Fallout 3's reveal led to death threats and Bethesda's first security guard

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Beany
04/20/2024
07:56 AM
#1
I know it might shock you to learn that not every gamer is a wonderful person. And Fallout , Im sorry to say, had more than its average share of less-than-pleasant fans. To this small but very vocal community, our attempt to resurrect the franchise was nothing less than a sacrilege. For the first time ever, Bethesda had to hire a security guard.

https://kotaku.com/fallout-3-reveal-death-threats-security-guard-bethesda-1851423466
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Crimsoness
04/20/2024
07:58 AM
#2
Fallout 3 reveal is one of my favorite trailers ever
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havean776
04/20/2024
08:00 AM
#3
Yeah that will be the no mutants allowed group. Most are fine just rude, some are legit crazy.
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CountCorvinus
04/20/2024
09:18 AM
#4
No Mutants Allowed is a cesspit.
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cjsdowg
04/20/2024
09:27 AM
#5
This is what people wanted to hurt other people over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZpR51XgW0&ab_channel=Gamehelper
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itcheyness
04/20/2024
09:31 AM
#6
cjsdowg posted...
This is what people wanted to hurt other people over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZpR51XgW0&ab_channel=Gamehelper
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lilORANG
04/20/2024
09:31 AM
#7
Why don't people like it?
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Revelation34
04/20/2024
09:33 AM
#8
Kotaku said it so it must be legit.
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AsucaHayashi
04/20/2024
09:36 AM
#9
lilORANG posted...
Why don't people like it?

the fallout franchise didn't start with 3(D) and that probably had a lot to do with it.

on another note i would love another isometric FO and there has been no better time than now to go back with the production values of BG3.
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CountCorvinus
04/20/2024
09:45 AM
#10
Revelation34 posted...
Kotaku said it so it must be legit.

Kotaku didn't say it. They're just reporting on it. Jonah Lobe did.

Talks about the death threats at around 12 mins but the whole vid is pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPu9K4m4Y-k
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Umbreon
04/20/2024
09:46 AM
#11
Beany posted...
I know it might shock you to learn that not every gamer is a wonderful person.

No, not really.

But yeah, pretty fucked up to send death threats over a game. (Or... for any reason really)
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Foppe
04/20/2024
09:50 AM
#12
l dont want to put the world on fire.
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WingsOfGood
04/20/2024
10:26 AM
#13
AsucaHayashi posted...
on another note i would love another isometric FO and there has been no better time than now to go back with the production values of BG3.

Imaginr if Latian had the Ip not Bethesda
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evilpresident
04/20/2024
10:38 AM
#15
Gamers suck.
Nothing to report here
Ratchetrockon
04/20/2024
10:57 AM
#16
idk how people can get this enraged over entertainment stuff :(
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tankboy
04/20/2024
11:02 AM
#17
I clearly remember the Fallout 3 ad campaign that plastered the DC Metro system with scenes of destroyed DC landmarks. That was (locally) controversial at the time.
Hayame_Zero
04/20/2024
11:06 AM
#18
Yeah, it was a shitshow from No Mutants Allowed. Most people were hyped, but that was the first time I took notice of a completely toxic forum. Like they were posting Bethesda's address and threatening to burn it down or bomb them when Fallout 3 was announced.

And apparently there was dissension when Fallout 2 came out as well. For many of them on NMA, Fallout 1 is the only one that mattered.
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SwayM
04/20/2024
11:07 AM
#19
And gamers have been insufferable ever since.
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havean776
04/20/2024
11:28 AM
#20
SwayM posted...
And gamers have been insufferable ever since.
We had insufferable gamers before that but the internet was so primitve you didn't know.
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harley2280
04/20/2024
11:50 AM
#21
Its crazy to me how often gamers send death threats. Its basically normalized to the point where whenever it's mentioned that a dev got a death threat people just shrug like c'est la vie.
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CADE_FOSTER
04/20/2024
11:51 AM
#22
fallout fanboys are rabid specially obsidian fanboys
Hayame_Zero
04/20/2024
12:22 PM
#23
SwayM posted...
And gamers have been insufferable ever since.
There were people complaining and threatening Nintendo on the forums leading up to OoT's release because they found out you couldn't jump manually (also for adult Link's earrings, which is a whole other can of worms).

And before the internet, people just sent thousands of hate mail.
...I think I'm done here...
Foppe
04/20/2024
12:37 PM
#24
And before internet, we had some... interesting mails in videogame magazines. Some with... interesting fan drawings...
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RndmNmber1
04/20/2024
12:45 PM
#25
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divot1338
04/20/2024
02:25 PM
#27
Beany posted...
https://kotaku.com/fallout-3-reveal-death-threats-security-guard-bethesda-1851423466
For fucks sake any business that size has a security guard.
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cjsdowg
04/20/2024
03:51 PM
#28
Foppe posted...
And before internet, we had some... interesting mails in videogame magazines. Some with... interesting fan drawings...

Link's body still isn't a violation.
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ClayGuida
04/20/2024
03:54 PM
#29
I'll be honest, I was insanely skeptical about Fallout 3. Obviously not like these incels threatening to murder people over it, but I just assumed it'd be trash and never capture the freedom that Fallout 2 essentially gave players.

I ended up absolutely loving Fallout 3, among my favorite games of that gen if not all time. They nailed a lot of what made Fallout, Fallout. You weren't as free as Fallout 2, but it was definitely fun as shit.
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Sheiky-Baby
04/20/2024
03:56 PM
#30
Every large fandom will always have those psychopathic idiots.

That's why I feel safe being a Pauly Shore fan.
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YellowSUV
04/20/2024
04:11 PM
#31
War never changes.
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TendoDRM
04/20/2024
04:26 PM
#32
YellowSUV posted...
War never changes.

War has changed.
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C-zom
04/20/2024
04:54 PM
#33
Fallout 1, 2, and to a lesser extend tactics had a small but rabid fanbase. I remember it was a complete storm of rage that both Bethesda would be making it and that it'd be 3D. "Oblivion with guns" was such a chapter, ooph.
Since only from below can one better see the heights.
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havean776
04/20/2024
04:57 PM
#34
Which is weird as the worst fallout wan't made by Bethesda. Fallout Brotherhood of Steel.
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04/20/2024
02:01 PM
#35
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C-zom
04/20/2024
05:00 PM
#36
CADE_FOSTER posted...
that was interplay sheesh son google is free

I believe he's saying it is/was odd that Bethesda got so much hate for adopting the IP when other studios have made way worse Fallout games, which is objectively true.
Since only from below can one better see the heights.
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CADE_FOSTER
04/20/2024
05:01 PM
#37
my bad
CountCorvinus
04/20/2024
10:33 PM
#38
Hayame_Zero posted...
Yeah, it was a shitshow from No Mutants Allowed. Most people were hyped, but that was the first time I took notice of a completely toxic forum. Like they were posting Bethesda's address and threatening to burn it down or bomb them when Fallout 3 was announced.

And apparently there was dissension when Fallout 2 came out as well. For many of them on NMA, Fallout 1 is the only one that mattered.

I checked their forums to see if they've mellowed out a bit and one of the first things I saw was a transphobic asshole whining about the tv show being woke communist propaganda -_-
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Revelation34
04/21/2024
10:49 AM
#39
YellowSUV posted...
War never changes.


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