Marketing or not, this is radical. Bethesda has created a brilliant 8-bit reconstruction of the Capital Wasteland exclusively for its official Japanese Fallout Web site. The point, from what I can tell, is to attract Japanese RPG enthusiasts to the series, and to explain what an open-world or a "Freestyle RPG" is.

In this "demake," you as the Vault Dweller, can travel to several familiar Wasteland locations, speak with a couple of NPCs, and fight a Super Mutant turn-based-style. The content appears to end there, though I suppose I might not be seeing everything it has to offer. The language barrier is proving to be, you know, a barrier. 
 

Marketing or not, this is radical. Bethesda has created a brilliant 8-bit reconstruction of the Capital Wasteland exclusively for its official Japanese Fallout Web site. The point, from what I can tell, is to attract Japanese RPG enthusiasts to the series, and to explain what an open-world or a "Freestyle RPG" is.

In this "demake," you as the Vault Dweller, can travel to several familiar Wasteland locations, speak with a couple of NPCs, and fight a Super Mutant turn-based-style. The content appears to end there, though I suppose I might not be seeing everything it has to offer. The language barrier is proving to be, you know, a barrier. 
 

8 bit fallout sounds amazing

Fallout chiptunes?

I want this in English you cocksluts.

JRPG.... JRPG never changes... 
  
I'd be doubly interested if they got ron pearlman to throw that in the game. 

"you definitely get a taste of what could have been if Fallout was instead created in 1987 by a Japanese development studio."  

Why not just give them a crack at Wasteland, licensing issues non-withstanding?  It isn't all that different than the early Wizardry games in terms of game play, and that series was super big over there.

Great effort, but meh.

" Why not just give them a crack at Wasteland, licensing issues non-withstanding?  It isn't all that different than the early Wizardry games in terms of game play, and that series was super big over there. "

"I want this in English you cocksluts. "

As a person that gave a fairly big 'meh' at Fallout 3's shooting, action, and dated Oblivion engine, I'd have far more interest in playing an 8-bit Fallout RPG like this instead.

Bethesda tries to get JRPG fans into Fallout.
 
Bethesda accidentally makes all their fans want a JRPG Fallout.
 
Also yeah most early Megami Tensei/Shin Megami Tensei games are basically 8/16-bit Fallout.

Gonna have to put my foot down on "demake" ever becoming a term for anything.

This game has me more curious than Fallout 3 or New Vegas ever did.

Let's make this really happen, Bethesda.

"Accidentally" makes their fans want an 8-bit Fallout.

As much as I love fallout, this game is as useful to me as Japanese Pokemon cards.

just tried it .... nahh I 'll stick to my Fallout 3 and New Vegas thank you

That's cool.  Great marketing.

Why wasn't I born with the ability to read Japanese?

^ who knows, but looks kinda cool/interesting nonetheless . Makes me wish I had some more jrpg's for the xbox to play... :(

Cool marketing.

weird that they wouldnt give the english speaking world a chance to check this out proper.

I wonder if I just made good or bad moral decisions... I just pressed buttons in that game :D

If you want a taste for what Fallout is like if it's an 8 bit game from the '80s, play Wasteland, made by one of the founders of Interplay, who was involved with the creation of Fallout. It's also really good!

Neat-o

" Gonna have to put my foot down on "demake" ever becoming a term for anything. "

man the only problem for me is that i cant read japanese but i could totaly get rite into that game if it was a finished product and in english 

Wow, more promising and authentic than anything Mass Effect 3 could hope to be RPG-wise. 

So rad. This looks kinda like wasteland.

How about a playstation style animated song sequence where the vault dweller sings about finding love?

It's really clever and a very good marketing idea. This isn't a necessarily a 'demake' (which would imply gameplay to me--it's all about semantics and lexical unit choices, after all). It seems to serve as an "advertisement" (seems to backtrack from this previous advertising campaign: http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/08/04/fallout_protests/) for the Fallout games in Japan. From what I got out of it, it's a flash site that mostly explains Fallout's gameplay in an 8-bit RPG fashion. IIRC, Dragon Quest sites in Japan (used to?) do this, as do a few universities in Japan (I recall a Japanese university's website being made in the image of Mother/Earthbound).   
 
It doesn't, however, detract from the fact that I'd like to play a Fallout game in this fashion. Wasteland, here I come!

Not sure why he put it in quotes, demake is already a term. Saw a pretty good mock-up of Bioshock for the original Game Boy a few weeks back.

"As Bethesda put it on its blog the other afternoon, you definitely get a taste of what could have been if Fallout was instead created in 1987 by a Japanese development studio.  "
 
Fallout 3

Maybe if Bethesda brought out a game without game breaking bugs. Then I bet the Japanese consumers won't mind a Western RPG. 
 
Stop wasting time on gimmicks like these and fix the damn game.

I would totally get behind $5-$10 for a full copy of this w/ English text.

Wasn't their ad campaign slogan, that JRPGs are stupid? That doesn't fit with this website.

cool way to reach the japanese audience.

There *is* an 8-bit Fallout game. 
 
Wasteland.  

Do want. 

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"you definitely get a taste of what could have been if Fallout was instead created in 1987 by a Japanese development studio."  

 
Well, that would just be Megami Tensei II, then. 
 

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" Wasn't their ad campaign slogan, that JRPGs are stupid? That doesn't fit with this website. "

" @Eirikr said:

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"you definitely get a taste of what could have been if Fallout was instead created in 1987 by a Japanese development studio."  

 
Well, that would just be Megami Tensei II, then. 
 

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Oh, you mean Fist of the North Star? "

lets put this in intentionally poor english and available for the NES

For some reason when I read "Fallout," I expected Fallout instead of Fallout 3. Silly me, right? I was almost interested.

" For some reason when I read "Fallout," I expected Fallout instead of Fallout 3. Silly me, right? I was almost interested. "