Bethesda confirms no Fallout 3 demo planned

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Bethesda confirms no Fallout 3 demo planned

Posted Apr 21st 2008 11:15AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News

Speaking with Eurogamer, Bethesda's Pete Hines confirmed that there is no Fallout 3 demo planned leading up to or after the game's release. Hines pointed to Fallout 3's open and expansive world being the reason for not doing a demo saying that "when you build it as one thing, there's no way to portion off a section and have it stand on its own." So, pretty much, Bethesda feels that offering only a chunk of the Fallout 3 world wouldn't do the game justice, ultimately giving gamers the wrong impression of what Fallout 3 has to offer. Good enough reason, just make the game super enjoyable and you won't here us complain.

Tags: bethesda, fallout, fallout-3

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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)

4-21-2008 @ 12:50PM

Mr. Scolex said...

Thank you, Rudy, that was the joke.

4-21-2008 @ 12:23PM

mike said...

So your saying only gamers will know something? Well perhaps you could explain to me a little about fallout history. perhaps your could start with what consoles its been on. My console gamine has been as followed - Nes - SNES - n64 - gamecube -late xbox (halo 2) - xbox 360. Unless the games have appeared on one of those systems, or they are huge games talked about everywhere like metal gear solid, devil may cry etc etc, ive never heard of them.

Regardless if ive heard of game x or not doesnt change the fact that you made a retarded comment about living in a cave for not knowing about a niche product.

4-21-2008 @ 12:27PM

mike said...

bah ignore this. It was meant for the thread above.

4-21-2008 @ 12:33PM

marklar said...

Not to be anal or anything, but the last sentence should be "hear us complain" not "here us complain"

4-21-2008 @ 12:58PM

andyface said...

Wow a collection of ramblings if ever I saw one.

Having played the other fallout games I'll be buying this regardless of there being a demo or not.

For those who haven't played any of the fallout games (which frankly isn't too surprising as Fallout isn't actually that well known a game unless you where a PC RPG gamer in the 90s) I'd encourage you to either buy it and hope you like it or rent it first. Also for those who haven't played Fallout but have seen the Mad Max films, think what Mad Max would be as a game (a good one) and then go buy Fallout 3 :D

I do think that a demo would entice people to buy Fallout 3 though, I bought Fallout 1 on the strength of it's demo which was a slice of a much larger game.

4-21-2008 @ 2:20PM

KilgoreTrout XL said...

Big name titles rarely have demos before their release, so this is no surprise.

It's also not a big deal to me- I have very good memories of playing the first Fallout all those years ago (on my pentium, I recall), and can't wait to see what they do with this iteration.

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