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Forget game design, Sawyer's real talent has always been making excuses. by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 2:32pm PST
We tried to model the power armor as T-Ray did in the opening movie and game, but he could get away with clipping that would look really bad at close distances or certain angles. Simply put, building the Fallout power armor as it originally looked would have resulted in a suit with a tiny range of motion or a hilarious amount of clipping. We changed as much as we needed to allow for more flexibility in movement, but tried to stay very close to the original design whenever possible.


This is such bullshit. You know the real reason why he needed every suit of armor in Van Buren to have roughly the same dimensions? It's so he could use the same animations for all of them. Talking about "limited range of motion" and "hilarious amounts of clipping" as if they were the result of some intrinsic flaw in T-Ray's design (if you're gonna pass the buck, it might as well be to the guy with the stupidest name) rather than Interplay's rapidly-dwindling resources was downright misleading to the uneducated (i.e. games journalists).

How many copies of Fallout 3 did Bethesda sell, five million? You'd think they could afford to do a proper fucking suit of space marine armor, like EVERY OTHER GAME ON THE XBOX.

PS: Here's a screenshot of the game Sawyer's talking about in the above quote. This is what he was defending.

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There sure are a lot of scorpions in D.C. o_O by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 4:37am PST NEW
    There still isn't a mod that makes power armor huge? NT by Worm 01/13/2010, 5:02am PST NEW
        I wouldn't know, I'm playing the 360 GOTY version LIKE A SAP. by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 6:03am PST NEW
            Now you fucked up (repeat etc). NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 01/13/2010, 6:05am PST NEW
            how are all those user made mods and free dlcs treating you? NT by irony 01/13/2010, 6:09am PST NEW
                THEY AIN'T by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 01/13/2010, 6:13am PST NEW
                    I have the cheapest computer I could get the same day my old one broke. by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 6:33am PST NEW
                        You're missing out on mods, SUCKA NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 01/13/2010, 7:17am PST NEW
                free dlcs... you mean stolen dlcs. NT by anything is free if you steal it. 01/13/2010, 11:55am PST NEW
                    Thanks for spelling it out (for yourself). NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 01/13/2010, 11:57am PST NEW
            gruman NT by gruman 01/13/2010, 6:12am PST NEW
    On the subject of the Brotherhood by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 5:56am PST NEW
        In a world with Avatar and WOWcrap, I really can't complain about this. by laudablepuss 01/13/2010, 9:50am PST NEW
            It's probably in the 90th percentile of games. Higher, if you only count RPGs. NT by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 11:00am PST NEW
                Re: It's probably in the 90th percentile of games. Higher, if you only count RPG by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/13/2010, 11:59am PST NEW
        By the Emperor! Jerry has fallen to the gods of chaos! NT by Brotherhood Marine 01/13/2010, 12:25pm PST NEW
    Thanks for posting this, Jerry. Finally someone agrees with us. NT by No Mutants Allowed 01/13/2010, 10:54am PST NEW
        I wish I could read your site without throwing up in my mouth :( by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 11:28am PST NEW
    Re: There sure are a lot of scorpions in D.C. o_O by J.E. Sawyer 01/13/2010, 1:11pm PST NEW
        Forget game design, Sawyer's real talent has always been making excuses. by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 2:32pm PST NEW
            Our marketing department has informed me there's no money in placating shut-ins by J.E. Sawyer 01/13/2010, 2:34pm PST NEW
                That's not what Troika believed! NT by Jerry Whorebach 01/13/2010, 2:40pm PST NEW
                    troika's recipe for success NT by irony 01/13/2010, 5:56pm PST NEW
            That power armor looks pretty cool. ^_^ NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 01/13/2010, 2:44pm PST NEW
            Is that a real undoctored screenshot? by laudablepuss 01/13/2010, 3:50pm PST NEW
                It's from the uncompleted Van Buren demo. Don't read too much into it. NT by Fortinbras 01/13/2010, 3:54pm PST NEW
                Oh laudablepuss don't ever change (not that you need the suggestion). NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 01/13/2010, 6:18pm PST NEW
                    what? NT by laudablepuss 01/13/2010, 6:37pm PST NEW
                Re: Is that a real undoctored screenshot? by laudablepuss 01/13/2010, 8:07pm PST NEW
 
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