Recent content by programmer.craig

Although, I would agree having hundreds of thousands of "heroic" characters running around in an MMO is ridiculous, but its no more ridiculous in a Fallout world than it is in any other.

No? 700,000 people in an area in the United states of almost 10,000,000 square kilometers? Do the math. You shouldn't meet very many people ever. Certainly not 10's of thousands or hundreds of thousands. That's silly. You ignore the fact that humans are social animals and tend to live in...

the stuff in these screens looks decades old and embarrassing. What the hell are you talking about, Twinkie Gorilla? EQ was 10 years ago and I guarantee you that if 1000 people compared this to original Everquest graphics, all 1000 of them would say these are much better. Did you ever even...

Screenshots look pretty good for a project that Interplay supposedly couldn't raise the money for! Not only does it look more "Fallouty" than F3 (or Fallen Earth!) it looks better to my eyes than Fallout3. "Realistic" graphics aren't necessarily better than artsy graphics imo. When you are...

Carmack says that Howard, a big fan of the iPhone... Is "iPhone" a codeword for "money" now? Because I can't imagine anyone who takes themselves seriously as a game developer claiming to be a fan of re-working their high end products in such a way that they can run on a damn cell phone. Come...

Fucking hell. I'm starting to feel REALLY sorry for Gary Gygax and the other creator's of D&D. How much must it suck to have millions of pimple faced nerds telling you your own updates to your own creations aren't "lore"? lol. I'm surprised he didn't have a stroke back around 1980...

Oh yes, the artist's prerogative indeed. So, uh...whose creation would Fallout be? Bethesda's? The "artist" (as in the creator in this case) chose to let the product languish. And then 10 years later they decided to sell it to somebody else. Are we also the "deciders" of who people can sell...

Seriously? You can't imagine a Star Wars fan expressing the sentiment that it would be better if George Lucas had not made the prequel trilogy? Right. I can't understand that. And I'm a starwars fan who watched the original when it first came out (which was when I was in elementary school) at...

you'll find that to many people here, this is like saying "well, getting raped by a supermutant is better than having no sex-life at all". Well, I think you'll find to many people who aren't crazy that mentality seems something like "I'd rather take my toys and go home to sulk in the corner...

Well... Oblivion was better than nothing. And Fallout 3 was better than Oblivion. So, personally, I can't really go along with the idea that it's better to have nothing come out under the Fallout name than games by Bethesda. When I used to hate Bethesda that was because other people were making...

Bixlebob, You're one obtuse fellow, aren't you. No one is saying that hard drives in PC didn't exist then, and that no one was fortunate enough to be using them. The point is that for a vast majority of people, we were on those machines where the floppy was still king... You're the main...

zag, i remember playing games in 1988 on a friend's 8086, no hard disk there. That's pretty unusual. It pretty much means your friend had an original IBM PC, because the PC-XT started shipping in 1983 and came with a hard drive as standard equipment. Some games had a save feature...

Beezilbub, The first of the Gold Box D&D games came out that year as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_of_Radiance On an MS-DOS computer, the game can be copied to the hard-disk drive. For the clueless, MS-DOS means PC. Other computer systems, such as the Commodore 64...

Umm, what exactly are you going to do to me if I do? I shall taunt you a second time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7zbWNznbs Also you're very wrong about my age, smartass. Well, if you're an adult who acts with the maturity level of a teenager, that's not my problem. I...

ethanquinn, I just noticed you are the original author of the article? Sorry for talking past you. I didn't realize. If you were playing on a C-64 at the time then your mistakes are understandable. And since nobody was doing computer game development for any platform other than the PC by the...