Fallout 3: No Aiming Below The Belt?
Captain Obvious will tell you that the head shot picture from Fallout 3 is an indication that this game isn’t going for an “E” rating from the ESRB. Fallout’s post-apocalyptic backdrop was set in a world with very little regulation and law enforcement, which meant that it had it all: sex, drugs and violence. With that said, how is Bethesda going to approach the context set by the past titles?
“There are some people who say that making an 18-rated game, and especially making a Fallout one, should be about sleeping with the hooker, then waking up with the venereal disease. A lot of that stuff personally, to me, veers into being a 12-year old dungeon master,” Fallout 3′s lead designer Emil Pagliarulo told PC Zone.
“Some of it feels right and some of it feels wrong,” Pagliarulo continued. “We’re appealing to an adult audience and it’s a tough call. I mean, once you have groin shots you’re approaching a level of silliness that, if you’re not careful, can pervade the whole game.”
He explained that Bethesda would rather be cautious in its approach to including adult material in Fallout 3 and “add that stuff in gradually” as opposed to packing in a heap of stuff all at once and going “completely overboard”.
But…I like aiming low. Bummer.
Source: CVG
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I think this is a huge deal! Yes, it is possible to have people running around like fools, not caring about the game, goofing around like its grand theft auto. Hey, I didn’t say that was a bad thing, but that isn’t what the game is about. Fallout NEEDS to feel like what life on earth would be like after such a disaster. The original Fallout games captured me, by making me feel like the world was at its worst times. If you don’t include some of these realities, the game will surely not be the same.