"Forgotten" PC games

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411mania presents a list of "Forgotten PC Games". The odd thing? They list Baldur's Gate II, Fallout 2 and Morrowind. Honestly, those are forgotten gems? Who forgot them?<blockquote>Pure RPG excellence is the name of the game for Fallout 2 and its predecessor. Developed by Black Isle Studios and released in 1999, Fallout 2 is probably one of the greatest RPGs out there. While the sequel didn't receive as many awards as its predecessor, Fallout 2 is typically selected by the community as being the better of the two because there is no mission time limit, but more importantly there is more to do and see. Dripping with an excellent plot, setting and superb character creation/interaction, Fallout 2 can easily be recommended to any fan of the RPG genre.</blockquote>Link: The Forgotten PC Games 06.05.08: Role-Playing Gems on 411Mania.

Spotted on BethBlog.
 
You know, the reason dumbass articles like these keep springing up again and again is because third-party sites (like fan sites, special interest sites and discussion forums) keep linking to them and "spreading the word". The host doesn't care whether the article's reception is good or bad, someone is reading them, where's the problem?

Maybe if there some kind of boycott of the dumb articles (and the websites that host them) there might be a drastic improvement in the quality of the articles. Wishful thinking, I know.
 
haha, oho, wow...

really, don't try acting alternative if you aren't. it's just sad. i suppose next time they'll tell us that Duke Nukem and Doom is forgotten, right?
 
Maybe BS is trying to brainwash the masses.

"These are not the Fallouts you are looking for...."
 
Baldurs Gate 2? Fallout 2? They´re about the only games I still remember(and fondly at that) over the last ten years.
And, yes, Morrowind as well.

Strange...

First time poster by the way, Greetings all :D
 
They are forgotten, because they're not made this year.
If they would make a list of ''forgotten composers'', it would include Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.
 
Slaughter Manslaught said:
Maybe Bethesda made a deal with Mephisto so we would all forget about the original Fallouts, so THEY can make us remember, as they want to?
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(wakes up and looks around)

MJ?

Where are you?

MJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh well, I still have Aunt May for wheatcakes and my endless supply of tube socks...
 
^^^^

Though I haven't read those comics the sad thing is that it will probably be like that.

Bethesda "What Fallout 1? Technically you must see Fallout 3 as Fallout 1, we sure as hell wouldn't want to drag up a ten year old game again when we try to create something new here."
 
BG and Fallout? Those would go far better on a list of 'Games Busy Gaming Journalists and Most of Today's ADD Gamers Never Finish'.

And the only things that are forgotten in the last 10+ years are the basics of good rpg simulation: freedom of choice with proper consequence, non-linear quest/mission completion, hard and logical strategy-based combat, and adherence to consistency and continuity in plot, setting, and theme.

Forgotten games? I don't think so. Abandoned templates for games? Certainly. Big difference, but to the uneducated eye (i.e. a pop culture site) it is nothing more than a base impression, a vomiting forth of phrase bubbled up from the acidy ether that is the blog-hack brain. It doesn't matter that it's nonsensical.

Then again, ya think it's just a tie-in reference to The *Forgotten* Realms setting of BG?

Oh, and sign me up for forgetting Morrowind please.
 
Oh, I never finished BG and BG2 either. The tripe was just too unbearable after I had gotten through only half of it.

And Fallout 2 -- the Enclave was usually where I got bored. Especially that ridiculous maze.
 
winterraptor said:
BG and Fallout? Those would go far better on a list of 'Games Busy Gaming Journalists and Most of Today's ADD Gamers Never Finish'.
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Hey... thats cheap polarising...
ADD is not about a short attention span in general, but an short attention span for stuff you dont find interesting.

The commonly short attention span of the well known casual gamers has nothing to do with ADD, its the masses that dont read a book if they arent forced to and that prefer short news clips over news papers and comics over novels...

so stop repeating all that bullshit you might have heard...
 
>>>The commonly short attention span of the well known casual gamers has nothing to do with ADD<<<

I wasn't making an argument on the particulars of ADD. What I was using is called 'hyperbole', i.e. exaggeration that is hopefully discernable to reasonable and intelligent persons, for the purposes of added emphasis. It is tool of language. If it wasn't discernable to you well...that's your problem.

Bullshit I may have heard? About ADD? I don't really give a rat's ass about ADD. Why you have come to the conclusion that I was poking at ADD, considering most of my post was about the industry, I haven't the foggiest.

Perhaps you think I'm elitist about rpg gamers? Reading too much into it, friend. Even discounting exaggeration, I was merely countering the articles' dismissive attitude towards a brand of rpgs (the first two anyway) that were of a style that is mostly dissimilar to what passes for 'rpg' these days. Developers aren't making these types of games anymore, presumably because of the market.

The market is there, they've just catered, maybe even created another. The *market* has been forgotten, and meanwhile we have articles calling some of the few left of a brand and style of game forgotten.
 
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