Apparently, the Asian press laughs in the face of non-disclosure agreements! Gaming Web site Underone has posted over 100 off-screen images of Fallout 3, snapped during a recent ZeniMax Media press tour. We win -- even these relatively low-quality snaps show off what's looking like an unbelievable game.
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In its original state, Fallout 3 was deemed no good for the Australian market. Too many drug references for the Australian Office of Film & Literature Classification's liking. But now, well, now it's all good! A revised edition of the game has been cleared for release, and has been classified MA15+ by the OFLC, a rating based on the title's "Strong violence, drug references and coarse language".
Having made both Oblivion and Fallout 3, when asked which of the two was the better game, you'd think Bethesda would remain a little impartial, no? Keep thigs civil, keep things amicable between the two franchises? Nope. Speaking in London last week, Bethesda's Peter Hines went on record saying Fallout 3 > Oblivion.
Website Australian Gamer has remarks attributed to the man blamed by many for the ban of Fallout 3. Australian Gamer has posted a scan of what appears to be a letter from Michael Atkinson (left), Attorney General of South Australia, to an unnamed constituent. Atkinson's continued opposition to the introduction of an R18+ rating for the Australian games market has meant that games judged unsuitable for 15-year-olds are routinely refused classification.
I have been shorting this game for a long time now, at the current price of 370DKP I feel it is quite overpriced. Even though this series has garnered a near legendary name (or so the media likes to constantly perpetrate), I do not feel that it has the selling power of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, or Elder Scrolls. This game is being released in a period when many other RPGs are being developed and companies have had enough time to make mature games for the Xbox360, hardly the same could be said when Elder Scrolls IV was released years ago.
Not only that, but this game is being released on all three platforms, which would certainly take sales away from the Xbox360 version. DLC does not mean that a game will automatically sell a boat load more copies, many people do not even follow this news and many more would not be willing to pay the fee (if there is one) for future downloadable content, especially when by the time it is released, they will have moved on to another game.
Furthermore, the PS3 now has the trophy system in place, which should only mature and caused more people to buy PS3 games for the trophies as they now do for Achievements on the Xbox360.
At most I see this game selling 3 million on the Xbox360, it seems that the exchange is starting to overvalued many Xbox360 games, especially RPGs (including Fable).
@Gaara42, As of Now, simEx are predicting 7.39 Million, significantly increased from 5.84 Million one month ago (June 10), thanks to X360 price (to 4.39 M, from 322 yesterday) increase caused by DLS news.
I have started to notice this game, and I think this stock (X360 version) is a good short opportunity.
At Microsoft's 2008 E3 press conference this morning, Bethesda announced that the eagerly anticipated next chapter in the Fallout series will feature extensive downloadable content that is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game. No details on what the DLC will entail, but according to Bethesda's Todd Howard it will be "substatial."
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