Squid Ink

[  Mood: Happy ]
[  Currently: Listening to Maybe by The Inkspots ]
Okay, first we get the teaser movie for the new Starcraft game. I can handle that. I loved Starcraft, but I wasn’t a rabid Blizzard fanboy like a lot of people.

But this…oh, sweet merciful Lord…this made my geek center explode with joy: Fallout 3 is coming, and here’s the teaser trailer.

I lived and breathed for Fallout. I read the message boards. I downloaded one of the game designer’s world "bibles". I have the music from the first two games as MP3s. I completed the first and second games, multiple times. I still play them both on a semi-annual basis.

I even ran one table-top RPG in this setting, and would willingly run another.

There is no other computer game I love more. The only one that even comes close is X-Com, and I can’t get it to run anymore.

But I’m getting off track. This teaser is great. First off, it has the song by The Inkspots that the game studio wanted to use for the first Fallout, but they couldn’t get the rights.

It is supposedly done with the in-game engine, and it looks sweet. But really, that’s a given these days.

The trailer also has the feel of the first game’s opening movie, which also pulled back to show a post-nuke apocalypse city. The power armor on the guy at the end of the teaser looks a lot like the armor from the first game as well. So I’m wondering if they’re just going to do a "reboot" of the first game, a la Doom 3. While I wouldn’t be adverse to that, if they managed to get all the original voice cast back, but I’d much rather have new adventures in the post-nuke wasteland.

But no matter what the storyline is, I’ll be one of the first in line for Fallout 3. I just need to get a new PC before then.

Oh, and one last thing…2008? MOTHERFILKER! Why is everything giving us such long teaser lead times these days?!