OXM responds to the Fallout community

I'm 24 and I own a xbox 360. I may fall within thier demographic but I am not one of those awesome explosions michael bay douches. I started the series off with Fallout 2 around the time that Fallout Tactics came out. Fell in love with the game, played it to death. Play the 1st one and then bought tactics. I don't know about other people my age, but I know when I am introduced to a series through a sequel, I tend to want to go back and play the originals, but then again I love a good story.

 

Yes. Yes I think we all know what their "main" demographic group is here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU[/youtube]

 

Which is why the game came with a manual with a section that explained what to do in the temple.

Unintuitive interface? Are we talking about the same game?

IMHO some games need demos to hook up new players (to show off the game's gimmicks). Fallout demo could get player into a serious fight in the first minutes of playing.
When I saw a character torn apart by automatic fire, I knew that I must buy this game.

 

By today's standards it probably is. The click and hold thing probably is, so might be the right clicking to change the cursor, though I think both are discoverable. Still, I'd say that the problem with the interface is more that it's clunky (the inventory menu is where most of the problem is) than that it's unintuitive, though given how the mouse has been used in games for the past decade, it's probably both. Having been playing games for so long and having played so many older games with clunky and bad interfaces, my ability to quickly adapt to non-standard but functional interfaces is a little higher, and I'm sure it's the same for a lot of folks on NMA.

 

Yeah, inventory is the only issue. The fan mod that allowed the use of mousewheel made life a lot easier.

The rest of it is not that bad. It's very much discoverable, and I mean the "F1" button isn't there for show.

 

Well you see friends. This is the point in which OXM (guy of importance) realizes that "oh shit we didn't apply this issue to the entire demographic". So what does one do in such case?! Double talk. I'm glad Obsidian has taking the reins to this series minuet/major induction but one must keep in mind it is in fact all under the thumb of Bethesda. So God only knows what other atrocities they have in store.

 

Hmm. I was about 14-15 when I was introduced to Fallout by a classmate. Of course he lent me the CD without the manual. I learned the interface within a couple of hours and was hooked. Funny how a kid can be bad to mediocre at school subjects, yet quickly learn an 'unintuitive' game interface and even like the game.

 

story of my life. I basically learned english from playing games even before we started having it in school. they should have more games in school.

 

38 seconds into the film the boy named Ethan unknowingly endorses Block Buster.

 

The gaming world be so much better if parents didn't let their kids decide what games to play and enable them with money.

Dare to dream.

 

Yeah, just quit dreaming now. Universal, what movie is your avatar from?

 

It's a Sontaran from Doctor Who.

 

Bethesda pulling the strings

My bet is that Bethesda orchestrated all this. Bethesda probably offered an exclusive scoop if OXM did not talk at all about Interplay's earlier games.

 

Re: Bethesda pulling the strings

It's a conspiracy!

 

tin foil hats for all.

 

The Fallout Tactics one was an improvement.

 

And you actually do have to click a myriad times to get to a given item.

 

I was just thinking the same. the inventory system is good in that it gives you a lot of information and it's easy to tell things apart by the nice looking icons. but with no sorting and having to click those damn arrows, it's horrible to manage. plus, from what I can remember, you can't even double-click or right-click items to move them directly to your backpack - you have to drag and drop, which is also painfully annoying.