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This isn't just a bad Fallout question, it is also simply a poorly formulated question. What does any of it mean, really? The incredibly specific and leading language, laced with shaky assumptions is a poor start. However, there is also a glaring non sequitur - how is adult-oriented content (as...

So, basically you just cherry-picked that one bit in order to argue that I wasn't making an intelligent point? Did you read the rest of the post? EDIT: I'm also English, but I know what one finds on basketball courts and baseball fields. (I was simply joking that finding a sporting venue...

So, if it is worse, people shouldn't say that they think so? My main objection is to the entire idea that one needs to encouraged to explore, and especially if that requires being led to every minor location and then being given a big old XP pat on the head... Finding a rusting old...

True, and that reason was that large developers decided to reinvent the cRPG genre. Unfortunately, in doing so they have neglected roleplaying mechanics. They do, but that isn't the point. This is about Fallout. But it would have been better if they'd left the Fallout franchise...

Tomb Raider looked good at the time, but now looks pretty crappy. I think you're right that part of Fallout's continuing graphical appeal is that the detailing of sprites was much better than was available in 3D engines.

They simply don't have the marketing power of AAA developers. However, they do have a reasonable profile amongst a certain group, and they are - as I said - developing niche products. It doesn't prove anything, other than that AAA developers are unwilling to produce them. The fact that...

By modern standards, possibly, but they looked fine at the time... Quake 2, Dark Forces II.

Well done; you've followed an arrow on a compass. Have some tasty XP... Oh dear. Who need incentive to explore? What's the alternative, sit down in the middle of the wastes? Supermarkets, baseball fields, and so on, fine, but don't hold my hand all the way there - whatever happened to...

I'm not sure I follow that logic. The only way that a lack of turn-based isometric games could harm a future release is because there is no established market. Maybe, although there clearly is a market out there, even if you measure it only by the number of download and budget sales of...

Well, look at the Indie developers, say Spiderweb. They make games that are niche (because they only have cRPG appeal - no fancy graphics or real attempt to innovate; just good quality writing for a crappy engine). They do very well with what must be a relatively high cost base (given their...

Time will tell - many previews suggest that Fallout 3 may receive a more critical appraisal than, for instance, Oblivion. We'll see how well sales hold up once pre-orders have been dispatched. The open world design has very little to commend it over and above a world-map full of encounters...

Of course, one has to separate out the myth from the reality - actually, something many of the regulars here are very good at, if you seek out some of the more critical discussions of Fallouts past (for instance, elements of Fallout 2 and Tactics, and pretty much all of BOS have been criticized...

Not sacrilege, but it does suggest that you aren't a fan of tactical, turnbased combat. AP requirements for movement, or some other form of movement cost, are essential in turn-based combat. Otherwise, any range-related bonuses in defence or attack are nullified by a character being able to rush...

Well, that may be true, but you know Titanic is the highest grossing movie of all time... It is sad if the only thing games developers will try to do is to maximize their market, rather than create art. (Which is what so many of then will claim - at length - to be trying to do.) Well...

What difference? In isolation, not much. The point is that many small changes add up to a dramatic overall difference, and that is to ignore - and I hate to bring up this rather prostituted term once again, so make sure you understand what it means everyone - the concept of verisimilitude. In...

The water chip is a MacGuffin. You may as well complain that Pulp Fiction is a film about a suitcase...

What does that mean? Do you mean that people won't keep on paying for exactly the same product, just because you give it a periodical graphical overhaul? Well, maybe that is true. Or, do you mean that every series needs to abruptly change genres? If so, then I can see no reason why...

Fine, but that does miss the point that many of the other issues have already been discussed in minutiae elsewhere on these forums. It also fails somewhat to recognize the organic nature of forum discussions, insofar as they tend to drift away from discussion of the original sources and...

A major problem is that studios are obsessed with the idea that video game adaptions must necessarily be filled with cartoonish action sequences and as many knowing game references as possible, in order to appeal to their notion of the typical game fan; i.e. strange, with an attention span...

Not many people know this, but apparently if you shoot Uwe Boll in the right place, he explodes producing a small mushroom cloud...