Did you guys have trouble developing for the PS3? I don't mind, I'm still buying it. :fallout:

Two very good questions I'd be interested to know the answers to, especially the latter.

will the game have a more realistic and much more challenging combat system in hardcoe mode? for example if you get shot in the leg it cripples it at a certain rate all depending on your armor and it doesn't cripple it so you just have a mild limp but you collapse on your damaged ligament and YOU have to deal with it, meaning you have to crawl to cover and then heal it but in a way so a stimpak wont heal your wound instantly you have a to use a variety of medical apparatus such as gauss, tweezers, scalpels, morphine ECT to heal your leg in a sort of minigame type of thing sort of like lockpicking. And for melee combat I would like the whole clumsy bludgeoning to go down the drain and that be replaced with combat where enemies react to getting hit the same goes for you I would also like a type of sneak kills sort of thing instead of the going into sneak mode and then slashing some guy only to see him collapse It would be amazing if you could sneak up behind someone and snap they're necks or slice they're throats or you could hug a wall while looking down a hallway waiting for an unsuspecting raider to walk close enough for you to jump him and stab him in the head or strangle him. I don't need the game to be exactly like what i have described here but i do want something similar to it maybe a better reaction system to getting hit with a melee weapon or getting shot for the players character and the NPC's around him.

Are you Firefly fans?

I thought that was funny since I've been losing muscle and gaining fat since about October. Chris can probably answer better since he's pretty consistent with his regimen.

Work and a knee injury (over training that revealed osteoarthritis on my right knee) have made it very difficult for me to exercise lately. When I was exercising, I was preparing for a sprint (short distance) triathlon on a ten week program. At the peak of the schedule, it was six days on, one day off, usually biking 20 miles, running 5 miles, or swimming 1000 yards. I didn't do any weight training, though I know I should have. I didn't change my eating habits that much during the training; I just cut back on candy and soda. I'm an "ovo-lacto" vegetarian, but nothing changed there during the training. I had been pretty off/on about exercising until I picked a triathlon to do, registered (12 weeks in advance), and started training. Knowing that I was going to have to do the tri motivated me to never skip a workout. Until I injured my knee, I didn't.

Prior to that, I had been on the Obsidian soccer team (RIP). I wasn't a very good player, but it was great exercise. Since it was a company team, everyone provided collective motivation to go to practices and games.

Good question

how long do you estimate the game has taken or will take to 'complete', from start to finish? i have always been curious about how long modern day video games are in development.

I always want to go someplace new, but I never get tired of southern Utah.

http://diogenes-lamp.info/images/utah_preview/02.jpg
http://diogenes-lamp.info/images/utah_trip/utah_trip066.jpg

Given the option of going somewhere in the U.S., I'll probably always pick a national park over a city.

You should get that team back, then you'll challenge Bethesda (All companies need a soccer (Or football as it's actually called) team. Just out of curiosity, did you play a specific position?

Oh, and who do you think will win the Superbowl? It's actually airing in Norway this year, might be the first time that's happened actually, so I may sit down and watch even if I have no interest in American football beyond mocking my texan friend for supporting the cowboys

What do you love most about making games?

i saw some screenshots of the game on a different website today,in one picture,there was somebody wearing a vault suit with the number 21 on his back,will there be many more vaults this time round? or is it just the number 21?

I think my soccer-playing days are over. Growing up I always played sweeper or goalie, but on our team (7-on-7) I wound up playing forward a lot. At least I got this cool jersey out of it.

http://diogenes-lamp.info/images/soccer2.jpg

I have no idea who will win the Superbowl. I blindly support the Packers and after they drop out, I don't care anymore.

Does work stop when you exit the door?

Have you ever made mods for games you worked on to begin with?

Preferred genre of music?

Just wanted to shout out to you guys. While I was glad to see Beth pick up the title, I'm really glad to see you guys back in the game (Fallout that is). I liked where Beth took the franchise (no need for nit picks here) and I believe your influence can only make it even better. When I read the first words on the back of the Fallout box (" Do you remember Wasteland?") I was sold. Fallout 2 was an excellent sequel and I look forward with great anticipation to see what you bring back to the game. I am actually one of the few who enjoyed Tactics (for what it was. Yea, I know that was 14 degrees East IIRC) so I'm not one of those intransigents who think it began and ended with FO1. I wish you guys much success and a long prosperous life with the "new and improved" Fallout. First person is the only way to exlore the world of FO.

I do have one request. Please, please, please, when I set someone on fire I expect to see them do the Funky Gerbil. If I hit someone with a flamer and they don't dance around flailing their arms and screaming, well, it just takes all the fun out of it. I mean seriously, wouldn't that just blow it for you? I mean where, wheres my motivation?

P.S. Please feel free to use the term "Funky Gerbil" It's a term my dad (RIP) coined in reference to a news story about a college student that tossed his gerbil in a frying pan when it bit him. While the story wasn't funny the term certainly is.

Work does not stop for me. But that's part of the job =) I am always in touch with work via email and often find myself thinking about work during downtime because, well, I find it relaxing. I'm sick I guess.

I modded NWN before I made NWN2, but I've never modded a game I worked on. Yet.

I would be too embarrassed to reveal my music interests and genre for fear of not being 'hip' enough (or whatever the kids say these days).


I think every thread is worth reading. Often times they are insightful about game mechanics. I know that doesn't answer the question specifically, but at the very least such threads will sometimes spawn discussions.

I'm reliably advised by about a billion of my friends that today is the Super Bowl. That's distinct from the Puppy Bowl which is intrinsically more interesting.

Still, since so many of my friends are interested in it, did your team win? By that, I'm presuming that everyone watching it is rooting for one team or the other, and if last week's blog post serves me correctly, that's the Saints or the Colts. Who are/were you supporting?

For the rest of us for whom "football championship" means "World Cup", here's a bit of trivia courtesy of Wikipedia:

There Has Never Been...

* a Super Bowl that went into overtime, although three have been tied in the final minute.
* a Super Bowl shutout; every Super Bowl participant to date has scored at least 3 points.
* a Super Bowl scoreless at halftime.
* a team or head coach who has won more than two consecutive Super Bowls.
* a coach who has won Super Bowls with two different clubs.
* a starting quarterback to win Super Bowls on two different teams. (Twice starting QBs have have played on different teams, but Kurt Warner only won once, While Craig Morton lost with both teams.)
* a team which played in a Super Bowl in their home stadium.
* a team that lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the regular season that has gone on to win a Super Bowl in the same season. This is known as the "Tampa Bay Curse."
* a punt return for a touchdown in any Super Bowl game.

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I associate two teams with Bethesda: the Detroit Lions for gstaff (and Nick?) and the Steelers for the devs who went to Carnegie Mellon. Is there a team Obsidian devs tend to root for?

This will be taken with great offense. Just a warning.

I don't understand ... ? Gstaff mentions them in http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/01/27/playoffs/ blog post. :unsure:

Many of us Americans tend to get really passionate and personal about our version of Football, and sometimes even associating someone with the wrong team is enough to spur ire - though the Obsidian folks have pretty thick skin to be in this business - I wouldn't be too worried.

I can't honestly tell which is more insane; the American passion for our football that drives us to do really crazy things, or the world's passion for football that drives them to do really crazy things. I vote that it's all insanity in equal measure!

As an American observer (don't care about football or futbol), I gotta say those guys are nuts. We may be passionate but the world is just plain nuts about their game. And I do mean nuits.

If you did take an idea directly from the thread, would you have to credit that person with the idea or does everything that appears on this board end being the IP of Beth soft(kind of like the way Facebook can poach your pictures for their ads)?

I bet your friends really enjoy that . I am reminded of that episode of Family Guy where James Woods shows Peter the nuances of his performance in some movie. Do your friends ever get annoyed when you do this?
Although personally i would like to hear what you would have to say. Sometimes when I'm playing a game I get so focused on where I'm aiming that I don't notice some of the cool things in the environnement.

Also, what goes into an average day at work? How did you know you wanted to get into the gaming industry, and more importantly, how did you pick which specific job you would get into?

A question for any of the staff.

Are there any people working on the staff who haven't lived in America their whole lives? Or perhaps have other prominent cultural backgrounds?

On our team we have a native Spaniard. I also know that two other team members have lived in Taiwan (I think) and Costa Rica. Now that I think about it, this is one of the least nationally diverse teams I've worked on. I don't think we even have any Canadians (seemingly omnipresent on game development teams).

USA! USA! USA!

One for any former black-isle employees:

I can imagine you were all pretty upset when Van Buren got pulled so close to launch, so when Bethesda approached you about making a new fallout, did you see it as 'another chance to shine'?