EGM pisses on Fbos

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Electronic Gaming Monthly is the latest to piss on Fbos, in their magazine nr 176 they reviewed Fbos and gave it a (ass)whooping 4.0/10. Here are some bits:<blockquote>What a thermonuclear disappointment. To someone like me, who loved all three Fallout role-playing games on PC, this is a power fist to the face -- an insult, Brotherhood's setting has neither the bleak, epic feel of Fallout's post-apocolyptic Wasteland, nor any of its characteristic '50's retro-futurism. Its mutants and ghouls are merely monsters, not the irradiated subcastes of humanity they were in previous games. Worst of all, its gameplay offers nothing but rote combat, nearly devoid of strategy, story, or purpose.

What's left is a tedious trek through a vapid version of Mad Max. You'll waste your first three hours wandering and hunting vermin. If you make it through that, you'll graduate to boring fetch quests and more extermination missions. The plot improves eventually, but even so it'll seem dumbed down to Fallout fans, while newcomers unfamiliar with the series' story will dismiss it as derivative and campy.
I suspect that, because of financial problems, Interplay had to ship this baby half done. But half-cooked babies just aren't palatable, even in the Wasteland.</blockquote>Ah, that brought a tear to my eye.
Thanks goes out to Arkhamresident for emailing me about this..
 
This article is rife with witty remarks. This quote is classic:
What a thermonuclear disappointment. To someone like me, who loved all three Fallout role-playing games on PC, this is a power fist to the face
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love it
 
Excellent! I knew EGM would do us right.

Who wrote that review, anyway? I think an e-mail congratulations is in order.
 
Don't get stuck on details now..this reviewer knows what he's talking about, at least. Someone with a brain.
 
This has got to hurt, since EGM is pretty much the PCGamer of consoles. Or one of them, as there's a few console rags out there, and EGM is liked a fair amount.

I like Tips & Tricks a fair amount, but that's mainly because through some of their "Japanese corner" pages and others bringing a bit more of Japanese culture to the US (although most otaku act like comple retards), I don't have to import the snacks I like anymore.
 
You know the thing that gets me is that IPLY probably didn't see reviews like this coming - despite the hype loving many gaming mags have given the Fallout games over the years. It probably never even occured to them that at some point, putting the name Fallout on something so utterly obvious how dumbed down and poorly made it was would result in backlash from a major publication because the author of that review would be one of the very people who had fond memories of Fallout.

And really, it should have been something they suspected. X-Com Enforcer got a bit of backlash for it's use of the X-Com name.
 
Show And Tell

Show And Tell

Official U.S. Play Station Magazine, March 2004, issue78: devoted a fifth of page 98 to a FO:BOS review. 2.5 of 5 stars.

Thierry Nguyen on FO:BOS:

I have to admit. I consider FALLOUT to be the best RPG ever made. Its flexibility and elegance in design, in addition to it's great atmosphere, add up to a great package. I'm also a fan of fast-paced action-RPGs. All said, FALLOUT:BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL's fusion of my favorite RPG universe and frantic RPG action should have hooked me.

Instead BOS is merely a decent game dragged to mediocrity by general tedium and a horridly paced beginning. It's pretty much BALDUR'S GATE:DARk ALLIANCE with guns, complete with side quests, towns, skill points, and lots of near mindless baddies to wade through. It looks decent enough, the later guns have snazzy effects, and the overall game is laced with sophomoric humor and profanity.

The problem is with the beginning area, which made me exhale a halfhearted "ugh" while I played it. You kill some idiot humans and then fight giant scorpions, rats, and spiders--for two lengthy dungeons. I understand the whole "work your way up the food chain"
motif (heck, FALLOUT went from rats to mutants in roughly the same order as BOS), but who wants to spend the first two hours in an action-RPG killing giant arachnids? Not me.

Only those who can stomach an inane and tedious beginning might be able to flail their way to the merely decent part of the game. Otherwise, you can safely tuck this away into your fallout shelter as a last-resort piece of entertainment.
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"Champions Of Norrath:Realms of Everquest" was also reviewed on page 102, and got 4.5 of 5 stars, and had a demo on the mag disk.

The reviewer's (Chris Baker) kicker:
... In other words CHAMPIONS is what DARK ALLIANCE 2 should have been.
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Pardon any typo's.

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i love it, finally the REAL reviews are coming out. the people who aren't afraid to offend interplay or isn't being paid off by them is tellin us the real deal. ah... now to sell the fallout license to pay off the employees before interplay goes completely bankrupt. i go to interplay.com daily to see if i get a page not found error yet... still tryin :D :twisted:
 
Roshambo said:
This has got to hurt, since EGM is pretty much the PCGamer of consoles. Or one of them, as there's a few console rags out there, and EGM is liked a fair amount.

I like Tips & Tricks a fair amount, but that's mainly because through some of their "Japanese corner" pages and others bringing a bit more of Japanese culture to the US (although most otaku act like comple retards), I don't have to import the snacks I like anymore.
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I used to like Tips & Tricks alot too, but that was back in 96-97, I mainly got them just for the little articles they put in them like the Jap corner and some other things. Anyways, EGM is prolly the biggest console gaming magazine so its always good that they give it bad scores. They are teh HARDORE of videogames.
 
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