Another unoriginality award for BoS

Brother None

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Deeko reviewed Fallout:BoS, and also concluded the game's damn unoriginal<blockquote>The new style of gameplay, which is best described as Baldur’s Gate: Post-Apocalypse, could have been interesting, but simply falls flat on it’s ass in terms of overall quality and should be apprehended for identity theft.

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I’m not oblivious to the fact that change is inevitable and I certainly wouldn’t fight it. We’ve seen many game franchises change formats over the years and most of them have seen some success. Fallout: BoS is not one that I feel has not successfully achieved this goal and I really didn’t find much within the game that I liked. It’s almost a crime to call the game Fallout, because it bears so little a resemblance to past titles. Sure, it was a big change… but it was a big change that simply went wrong. The lack of a coherent and interesting storyline is perhaps the biggest issue one could have with the game, which is sad considering the hack and slash element is pretty fun. I’m not happy with the identity theft, either. It’s as if someone took Dark Alliance and created their own Fallout mod, forgetting to insert the trademark humor and capable plotline. With Baldur’s Gate II on the horizon, I can’t honestly say I’d recommend this game. It has some fun moments, but in the end, Fallout is simply a bastardization of a series that maintains no sense of integrity to its original roots.</blockquote>5.5 out of 10
Interplay really should put these reviews on the cover of BoS

Link: review
 
It’s as if someone took Dark Alliance and created their own Fallout mod, forgetting to insert the trademark humor and capable plotline. With Baldur’s Gate II on the horizon, I can’t honestly say I’d recommend this game.

My favorite line.
 
Well it's cracked and distrubuted already, so that might take some of the sales off..
 
That doesn't say much as the crackers get most games before or at release date, and a few even before they're done. This is a console game tho so piracy won't hurt it as much as it would a pc game (a potential ps2/xbox pirate would need a modified system, a burner, and a brodband connection.)
 
The sales can't be good, considering I haven't seen it anywhere around here. Not at K-Mart, not at Wal-Mart, we don't have it at Blockbuster...

Nothin'.
 
I wonder if Wal-Mart would even sell it, considering the M'ature rating.

I thought they've taken a hardcore (pun intended) stance against adult flavored media.
 
MonkeySpunk said:
This is a console game tho so piracy won't hurt it as much as it would a pc game (a potential ps2/xbox pirate would need a modified system, a burner, and a brodband connection.)

That is quite mistaken. Often, the means to do piracy exists just about the same, and a mod chip takes but a little cost.
 
That is quite mistaken. Often, the means to do piracy exists just about the same, and a mod chip takes but a little cost.
I do not know the facts on a global scale, but in my experience there are not so many people that pirate console games. Friends of mine that have more or less only pirated games on the PC still buy most of their console games. They usually buy their console in a normal store, so it does not have a mod-chip installed to begin with. And some mod-chips are a little tricky to install, and thus they do not install one (at least it used to be like that. Now, with USB etc., things may have changed?)

As for kids, quite a few younger ones do not know much about piracy (on consoles at least). Neither do their parents, and thus they buy games for them. Not that this isn't also the case for PC to some extent, but less so here than with consoles.

Anyway, as I said, I do not know how this is on a global scale, but I'm fairly sure piracy is less common in regards to consoles here in Norway.
 
Slaughter said:
I do not know the facts on a global scale, but in my experience there are not so many people that pirate console games.

I know a fair amount of console pirates. I know more PC pirates, but that's because I know more PC-people than console-people (and more "computers, huh?"-people than computer-people)
 
So Bargain Hunters ....

So Bargain Hunters ....

So a cash weak I'play has an anemic product delivery. Trust they're shipping surface mail, from an out sourced location like Indonesian, to save on the overhead of getting the little piggies to market.

Expect the container ship to dock in LA any day now.

Retailers such as Walmart only sell stuff contracted from outside the Western Hemisphere, these days, feel they're getting ripped if pay more than pennies to the hour, these days, got to get that 500% mark up, these days, to justify the mega milion benifit package of the CEO, these days, well that seems to be the trend, these days. Pardon my opinion, this day.

Number of sales?

Maybe if, FO:BOS1 were bundled with FO:BOS2, then those that like to run and gun will have a game equal to full retail pricing.

But it seems that this is a first, well I'plays first, ... CONSOLE GAME BY SUBSCRIPTION!

Wait for the boxed set, bargain hunters, ... when FO:BOS3 is on the event horizon.

4too
 
Gamestop has a six bestsellers thingy on the front page. FOBOS showed up in there on the 4th place in the release week, but it's gone now. Also, only 3 other titles in the same price category had been released in January until then, and 2 of them (one uni-platform) ranked above FOBOS. It also got beat by one cheaper uni-platform title.

:roll: I'd like some more precise info, too.
 
Kharn said:
I know a fair amount of console pirates. I know more PC pirates, but that's because I know more PC-people than console-people (and more "computers, huh?"-people than computer-people)
Possible. I know nothing based on facts in this question. Have any of you seen any numbers on this that "proves" piracy being a equal problem on the consoles or not?
 
From what I've heard, out on BitTorrent sites, there are a ton of console based releases. Not as many as PC, but still out there.
 
Slaughter said:
Kharn said:
I know a fair amount of console pirates. I know more PC pirates, but that's because I know more PC-people than console-people (and more "computers, huh?"-people than computer-people)
Possible. I know nothing based on facts in this question. Have any of you seen any numbers on this that "proves" piracy being a equal problem on the consoles or not?

While i can't back up numbers officially (and so i won't try to conjure some fake percentages), i do know of people who have illegal connections, and i know personally at least 20 people who have pirated console titles, from the original PlayStation to the Xbox. And these aren't just some five or ten titles, but are actually close to a total of two hundred titles (or more) spread about every console they have. Calculate two hundred pirated titles by twenty people. Of course, i only know of 20 people.

Not only that, piracy in consoles isn't the hardest thing to do. From some sort of CD swapping, to a GameShark and to chips.
 
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