Recent content by ESpark

Most companies, true. However, most companies don't have a mere 7 thousand dollars in the bank. Because there's still a market for it. That, and each 'rebuild' brings something new to the fold. I apologize, I was not being clear enough - Irrational may still exist, but Looking Glass is...

You imply Fallout 3's target audience was the hardcore Fallout player. The Hardcore Fallout player has shown himself repeatedly unable to make Fallout a highly successful franchise on their own. Extremely few game franchises can expect their hardcore fans to make the game a hit, and we know...

Too many little things to mention, mainly focused on the poor engine. Critical Success =/= Popular success. One of these matters, the other does not.

I suppose part of my wonderings is based on an idea of "Its the only Fallout product you're bound to get, why complain?" Although, I'm primarilly interested less on *what* they think, its more of a batter of *why* they think what they think. A cursory search has yielded that most of my...

My my, such vitriol. If you'd like to provide proof of that, feel free. Its nice that you say everybody agrees with us!q1!11!1oneone, its another thing to provide actual proof of that. Looking at NMA's news for this month, I discoveredGamesdomain seems to think semi-favorably about the...

Every forum has a "no trolling" policy. If I came in here with an avatar of "FALLOUT 3 SUCKS", I'd get booted really quickly.

Indeed - the casual gamer is becomming more important than the 'hardcore' gamer, as gaming becomes more mainstream and 'normal'. They want things that differ from what you want, they're willing to pay money for it, and they outnumber you 10 to 1. Glory to the Mass, as a character in System...

Deus Ex: Invisible War. A great many hardcore DX fans said they'd boycott it, yet it is selling fantastically without their purchasing the product. One thing I've learned in life is Forum Outrage Doesn't Work.

Maybe they saw the game, and liked it enough to consider F3 an acceptable loss? With all due respect, not everyone thinks Fallout 3i is the worst event evar. Maybe its me, but the string of "another gaming site millions look at aren't bemoaning the loss of F3 as much as me and thus, are...

I see it being possible. Quite a few games have gone on to be popular games with strong sales, despite the braying and neighing of forums.

Hypothetical situation. A lot of people here and on other Fallout forums completely hate F:BOS, as if it was really something proper to 'hate'. However - what if it sells? In a world where each product is "voted" for with sales numbers, what if the hardcore Fallout fans are outvoted...

I think you bring up an interesting key point - that even if BIS made Fallout 3, half of the hardcore Fallout fans wouldn't like it. Perhaps Fallout 3 was going for a mainstream, broader appeal than the Fallout Hardcore? However, I would like to elaborate upon a few of your points: I...

Obviously not, since BIS was nerfed into oblivion. Thats why I said almost single-handedly taken down LG. And Daikatana, if given 200 years, would've been a medium financial success too. The only fact that mattered was that SS2 was not a success right then. If they cancelled it, I...

There's always a patch. People will buy Fable (and B&W2, of course) on name alone - the people on forums thought it was one of the Worst Games Evar, but it sold enough to the mainstream to ensure success on producer alone. A conspiracy theory. I've heard that line often, usually in...

Critical Success does not equal financial success. Fallout is one of many so-called 'good' franchises that, despite critical success, somehow fails at gaining any sort of reasonable audience. System Shock 2 comes to mind. People will tell you up and down that SS3 deserves a sequal, despite the...