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I dunno-- Because the comparison between the original two Fallout games and Wasteland is a lot easier to make since Fallout is a spiritual successor to Wasteland and WL2 seems to be taking what Fargo and Friends learned from Fallout to heart. Things like the camera angle and combat system do...

That's not what he's saying. He's saying that the areas aren't as open to free roam as in Fallout 3, and specifically excluding the other Fallout games from the comparison.

Probably it had something to do with the recurring theme of the inability of people to move past the structures, images and ideas of the old world. Caesar is consistently depicted as a lunatic, to the point that they had to strip out Arcade's systematic demolition of his megalomaniacal ideology...

Wolfman Jack was a real dude, actually. He was really famous in the states because he ran the first syndicated rock show.

What does he mean when he says that it's a hybrid? Does he just mean that you can drag and drop the items as icons?

I think you're right about animations and "feel" being important in classic fallout. Animations especially. They weren't just high quality, they were also really visually interesting. Especially the ultra-violent ones that you'd get with bloody mess. Part of why getting half your torso blown off...

See, I like tactical isometric combat too. But fallout was kind of bad at it. Most tactical turn-based combat games, going back to the eighties, had more going on than Fallout. Even if you're going to write off magic/magic-like abilities, there's still shit like, say, sweeping in Pool of...

No, I'm serious. FO1 had really bad systems design and tedious combat. The problems with SPECIAL range from the ambiguity about early and late game weapon skills, the weird split between First Aid and Doctor, useless traits like Fast Shot, and the way that Outdoorsman is built around a system...

That doesn't change anything. I'm sort of struggling to understand your point. What exactly do you think happened? The existence of Fallout 3 somehow conjured a magical fairy into existence that transformed the excellent world-building and intricate quest design in New Vegas into a thirteen year...

What's wrong with it is that it's tedious. If it were slow in a way that was more tactically interesting, that'd be different. I like slow games, but I think that if a game's slow it should take advantage of that. Adding things like stances (think Tactics' standing, crouching and prone) or...

I'd really dig this because I honestly think New Vegas is a better game than Fallout 1. Fallout's never really had great core gameplay anyway. SPECIAL was a hastily put together mess of a system and the combat is slow in a bad way, less about deliberation and tactics and more about waiting for...

They're also probably pretty desperate to get people to play the sequel because of their financial situation.

But that's also a different gun that doesn't really look like either the Yuma Flats Pulse pistol or the FONV Pulse Gun. It is a high end energy weapon but that's about all it's got in common with the Yuma Flats pistol other than both being aesthetically based on old Science Fiction adventure...

Maybe it's because they're totally different weapons both lore-wise and in terms of function? The pulse pistol is an "Electrical Pulse" weapon originally intended as a successor to laser and plasma weapons that fires purple bolts of electricity that disintegrate people. The New Vegas pulse...

I don't really think you're supposed to sympathize with the legion, I think you're supposed to sympathize with people like Dale Barton, or to listen when people like Barton, Raul, and IIRC Cass tell you that Legion territory is generally safer and 'fairer' than Republican territory. What...

If it weren't interplay, I could see this being a good faith move. Like when Eidos (later Square Enix Europe) founded Eidos Montreal as a spiritual successor to Looking Glass and Ion Storm Austin. Especially since the traditional, tabletop-style isometric game has a comeback on the horizon...

How crazy is too crazy though? Like a lot of the humour and craziness of wasteland was buried in prose or in those little cartoon images of people. Some of it was even in the decoy paragraphs, which let them get away with crazy zany fun stuff that was even a bridge too far for the game...

I sort of like the saturated colors, because to me they feel a lot like the original game. Wasteland was always kind of a semi-serious cartoon. Even if you set aside the original game's colour palette, which was sort of typical for the time, a lot of the character design/actual stuff in the...

Actually if you read the article he says that the emphasis on combat over other mechanics arose because of technical limitations. He says that the old RPGs were primarily about combat with some exploration for multiple reasons and that technical limitations were one of them. He doesn't even say...

If you don't know any of the games he's talking about I can see how you might jump to conclusions but if you don't know the games that he's talking about you're probably not the kind of person who has an opinion about RPG mechanics.