Fallout 3 and Reflection on the Games Industry as a Whole

[Holocausto]

Stupendous post, Yoshee.

... I believe that folks will pay if somebody actually puts in the effort you refer to on something, Holocausto... I'd say Satoshi Tajiri would be a good example of pretty much a lone guy and a small team pulling off something that became a huge and eventually degraded franchise with the early Pokemon games. That sort of effort is still possible. You can't expect every game to be the result of that sort of effort though.

Let's face it... the folks who wanted Fallout 3 to be that sort of effort lost back when Black Isle broke up and Interplay went downhill. You just have to make the best of it. I think the setting and ideals and dialogue potential of Fallout are still there (and I loved them much better than the system, which is much less impressive than the folks who did play it and the folks who never even played it originally come here and 'remember' it to be).

They're what matters. Rather than killing yourself comparing Fallout 3 to 1 and 2... people should compare 3 to BOS and see it as something better... and do what they can to help make the MMO actually entertaining rather than a failure in budget (where most MMOs fail to WoW's 50 mil) or creativity (where most games fail to things like A Tale In The Desert and Puzzle Pirates...which have both found their own measure of success).

That and modding the crap out of Fo3.

My background with the Fallout series is I played the demo of Fallout 1 and that's it. But I am a huge post apoc fan (STALKER despite its flaws) I have been PC gaming since 1993. No game is perfect and I don't expect one to ever be but I am just REALLY REALLY tired of having to turn to modders to fix many current games and make them what they shouldv'e been (or at least try to). It's like people have to pick through kiddie shit and dissect a game and go to ridiculous lengths just to get it to a respectable level and I'm TIRED of it.

Doom 3 is a work of art & an excellent game. They made the jump in technology without losing the core of what the franchise is. bethesda, IMO makes environment simulators that are fabulous to look at and explore for a while...