Recent content by bazola

Excellent review.

Worst news I've heard so far. Part of the static feeling of Oblivion (and in some ways Morrowind) came from the towns being mostly non combat zones. What is great about the Fallouts by comparison is that there were combat setpieces and scenarios in all of the towns. To me it was a key part of...

Describing an FPS game as virtual reality has got to be the best marketing plan in the history of marketing plans.

Well it seems to me that their target audience is the people who bought oblivion, and their marketing suggests that they want to convince those people that this is a better version of oblivion in a different universe. My point stands though, I don't understand why the hell they had to use...

Why the hell did bethesda buy the fallout license just to make Oblivion 2? A lot of the improvements to Oblivion sound alright, maybe even interesting. But it makes no damn sense to use Fallout to update Oblivion. They could have advanced the Oblivion universe a hundred years and added guns...

D1 was fun and it had the somewhat unique feature of getting skills from books found in the game. But really in all respects it is an inferior action RPG to pretty much all action RPGs that followed it. It can claim a dark atmosphere and it can even claim to be a founder of the genre but...

I've been looking for a game with a class like the Necro for many, many years. Just off the top of my head theres Guild Wars (summons aren't persistent), World of Warcraft (just one pet at a time), City of Villains (6 pets max), Mythos (the best, probably, but the pets have poor pathfinding)...

Wow, Aeon Flux. Another game that succeeded at sucking the life out of a creative franchise.

Hmm. Well, Revelation is definitely post apocalyptic... bleh. Pete's response to the first question is puzzling. "We want to make the best possible Fallout, as long as it follows directly in the footsteps of Oblivion. Also, it's not remotely possible that those two goals are in conflict...

Well, quite literally "apocalypse" means the end of the world, and thus "post-apocalyptic" has to take place after a world destroying event. While you are correct that mankind no longer having children could result in an apocalypse of sorts, its an extreme stretch to then call that...

Um, Children of Men? What the hell? I don't know if anybody has seen this movie, frankly one of the best movies I've ever seen, but there's nothing post apocalyptic about it, and absolutely nothing retro futuristic or Science! related. It's dystopian, but in my mind dystopian is worlds...

These guys are complete idiots. The article was poorly written and a poor concept to start with. Finally, what's the point of saying that Bethesda needs to drastically improve the Oblivion AI just a few months before the release?

The part of Flagship developing Mythos is also very open with the community.

Well I have some advice for you. Go play Fallout 1 and 2. If anything we should be jealous that you haven't played them, because you are in the position of being able to go out and play two of the most wonderful RPGs ever made for the first time. It's not too late. Go. Do it.

I don't have kids and I don't mean to be a jerk but almost everyone has a kid, and a very small percentage of people get to make games. As a creative person I find a huge amount of fulfillment in the act of creating.