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Bethesda: 'Over 40,000 lines of dialogue' in Fallout 3

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CVG reports:

''Bethesda has claimed that Fallout 3 will have over 40,000 lines of dialogue in the game, dwarfing the amount in the original game by about 20 times.

The amount puts it level pegging with Fable II, which we reported last month contains over 370,000 words of dialogue. If you accept that an average sentence length is ten words, it comes out about the same, which is a bit of a funny coincidence if you ask us.''
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Captain Tuttle - 538 days 19 hours ago
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If it's just random people talking as you walk by like in Oblivion then big deal. If it's actual dialogue that's directly tied into to player interaction then that's good. I'll be impressed if they top Planescape: Torment's dialogue though.
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donator - 538 days 14 hours ago
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I couldn't stand some of the dialogue in Oblivion. I guess it could be that I wasn't into the story. But they lacked emotion.
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MK_Red - 538 days 14 hours ago
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Dude, are you kidding? Even Fallout devs themselves can never top the Planescape Torment.

Also, quantity is not really important. They may have 100,000 lines of dialogue. The real question is about the quality. Torment had most number of lines and all were top notch. Fallout had less but again, high quality. I hope quality of these lines matches their quanitity to some degree at least.
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Captain Tuttle - 538 days 11 hours ago
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Chris Avellone (New Reno) was the lead designer for Torment...that was his baby.
And I totally agree with you about quality over quantity.
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Fanboi - 538 days 3 hours ago
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Oh come'on, most of Fallout's lines were blahing NPCs who say things like "I love Jet!" The real quality dialogues were actually quite rare. Oblivion had a bunch of spoken dialogues but most them were quite boring and devoid of character.

As for Planetscape, forget about it. In this multiplat world you'll never see a game like that anymore. Everything is so dumbed down and this generation of gamers would not tolerate a wall of text with the "passive" gameplay. This type of game is only possible on the PC and as the console fanboys love to chant around here, PC gaming is dead.
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dachiefsman - 538 days 18 hours ago
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I will be impressed if they have more than 10 voice actors. Oblivion was awesome but most of the NPC looked different but sounded like the same person.
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Adamalicious - 538 days 11 hours ago
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Yeah - i was going to say the same thing. Hopefully they learned their lesson from Oblivion.
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Catastrophe - 538 days 6 hours ago
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no kidding! Seriously, I encountered two women with the same voice and my first thought was actually, "crap, is it the same lady in disguise?!?!" Ha, if only, but I still laugh about it.
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BigKev45 - 538 days 14 hours ago
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3 - Over 40,000 lines of dialogue
We knew this.
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predator - 538 days 14 hours ago
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we already know this...this is old
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MK_Red - 538 days 14 hours ago
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Well, this only matter if there is indeed a way to finish the game only using dialogue and so far, Todd said that finishin the game only using melee attack would be really hard... Fallout 1 could be finished with only melee and unarmed attacks and even the final boss could be dealt with using only words and dialogue.

I don't think Bethesda's Fallout will be the game that any character can finish it. Can stealth only character finish it? What about Speech / Charisma only character?
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Lumbo - 538 days 14 hours ago
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I can imagine ...
1: Bring me 10 Murloc legs
2: Bring me 20 Murloc legs
3: Bring me 30 Murloc legs
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Covenant - 538 days 11 hours ago
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The more I hear about this game, the better it sounds...Bethesda + RPG = gaming perfection.
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