Recent content by Sarkus

You know, it's not that hard to check the details of things before you post. Like the fact that I became a registered member here over a year before I registered at QT3. However, I have been a lot more active at QT3. In terms of Fallout 3, that's because as others have pointed out, this...

My point is that it works both ways. Bethesda started off saying "hey, we want to know what you guys think." The general response here was "you don't deserve the franchise and if it's not turn based and 3rd person iso you suck." That went on and on for a while. Then Bethesda decided and...

You act like this was all a big like on Bethesda's part. As someone who was around here when Bethesda first acquired the rights to do Fallout 3, you can't pretend that the reaction by this community was anything but overwhelmingly negative. And it has remained that way as time has gone on. No...

Exactly. E3's own web page says: "How entire gaming industry" would be more appropriate. But hey, might as well take every chance to take a shot at Bethesda, right? Who cares if it makes NMA look foolish.

Everything I've read says they are looking at Fallout 1 as the template for various things, ignoring the changes that Fallout 2 made. So, it's not a surprise that they are going to portray the super mutants as universally bad guys. That's how it was in Fallout 1, with the only real moral grey...

Why do we care about this on someone as insignificant as this irrelevant QA drone?

Desslock is a long-time reviewer and writer. He currently writes a regular RPG column for "PC Gamer" (US) magazine. He apparently was given access to Fallout 3 and allowed to say a few things about it in his column but was presumably sworn to secrecy by Bethesda about what all he saw or was...

Desslock has been around for a long time so I doubt he's a tool of Bethesda. Just because he liked Oblivion doesn't mean he should be discounted; a pretty large number of RPG fans like the game even if most people on NMA don't. That said, all he really said is that F3 is not real time and...

SSE is so full of smoke that it's ridiculous. You do realize that over a year ago Carlton whatshisname (the head of SSE) posted on their boards that they had a US distributor and that they were just waiting to announce it. That's been their line all along. I doubt they even yet have a...

An odd but strangely relevant fact: before the demise of SirTech, the JA2 devs were working on a JA3 outline that would have at least incorporated a first person perspective in some regard. I don't know if the resurrected JA3 will be following that concept or not.

And yet Roshambo has been calling me a "moron" and "shit head" in this and other threads, despite the fact that I have not used personal attacks against him, and he's still here. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.

So, why exactly did Bethesda go after this license, and even decide to increase their bid? And don't give the standard "money" answer. That makes no sense. The failure of FOBOS should make it very clear that just slapping "Fallout" on something won't make any money. I doubt Bethesda would...

Nor does it mean that changing from an isometric view destroys it as a Fallout game. Look, do you accept that the first-person point of view can work for and RPG or not? If you do accept that, then you can't say it won't work for Fallout because it hasn't been tried. What results might be...

So why the hell did they go after the license? Why did they counter-bid over Troika? Jeez, you guys are conspiracy nuts. "Hey," some guy at Bethesda (hardly a huge conglomerate, by the way) says, "let's blow some cash on the Fallout license and then screw over everyone by making some crap...

Fallout is more than just an isometric view. I recall FOBOS was isometric too, but it sure as hell wasn't a Fallout game. I'm not going to argue that I would prefer that a new Fallout RPG be isometric, but that doesn't mean it's the only solution to a good RPG. Especially with 9 years of...