I don't believe that is the exact amount in the game because he says there are OVER The amount of quests stated :shrug:

It ends after the MQ.

What are free quests? I can't be the only one who is confused about this.

I saw wat u did tharr!

Yeah, that's a lot of quests, much more than F3.

Oh man, thank you very much for that enlightenment, Obsidian dev.

Oh wait, you mean you're not an obsidian dev and you have absolutely no actual clue of the length of any quests or any right to confirm it?

Unless most of the quests involve stepping two feet and shooting someone in the face, I can't possibly fathom how 70 side quests can somehow be condensed into 25 FO3 ones.

Non-pipboy added quests.

Indeed Mr Popopodeldokolopolous.


So I figure we'll have at least as much stuff to do as in F3. Totally fine with that is what I am.

Number of quests don't always mean so much. For example there were quests in Fallout:3 which were long and had several parts but counted as one quest. Had those been broken down into individual quests it would have been a lot. There are many fed ex quests in some games which are numerous but boil down to go take something there. Moira's quest was huge and seemed like a dozen quests instead of one.

This is Obsidian we are talking about here. You really think they would do that?

Nods, I suspect of the 180 quests we will only Really do a portion of them depending on which path we take through the game. The absolutely Wonderful aspect is that we have so much to do that I'll be uncovering stuff I missed Years from now. I love that about the big RPG games - that sense that I've never quite done it all, and that there might just be something new over the next hill... :fallout:

Yes. In fact, they already stated that some quest arcs will be about the same length as the ones in Fallout 3, but divided into smaller separate quests. The question remains is how the guide counts.

He's making reference to "Top Cat", an ancient Hanna Barberra cartoon (Hanna Barberra is the "old name" for Cartoon network for those of you too young to know these things)

Actually Hannah Barbera was the production company that produced the cartoons, not the network that showed them.

Obsidian has stated that there will be more, yet shorter quests a long time ago.

Still way less then the elder scrolls. What's a free quest?

Sweetness, I'm keeping optimistic that there will be a broad range of lengths, given 90 unmarked quests I'm presuming the majority of very short ones will be there (along with all those obscure "find me in this ultra dangerous place!" quests, they're good fun).
Of course Fishydan may be right and the quests may be a LOT shorter, but I don't think it's hugely likely, most may be shorter but there's going to be a few longer ones...

Also I'm thinking the main quest has more than 20 missions and that they've only released that many achievements (happens a lot), of course it may be the case that there are just 20 main quest missions but it seems unlikely unless they're complex, 20, even assuming the name stays the same regardless of faction, is quite short for most main quests, if they split the names you're looking at 8 tops each side with 4/5 'starter' quests before any split...

I'm optimistic.

That many quests pretty much guarantees there should be something to do in every corner of the wasteland which pleases me greatly.

There were places in FO3 that felt somewhat empty and without much purpose beyond walking in there, shooting a few weak enemies and looting small time loot. I would gladly sacrifice length for a more evenly quest distributed wasteland that makes each area feel more alive.

That isn't what I was saying that about. I know they said they would be shorter.

However, she said the "90 quests = 25 fo3 quests" which she has nothing to back that up.

I agree. Also, we have to count many hours of exploration between those numerous quests, much more customization, items and after all, replayability than Fallout 3. If you play in hardcoe mode, it will probably be even longer.

The one thing that adds much needed replay value were more quests.180 quests over the 33 in FO3(without add-on) is very good news for me.

Wait what?

I assuming the side quests will still have the same length as those in FO3 but have some shorter ones and ones even shorter than that.

A Hot Shots 2 reference.

Ah...Gotta watch that sometime lol

I predict 100 hours of gameplay or more, on an average walkthrough.

Even if all of these quests are much shorter, the gameplay will even out to the same anyway, which is O.K. It seems like you can't go wrong with just over 70 side quests, though. Probably end up being substantially longer than Fallout 3.