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It's not the best showing. Elementary TB combat against mindless melee monsters. They are funded, so I guess it doesn't matter that much, but that also means that they didn't need to do this at all. This game still needs a hook IMO.

There's nothing clever like the Black Mesa parking sticker, but I could go for an "I Hate Morndas" mug. The Fallout stuff isn't very good, but the Vault-Tec button-down seems to be passable.

I don't feel like he did a very good job of making his point. The biggest problem with FO3's interactive narrative isn't the setting or even the story per se (although that gets pretty bad). It's the interaction. If I had to chose between farms and an end-game that didn't corral me into...

I think they are overdoing it by putting Torment in the name. I'd say the same thing if Troika had called their first game Arcanum: Fallout. And in this case they are missing the most important creative force behind Torment, which makes it even stranger than that example. But it's just...

I tend to agree. They can do plenty with keyword dialog and they have much more important stuff to worry about. And they are taking a risk by using the Torment name so liberally. WTF is a "Torment" game?

I guess it's a step in the right direction for Origin. But it seems like they are way too late to the party. It was clear that they didn't get it when they launched it last summer.

Bethesda will probably just give them away as a DL. Anyway, this was expected. I hope everyone lands on their feet (except Caen).

As long as he's getting paid, he's not really getting ****ed. It's pretty likely that they knew that they probably were not making a Fallout game.

It's probably more of an AI issue. Anyway, I've always seen Id's games as little more than advertisements for their engines, but this seems like a particularly lousy advertisement.

Re: More info I'm pretty sure that the injunction was doomed based on the fact that Bethesda isn't harmed by IP and Masthead pissing money away on development. If the release was imminent, they'd have more of a case for an injunction. But even then, the judge would need to consider the...

Bethesda actually does OK there (for an American dev). And the audience for sandboxy RPGs is probably pretty different from the audience for strategy games with cut-scenes.

Well if we're just talking about the pre-orders, then Bethesda probably deserves most of the credit. In terms of the reaction to the game, I think Obsidian will get credit to the extent that people appreciate the writing and story. Unfortunately, a lot of critics don't seem to care about that...

The article only touches on the targeting issue with regard to melee. I think you could have done more in discussing the targeting thing, like noting that they sacrificed gameplay for entirely for cosmetic reasons. I remember that punching someone's leg in Fallout could be animated as kicking...

I think the article spends too much time with the exposition and too little time deconstructing VATS. But it does eventually manage to identify the two biggest problems, one of which is a single variable that has already been addressed by modders. And hopefully NV will address the other. We...

No, Masthead has been working on Earthrise for a while. Their involvement with IP is a newer development, and it's ongoing as far as I know.

I don't know, they aren't shy about closing threads over there. But I wouldn't read much into any of this. There's no reason to think that IP isn't just going ahead without Beth's permission. I don't think they have anything to lose at this point.

That doesn't really mean anything. It's not like the community manager would be the first to know about this sort of thing, and Bethesda wouldn't break this sort of news in a response to a messageboard thread. They can't make an MMO, which is why they got Masthead to help. Of course, Masthead is...

Well, if the theory is just that Beth is trying to make money, then it's sort of obvious. If you think it's odd for a publisher to move IPs (even successful IPs) to different devs in order to maximize production and profits, then you are wrong. It's pretty common. NV went to Obsidian because...

I think that can be OK as long as there's some sort of motivating potential event that would drive most characters. The player needs to have some skin in the game, especially if the different factions are not obviously good or bad. The truth is, I can't immediately think of a good RPG that...

And the gameplay was pretty-much the same. Fallout 2 had a mild improvement in the way that companions were handled, and you could destroy some doors. It was basically just Fallout with a new story and some tweaks. Anyway, it looks like the frame-rate is suffering pretty badly in some parts...