Emil Pagliarul @ Fallout 3

As you probably know by now I deeply desire deep games with complex stories, both in branching and in morallity. One of the first such games that gave me hope for this thing called games was Fallout 2, so I too have high hopes for Fallout 3. These hopes were now increased following an interview on next-gen.biz. The particularly exciting part for me was:

Fallout 3, for instance, will be like Choose Your Own Adventure injected with literary growth hormone. With 30,000 lines of dialog played out in an open world, Fallout 3 ain’t kiddie stuff.

Bethesda put the game in the hands of the very capable Emil Pagliarulo, the lead designer on Fallout 3, the brains behind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’s amazing Dark Brotherhood storyline and no. 24 on this year’s Hot 100 Developers list.

Thankfully, he’s also a self-professed literature geek—good news for people who have high expectations for Fallout 3’s storyline.

Yep, I thought the Dark Brotherhood plot line was quite brilliant and seeing it’s designer behind Fallout 3 gives me quite high hopes.