Fallout 3 to have over 200 endings? |
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| BY Mario Campos Mar. 25th, 2008 | More on: |
That is not a typo. I did not mean 2, or 20. Bethesda’s Todd Howard spoke a few days ago on the Official Xbox Magazine Podcast, and outlined some new details on Fallout 3. One of the more interesting things that he mentioned is that the game is twice as long as originally planned, and will have over 200 endings. Or, permutations, really.
Still, 200 is quite a hefty number. When I think of games with multiple endings, I think of Silent Hill, and Star Ocean: Second Story for PS2 (Which had about 70 endings). But even when I remember playing Star Ocean, I only ever got about 7 endings. I can’t imagine someone trying to get every single one in Fallout 3. I’ve never played a Fallout game, but more than 200 possible ways to end a game is something that definitely raised an eyebrow.
Also, Howard adds that game is finished and on track for Fall 2008. They just have to do a lot more polishing and testing.
March 25th, 2008
at 4:48 pm
How much do you want to bet that there will be an achievement for getting all 200 endings?
March 25th, 2008
at 4:56 pm
You know I have never played a fallout game, but 200 endings is that really necessary?! I would have rather had 4 or 5 endings and have the game shipping next week then 200 in the fall. Even the best story driven RPG I’ve ever played, which is a toss up between KOTOR and Mass Effect, could not impel me to beat the game 200 times.
March 25th, 2008
at 7:08 pm
They recently said it will be 200 “permutations” not full endings. Whatever that means will remain to be seen…
March 25th, 2008
at 7:36 pm
Permutations? So each ending will slightly vary? I hope they don’t mean like, your hair is black in one ending and shaved in the other…
The way Disaster Report for the PS2 did endings was good. I liked it. Too bad the game was below average….
Haha, I can just imagine getting all the endings being an achievement too. Too bad you can’t get a reward. “Congratulations! You won: ANOTHER ENDING!”
March 25th, 2008
at 9:12 pm
After oh say about 150 endings, winning another ending would be more of a punishment then a reward. Can you imagine if an obsessive compulsive person played this game, they literally might die of starvation or something trying to get 100% complete.
December 25th, 2008
at 5:18 pm
wow! i cant imagine… im playing the game at the moment, i cant even imagine how my ending is going to be… but a friend of my said that if ur nice to every1 and liek is being really good n shit the game will be shorter and it will have a bad ending… he was playing “the nice guy” and he completed the game in like 5 hours
January 6th, 2009
at 9:22 am
but still, 200 endings that is like freaking much :o and the best thing of it is : your character dies, you cant play the game after that anymore. you have to start it all over again. that realy sucks
January 16th, 2009
at 7:26 pm
I’ve played Fallout 3 and am still working on it, but i have advice for people starting to play it: BLOW UP MEGATON. At first i felt bad doing that because id be killing like 200 ppl. But then i remembered that they tried to massacre me everytime i tried to steal a tin can. and after you blow it up, you get your own penthouse suite with a robot and other stuff. You get a robot if you deactivate it too, but u also get some shitty house with a hole in the roof. Blow it up.
April 27th, 2009
at 12:39 am
It all depends on what quests you do, what level you are on, how nice you are to people, gender, karma level.. and whether you kill the people that are not hostile… or if you are like me.. kill everyone you see with a fat man :D LOL
so yes.. there are 200 possible ways to end the game.. the ending will always be the same.. just slightly varied.