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Why There Are No Ladders in Fallout

IGN writes: "You may not have noticed while playing Bethesda's Fallout or Elder Scrolls titles over the years, but none of the games from those series include ladders as a means of getting to higher places.

Bethesda Game Director Todd Howard admitting during a panel at Quakecon today that one of the gameplay features the studio continues to cut game after game is the inclusion of ladders for players to climb."

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SeanRL5768d ago (Edited 5768d ago )

My 350+ hours invested into fallout 3 would just like to say....

F*CK LADDERS! Gimme stairs and more power armor!

Edit: Jet packs work too. Anyways, looking forward to Fallout: New Vegas, even if the engine looks and runs the exact same.

MariaHelFutura5768d ago (Edited 5768d ago )

Ladders and Stairs are overrated. Give me a Jet pack.

Fred-G-Sanford5768d ago

I'm gonna buy Fallout 3 (Game of the Year edition) for my PC later today when it goes on sale at Steam.

I rented it for my 360 and played it for around 5 or 6 hours, but now I'm going to buy it and finish the entire game and all of its DLC in glorious 1920x1080.

Yay me. :D

Bigpappy5767d ago

This is a modern RPG. Only painters and service men use ladders.

Who wants to climb a ladder with a rocket launcher on his back?

AndrewRyan5767d ago

Mario jumps To get to the chimney on the roof of the house.

rroded5768d ago

"It just felt like we're game development pussies because we can't do ladders."

Bethesda Game Director Todd Howard

lol

zagibu5767d ago

Yeah, well, hasn't anybody else noticed that they are still using the same Klik&Play Game-Maker kit they've bought from an Indian Developer in 1999? They have no single programmer, just a bunch of artists that create assets for their kit. Mentioning ladders is just a desperate try to make people laugh, so they don't notice that they also can't do drivable vehicles, deformable terrain, or even a basic multiplayer mode like deathmatch.

I'm kidding, btw.

RedDead5768d ago

Ladders are boring anyway. Prefare to fight my way up the stairs

palaeomerus5767d ago

In Morrowind you didn't need ladders because you could walk on air or jump a long long ways. Sadly Oblivion nixed that.

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Red_Phoenix5768d ago

Ramps and elevators seem to be working perfectly fine for me. Screw ladders, I would trade in the use of ladders in game for a game like fallout any day.

TheIneffableBob5768d ago

Sounds like they need a new game engine (id Tech 5???).

big_silky5768d ago

I understand it's a game but in reality ladders aren't that common. I don't remember the last time I actually saw one.

Nihilism5768d ago

What do you mean? I mean I know there aren't ladders lying around everywhere now, but when nuclear explosions occur, don't they randomly generate ladders and spew them all over the terrain for ease of use for survivors. I must be missing something.

Note to bethesda: Climbing rubble in a nuclear wasteland is apparently less realistic than strategically placed ladders made from all the invisible trees that were killed in the fallout...yeah I don't get this article.

danielle0075767d ago

But, obviously, not having ladders makes them pussies.

.... And they want to be manly men! Roar.

SpaceFox5767d ago

Yeah, last time I remember seeing a ladder was.. BC2? Before that, RE5.

karl5768d ago

u cant skate on ladders .... ramps FTW

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Howard Says Starfield Development Was Harder Than Expected, Vows Wider Hardware Support for TES VI

Todd Howard opens up on Starfield's hard development, confirms Bethesda is targeting wider hardware scalability for TES VI and future games.

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Armaggedon69d ago

Engines not the problem per say. If there is a “problem “ it lies in Bethesda’s design philosophy and direction.

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Todd Howard Talks Elder Scrolls 6 Progress, Starfield's PS5 Port, and Bethesda's Future

If you're looking for any meaty Elder Scrolls 6 updates from Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard, listen for the Creation Engine 3 stuff.

raWfodog72d ago

"So we started with [the idea] that you want to be in your spaceship and to fly around a planet or fly smoothly over to that moon or whatever, right? It started there, then we're going to have this mode where you're going to go fast.’ Then it was, 'Well that needs to have some gameplay, what would players expect?' And that's where we got into all of the systems that Free Lanes has."

It's definitely a step in the right direction and I hope they keep improving on it. But honestly, that's the very least that should have been in the game from the start. He's saying it like they had an 'idea' that people would want to actually fly their ship around. That should have been obvious already from games like No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous.

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Fallout 3 Remaster Is Allegedly Planned For Release At Some Point In The Future

A remaster of Bethesda Game Studios' 2008 action role-playing game, Fallout 3, is planned for release at some point in the future.

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LucasRuinedChildhood141d ago

Would be nice if they had New Vegas ready as well, especially because of the show.

Hopefully this doesn't have the same performance issues as Oblivion Remastered.

cloganart140d ago

I haven't seen anything on these performance issues? What's been going on?

walken7140d ago

Probably the Unreal Engine issues, I skipped it for that reason.

Snookies12141d ago (Edited 141d ago )

Throw in all the DLC as well, like Oblivion and I'll definitely bite. I recall having one trophy left to unlock on the PS3 version with 100+ hours in my save. When my save file got corrupted, lol. Very sad day.

To be fair though, Bethesda was trash at Playstation ports anyway.

Michiel1989140d ago

all devs sucked at porting to ps3 for the first like 3 years because no one had experience with the cell architecture. Even 1st party took a long while to get proficient with it, the difference between uncharted 1 and 3 is massive for example.

Extermin8or3_140d ago

Oh oh oh I can do this too. GTA 7 will be made at some point in the future. Fallout 5 will enter development in the future too

jznrpg140d ago

Everyone there should know most gamers want New Vegas and Morrowind more than anything.

Christopher140d ago

Which is why we won't get them. Gotta keep floating "support this one and it might happen".

BlaqMagiq1140d ago

Can't wait. Won't have to go back to my PS3 to play this when it comes out.

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