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No, I don't think I am. What you seem to be advocating is replacing character stats with pure action and acting out the features. This is basically just an avatar simulation. A game like that might be good, but it'd not make a very good RPG. What is missed there is the depiction (and gameplay)...

You can. You can "play a role" even without a game if you want to; even an empty box of matches will do just fine if you're up to it. But the roleplaying'd happen in a far lesser depth in an RPG since you'd lack a lot of the progressive communication between you and the game, which is what the...

I couldn't play without HC mode on. I tried once and it just didn't work. The added systems weren't really much in the big picture, they weren't punitive and in some cases uneffective altogether, but the effect was enough that without them the game was just a sad pretense that would've been left...

I don't quite understand what he means with "more radical" if he wants to cut down character stats and just condense RPGness to that of being an interactive visual novel in a CYOA form. What's radical about that? Action games with stories exist already and are being made as we speak. Does he...

Might be, but I did respond to a quote about why a voiced protagonist is bad. Not to one about the quality of the lines written for the protagonist.

So what? It doesn't matter (here, with the point I was making) if there are this or that many responses or if some of them are generic or not. The point was about them being spoken out loud by someone who might not reflect at all the players vision (or desire) of his character, and who is never...

Does such explanation exist that you wouldn't find silly? Would it be enough to say that a voiced protagonist robs the ownership of the character and the interpretation of his/her expressions from the player? Meaning that even though you might have some say on how to play, it's not "your"...

I liked the repair mechanic and lack of iron sights in Fallout 3 better than their counterparts in NV. Those are the only things I thought 3 did better than NV.

There were some interesting (in hindsight) ideas 100 years ago about the year 2000. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/04/what-people-in-1900-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/?utm_term=.1b91682e24aa

Entitlement

Sometimes. Just started a jinxed/sex appeal female run of Fallout 2.

Fallout 3

Battletech, PoE 2, Phoenix Point, Bard's Tale 4, Disco Elysium (formerly No Truce with the Furies), Copper Dreams. Possibly Cyberpunk 2077 if CDPR goes all Bethesda with reveal-release gap like they implied and if the game actually has any merit to it that would be worth a purchase ("Witcher 3...

That’s really the crux of what I was going for. I didn’t say it here now, but the intent with me pushing Wizardry 8 design is that if it had to be FPP, it could be done to a somewhat satisfactory manner. Of course a proper sequel should be isometric. The party is under control in Wizardry...

I kinda thought there was potential to make it a Wiz 8 like game since the trappings for combat already existed in Vats. It looks silly, but think about it. :lol:

There were a few, but I really loved Wizball on my C64. The world where the game felt magical and even a bit scary in its weirdness, it was inspiring to the young me and my cousing with whom I played it. It wasn't the best of games, but it's probably one I'll never forget even when I'll probably...

I think he meant the design values of Fallout (and Arcanum, which he has also mentioned). To my recollection he's been speaking about the design values, reactivity and humor with his examples. It would be wise of them to try and cater (at least in part) to the New Vegas audience, since Bethesda...

Voted for Fallout of course, but I wouldn’t want them to make a sequel anymore because it’d have to be a sandbox FPS. Rather an AA level spinoff that allows for different design methods to be explored (even if not going full iso/tb).

No, you wouldn't. I was being a bit hyperbolic with what I said on purpose. Of course you can list the features that all look good on paper, and for what its worth, it works for what New Vegas tries to achieve. But the issue remains that the gameplay is underwhelming for insisting to keep with...

I don't evaluate these games based on singular events or characters. And since you mentioned Caesar... as well written as the major NPC's in NV might've been, they always felt specifically written for the occasion, like being designed as events, as opposed to being organically parts of the...