GameSpot's thoughts on Fallout 3

[Mayday]

RPG Codex is slowly becoming a "retarded newsposts spotted on the net" compendium, instead of providing interesting information about the development of RPGs, new ideas, good games. Soon enough I'll stop reading the news for the necessity to weed through all the stupidity.

Couldn't these things be given a separate section?

 

[Vault Dweller]

RPG Codex is slowly becoming a "retarded newsposts spotted on the net" compendium, instead of providing interesting information about the development of RPGs, new ideas, good games.

Well, in order to provide "nteresting information about the development of RPGs, new ideas, good games", someone needs to start making good RPGs with interesting features and new ideas.

 

[Mayday]

If new ideas and interesting features pop up every day I can find them on my own. If they are scarce, I rely on a news site to inform me about them.
If I have to weed through stupidity to find those interesting points, the news site loses its purpose.

 

[Vault Dweller]

You missed my point.

 

[Texas Red]

Mayday, then get the fuck out of here and read Rpgwatch or something else. Im tired of your constant whining in every post you make.

 

[Mayday]

What is this... watch you speak of? I'm no deserter! I care for my motherland!

Yeah, VD- I very well understand the problem of there being no actual innovations in the genre. But there are interviews where interesting points are made. Missed attempts at making something new that, after some thought, could be made feasible. These things DO appear on the Codex- I find them from time to time.

 

[Section8]

Honestly, I'd like to see a "Project Monkey" forum/vault, where the design discussion that really floats my boat can live in a utopia free from the nuclear bombardment of mediocrity that constitutes both the news and discussion of contemporary RPGs.

But Mayday, you can just steer clear of the News Comments forum/front page if the bleak outlook troubles you. We'll let you know if something good ever happens.

 

[Mayday]

You are a gentleman and a scholar, Section- thanks

 

[Krafter]

Hello, Bethesda's target audience. Still can't figure out why they needed the good "Fallout" name to sell to these idiots, though.

 

[Briosafreak]

Now I see why Tor stopped replying to my mails and the mails by Kharn/Brother None a few months ago.

 

[cutterjohn]

<b>you must be a real dumbfuck to really get into the oblivion world because if you are not a dumbfuck you will understand how bland and boring the game really is.</b>.

Fixed

I like my fix better...

 

[Kotario]

Did anyone else listen to GameSpot's podcast, HotSpot (dear lord do I hate podcasts, they seem in competition to sound more retarded than all the others; not to mention full of painfully false banter and failed attempts at wit)? Tor makes an appearance, and besides saying "...it's basically going to be Oblivion with mutants in DC, which sounds damn good to me." he sort-of defends himself against GameSpot's BoS review.

"...one of the biggest problems with the last Fallout game, which was this -even though we gave it a good review, I thought it was awful- game called Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, I didn't review it. But uh...."

 

[Section8]

I bet if you called them whores, they'd be all "No, um, we prefer to be called escorts, sweetie."

 

[Kotario]

GameSpot poll, courtesy of Briosa's blog:

 

[Shoelip]

GameSpot poll, courtesy of Briosa's blog:

Damn, beat me to it!

 

[Mr Happy]

GameSpot poll, courtesy of Briosa's blog:

Lol. WAY TO BE TOTALLY PROFFESSIONAL AND UNBIASED IN YOUR POLL MAKING GUYS.

Gamespot: making quality polls obsolete (like tb combat!) since 2002

 

[JoeDirt]

TB combat is SO 1990's! (cue Silent Storm, ToEE, Arcanum, etc.)

 

[Hazelnut]

THERE IS NO MORE MARKET FOR ISOMETRIC TURN BASED STRATEGY.

Hellooo! There is a fucking market, I'm over here.

I said I'm over HERE!!!

Can't you fucking hear me or something?

ARRRRGGGHHHHHH!

 

[Jasede]

VD, when AoD is out, can I just send you the money for the game and for shipping in an envelope and you send me the diskettes? And for god's sake, give AoD a cool cracktro!

 

[Fez]

Don't be silly there's no market. All those console developers just make TB isometric strategy games for kicks. They love to burn their money in inventive ways. As if anyone actually buys or plays them.

 

[Elwro]

Never before has Idiocracy been more relevant viewing.

 

[Avin]

"what's fallout" is winning...

 

[Twinfalls]

Never before has Idiocracy been more relevant viewing.

I supersize with you.

Both Fallout and Fallout 2 offered open-ended gameplay with many side quests inside a larger, linear storyline--as did Oblivion.

This is why it's bemusing to see people holding out hope that the game is turn-based or retains the Fallout atmosphere or whatever. No matter what surface versimilitude there might be (and there will be little), the meat of the game is by the same incompetents who made Oblivion's quests. These are people clinically incapable of non-linear design, decent characterisation, or interesting dialogue. The person who will be a main quest writer for Fallout 3, Mark Nelson, was responsible for the Mage's Guild questline in Oblivion. It required no magic skills whatsoever and better yet, upholding Oblivion's 'you can be whatever character you want' ethos, forced you to kill an entire village.

 

[Amasius]

The person who will be a main quest writer for Fallout 3, Mark Nelson, was responsible for the Mage's Guild questline in Oblivion.

Ugh. There rarely ever somebody deserved it to be fired for horrible work like this dipshit and he got promoted? Thats the Bethesda I love. But they have the Ink Blots! That must make up for something, right? RIGHT? Arrrrrgh!!!

Reading news on the Codex really is some kind of sadomasochism.

 

[Section8]

Never before has Idiocracy been more relevant viewing.

I supersize with you.

You "supersize" me, if you know what I mean.

But they have the Ink Blots!

That... looks... like... <s>EXTREMITY!</s> EXTREMENESS!