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fastjack said:quasimodo said:space odyssey said:vazquez595654 said:and they both have relatively terrible looking graphics (and I don't mean art - Arcanum had beautiful and detailed item art).
Fallout has sweet graphics, especially today, I prefer 2d especially in Fallout style and to me not much looks better, sure could be improved I guess like Fallout Tactics, but 2D isometric fucking rules.
This brings up something that always confused me with Arcanum, I was slobbering all over it from the moment I heard about it, desperately waiting for it to come out and looking at screenshots I just thought it looked a bit crappy, why couldn't they just make it look as good as fallout? But it'll still be sweet I thought, and fantasy done right where I can shoot some gay elf in the face, but wait... tech users fucking suck, and even if they didn't the combat is so god damn shit that even if my gun rocked it doesn't matter because the combat plays out so awkwardly theres no pleasure in it at all. Then it would crash.
None of the dialogue especially early on drew me in to the game world, taking enjoyment out of all transactions, quests and exploration. Though talking to Virgil as an idiot was pretty funny. As a retarded Fallout fanboy eagerly awaiting what would could be its creators latest and greatest masterpiece I was let down in every department, it didn't have to completely live up to Fallout, but it wasn't even a decent game god dammit.
In recent years I've tried to go back repeatedly but just can't get past the GAMEPLAY, it fucking sucks, not just combat but all of it. C&C are not all of it, a fucking flow chart 1 mile long isn't worth shit when your whole game sucks.
In short:
Arcanums graphics are fucking shit, both in quality and art directions. I never understood how it could be technically proficient but just look so damn crap(and my god the animations)
The combat is beyond shit though everyone knows this
The whole world is bland and boring as hell, and thus most of the the quests and dialogue are
And its character system is pretty crap too.
Fallouts graphics are fucking awesome
The combat is not the best, but good and very satisfying, love the animations too
Cool world to explore, good dialogue\quests\characters
SPECIAL system is good, progress is well balanced but feels significant every level, like you can notice levels difference while in that enjoyable combat.
Fallout just does it all right and is actually fun to play, Arcanum just has god awful gameplay, which I think is pretty critical in a.... game
What he said.
ditto
Pretty much.