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You are labouring under a misapprehension that I could give a flying fuck. The original games were based on a simple premise 'The World of Tomorrow' gone post apocalyptic, as envisioned by a sci-fi pulp fiction writer in the 1950's. The architecture and technology was very much influenced by the...

Which wasn't your argument at all. It's ironic because I happen to agree that a Fallout game outside America would lose a great part of it's ambiance. But your argument was it wouldn't sell if it wasn't aimed at the target audience, and we those who care that it's set in the 50's view of the...

Call of Duty Black Ops, Assassins Creed Brotherhood, Halo Reach, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Medal of Honor, Red Dead Redemption. All of these games outsold Fallout New Vegas last year how many are set in America? Hmm. :roll:

Correction not all games claiming to be rpgs have choice and consequence. :wink: Gamebryo in itself isn't the problem, but Bethesda's build of Gamebryo and the design decisions they made. I mean this is also Gamebryo and really rather good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3axmOMgTdfk The camera...

It would certainly be easier, lazier even than having to work at converting the Fallout setting to another culture and not being able to fall back on any of the previous factions or creatures. Flame war, if you think that was a flame war did you want to buy a nice bridge over the Thames, it's...

There's only two reasons that Fallout 3 shoehorned in the old mechanics the developers were trying to win over the old fans and that there's a general consensus amongst many role players (casual and hardcore alike) that rpg = stats. That was the main point of you post? Who else said anything...

The way they are written now maybe but back in 97 taking the drive mutants away ending as canon. In the eighty years between games they could have come together. It would of certainly been more interesting than the throw away Hubologists. And their organization could have become the church of...

I would totally ignore the Midwest and East coast Brotherhood, in Tactics it would have been better if they'd switched the Reavers and BOS around. With the player as part of the large Reaver army bent on control of the wastes and a small splinter group of the BOS gone into exile over their...

No in those games your character is defined by the player's skill. Just like in FNV outside of vats. Which doesn't work in first/third person or with real time combat. What they don't do is use a level/hitpoint system that allows characters to shrug off a .50 sniper round to the face. Playing...

Because Surf Solar said six words. When someone says Roleplaying game, on these forums at least, choice and consequences would be taken as read. Plus as discussed in the FNV forum isometric is what makes half the mechanics work, they are quite immersion breaking in first/third person.

The idea is to slow down the xp progression. It's too easy as is, to make level 30 long before the end of the game. There's plenty enough quests to still level regularly without changing the challenge rate.

I quite like the challenges, I'd rather earn experience from doing the challenges than simply exploring, hacking, killing etc. Same for the perks it feels much better to earn a perk for doing something often/well enough rather than just picking one from a list at level up.

No I'm talking about using the mechanics of many modern computer games already on the market, rather than using the mechanics of a system designed to be manageable without the aid of a computer.

Did you? Really? Seems to me that you failed to grasp that video games have been published internationally in a variety of languages for as long as there have been video games. Or that for the majority of the planet have coped with characters speaking languages totally foreign to the setting...

Same as the head shot, in isometric or table top gaming any non critical hit that doesn't kill can actually be a miss but one so close it wears the target down. The problem is trying to shoehorn pen and paper mechanics into first person shooter mechanics. Pen and paper games use hitpoints...

As much sense as the STALKER games or practically every WW2 game ever made or Half Life 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare etc. Or any game since the beginning of gaming, not set in an English speaking country. Or as much sense as the localized versions of Fallout that have everyone in America...

Not all that it means to me but the most important aspect, after all it is just a game. In this day and age when virtually everything game is first person or real time and post apocalypse settings are becoming the new WW2 it's what makes it stand out from the crowd.

That's because hitpoints aren't just health points, a hit in the old games might just crease their temple or just pass close enough to make them flinch wearing down their stamina and will to win. Shock can kill, or severing a femoral artery. Or just plain you might of aimed at the arm/groin but...

There are plenty of shooters that have one shot head kills, yes they are are still unrealistic in other ways but they handle that part well enough without you becoming too powerful. That's the problem with fps combined with hitpoints they don't mix. In pen and paper gaming where it's all in your...

1.Playing 2.Based 3.Isometric 4.Turn 5.Game 6.Role Though not necessarily in that order. ;)