Fallout 3's iconic VATS system almost didn't make it into the RPG in time, and Bethesda was worried no one would even want to use it: "Is this even fun?"

After Morrowind and Oblivion, the difficulties Bethesda had in pivoting to sci-fi for Fallout 3 are well-documented. But one ...
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Fallout 3 nearly didn't have VATS

Fallout started in 1997 as an isometric, turn-based game, in which the Wanderer would patiently wait for big rats and ...
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"Is Anyone Going to Use This?" Fallout's Most Iconic Gameplay Mechanic Almost Didn't Make It

A Bethesda dev reveals that one of the biggest changes Fallout 3 brought to the franchise almost didn't make it into the final build of the game.
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Fallout 3's VATS system helped compensate for Bethesda's lack of shooting chops: "We were never going to create gun combat that was on par with Call of Duty or Battlefield"

Bethesda hadn't dealt with guns in a long time when it came time to develop Fallout 3; thankfully, VATS helped close the distance. Aside from some Terminator games in the 1990s, Bethesda's bread and ...
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Fallout 5 Might Want to Watch One Part of The Outer Worlds 2 Closely

Jake McMichael is a writer for Game Rant. When he's not auditioning in New York, or writing plays and pilots of his own, he can be found roaming the Lands Between, the wasteland, the medieval world, a ...

VATS almost didn't survive the transition to Bethesda, says Fallout 3 dev: 'We only just got that working by the time we shipped'

Fallout has a lot of iconic hallmarks—ghouls, deathclaws, radioactive cesspools, and some swingin' music. But it's also ...
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The Hilarious Gore of VATS in Fallout 4

Check out these highlights of the hilarious gore you can witness using Fallout 4's VATS mode. Fallout 4 is available for Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC. As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a ...
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Best Fallout games – Your rundown of the greatest wasteland adventures

War, as they say, never changes, but the Fallout game series does all the time, depending on the direction the winds of game development are blowing. As the timeline and tone change, the only real ...
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Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have Oblivion’s meme king hopeful Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas will see similar glow-ups: ‘[It’s] so much better and exactly what ...

Fallout I thought I was crazy for thinking Fallout 4 feels like a perfectly crisp fall day, but that's exactly what Bethesda was aiming for after a 'field trip' to a national park: 'I was like, this ...