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All you VD interviewers, how about asking him some questions not directly related to AoD? For example, what are the chances of a hard SF cRPG if AoD is a success? Or what about the chances of future releases (if any) being ad-funded? Considering the puny development costs and practically...

IllWinter (the Dominions guys) and Stardock (GalCiv) are also big on talking, listening and heeding the wishes of their users, and offering steady post-release support.

Thanks for the swift reply. Assuming I understand you, hilighting would be far more useful. Granted, it's a bit of a bother when corpses pile on each other, but the bigger problem is making out those 2pixel^2 objects in 1600x1200 resolution. It's a pain in the arse. Oh well, I guess it's...

Is there any way to hilight usable objects with a keypress or something similar? - Pixel hunting is more tedious than ever with the resolution patch :P

I only really have three concerns about the dialogue: 1. Hire a fucking writer. The writing of the originals was as evocative as a blank piece of paper. BethSoft, on the other hand, has proven time & time again that the only writing they're capable of is so fucking atrocious it's an obstacle...

Wasteland, your comparisons & general graphics gripes don't actually seem to be about the art. Proportions, level of detail & overall discern-ability is what distinguishes good from bad. The fucking poly, mapping & lighting limitations of the engine are.. engine limitations. It's almost like...

Wasteland, I'm so glad they haven't tried doing things your way. Not just because I'd feel bad for a couple of guys having to make so many shitty little drawings when they could easily save themselves some 80% of the work by going 3D. No, the real reason is the thought of having to read my way...

Heh, kinda weird to get all excited over a game with a setting I've never had a glimmer of an interest in, but damn I can't wait to get my grubby little hands on it. Hurry hurry hurry IT :D On a side note: Cheech the cat is quite right. "Post apocalyptic" refers to a fictional setting where...

Right, and governments are in the business of educating children. The world doesn't work like that mate. BethSoft employs professional game creators. The company itself is a corporation. Corporate entities have 1 and only 1 job: earning money for the shareholders. Whether that involves...

I'm not sure I understand you, unfortunately. But as far as graphics are concerned, it's a two-fold problem. The more detailed the world is presented to you, the more sophisticated interaction is necessary to suspend disbelief. If I read you The Hobbit, for example, you probably wouldn't...

Of course I didn't. Hell, even if I didn't own both Crysis and NWN2, I'm still not ignorant enough to think 3rd person/isometric games can't be ten times more resource hungry than the prettiest, most graphically advanced game on Earth :P Not so. Unless an FPP cRPG can push the envelope of past...

It had, it doesn't look good by today's standards. You missed his point though. FPP does come at a cost. In the originals, it didn't seem odd that you couldn't rummage through every desk, tip over every chair, pick up every blade of grass and so on. In Morrowind, for example, it would have...

You mean they appear not to think? Heh, well yes, you may have a point there. Perhaps the reason BethSoft are so good at creating FPP stuff, is exactly that they've never realized there's more ways to interface with a game than FPP. Not that that's any kind of consolation to those of us who...

"Everything is nuclear powered" Uhm.. So that thing about the nuclear holocaust being fought over access to oil was a hallucination, I take it?

I agree and disagree. I agree with BethSoft that first person/over the shoulder perspectives increase immersion. NPC/environment interaction has more of a presence like that. But I also agree that killing the game mechanics of the Fallout games is a really fucking horrible idea. Not only...

Nice exchange. I mostly agree with Desslock, save for the fact that I would've liked to see an old rat like him rail just a tiny bit against a company picking up the license to do a sequel, only to do something that cannot, in terms of gameplay and mechanics anyway, be considered a sequel. He...

I don't know about that. At least if you buy the brand shooter, you're not gonna burn off your nuts when your draw drops, the cig falls out and sets fire to your trousers, all because the brand shooter you just bought opens up with a complex character generation screen, long conversations with...