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Claw is right, it's not first person. It's free camera.

I tend to agree. I think you can sum up the recent events with this mock up of a typical current event gaming discussion on SA: Idiot426: "Man, I hate those Fallout fans. They make fun of Bethesda. Morrowind had great gfx!" SuperStupidGuy: "Yea! Speaking of graffix, check out the new shots...

Exactly what did I say in that post that Kharn posted was "vitriol"? All I said was that the fans won't stop because there's no organization around that controls them. From what I've seen, while they may read some of the sites in question, they're not members of them. Even if they were, there's...

You forgot to mention dialogue trees.

Fallout Tactics turn based: Lacked "sliding" from an excessive hit. This is important for melee characters. Had a poorly implimented interrupt system. Didn't work with mission scripts that required timers. Didn't kick in until after someone took damage, as opposed to Fallout and...

Because you like to reward failure? If the game is mediocre, and I'm not saying it will be, but if it is, then the worst thing you can do is run out and buy it. The one big problem with the game industry today is that publishers who think they can get away with making something mediocre will...

It really would be advisable for you to just step up to the plate and admit you're wrong rather than carrying this charade any further.

How lame of him to expect people not to acknowledge he's a game developer when he's complaining about fans of a game his company just bought the rights to. Incognito isn't a one way street. If he doesn't want other people to talk about it, then he shouldn't be talking about. You've forgotten...

U8 was the one pumped out the door so they could get cracking on UO. U9 repeated this, but UO2 was cancelled.

Actually, the way the Infinity Engine, which you brought up, works keeps you from ever designing a turn based game with it because the way most everything works is rooting in the timing of actions. You'd have to rip out the majority of the mechanics parts of the engine, i.e. character system...

That definitely puts things in perspective. They've said they'd been discussing the what-if scenario of making a Fallout game for five years. We know that the bidding on the Fallout rights started with the cancellation of BIS's Fallout 3 seven months ago. It just seems odd to me that they'd be...

Just the thought of a game developer calling anyone else a "supernerd", let alone a group of people, is just comedy gold.

I hate to break this to you, but when you decide to buy a license, you're buying people's expectations in addition to the trademarks. That shouldn't come as a huge surprise.

You mean "Play most any CRPG". Fallout did allow you to win the game just on speech and charm alone. Sure, most people will play combat characters in Fallout, but that's because of basically what you said. Nearly all CRPGs involve combat. Many players are actually used to having combat being...

You mean "Play most any CRPG". Fallout did allow you to win the game just on speech and charm alone. Sure, most people will play combat characters in Fallout, but that's because of basically what you said. Nearly all CRPGs involve combat. Many players are actually used to having combat being...

I'd really rather not have a Fallout 3 if it's only going to be Fallout 3 in name only. I'm perfectly content with moving on to what's next rather than getting my hopes up for a sequel that lives up to the feeling I had when I first played Fallout. I don't think that's going to happen at this...

Bethesda takes years to make anything. Morrowind took six years to make, for example.

The problem is that most people are used to a minimum of eight directions and most games have a nearly unlimited angle in which you can move in like that. Dropping it down to six on stick movement would be clumsy at best. ps. Does John Romero know you're surfing the web at work! :D

Two points: 1.) Arcanum couldn't have used SPECIAL, because IPLY would have sued the pants off Troika. IPLY was already attacking Troika with lawyers for percieved similarities between Fallout and Arcanum. 2.) Arcanum would have greatly benefitted from SPECIAL.

Damn.. Let's see. Where to start. Turn based, first and foremost, is sequential. That means it's based on an order of unit actions. One unit goes, then another, and then another. That's the way turn based is. That means only one unit in the game is doing anything at any given time. If one...