Gamasutra interviews Jason D. Anderson

lugaru said:
I get what you guys mean but again, this is not a matter of being some sort of game expert that eschews the simple and moronic games in favor of only the best of the best. This is a matter of being mildly obsessed with a 10 year old game, having this feeling fester into something ugly in the dark and unsanitary forum environment and next thing you know you are surrounded by people who rant about strawmen (which I addressed in another thread) and scream fuck you as a means to punctuate sentences.

Sure, I’m a NMA tourist; just here in part for vintage fallout discussion and in part for the freak show, but it would take a long time to have my sense of judgment shrink into such a pitiful and fanatical speck. But I’m sure you guys think that every articulate fan of fallout 3 is secretly a lobotomized Bethesda slave who prays at night for the fallout brand to come to the Wii. I’m just with the designer here, the game is good and the bad stuff (god-awful Arefu vampire quest for example) does not ruin it entirely for me. Or he is saying “if you cant say anything good, don’t say anything at all”, which is a sentiment lost on the fuck you crowd.
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I only ever played the F1 demo. Never played F1 or F2. I am judging F3 on its own merits. I understand that people who really like F3 may actually REALLY like it and to them it's great. To me it isn't. People have their own standards.
 
Or he is saying “if you cant say anything good, don’t say anything at all”, which is a sentiment lost on the fuck you crowd.
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That applies in some cases, in a way you are saying here; "Shut up if you have an opinion that differs from the masses."
 
lugaru said:
Sure, I’m a NMA tourist; just here in part for vintage fallout discussion and in part for the freak show, but it would take a long time to have my sense of judgment shrink into such a pitiful and fanatical speck.
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Dude.

I like you, you're an articulate and intelligent alternate voice which I always try to encourage, but would you quit it with this boxing us all into a narrow conception and shovelling us off? No one is going to be helped by such a belligerent attitude (and if you feel you're just responding in kind, pm me or use the report button, sometimes it takes a foreign eye to spot asocial behaviour amongst our regulars when our mods are being lax)
 
My apologies, I didn’t mean to include the entire forum into some sort of generalization, but in effect that is what I did. It’s just like a lot of people who where around from usenet to youtube I still get riled up by the way that people present their arguments on the internet (lots of "worse ever"). But to you guy’s I must look like some wino that stumbled into a birthday party and is yelling “leave that poor animal alone” as the kids beat up a piñata.
 
Let your anger be as a monkey in a piñata... hiding amongst the candy... hoping the kids don't break through with the stick! *cough cough cough*

(name the quote)
 
lugaru said:
for the fallout brand to come to the Wii.
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Actually, I would say that at least a Fallout game (if similar to 1 and 2) on the Wii would have been able to have a decent control scheme and less focus on "next-gen" graphics. Not as good as a PC with mouse, perhaps, but similar enough. Not that I think that'll happen as long as Bethesda owns the IP :(

Edit: BN, that's Kung Pow, right?
 
**slams a chunk of the Interview on the table... it's still wiggling**


J. Anderson said:
I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
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Split personality, national treasure.., or something else..? Psychodissect that... :whatever:
 
Is it really that hard to understand that he actually likes the game or are you guys just really bad at making sarcasm funny.
 
This discussion seems kind of pointless. For a start, he can't really say that he hates the game without harming his career, so we still have no idea whether or not he liked the game. If he didn't, it's nice that he agrees. If he does, so what? It doesn't cause Fallout 3 to suddenly blossom into a decent game.
 
OK seriously stop, you guys are looking into this way to much, he said he likes Fallout 3, leave it at that, it wasn't a career move, can't someone like the game with out you guys calling that person a liar, I mean just because you hate it doesn't mean everyone has to hate it.

besides for a bunch of people who hate it you sure seem to talk about it a lot. :lol:
 
Dionysus said:
Yes, it's incredibly unlikely that someone could have an opinion that differs from yours. He's probably lying.
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Oh it's possible that he liked it. In fact, near anything is possible. It's possible that Leonardo would have liked this:
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Or that Mozart would have enjoyed Take That's debut album. Entirely possible. Also entirely improbable.
 
Bofast said:
lugaru said:
for the fallout brand to come to the Wii.
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Actually, I would say that at least a Fallout game (if similar to 1 and 2) on the Wii would have been able to have a decent control scheme and less focus on "next-gen" graphics. Not as good as a PC with mouse, perhaps, but similar enough. Not that I think that'll happen as long as Bethesda owns the IP :(
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So, would you prefer playing Super Smash Bros as a super-mutant, a Vault-Dweller, a raider, or a BOS paladin?

:roll:
 
DexterMorgan said:
Dionysus said:
Yes, it's incredibly unlikely that someone could have an opinion that differs from yours. He's probably lying.
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Oh it's possible that he liked it. In fact, near anything is possible. It's possible that Leonardo would have liked this:
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Or that Mozart would have enjoyed Take That's debut album. Entirely possible. Also entirely improbable.
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Its also possible that you are a douche :roll:
 
UnidentifiedFlyingTard said:
Its also possible that you are a douche :roll:
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It's also possible that you are going to get a strike if you flame people without offering sound arguments to counter their position.
 
DexterMorgan said:
Oh it's possible that he liked it. In fact, near anything is possible. It's possible that Leonardo would have liked this:
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That is funny. But despite your hopes and wishes, Fallout 3 isn't just a modification of the original. It is a new game from different devs, and I'm sure Anderson appreciated it as such. I see where you are coming from, but he's just a game designer. I doubt that he's pretentious enough to think of himself as being on par with Mozart or da Vinci. If he was that pretentious, then he would have trashed the game publicly. That sort of thing isn't unheard of (for example, Itagaki is a well-renowned douchebag).
 
Ratty said:
UnidentifiedFlyingTard said:
Its also possible that you are a douche :roll:
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It's also possible that you are going to get a strike if you flame people without offering sound arguments to counter their position.
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Sound arguments that Jason is lying in order to pad his career? No one would give a shit if he said the game sucked except for fanboys, and they really don't have any effect whatsoever.

This is probably the worst load of nonsense I've seen here yet, I don't like Fallout 3 either, but too many people on these boards are just so redundant and incessantly annoying.
I agree with Lugara in several of his points, it's not right to generalize all the inhabitants of the forum, but some of them are the straight stereotypes that he portrays in his posts.

Stop being so generic guys.
 
well to be honest though, what does one expect from a community very much focused on Fallout and its core?

Its a fact that one with a more positive oppinion about Fallout 3 and Bethesda in General will have a hard time here. But again, thast how it goes. One with criticsm about Star Trek beeing unrealistic or that the "new" movie has the spirit of the old ones cant really expect much simpathy when he is complaining about it in "their" hideaway neither. People like something, be it Fallout, Star Trek, Metallica or anything else for a reason.

You have voices in every direction, its the internet afterall and a pool of oppinions. But thats just natural and doesnt seperate the NMA community from many other fanbases. Except maybe that people worship a 10 year old game. But I would not be surprised if most of the people that post here their hate or what ever one would describe as fanatism, just 5 minutes later after the NMA page is down return to their children, husband, friends etc. and just have a usual life.


To say it that way, almost ANYONE has something he can get furious about something if we are not talking about person with a serious problem in feelings that is not able to have any kind of emotions. Even Luguru which seems to be somewhat worried about the Fallout fanatics has something sticking in his room/apartment he is a "fan" (which comes from "Fanatic") of, may it be a band or book or TV show. How people deal with it is a different story.

Someone though who is trying (which doesnt aim at anyone in particular) to explain here that Fallout 3 is a "true" Fallout game, will definetly have a hard time and more then likely be flamed. And Andersons oppinion about F3 will not change anything now even if he would have said straight that F3 is the most true sequel ever. What did he said anyway? That he like the game and that parts remember him to Fallout in some way. Isnt that what a few other people say here as well? Isnt that what either BN or even VD said in his review? that Fallout 3 "has its moments" ? Doesnt mean anything regarding a "true" sequel though which is the real question and issue.
 
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