Fallout 3 Fights Violence With Violence

Mark Wilson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:00:00 MDT

As a series, Fallout has always celebrated a dark, often humorous world punctuated by brief moments of brutality. But how do you find the balance when the series enters a 3D world? Bethesda's Peter Hines explains:

We don't want [violence] to be the focal point of the game, but it is what it is. It's a violent world, and so the combat should be violent as a result.

He continues:

I think we've done it to the extent that it's not realistic. It's a bit more tongue-in-cheek. It's Quentin Tarantino. So it's not storming the beaches of Normandy in Saving Private Ryan, where it looks like it's actually happening. It's more Kill Bill. It's violence that's a bit more over the top so it's more comical than disturbing.

So in other words, just take the violence knob and crank that thing up to 11. Make violence, in essence, more violent. That's how you appease the masses. That's how you make a video game. Fallout violence "tongue-in-cheek" [CVG]

Shivering Isles Is The Last Oblivion Expansion

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:40:06 MST

Sorry, gamers hoping to get to the thousand hour mark on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, your chance to log more hours post-Shivering Isles expansion will have to be done with familiar content. In a quote from 360 Gamer Magazine, Bethesda Softwork's Peter Hines reveals that the Shivering Isles expansion will be the first, and last, expansion for the time-swallowing RPG.

I guess they don't count the Knights of the Nine content as an expansion proper. Still, I think we can all absorb this knowledge comforted in the fact (okay, speculation) that Bethesda is hard at work on The Elder Scrolls V. Michael McWhertor

No more expansion for Oblivion... [OXM]

Kotaku: peter hines

Fallout 3 Fights Violence With Violence

Shivering Isles Is The Last Oblivion Expansion