Oh god Fallout 3 Trailer!

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSFLIvN5Wc

This looks totally sweet. If nothing else, it looks like Bethsada has the general feel of Fallout down pat. Of course, the glittering gems of hatred (aka: The Fallout Fandom), are trying very hard to find flaws in it.

But as for me, who is enough of a fan not to be bitter, this looks very pleasing. I love Fallout's style of Power Armor, in general, so much, as well.

[Mejilan]

I wish it provided an indication as to how it plays.

[Stan]

Ditto. I have never ( ) played any of the Fallout games, so after I saw that trailer I had to Google around for them to figure out what kind of games they even are. I'm not trying to bash Bethesda too hard -- they put together an awesome cinematic, but I guess they assumed we all already knew the series. (Perhaps everyone else does -- maybe the shame should be on me.)

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

I suspect most people interested in Fallout are people who have been interested in Fallout for a long time.

In short: Fallout is the closest thing I've seen in a real RPG in video games. It's also got one of the most distinctive Post Apocalyptic settings ever, and is simply made of win.

[Mejilan]

Fallout's something of a spiritual successor to Wasteland. I've never played the former, but the Fallout series is quite solid. Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics.

I love Bethsoft (despite Oblivion's butchery and half-assedness), but I'm not so sure that they'll pull this one off. Cautiously optimistic, for now.

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

Mejilan's identification of the entire Fallout Series is very wise, and don't you let anyone tell you different.

Personally, this trailer gives me a lot of hope that Bethsada has the right idea, at least as far as plot and setting go. Basic gameplay, I am certain they can do as well. Unlike many of the glittering gems of hatred that composes the Fallout Fandom, I won't mind some basic changes to the execution, as long as the basics are there: IE: I want to charisma whore my way out of trouble.

It'd be keen if they kept the SPECIAL system, though.