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They had strong publishers and good marketing. They mismanaged. As for Troika, they made three games in the past 6 years - Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, The Temple of Elemental Evil, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Arcanum was the company's best selling game at 234K...

Some might say putting anything turn based in a 1st person / 3rd person world is rediculous. Until you guys see beyond the screenshots, you'll have to either take me at my word that it is *kinda* turn based, or not. *shrug* Not a lot I can do with that. Nope, just pointing out one possible...

They like dynamic instead of static. I doubt any level of debate is going to change that core philosophy. Again, with the vast majority of people not even finishing the games they buy (would you like it if you built 100 hours of gameplay and 95% of people never saw past 30 of it?) I can see...

It's one thing to explore, it's another to be so frustrated with not being able to find whatever FedEx item you are supposed to collect that you quit the game. The fact remains that the vast majority of people don't finish the games they buy. If a compass gets people moving enough to actually...

Don't get me wrong, I prefer gameplay over graphics any day - it is exactly why it is rated double in all of our reviews at Gaming Trend. I'm not sure what your expectations are, but on the surface they seem to be *only* for something that looks exactly like Van Buren. In that regard, prepared...

None of the people above have played the final game. It is their impression. Still premature, no matter who says it. Could it end up being that way? Sure. They said minor scaling. We won't know what that really means until later. BG 1/2 was pretty much on rails, so I don't know quite what...

It is? I hadn't heard that. The city seemed pretty big visually speaking, but we really only went to the one bar location, and down to the bomb to arm it.

That statement is premature. Has this been stated somewhere that I don't know about? I'm trying to understand here. What do you want them to do? You most certainly can wander into areas you shouldn't be and pay the price for that. What else do you want? Not everyone wants to wander...

http://gamingtrend.com/screenshots/index.php?GameID=2575&Shot=45220 The V.A.T.S. pic shows the compass. Lower left corner - little green arrow in it. Just wanted to make sure before I replied. :)

Further proving the "Can't please some of the people any of the time" mentality. Would you rather just have questions and no answers? I'm doing my best here...

I REALLY wanted to record at least the audio to replay (it'd have saved my fingers typing all that out) but he didn't mention gambling, prostitutes, or stealing. I'd guess stealing would be easy as it was already instituted in Oblivion. *shrug* He mentioned that you would have companions...

Can't see the point of this other than to insult me, but I'm more than happy to answer questions. Given that we weren't allowed to record, I can't be 100% sure on some of my answers.

I'm opting out of any more nuke balance discussions. It's bad for my sanity. :)

So much has been made about the Fatman weapon, but there could be exactly 1 in the game with 3 rounds, tucked in the left asscrack of a sleeping supermutant in an all-but-impossible to get to cave nestled in the corner of the map where nobody would look. I sincerely doubt that it'll be...

I'll concede that point. True! There are still a few games out there that prove that the older conventions can be done correctly. Disciples III looked pretty amazing, off the top of my head. Unfortunately this is an area where you and I agree, but publishers and bean counters do not. It is...

There is another way to look at this - how long has it been since Fallout 2? You may not like every decision (can't please all the people all the time), but the fact that you are getting *something* should make EVERYONE happy. Even if it's not 100% faithful to the original (and it shouldn't...

This is no different than a sword in an RPG that does 9999 damage. You'll quest for 100 hours to get it, and the reward is that you are unstoppable. That's my thought anyway...

Admitting it at all doesn't mean anything? I think it goes a long way... The M-16 I had in the military was a great example of this - parts are interchangable and have been since the civil war era.

Look at our society now. We haven't been nuked into a horrible existence and yet our language is FAR worse than we hear in Fallout 3. You live a hard life of worrying about giant ants / radscorps / mutants / radiation / etc and see how cynical and rude you become. We don't know how long we've...

Hard to judge a massive game by only 50 minutes of play. I suspect that a great deal of tuning and re-recording will go into the game prior to launch.