AnalogKid said:
All right, I'm going to step up and call bullshit on this, VD.
Oh, goodie.
Significant consequences:
- Removal of a complete town from the world (or not)
Check.
- Permanent alignment with a faction ("evil" developer dude) (or not)
Where does it say that?
- Future benefits/drawbacks of aligning with that faction (only benefits have been mentioned so far...)
What benefits? A few quests?
- Option to not make a choice at all, presumably avoiding game content (i.e. not necessarily railroaded linear 2-path plot)
Simply amazing. Oblivion offered plenty of these neutral choices: U DONT HAEV TO DO THIS QEST!!!
Character complexity
- At least tried with the Sheriff discussion
What complexity? You have a sheriff. He wears a cowboy hat. He tells you to play by the rules in his town. That's some seriously original and complex shit, man.
Just a week ago, all the sniping was at how lame it was that the early info on Megaton didn't describe any alternatives, now you're bitching because they are starting to describe alternatives? WTF???
I'm bitching because this quest sucks, with or without alternatives. Granted, it would have sucked more without the alternatives, but what we know so far, doesn't look too good.
But the other quotes you chose to lampoon in this newspost, and the way you did it, just screams to me of being blinded by bias.
Let's see:
There is a town built around a nuke.
It's not a crazy town as the sheriff looks/acts normal.
There is an evil real estate developer in a local bar who offers the first stranger he sees to detonate the nuke.
Because he wants to build something better on this land.
Because there is a shortage of land in wasteland
Even though the land will be contaminated for decades after the explosion, somehow it will be a prime real estate
Makes sense?
Now, ze consequences: wiping out a town gives you access to another place. What, the town was blocking the only road and now that it's gone you can travel it?
Anyway, look at it this way, let's say that when you join a guild in Oblivion, it would close all the other guilds automatically. With all the quests and OMG! items. Would that make it a better game?