Apparently....it's pretty good

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Well those are the selling lines of Gamespot for the Xbox review of fbos and the reviewer has some..err..well look:<blockquote>Fallout fans will find that this game is fairly faithful to the spirit of the series, except for the relentless use of profanity in its dialogue, so it's basically a simple, mildly entertaining, and somewhat uneven quasi-futuristic dungeon crawl for one or two players. </blockquote>So it's sucks, who wants a mildly entertaining when you can have good entertaining game. Strange that they gave it an overall score of 7.3, this still blows my mind..
Link: Fbos Review@Gamespot
Thanks to Rise for informing me about this..
 
So, its not faithful to the original because it has profanity, but is faithful to the original because it is simple and mildly entertaining?

-groan-

What a waste of 3 minutes of my life.
 
The originall had profanity in its dialoges, you probably had the child switch on.

And theyve probably been bribed to give them a higher score, cause the game stinks!
 
Not every fucking other goddamned word was an offensive word to a cunt like you though...

Fallout had profanity, but it wasn't to the extreme limit like FO:BOS has displayed so far. I'm judging by the trailers and what I've read about the game.
 
It does. Every damn line. Even the quest logs. I've had the pleasure of playing it with a friend, and I have to say, I think It's the most pedestrian take on the hack 'n slash genre the world has ever seen. Yes, it is just that plain and shallow -- even for a hack 'n slash. It does manage to get half the hack 'n slash formula right: the "phat l3wt" (although, there's also a lot of unintentional comedy to be found in the silly ass ideas for weapons these guys came up with). The character building is pretty much FUBAR for its lack of depth and the different characters not differing from one another significantly enough (I can't imagine anyone replaying the game so that they can play as Cain, the ghoul whose only notable features are that he can gain small amounts of health from killing and absorbing radiation). What it all boils down to is you only increase damage, speed, health, and defense bonuses. Because all that's there is small 5% incremental bonuses, leveling up just doesn't have as much of an impact as it should. There's very little in the way of new abilities to acquire that can actually change things up a bit. The ones that are there, are generally shared between the three characters. Oh, and the gameplay is pretty crappy too. There's very little in the way of defensive maneuvers -- if anything the game's dodge leaves you more vulnerable, and many of the game's features are frivolous (crouch) and/or poorly implemented (auto-aim).

It amazes me that reviewers claim this game is true to the Fallout spirit when the very thing that makes Fallout unique amongst other post-apocalyptic settings, the retro-future theme, is completely absent in this game. If it weren't for the name on the box, the few cameos and references, and the Fallout posters on the walls (yes, I'm serious), I'd never know this is Fallout. At least they're aknowledging how bad the dialogue is. It's written either by or for idiots that still get off to hearing curse words. That's how low an intelligence level this gritty and darkly humorous game caters to.

As for the many inconsistencies Fallout fans have been wary of all this time, all is as expected. The Brotherhood are now the knights of the Wasteland, Ghouls are insane cultists and are also now quite athletic -- one Ghoul boss even stands at about 8-10 ft tall, running at you with blazing speed, swinging a giant sword. Mutants are now Warcraftian Orcs.

I don't care how curious you are to see this game, as a Fallout fan, do not buy this.
 
hmm, once again the powers of sarcasm have failed to translate across the net. I was being SARCASTIC.

In non-sarcasm speak:
The original wasn't laced with excessive profanity, and was highly entertaining and complex.

But that doesn't sound as good, right?
 
While I'm both honored and flattered by the idea of doing so, that would mean I'd have to play the game extensively, and as I'm sure you can understand, I don't wanna do that :D .
 
It seems to me that 99% of reviewers use a part of the rating scale as a "catch-all" rating for games they can´t be buggered to play, yet have to give a decent rating. Somewhere around 65-80%, 6.5/8.0, etc...

Also, game reviewers have this huge problem: Everybody that plays games thinks that they can review games. Just like everybody that reads sci-fi thinks they can write it as well.

Obviously, neither fact is true.
 
I'm trying to remember profanity in Fallout, and I just can't think of anything beyond the use of the word, "Damn" in it. Fallout 2 had Jet, motherfucker! Jet! in it, but I can't remember anything other than that either.
 
Saint, there was a fair bit of curses in FO, and more in FO2, even to the point where CA and others admitted there might have been too much. However, the majorit of true Fallouts' profanity were appropriately placed.
 
That's just the point. There was a good bit, but they don't really seem like that much.

Why?

Because they are used in such a way that it adds to the conversation, rather than do something akin to this number which proves again that F:POS' designers are inbred chimps.
 
There wasn't exactly that much to go about on profanity. Sure, FO2 had more than FO1, but like Rosh said, it was more about adding to the dialogue than it was about going on with a session of needless fuckity fucks thrown around.
 
the fact that any profanity in it at all was.. funny but nothing else. thats my take on it anyway - maybe they're lookin for the cheap poo poo language laughs to boost their game's rating in anyway. FART POO COCKA DOO DOO
 
Unkillable Cat said:
Also, game reviewers have this huge problem: Everybody that plays games thinks that they can review games. Just like everybody that reads sci-fi thinks they can write it as well.

Amen!
 
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