someone made a good point btw, regarding the team that will make this game. There's a reason why Cain is regarded as highly as he is, and though there is a good chance F3 can be fun, it will inevitably lose that 'special sauce' that made 1 so good. To liken it to another franchise, I think Terminator 3 is gonna be a lot of fun, but its going to miss that 'art' that Cameron brought to Terminator 2, which of course rocked. My point is that the expectations are so high and Saint and his legions of fanboys so rabid, this game will never achieve greatness.

Oh well.

Cheers