Recent content by Spook

Oh yeah there were. Basically everyone in every city besides most guard-types had their own unique dialogue, and shitloads of it. They just rarely had anything interesting to say. There are enough reasons to criticize that game without making stuff up. If you changed *unique* to *worthwhile*...

If you're gonna go compare TBT to those games, maybe I'll have to give the thing a serious try after all. Now you gone and got my hopes up for some potential in a new WL when I was doin just fine before with the pessimism.

Bethesda's RPGs have never been lacking in volume of dialogue. Oblivion probably contains more spoken dialogue than all the text in either Fallout (disk capacity has advanced somewhat in the past decade, ya know). The actual issue is quality over quantity. I generally cut off Oblivion's voice...

On the general topic of "who the game is for," I'd suspect they'd focus most on the platform they've had the most success on lately. Does anyone know how well Obvlivion did on PC vs. Xbox? Half the reason I couldn't deal with Oblivion was its god damned console-friendly interface with the...

I guess there's no accounting for taste. I flipped it off pretty quick. Not because it wasn't anything like BT, but because I was pretty burnt out on Gauntlet clones.

Like he catered to Bard's Tale fans with his "spiritual successor" to that game? Nobody liked that fucken thing. Forget that guy.

That sounds like a line from some computer game I played a while back. Then Canada got annexed. Orson Scott Card writes some pretty good post-apocalyptic stories. Even if they're all disguised allegories of the Book of Mormon, they're not bad.

Fallout might have made it into the "official" list, if half the GameSpy staff weren't afflicted by a throbbing anime fixation. In defense of their other, normal half, who picked mainly Blizzard cinematics...nobody beats Bliz as far as the movies go. Those guys just got a knack. What I don't get...