I’ve been reading through NMA News for some time, be never the forums. Now I’ve read through some of the hot topics. I would like to express my opinions on some of the matters.
1) Someone mentioned that there haven’t been any good games in ISO perspective. Guess they haven’t heard of WARCRAFT3, SIMCITY4, lmao, how on earth would you build your city in FP view?, It would be possible I guess but with so much frustration, and would have to have lots more detail that it wouldn’t run on today’s top systems, and people wouldn’t really bother with it. Its just like I can’t imagine F3 in FP view, being PROPERLY done. Without ISO F3 is not a PROPER successor to F1/2. Sure it can be done, but I haven’t played any game that came close to having at least GOOD TB combat in FP view. As someone mentioned, Wizardry 8 came close to being GOOD. F1/2 had EXELENT TB combat. Fallout Tactics tried Real-time combat in an ISO view. Guess what, It was total shit. Yes you could do a few first levels, but later on when it became more “interesting” you were pretty screwed, there was no fun, no Tactics, hardly any character control (god save the people using 6 characters at once in RT) and pretty impossible unless you saved often. Now I’m sure that someone finished it that way, but that would have to be maybe 0.001% of all the people that played FT. And I don’t see why you would want to really, being a game that was a letdown. Anyway, a recent release SACRED has ISO, and is selling well. But I guess that some kiddies can’t get their poor minds past FPS.
2) I must say that I am a small Fan of Bethseda. When I hear that name I think of 3 things, Daggerfall, Morrowind but also something less appealing. I loved playing Daggerfall. It was a game of its time to me, and a lot of good ideas have been passed onto Morrowind and the expansions(I’m not going to go into how boring the combat is, the quests are and most of the world it self, but it has a lot of appealing things, that kept me going till the end, rushed of course because the side quest usually aren’t worth jack) . Bethseda can make good games for “what it is that we do best“. There is ONE MAJOR problem with its games that stop it being anything better than good games, and that is BUGS!!!. I haven’t heard anyone mention anything about that yet here. As stated above I haven’t read the whole forums.
Anyone remembers that you COULD NOT finish Daggerfall without Patches that were released later on? It wasn’t recommended to be played by ALL 3 of the gaming magazines in my Country until a few months later when they got rid of a lot of bugs and made IT POSSIBLE TO FINISH. Morrowind seems to follow with its bugs, but the most annoying is frequent crashes to the desktop. On average every 45 mins for me, and that is with both expansions and Bloodmoon patch 1.6.1820. This does not only happen to me, but a MAJORITY of all people playing this game. To some more frequent, to some less. This is what I fear, even if F3 would be made as a TRUE successor to F1/2, with ISO, TB, SPECIAL (omg, omg ,omg I cant belive some people say that Fallout and Morrowind have a very simular “SPECIAL” system, that’s like saying all mammals are nearly the same because they are warm blooded), Dialog trees, huge free to explore world (one thing that “it is that we do best“) and humor.
But in todays games there is not much honor put in, Its all about the least effort with the biggest possible money return. I Fear that I will never be up for 2 whole days and nights playing F2, totally immersed in the fantastic game.
I was more comfortable when the F3 license still had IP, there was a chance that some Dev team that knew and DO what they do best, would buy it and CONTINUE and FINISH VB. There was that medium % due to IP’s financial status, but now that Bethseda have it, it is gone. Even being a Bethseda fan, when looking into this matter, I do not belive they will even come close to Fallout Tactics.
I apologies for my bad grammar. English is not my native language.
Wolfmyth
edit: changed ppl to people, sorry about that.
. I remember getting to san fran and saving during one of the ring fights. Every time I loaded my game after that it crashed :-\. If only I saved just before that, woulda saved a lot of time. But oh well, gave me the opportunity to replay again 
. But aye, I'm off topic... sorry.
