Bethesda confirms no Fallout 3 demo planned

by Dustin Burg { Apr 21st 2008 at 11:15AM }

Speaking with Eurogamer, Bethesda's Pete Hines confirmed that there is no Fallout 3 demo planned leading up to or after the game's release. Hines pointed to Fallout 3's open and expansive world being the reason for not doing a demo saying that "when you build it as one thing, there's no way to portion off a section and have it stand on its own." So, pretty much, Bethesda feels that offering only a chunk of the Fallout 3 world wouldn't do the game justice, ultimately giving gamers the wrong impression of what Fallout 3 has to offer. Good enough reason, just make the game super enjoyable and you won't here us complain.

Tags: bethesda, fallout, fallout-3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mike @ Apr 21st 2008 11:25AM

seeing as I have never played a fallout game before (or heard of one for that matter). Im going to pass completely without a demo.

Saints row was an open world, and its demo was great. Convinced me to buy the game.

JoNike @ Apr 21st 2008 11:34AM

If you've played Oblivion, can you see how they could be able to make a demo out of it? It's the exact same thing with fallout, you can't taste enough with a demo.

CaptNink @ Apr 21st 2008 11:41AM

You've never played, or heard of, Fallout?

Say hi to Osama, that cave you guys are living in must be great!

mike @ Apr 21st 2008 11:57AM

Well oblivion had a demo (for the pc). Fallout could do it too. Any game can do it. Its just an excuse developers give because they fear a demo will hurt their product. If your game truly is the shit, then a demo will only showcase its awsomeness.

And the fact that you HAVE heard of fallout captnink means your the one living in the cave lol (with an internet connection :p). Go ask your parents, or any random person on the street if they have heard of fallout and I bet they will all say no.

JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force) @ Apr 21st 2008 12:04PM

The fact that Fallout 3 will be (as stated by Bethesda Dev) "Oblivion with Guns"[sic!] is enough of a turn off for me.

Killing Vault Overseer/Supermutants at level 1 FTL!

PS:Aww hell, I'll probably buy it anyway.

Trekster_Gamer @ Apr 21st 2008 12:06PM

Never heard of it?? You must either be new to gaming, or have had your head in the sand or mainly play mario cart not to have at least heard of this game. You won't buy it because there is no DEMO??? That's just plain moronic reasoning....

mike @ Apr 21st 2008 12:08PM

moronic reasoning? You must be in financial debt. Do you buy every game thats released? Think before you type. A demo is to try a game and see if you will enjoy it or not. Is it unresonable to want to play a demo of the 3rd game in a series you never heard of instead of rushing out to buy it when you know nothing about it?

CaptNink @ Apr 21st 2008 12:17PM

"Go ask your parents, or any random person on the street if they have heard of fallout and I bet they will all say no."

Yes, I'm sure that if I ask my parents (who are in their late 60's and non-gamers) or random people on the street (who are also probably non-gamers) they wouldn't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Gamers, on the other hand, would know exactly what I'm talking about.

So the question remains, how come you haven't heard of it? :D

mike @ Apr 21st 2008 12:26PM

So your saying only gamers will know something? Well perhaps you could explain to me a little about fallout history. perhaps your could start with what consoles its been on. My console gamine has been as followed - Nes - SNES - n64 - gamecube -late xbox (halo 2) - xbox 360. Unless the games have appeared on one of those systems, or they are huge games talked about everywhere like metal gear solid, devil may cry etc etc, ive never heard of them.

Regardless if ive heard of game x or not doesnt change the fact that you made a retarded comment about living in a cave for not knowing about a niche product.

Perhaps I should start listing off a bunch of video games I have played, books ive read or movies ive watched until you have not heard of one and claim your out of touch with the rest of society.

JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force) @ Apr 21st 2008 12:32PM

Mike he probably didn't mean to offend you...but boy, not playing Fallout is acceptable(Graphics are a big turn-off now) but not even hearing about it?You need a history lesson.

CaptNink @ Apr 21st 2008 12:33PM

"...you made a retarded comment about living in a cave for not knowing about a niche product."

Hardly a niche product.

And I don't have time to write an entire list for you. You obviously have enough time on your hands, so I will point you to Wikipedia and bid you "good day".

mike @ Apr 21st 2008 12:47PM

Yeah I just read up on wikipedia and it says it was released for the PC (Fallout 1 and 2). No wonder I never heard of them. There are thousands of PC games that have sequels as well. Unless your a pc gamer, there is no way you would of heard of these games.

I even just went on msn now and asked a bunch of my friends who paly games. Most own xbox 360 and ps3. Out of 6 people, 0 had heard of the fallout series. These games are just too old (1997 and 1998) to be known as popular. During those years any pc gaming discussion amongst me and my friends was only about warcraft 2 and starcraft. Games which could use onboard video at the time just fine to play.

The whole point im trying to get across here is that the fallout series is not some halo/Resident Evil/Doom/final fantasy series of legendary games. To excpect everyone to have heard of it is just absurd.

DiscoGhost @ Apr 21st 2008 1:39PM

I've heard of fallout and was never a pc gamer...i find it odd that you haven't...perhaps i'm older than you because this game was pretty popular in it's hay day.

ZEBRA NINER @ Apr 21st 2008 11:32AM

No demo. No buy.

Just kidding. This is like Gears or GTA... you just know it's going to be good, you just buy it.

Any new IP should have a demo... THAT would be nice.

Neuromancer @ Apr 21st 2008 11:41AM

This game is going to be fantastic, I have no doubts about it. No demo no problem.

victor360hd @ Apr 21st 2008 11:48AM

No demo. No buy.

Scott @ Apr 21st 2008 11:55AM

Bethesda + Cool IP = a purchase. Those guys make games just the way I like them, and the Fallout IP is a slick take on RPG elements. I am thinking this will be a day one purchase.

Mr. Scolex @ Apr 21st 2008 11:59AM

Hate to be a grammar nazi, but you have a blaringly obvious typo in your last sentence.

Trekster_Gamer @ Apr 21st 2008 12:07PM

Yup you are a nazi, and a troll :)
Ain't that grand.....

RudyHuxtable @ Apr 21st 2008 12:45PM

I'm sorry, did you mean " 'glaringly' obvious?"

Mr. Scolex @ Apr 21st 2008 12:50PM

Thank you, Rudy, that was the joke.

mike @ Apr 21st 2008 12:23PM

mike @ Apr 21st 2008 12:27PM

bah ignore this. It was meant for the thread above.

marklar @ Apr 21st 2008 12:33PM

Not to be anal or anything, but the last sentence should be "hear us complain" not "here us complain"

andyface @ Apr 21st 2008 12:58PM

Wow a collection of ramblings if ever I saw one.

Having played the other fallout games I'll be buying this regardless of there being a demo or not.

For those who haven't played any of the fallout games (which frankly isn't too surprising as Fallout isn't actually that well known a game unless you where a PC RPG gamer in the 90s) I'd encourage you to either buy it and hope you like it or rent it first. Also for those who haven't played Fallout but have seen the Mad Max films, think what Mad Max would be as a game (a good one) and then go buy Fallout 3 :D

I do think that a demo would entice people to buy Fallout 3 though, I bought Fallout 1 on the strength of it's demo which was a slice of a much larger game.

KilgoreTrout XL @ Apr 21st 2008 2:20PM

Big name titles rarely have demos before their release, so this is no surprise.

It's also not a big deal to me- I have very good memories of playing the first Fallout all those years ago (on my pentium, I recall), and can't wait to see what they do with this iteration.