Fallout 3

Well, Fallout 3 gets released tomorrow. I’m interested to see what they do with it. I was a little concerned that the transition from overhead-view to first / third-person view might mess up some things. From the articles I’ve seen, they say the game is uneven – good in some parts, poor in others. I expect to wait at least a week and let the reviews pour in before checking it out for myself. It’s too bad there’s no demo for the game. I really like to check out demos before I buy a game. The game developer said that the game world can’t be cut-up into a convenient demo format (although, I have to wonder about that claim – couldn’t they make a little sandbox area? Maybe throw together some game-world pieces into a 5-minute demo?) I’m leaning towards “we didn’t have the time to make a proper demo”.

It’s also too bad they got hit with piracy – causing the game to be leaked almost three weeks before the release date.

Speaking of Fallout, there’s an old abandoned factory not far from my house. Whenever I pass it, I think of the Fallout series. It looks rather post-apocalyptic, and could easily be an inspiration for some quest in the game.
Gates Rubber Company

10 Years Ago: Duke Nukem Forever

I happened to stumble on this the other day while cleaning up some stuff. It’s an article from PC Gamer published exactly 10 years ago this month. In the very last paragraph, he makes reference to Duke Nukem Forever as being “on the way”. Heh. Ten years later and it still hasn’t been released.

Under Construction

I’m messing around with designing this section of the website. It’s very much in-transition; I’m still adding features, messing with site design, and so on. What do I plan on talking about on this blog? Games (ideas, reviews of other games), Game Development (the business, the tools, etc), Copyright and DRM, games and the media/public, cool images/videos, and random game-related stuff. I have another blog related to my game, Empires of Steel. In the past, I used it as a general purpose blog (including talking about things like game-related violence statistics). In the future, I’m going to try to keep that blog focused on Empires-of-Steel-related stuff.