It's been a tough 2007 for Sony and PS3, with the majority of the year seeing the console take the place of the underdog, in a three-way race dominated by Wii. That said, in November PS3 finally outsold Wii in Japan, and following a number of attempts with the SKU Sony finally appears to have hit the right note with the 40GB model. Since its launch, sales have shown a significant increase.
There's now rumblings that 2008 is the year PS3 will start to throw its weight around. Home will launch, and major titles including MGS4, Killzone 2 and Gran Turismo 5 will - hopefully - offer 200-percent proof that the console is a force to be reckoned with.
As CVG's PS3s tremble in excited anticipation, they have looked ahead into the next 12 months and picked out the game's you'll want to hound like a love-sick puppy...
The artist behind Fallout 4’s Deathclaw reveals just how bad things got back when Bethesda took over the series
People are stupid I get it. No one should feel unsafe,
But I think they need to talk about why they cut so many corners during the development process and why none of their games ever look current. And why they think all of this is okay while they charge full price.
As much as Bethesda deserve criticism, that's not really relevant to the reveal of Fallout 3 in 2007.
The default angle Kotaku always go for is to highlight the worst in gaming.
I would’ve focused on the creative.
Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG remains an unabashed classic, more than a decade and a half on from its launch.
For me its the fact that I could put hundreds of hours into it and still find areas I missed in my earlier runs. It was also my first FO and despite what I had to put up with at times such as overall crashs and killing my orginal PS3 with the YLOD it's still my favorite entry to this day.
Tons of reasons
But my silly little one…hunting for unique weapons and armour
Something Fallout 4 just didn’t really have as much because they replaced most of it with randomly generated customised weapons. Even Elder Scrolla doesn't do it as well.
I remember during my first playthrough of Fallout 4 back in 2015 I somehow got an automatic combat rifle that shot explosive rounds by defeating a legendary creature. Unfortunately that was the only playthrough I ever got that weapon. It's a shame because it was absolutely epic!
Sense of exploration. That was why older Bethesda games were so good. They might have had glitches, broken mechanics, meh visuals, etc., but they were some of the best around when it came down to the sense of exploration. You could go wherever you wanted and you would find something cool; it might have been a faction, a weapon, an enemy and much more. And that is what they are lacking now. Skyrim still had a lot of that, but Fallout 4 dropped it by focusing on an interconnected world and more randomly generated rewards. Fallout 76 just kept that trend and added multiplayer, and Starfield went even further in killing it by creating a whole universe with parts completely isolated from each other.
I think the retrospective of Fallout: New Vegas' existence has somewhat diminished the view of Fallout 3 in the eyes of many, but it getting out of the vault in Fallout 3 was, for me, the most remarkable experience I've had in a videogame.
I was 12 when it came out, and I remember I just saw the score it got in Gamemaster magazine (remember those!? 😅), and I just went to the shop and bought it with my pocket money.
Not knowing anything about the game, I thought the whole thing was going to be about growing up in a vault, especially given that I'd spent about 2 hours in it....I literally could.not.believe it when you got out and it was just this wasteland on every direction. Amazing.
Probably because these Bethesda games were hand crafted so that exploration meant something. Unlike Starfield where this sense of exploration is replaced with the illusion of scope and procedurally generated worlds. A player can always appreciate when they wonder into an unforgettable new encounter by accident or stumble across a new questline that becomes their favourite. Just like a player can always tell when they're ploughing through filler on auto pilot, that they'll forget the moment some resource numbers go up and nothing worth remembering occurred.
I mean, in Fallout 3 you could nuke an entire town as a SIDE QUEST. In The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim, the Dark Brotherhood questlines were my favourite in any RPGs and you could completely avoid them if you didn't care for them. In The Witcher 3 side quests take you on ridiculously dark and mysterious storylines that are some of the best I've played in RPG history. There's a reason why people still talk about KOTOR to this day. Difference between a developer creating something or just padding a game world with stuff.
There were some side quests that could yld have been developed into an entirely separate game. Some great writing there.
The Fallout Anthology Edition is coming to PC very soon, and is packaged with some very S.P.E.C.I.A.L. bonuses.
It’s an awful downgrade to the last one they did
They included physical disc back then
I would love the classic fallout games on console. Closest I could find was atom rpg, I liked that one a lot
funny little big planet avatar.
many games to
humans have managed to lower the bar with intelligence with fanboys.
While I doubt that this will ever lead to a cure for cancer or AIDs or being bored, it definetly pisses people off.
It's amazing how immature 360 fanboys have turned. PS3 fanboys too, but not as much.
for example: some xbot said that splinter cell has been and will be better than mgs4.
Now obviously that is completly stupid and incorrect. Splnter Cell is like dust compared to mgs4.
Do u see ps3 fanboys begging for splinter cell on ps3? NO. Do u see 360 fanboys beg for mgs4 on the 360? YEs.
And mgs4 will never go to the 360, if it does expect it between 2009 and 2010.
By that time mgs4 on the 360 will be a bare bones version because mgs4 is built on ps3 hardware.
And by that time ps3 fans will be playing GOw3.
Now, have u noticed that Alan wake, fallout 3, bioshock, warhound, and mostly half of the 360's 2008 lineup of games are also on PC.
Like my freind said, if u own a pc, you own a 360 with better features.
Besides, most of those devs have either stated that a version of the game will go to the ps3 or that it is possible. Ex. age of conan.
I'm gonna say something to ps3 fanboys.
Don't get you're hopes up to high for killzone 2.
I'm serious.
Have we seen anything besides those graphis that beat any game in graphics out now?
Have we seen any news of unique features.
Call me a fanboy, but I just don't want to be another fanboy who hopes so much for a game that all that is running for it is graphics.
if I see something better or some unique stuff, then I'll change my mind.
they listed ff xiii whoa . ( dont think it will hit out side japan in 2008 )
Fallout 3 = THE Essential game for PS3, 360 and PC.
No Tekken 5, Soul Calibur 4 or Street Fighter 4!? :(
Also, it's possible for games like Resistance 2 or next-gen Jak & Daxter to arrive in late 2008.