So, who's going to buy FO:PoS?

[Montez]

Just interested to see the current amount of NMA people who are going to buy this game. Feel free to post your reasons for your vote, but please don't flame or reply to people who's decision you don't like; we have plenty of other threads already where you can do that.

I'm not going to buy it:

(1) Don't have an XBox or PS2, and don't plan on picking one up.
(2) After FOT I'm not going to buy another game simply because it has the "Fallout" name on it.
(3) This game seems to be nothing more than a cash cow, with no more effort put into it than the minimum required to make a functioning game.
(4) If I was interested in "Alternate Timeline" crap I'd go dig out my old Marvel "What If.." series.

 

[flatlinedeath666]

Marvel "What if...?" Series!

I had what if The Hulk killed Wolverine!

Anyways I'm buying it because:

1) I like hack-and-slash games

2) A post-apocolyptic wasteland is an awesome setting for a hack-and-slash game

3) I like a post-apocolyptic setting much more then the setting in Hunter and BG: DA.

It just looks like a game I'd like to play, and thats why I'm going to buy it. Even if it wasn't named Fallout, I'd see it and go "hey look, a post-apocolyptic hack-n-slash action game, that sounds badass!" The Fallout name is just an added bonus, because I'm SURE at least SOME of the original's flavor will be retained. If not, I'll still be happy because all I wanted was the post-apocolyptic shooter.

How long was FOBOS in production for? How long does it normally take to make a comparable game? I remember reading about it in PSM last year... People say the game is a rushed cash cow, but isn't a year enough to make an action game? We don't know how functional or how much effort is in the game. For all we know its the "deepest" hack-n-slasher ever released (kind of an oxymoron of sorts, though).

 

[atoga]

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[flatlinedeath666]

But theres a difference between an action game and the games you listed.

Hack-N-Slash is where you cut through hordes of hundreds of baddies, wave after wave.

I personally like consoles; when I've got friends over, I'd rather sit in front of the TV then my little desk and play games. The fact that Fallout: BOS is a 2 player game is even more attractive. Since most of the time me and my friends end up becoming belligerantly drunk, a mindless hack-n-slasher is perfect for us!

The games you listed were first-person shooters. I like both genres, and I'll probably pick up most of the titles you listed, too.

But for my post-apocolyptic hack-n-slash, POS is where I'll get my fix. I think Fallout BOS is looking to be the only post-apocolyptic action game on the market. Soldiers of Anarchy was more like a strategy game from what I've heard and The Fall is looking more to be a Roleplaying Game (thank god, something to tide over the wait of Fallout 3...), so I guess BOS is better then nothing.

 

[Montez]

I should have been clearer I guess, but by "don't flame" I also meant "don't reply to other people's posts". Please, let people state their opinion and leave it at that. I'm not trying to stifle people's opinions, I just don't want this thread to be a trainwreck.

Please, just vote, state your reasons for your vote, then don't hit reply again. A thread like this is a lot more useful and effective if it only has one opinion per poster. If you want to debate a point, start a new thread.

FLD666, if you want to start a new thread debating PoS's merits as an action game send me a PM and I'll move your above post to a new thread.

 

[alec]

Well, Montez, I've been thinking about that for some time now and I've come up with this answer:

I think I will buy FOBOS because

1. I own a PS2, but only rarely play games on it because most console games - imo - are crap. A console game with the name "Fallout" in its title, might just do the trick for me.
2. I like FOT and still don't understand why so many NMA'ers hate that game. I think that - just maybe - we should give FOBOS the benefit of the doubt.
3. I've got enough dough to buy crappy games and not feel bad about it.
4. However: I don't have enough dough to upgrade my pc, and I'm starting to really worry about that. Basically, my pc is turning into a pile of junk. I can't play the newest games (like ToEE and Age of Mythology), so I'm actually glad that a PS2 doesn't have those problems. I'll be able to play FOBOS and that's a nice feeling in itself.

Now, shoot me...

 

[Bradylama]

If my piece of shit Playstation 2 wasn't broken (thanks very much Sony) I'd probably rent it before deciding to buy.

It looks like it could be fun. But from what I've seen, it probably wouldn't stand out among other action titles.

 

[Malky]

I'm going to rent it, because I work at Blockbuster and get 5 free rentals a week.

Hey - guess what? I get to take it home a week before it hits the shelves. I'll post a review.

-Malk

 

[Pipboy2000]

I have my block buster card ready, and I'm 'accidently" going to drop it and crack it when I throw it into the return bin.

 

[DarkCorp]

I might just rent it just because I am bored as frik and I have already played Fallout 1 and 2 almost every way imagineable.

PS: Emphasis on might.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

I won't buy this game and I sure the hell won't rent it, because:

1) I don't have a console.

2) 99% of console games are total brainless crap, inferior to PC titles in every way, and Fallout: Piece of Shit is far worse that that.

3) Piece of Shit has ugliest graphics I have ever seen, terrible design, zero imagination and it tarnishes not only Fallout name, but also name of every other game that was ever made.

4) I'd play something so ugly, stupid and retarded only if I suffered from serious mental condition.

 

[Ozrat]

Nope.

First of all, my newest console is a Super Nintendo, and I plan on keeping it that way. Second, why waste so much money just to buy an X-Box/PS2 just for this PoS game? I haven't enjoyed a shoot-em-up game since Unreal Tournament, and the last one before that was Wolfenstein 3D. I don't support ignorance.

 

[DarkShade1989]

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (A.K.A POS)

Pros

-Not a strange, generic Japanese RPG


Cons

-Not an RPG at all
-Crap graphics
-No real storyline
-Pisses on the Fallout setting
-Too many more to list


In conclusion, I would not let Fallout: POS touch the disk drive of my PS2. 'Nuff said.

 

[pnutz]

Pros:

Fun to pirate, email Interplay that I've stolen from them and helped them fail.
Will laugh the whole way through while playing/flaying the :Bag of Shit

Cons:

Is Fallout: Bag of Shit.

 

[Daemon Spawn]

I'm not going to buy it. A friend of mine will buy it (he buys anything made for consoles). going to borrow it from him.

Maybe the poll should have incorporated

Play, but not buy - as in rent, borrow, pirate (not condoned, but at your own risk), whatever....

 

[MrMarcus]

I am not going to buy it, rent it, or borrow it.

I do have a PS2, but platformers/shooters have no interest to me. Not my type of game. Nor do I have confidence that El Chucko could have made a game even remotely worth playing.

The sacking of Black Isle only reinforced the fact and added to my convictions that the company needs to be downsized into oblivion.

 

[Montez]

It's probably a little too late, but I added another option to the poll as suggested by Daemon Spawn.