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:? Missing my point. A writer is a writer regardless of their medium. Besides you might want to actually play older games instead of cherry picking examples from the past. There have always been good stories & bad ones. The strength of computer games isn't the story, but how you can be *in*...

To those who saw my first post in this thread. It was a snap reaction to the first page. Others have said some of my points alot better than I did. Wind power as a solution seems to have disappeared after the first few pages, but nobody has really debunked it. The problem with it is...

Progressed? :crazy: Humour & Writing haven't progressed since maybe Rome was in power. There is a famous quote "There are 6 stories and we have been retelling them since the dawn of time." Technology helps you tell the story, but doesn't create the story. Shakespeare's writing isn't better...

All games are an abstraction. It's just a question of how much of one & in what way. Would spending 120 hours of playtime going from town to town be fun? The answer for most people is "No" so developers use the map to represent that time. You could walk from end to end of Arcanum, but I...

FTL Games or Mindscape

Because it's not what is popular now. :wink: As for a real answer: Third Person allows people to see their character. "Don't I look badass in this gear!" First Person is in the action so you feel like you are the one winning the game. So most MMOs go with FP that can be pulled out...

What is a good game is a matter of personally taste. With most of this board being out of sync with mainstream hence the comments so far in this thread. X³: Terran Conflict being my pick for games that came out this year. Mostly I've been playing things from ages gone by.

I voted Rather not. Although that's my personal desire and not my expectation. Timing is what determines what is remember and what is forgotten. Was it your first bite at the apple? If so then you'll use Fallout 3 as the baseline to judge all similar games. What can make this really...

Small details are part of a game's charm or lack of it. Black Isle didn't sell Fallout to Bethesda. Herve Caen did and yes we have complained alot about him.

The problem with MMO being the ultimate cRPG is the same reason alot of the recent cRPGs aren't great... Choice & Conquences. It's easier to make a static world in any computer game and just script out the changes after key points. MMO gets the social aspect of P&P, but cann't do the...

Everyone's sense of humour is different. I'd say the style of humour is quite different in all 3 Fallouts. Fallout 1 had a dark tone that was subtle for the most, but in places you had to either laugh or cry. Fallout 2 was more obvious about it's humour and played on what the Player knew...

Not trying to bash Fallout 3, but trying to say that Fallout 3 isn't close to Fallout 1's style & ideas. Bashing Fallout 3 would saying it sucked at being a game which it didn't. Parts of it look quite fun for short periods... they just don't fit together in the original setting. Some of it...

Power vacuum and resources. If there are enough people and resources for a town then someone will build it unless someone else stops them. The big question is how advanced any of the towns will be. Which in places like the mid-west with farming communities before the war... you aren't going...

I think the problem lies in what assumptions we are making. You are basing yours on the real world where there are nuclear-proof bunkers in DC. While I am seeing the extensive force they had at the Oil Rig & comparing it to the rest of the Fallout world. I just don't see how they can have...

Did you stick your hand in a fire to find out it's hot or just have to place it close? At what point is it alright to mention flaws? I'd rather point out something I see as a flaw & be wrong then stay silent and hope Bethsoft reads my mind. Lucky for me most of concerns were already...

Pre-War is the point. It's been 200 years since the war and except for the Vaults everyone is suppose to have changed somewhat. Don't you think that the Enclave would want to gather all of it's troops in one place instead of dying off in small groups all over the country? Why go back to DC...

It's suppose to, but in alot of places.... History is the sum total of our choices. Do this and that happens. I just cann't see alot of what happens in Fallout 3 fitting into Fallout 1's history. You might be able to make a case for 2 given that places like New Reno & San Fran exist. No...

Advanced FPS gameplay? Which aspect of Half-Life do you consider so advanced over Doom? :? FPS is not the newer technology. Maze War was made in 1973. Dungeon Master was 1987. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_(computer_game) I played Dungeon Master when it first came out...

A more elaborate alternate history gives the game depth that it would lack with your choice. Which would fit with Fallout 3, but not with 1 or 2... at least in my opinion. Replacing the Soviets with the Chinese: The USSR collapsed in '91 and Fallout was made in '97 so it's probable that the...

What is the next big idea worth? There is alot of research that is easier to do in space or in a micro-gravity environment like the moon. Presently most of the big money people are thinking like you, but I doubt it's going to last for the simple reason that some bright young person is going to...