zombe on 4/1/2009 at 16:43
On my first play, the grunt Flawkes, did somehow end up in the chamber with me - made the dialogue options quite broken and funny. "Hey you brick - YOU ARE ALREADY IN IT!".
Best game this year i have played.
Some bad things worth to complain about though:
* Rampant copy-paste everywhere.
* No colors. At all.
* No shadows + rampant copy-paste + no colors = no depth perception, everything looks the same, especially at night.
* Misses freely usable beds near every shop-door ... very annoying.
* GUI is moody but badly done.
* Too many roleplay-skills-etc with no/very-low actual value. (speculation, to be fair)
* The world makes no sense even in its own universe. I can live with that :)
Angel Dust on 7/1/2009 at 02:12
Quote Posted by Zygoptera
That's always going to be a subjective thing, as what makes Fallout varies between people.
Personally, it gave me the feeling I would get if I bought a 'Ferrari', but found the 'Ferrari' was manufactured and designed by, say, Hyundai. The 'Ferrari' is not necessarily bad,
per se, but it is obvious that it was designed by a bunch of Korean engineers and made by a bunch of Korean workers working from a bunch of bullet points defining what makes up a 'Ferrari', and some essential coherence of vision was lost along the way. And that back bumper looks like it came off a Sonata, and they obviously retrofitted the bonnet from a Terios and the door handles came off a {insert Hyundai model here} and all the prancing horse logos and flashy air intakes and bright red paint can't quite hide the fact that it's Korean, not Italian, and has switched to a diesel engine and...
In essence, I found just about everything about it to be 'off' just that little bit, its biggest failing wrt 'fallout' was a lack of verisimilitude and coherency.
Despite the reference to switching to diesel I'm not of the opinion that gameplay time system or a specific perspective are essential factors for a fallout game
You absolutely positively hit the nail of the fucking head. Bethesda tried really hard, and the vistas are fantastic, but at the end of the day it just feels wrong.
In regards to the music: There is nothing wrong with the compositions themselves, apart from being a bit bland and obvious in their musical queues, but they just don't set the right mood for the game in my opinion. Interestingly my brother, a non Fallout 1/2 player, hated the orchestral music and so I offered to put the old soundtrack on there and he liked that much more.
van HellSing on 7/1/2009 at 06:21
In related news: Fallout 3 is GOTY, NMA blows up (site is down atm).
Matthew on 7/1/2009 at 10:06
Failsafe nuke?
Ulukai on 7/1/2009 at 17:56
Quote Posted by zombe
* No colors. At all.
There was an apocalypse!
Can you imagine the fallout (olololo) if it featured nalifruits and discolights?
driver on 7/1/2009 at 18:18
Quote Posted by zombe
* Misses freely usable beds near every shop-door ... very annoying.
Just use the 'Wait' option, you don't have to rest.
Matthew on 7/1/2009 at 18:25
Quote Posted by van HellSing
In related news: Fallout 3 is GOTY, NMA blows up (site is down atm).
Just read their comments thread. In a way I feel sorry for them, in a way I feel sad for them (as a SS2 fan) and in a way I can't stop giggling.
vurt on 7/1/2009 at 18:31
Quote Posted by Ulukai
There was an apocalypse!
Can you imagine the fallout (olololo) if it featured nalifruits and discolights?
+1. The original games were very gray too, it's _supposed_ to be a dystopic setting so it's supposed to look like this.
The other complaints are BS imo, like copy/paste. It doesn't contain more copy/paste work than any other 3D game or more copy/paste than the original games.
There's no game ever created that you can't nitpick about. Imo this game has far less annoyances than 99% of the games i play _plus_ it's highly moddable.
Jason Moyer on 7/1/2009 at 18:55
Quote Posted by driver
Just use the 'Wait' option, you don't have to rest.
Waiting doesn't heal you like it does in TES.
Rogue Keeper on 8/1/2009 at 10:39
Few days ago I tried to play it stoned and suddenly it was AWESOME. Who says there are no colors?
