Fun fact: Those long load times on the console version of Morrowind? That was Bethesda rebooting your Xbox, the sly dogs.First-person shooter, Action role-playingįallout 3 is a 2008 post-apocalyptic action role-playing open world video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The podcast also talks more generally about Microsoft’s relationship with Bethesda over the years, why the merger made sense, and some hints of what’s to come for both companies. “It was the worst demo I’d ever given,” Howard said. The Bethesda devs noted that, as a second precautionary measure, they also have prepared video to play during the demonstration, just in case the second player option doesn’t work out. Fortunately, folks couldn’t really tell things were going haywire even as Hines tried his best to anticipate what Howard was going to do. “It was like two people went to a dance class, but they hadn’t really danced together yet,” Howard said. It’s not going to crash.”Īnd then of course, it faltered. “The entire time I’m rehearsing, I’m thinking, this is the dumbest thing ever, they are never going to need this,” Hines recalls. Microsoft can now make Fallout New Vegas 2 happen You can peep it happening in the video below - Howard can be heard telling the audience, “I’m good.” Sure enough, when it was showtime, the press conference began with Howard’s wireless controller unable to connect to the game. In this case, Bethesda senior VP of global marketing Pete Hines was waiting in the wings. The second someone says “broken arrow” into someone else’s earpiece, the feeds are swapped. The idea is that, should the demo come under technical difficulties, the presenters can simply switch the feeds. “What they do during a demo - it’s live, you go up to the controller, you’re gonna play through the demo, blah blah blah - and in case something goes wrong, there’s someone else playing also,” Howard said. But according to a recent podcast snippet between Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard and the folks at Xbox - who now own the Fallout studio - things still inevitably went wrong.

The stakes couldn’t be higher for Bethesda. And here was Bethesda, trying to bring back one of the most celebrated RPGs of all time, except now, the post-apocalyptic game was going to be a first-person shooter. Beyond performing on a stage for thousands of people, Fallout as a franchise had, at that point, laid dormant for a long time. It’s E3, and Bethesda has been tapped to open up Microsoft’s press conference with a live demonstration of its next big game, Fallout 3.

Fallout 3 demo pc