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I really don't want to be an apologist for the man who can't stop excitedly trying to foist the myth of first-person-immersion (possibly whilst fingering his own asshole, by the look on his face) during interviews, but out of fairness to Bethesda: they have supposedly been modifying the Gamebryo...

The criticism levelled at NMA is entirely disingenuous, founded as it is on the opinions and actions of a few, cherry-picked for their distasteful nature and relative extremity. Still, there is a grain of truth in many stereotypes: there are some post-ers here who seem determined to quash or...

But, on the plus side, you can cross running water, don't have a life-threatening aversion to garlic, and won't burst into flames in bright sunlight. Still, what did we do before Lawyers? Probably a case of whoever had the biggest stick or pointiest stone?

Yes, which tends to suggest that it was actually Herve's piss-poor excuse for business skills, rather than console development per se that caused the problem. Interplay circa the mid- to late-1990's could have rolled with the punches of disappointing console product sales, and did latterly...

I'm just replaying Fallout at the moment (I've just got the Cathedral to play through), and it is still remarkable to me that I find many decisions difficult to make, even though I know the consequences well. The writing is of such a high standard. It is a real shame to me that we might be...

Reasonable is a pretty standard legal term: Reasonable (Adj) Reasonable is used to represent the near equality of the action or activities taking in to consideration the prevailing circumstances at the time of the event. Reasonableness is time and circumstances conscious. Hence reasonableness...

Okay, good point.

Okay, I won't. (Being Devil's Advocate...) Why don't game overs count for anything? They are just another possible ending amongst many; just because they aren't victory scenarios, doesn't make them any less real in a branching narrative. Still, it would be a very glib way of disregarding...

We'll only know what kind of business move it was once they try to publish KOTOR 3. To call the game "unfinished and unpolished" is something of an understatement, given that a significant portion of the end-game was actually missing. I felt absolutely cheated by the fact that there were...

Interplay did perfectly well with some of its console titles; remember that they were publishing games for console platforms during the mid-1990's like ClayFighter and Rock n Roll Racing, without sacrificing the quality of their PC products. The demise of Interplay has as much to do with...

Because it acts a useful hook to hang a story on? You have to think in terms of narrative, as well as realism. There is great history of including iconic landmarks in post-apocalyptic sci-fi in order to help convey the sense of destruction. A dusty, flat wasteland could simply be any desert...

No, but that isn't the point. The point is that their reputation for releasing buggy games did damage to their reviews, and consequently, their sales. It is one thing to have bugs in a game that you can pick-up-blast-put-down, but Troika's output was much more ambitious and demanding than...

The fact that Troika kept on bringing bug-ridden games to market didn't help to boost sales, and of course that meant a rush to publish the next product. Poor press did a lot of damage, but there is also a very toxic effect of putting time and effort into playing a challenging game only to find...

Yes, of course it is very dfficult to know just how familiar any of the previewers are with Fallout, but in some cases these are people with enough knowledge of the games to distinguish between good and Fallout good. In everything I've seen and heard so far, there have been at least as many...

So this guy seems to get it. And; he has concerns about what he saw, but is still hopeful. This seems to be something of a theme in lots of the previews; that the atmosphere is good and appropiate. (If that is right, then the emphasis on scatelogical humour, gore, and gimmickry may actually...

One developer cannot kill off an entire genre. I'm much more pissed off by the general neglect of deep roleplaying, given that it was one of the major foundations of home computer gaming. Whatever Bethesda is doing, I'm betting it is because of a misguided righteousness, rather than any...

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. Criticism might simply be cast as sour grapes, especially if the game is a commercial hit. On other hand, if the game stinks, then it could seem petty to dance on its grave, or quaintly sentimental to bemoan that they killed his baby. On the other hand...

Yes, I see that, but that wasn't the point I was trying to make in the first place. I perhaps placed a little too much emphasis on the context of your original proclamation; it being in this thread. If I was misrepresenting you, then you have my appologies. (Although, actually, I had the first...

For their product, if its good, nothing more, nothing less. What, suggesting that giving a reasoned response is better than claiming some supposed lofty point of principle on the basis of Bethesda giving their game a number, rather than a subtitle? Well, why would a I possibly assume...

See, those are much more reasonable explanations than simply some issue of numbering or naming. Too easy to sound like one of those mythical rabid Fallout fanboys. I enjoyed Ultima Underworld, so I'm not averse to good first-person RPGs...