Recent content by Marx

Nowhere did I say that Fallout 1 or 2 were dismal failures, I did say that they sold less than expected - I recollect folks admitting this someplace but I'm too lazy to dig for it. This was where the whole 'people didn't understand our art' bit came from, blaming the consumer base that didn't...

I think we're looking at an idea but we each have our own meaning to it. Retro sci-fi comic books weren't goofy as in disneyesque or funny, they were serious but in an unrealistic way. Fallout is the same, there isn't much in it that's true to the game and real life aside from the idea that...

Don't line chain store shelves with your product and say that you're not trying to appeal to the mass market. You can, no matter what way you try and sway the view - Fallout 3 has struck a commercial 'success' that the original and its sequel never had. Sure, the games market is alot...

This is the same community that contains folks that brand Fallout 3 as 'not Fallout'. Of course the game isn't Fallout, it's Fallout 3 - the message is clear enough though. No. What I'm saying is if your restaurant fails, don't sit around after the fact and declare that it was the...

While nuclear weapons are destructive, the amount needed to assure total destruction of mankind would be baffling. However, in Fallout - the world is a desert and there are nuclear tornados in the midwest. It is a gag, a joke - it's nuclear war through the filter of a 50's comic book.

While it was continued in name and spirit, you don't agree it's really the same game - right? While in this neck of the internet-woods, to some of the die-hards, Fallout = TB GURPs SPECIAL etc. In other portions of the internet, Fallout is about the retro sci-fi post apoc environment, not...

There were alot of people around that didn't seem to originate from vaults though. And radiation in Fallout nets you an extra toe rather than cancer and a painful death, so yeah - I'd think the retro sci-fi treatment of radiation does play a huge factor in the survivability of mankind.

No, what's bullshit is expecting the same corporate outlook and action from a completely different corporation in a completely different day and age. You can tell yourself whatever you want, but if a game ends up on a shelf at a chain store - it's meant for average consumption. Saying 'it...

And I see that worked so well for Interplay.

They can be directly compared, it's just you don't like the results You're here in a fan community, of course it's remembered here. And it wasn't the gameplay of the original fallout that kept people coming here, it was the release of other semi-fallouts, the potential release of the...

Yeah, a decade ago when that was the norm for mass market games. Bethesda wants to make money, it is a company after all, you make a product that will sell. Ultimately it's all a matter of taste, the taste of the average consumer changes - the average consumer is the target market. It...

Civilization and Sid Mieir have a brand recognition that Fallout never had because it fell off the face of the earth instead of pumping out lots of sequels and expansions. Also, don't pretend that they don't cater to a niche like all Sid Mieir games.

Hey yeah, I have a great idea guys - let's completely do something that we know won't really sell. That's the ticket. Technologies and markets evolve, turn based 3rd person isometric games aren't the frontrunner anymore and haven't been for awhile. Expecting a company to take several steps...

As was made evident in all the fallout games, nuclear weapons and radiation don't work anything like their real world counterparts - aside from the 'big boom' bit. In a hokey 50's comic book way, nuclear war - no matter who was involved and where the targets were; everyone gets destroyed in...

Fallout 3 will be remembered because it sold well, easily outselling the previous two games combined without breaking a sweat. It's now known by a larger player base than it was before meaning that more money will come in down the line since it's now a more recognizable brand. The fact that...