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CV, I think anyone can hardly say what they really had in "mind" when designing games. Perhaps not, but we CAN say they weren't trying to copy first person shooters (FPS) or "Action RPG", because there was nothing to copy. But they say they decision for "first person" is to make the...

UncannyGarlic, They make FPS-ARPG hybrids and have been simplifying them ever since Daggerfall from what I understand. That said, they have stuck to making FPS-ARPG hybrids ever since Arena I really hate to argue against claims I have made myself in the past, but that's unfair... mainly...

People need to stop blaming Bethesda for doing what they are good at. They are about the only game company that I can think of that has never abandoned a successful recipe, and it shows in their continued success. It isn't Bethesda's fault that Interplay self-destructed. That "History of...

paul_cz, Yeah, they probably don't brainstorm over their games in fastfood joints...they probably do it around the large table down there in their Bethesda building. What would they have to "brainstorm" about? They've been refining the same RPG recipe since 1993 when Arena came out. They...

To be honest Oblivion is the best game, if you are interested in horseback riding through the forest. Nah. Warhammer Online is :P Play an Orc, and you even get to ride a giant pig.

Never played oblivion but If the voice acting and facial expressions is much improved in fallout3, then Oblivion must be the crappiest game of all time. emotionless faces speaking monotone bullcrap. Actually, all that stuff is much improved over Oblivion. And they even hired better voice...

Agreed! I actually prefer top-down views for RPGs, and always have. It's been so long since I played one that had a well done implementation of that mode that I'm not 100% sure that's still true, though. Also agreed. This has taken a huge step back in comparison to Oblivion, as well. It...

I just gave Fable a try, after reading an article here that linked to the Edge awards, where Fable II won game of the year. I don't know why I did, because I knew it was made by Peter Molyneux, and I've been dabbling with his games since Syndicate (early 1990s). All of his games suffer from the...

And one more thing! The main storyline pales in comparison to the larger breadth of experiences to be had throughout That's very true! But that's been true in all Bethesda games. That's because, there really isn't a "main story line". The "main story" in Bethesda games is always just a...

Re: Fallout 3: Gamasutra PC #1, Edge Nothing LittleBigPlanet is game of the year? lol. Just goes to show what the game industry has come to. Grownups need not apply. Which makes me wonder a bit why so many popular games have so much content explicitly meant for adults? Just a cheap stunt to get...

The introduction sequence alone might be one of the most immersive experiences that you will ever encounter in a video game. That reviewer lost credibility on using the word "immersive", in my opinion. That's a word that is leftover from the early days of 3D gaming when some developers were...

Phil, RPGs back then were typically text-based dos games. Text based? No, I don't think so. Another guy who wasn't even AROUND in the 1980s, who wants to talk about teh way things were, eh? :P Nice grammar police routine you have going on there, too. Said more than I needed to already...

... since none of these games [besides BG and the expansion] comes even close to that claim. For your example, I'll use "Wasteland", since it was the predecessor (in spirit, at least) of teh fallout games. You played it, right? How long did it take you? Personally, I reckon I spent a good 5...

Bodybag, Wow, speaking of revisionist history: Starting to understand why you guys catch so much hostility from the rest of the gaming community. Did I shoot your dog or something? Hundreds of hours? I'm suddenly curious to see this unbelievable list of games you're now going to...

As anyone who played one of the earliest Elder Scrolls games can tell you, Bethesda has been doing open worlds before they were even possible. Bethesda has been making boring games, since before everyone else was making boring games too. I bought and played Arena back in 1993(?) when it was...