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The White House is a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests there, so why build it? 'It is our version of [Indiana Jones] shooting the guy rather than pulling out his whip and going into a fight'

"There was no gameplay around the White House."

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Bethesda originally thought Fallout 3's metro system should go all over the map, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: 'Being realistic sometimes isn't fun'

Well, not with that attitude.

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Fallout 3 is famously green, but series co-creator Tim Cain didn't even notice because he's colorblind: "I was blown away"

"The whole greenish tint thing didn't apply to me"

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Making Fallout, Bethesda Game Studios realized "being realistic sometimes isn't fun" in games, dev says

"And we realized it was just too sprawling. It was too big"

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Fallout 3 had "the opposite of feature creep" because Bethesda devs "were really smart about cutting things" they knew they couldn't do

Explaining why you couldn't choose to join factions

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I'm convinced Fallout season 2 has set the board for Fallout 5

Opinion | Bethesda has a chance to do something incredible with The Enclave following the success of the Amazon series

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Post-Skyrim and pre-Fallout 4 was a glorious time at Bethesda, devs say: "When we made that game, it was like World Series Red Sox"

"We, as a studio, got better"

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What's the best Fallout game? As Season 2 of the TV show aired, we asked you — here's what you said (and why I'm not surprised)

Which Fallout game is the best? We asked our readers that question, and the answer we got was clear — and with a few surprises in the results.

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Most of the original Fallout's "dark humor" was added just to make co-creator Tim Cain laugh: "We made this game for each other. When it shipped, we were like, 'Well, I hope other people like it!'"

If it weren't for The Simpsons, we would have no Radiation King

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"You are wrong" and Fallout New Vegas was ripped apart at launch, Obsidian's Josh Sawyer reminds RPG fans, comparing it to Cyberpunk 2077: "Its reputation at launch was not fantastic"

"There was another game that sold very well at launch that did not review amazingly"

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Bethesda made Fallout 3's VATS system to avoid competing with Call of Duty and Battlefield, taking influence from KOTOR and Burnout: "Imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!"

The Vaults and the wasteland required some innovation

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Todd Howard gives Fallout 3 an "average grade," and only after Bethesda used numerous DLC to fix what everyone "hated" about the RPG's original ending

"I’ll give us an average grade on that to make the story continue"

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Fallout 76 may get another raid, and Bethesda plans to make swapping builds easier to avoid "playing the UI" — it should learn from one of its biggest rivals

Bethesda is considering adding another Fallout 76 raid, but before that happens, it wants to make it easier to change your builds in the RPG.

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Fallout 3 feeling like "Oblivion with guns" was only natural, Todd Howard says – the RPG was Bethesda's follow-up to, well, Oblivion

"You’re getting an audience that you know expects both"

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I'm grateful Skyrim 'dumbed down' The Elder Scrolls

Opinion | Without Skyrim's simplicity, I would never have played Oblivion or Morrowind

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Bethesda's Todd Howard reveals one of Fallout 3's biggest DLCs came from how much everyone hated the RPG's ending — "I’ll give us an average grade on that"

In a new interview, Todd Howard has revealed Bethesda made one of Fallout 3's biggest DLCs to fix its controversial ending.

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Fable promises a Bethesda-like reactive fantasy world, and I think it will be enough to cover for The Elder Scrolls 6

Opinion | Playground Games excels at creating sandboxes that feel alive, and the studio seems to be looking in the right places for new inspiration

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"When Bethesda bought the Fallout license," RPG legend Josh Sawyer figured his "dream" of making a Fallout game was dead – until New Vegas came along

"I figured I would never have a chance to work on the series again"

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The best thing about Fallout New Vegas was right there in Bethesda's initial pitch to Obsidian

It's the factions, of course.

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These isometric screenshots of Fallout 4 make me wish Bethesda would return to the genre's roots

Opinion | Players are using camera trickery to make Fallout 4 look like the original games, and it’s got me nostalgic for more

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Todd Howard says Bethesda really didn't expect people to hate the way Fallout 3 ended with a full stop: 'We thought this is Fallout, it’s great! People hated it!'

"I'll give us an average grade on [the fix]."

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The Fallout VATS system was inspired by Burnout's crash mode of all things or, as Todd Howard puts it, 'imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!'

"And that’s where you felt the stats of your character more than the run-and-gun."

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After 10,000 hours of Fallout 4 in 8 years, Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii still couldn't tell you how the main quest goes because he just hangs out with Dogmeat

He's rawdogging the wasteland, too

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'It took about 5 years' for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that 'players actually liked the design choices we had made'

Hindsight has about a 20% chance of scoring a headshot in VATS.

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I am once again tapping my 'Todd Howard genuinely loves Fallout' sign: He's an OG Fallout 1 fan and still hasn't given back the disc he nicked from his brother

"The rules of the world and the vibe of the world, they were just brilliant and so unique."

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