Volourn said:
"PS:T are the pinnacle of the PC RPG genre."
No.
"And I could NOT believe that Fallout and Phantasy Star were left out"
Actually, FO was mentioned in the Wasteland section. Most everyone knows that FO was basically a defacto WL sequel, anyways. *shrug* I'd personally have place FO instead of WL because WL is a nothing that wouldn't even be remembered if it wasn't for FO.
But, people should be Butthurt over lists.
R00fles!
Actually, quite a few people bought Fallout because it was a spiritual successor to Wasteland. It even mentioned Wasteland as a selling point on the box of Fallout. I guess the developers of Fallout thought a little differently to you.
I am also fairly certain that a large percentage of posters here, and indeed many that lambast Wasteland, did not even know of Fallout when it came out and only bought it years later.
In any case, I remember distinctly thinking, while playing Fallout the first time (straight after its release) "this is a damn good game, but it just isn't quite as good as Wasteland". Apart from being a much smaller game, it basically rips off the storyline, including many of the sidequests, with a couple of twists thrown in. Just about every area/quest in Fallout has an incredibly similar, if not identical location/quest in Wasteland.
The main differences is that Wasteland has a lot more of everything except talking and graphics. Wasteland is challenging, it makes you actually have to think and remember things. Fallout is incredibly easy, has little challenge at all, and everything is dumbed down apart from the talky.
Seriously, from someone that played older RPG's, Fallout was not the superduper game that everyone has made it out to be. An excellent RPG? certainly, but better came before it in my opinion.
Easiest way for younger people to understand: Pick a game that you loved that has a sequel that you also enjoyed, but thought elements were dumbed down even if it looked prettier. That is how I have always felt about Wasteland - Fallout.
