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Any Fallout multiplayer that still is FALLOUT, and not TACTICS or FPS or ARENA and so on - will be purchased by me in 500 copies.
Of course, the best option is the FALLOUT SINGLE PLAYER PLAYED BY MANY PEOPLE OVER MULTIPLAYER game will be the best thing, but a small scale fallout multiplayer as a TRY - to see how it goes and how people like it so in feedback they can see if they should make a big full multiplayer game - will also be ok.
Most people resist to any multiplayer fallout as they say - " I WANT ONLY TURN-BASED BATTLE" , and when people say - "what's wrong with a turn-based multiplayer?" they say:
"people can escape before dying, they can stop the game in the middle and ruin it all for you"
but hey, what the fuck?
With whom are you playing? the Diablo community? with a group of 10,000 users?
This is the FALLOUT community, there are only 2,3 major fan-sites and most of the big boards and most of the users go to them only.
If someone will quit before dying, or abuse the turn-base, then he will ruin the fun of himself as well, and i doubt any FALLOUT player will do that, but say he does, you can just ignore him, or you can just get to know people, and play with them only.
Like say I know my friend, and then we meet some guy in the MAIN CHAT, and we find out he's cool, then we won't worry about him abusing the turn-
based.
In ANY multiplayer you can meet idiots, jerks, cheaters and people who quit before dying, PKs, thieves and so on...
But this just makes the game more fun.
This what brings to CLANS and such...
The GOOD vs the IDIOTS WHO ABUSE TURN-BASED
This will be a very short battle, for the IDIOTS will be a very small group, or it won't exist at all.
People who took the time and payed the money to play Fallout are GENERALLY more clever and better gamers than the DIABLO, or REAL-TIME ACTION-PACKED games as people described them.
I doubt a real idiot who is able to abuse turn-based had bought Fallout, or took the time to play such a complex game (relatively
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About TIME.
Indeed, multiplayer may SLOW down the FO3 if they work on it the same time, and if they started FO3 right after FO2, we would now probably already saw a demo of FO3 and it would have been published this year or the next one, and a multiplayer would have been possible.
So, instead of doing the multiplayer exactly the same time as the FO3, and assuming it won't be connected to FO3, they can publish it - YEARS later as far is im concerned, and make it:
"FALLOUT FOREVER" or something, and make it a big multiplayer game with full story, weapons, NPCs and features.
Then sell Fallout licenses to whoever wants them and we will see F04, FO5, and so on...
I bought this game by mistake, and this was the best mistake i have ever done.
FALLOUT RULES
I'm aware of the sad fact though, that with time, the FALLOUTs will become more and more like the other games in the market, and in the future will look less like Fallout and more like some Simulator.
3D sux.
I HATE YOU 3D.
It's like the difference between a comic book, and a cartoon movie.
IT's like the difference between a PC, and a palm pilot.
Duh, not all new stuff in thecnology and "improved stuff" are bad, but most of them, today, are.
At least the ones connected to multimedia, gaming, interface, and so on...
Windows 95 was Ok, it was even kinda nice, inspite of the crashes here and there
Windows 98 is complex, ever-crushing, and annoying
windows 2000 is EWWWWACH.
It's like the difference between the GODFATHER1, and Godfather 2.
Or, the difference between BACK TO THE FUTURE 1&2, to 3.
SOMETIMES - SEQUELS SUCK.
And it began in FO2.
Duh, it was an excellent game, and i NEEDED IT.
But the interface (the bottom control bar) was ugly, compared to the first.
The changes were slight, but it made it look more like a tunebox than a rusty control panel.
The music in the begining, was NOTHING compared to the VERY catchy and MATCHING tune of "maybe".
Some parts in the game just seemed bad.
Fallout 1 was PERFECT, it just lacked a bigger world, and that, FO2 had.
I wish, tho i know it won't be, FO3 to be like FO1, only HUGE and with a completely different plot. make the main character the lost and SEPERATED brother/sister of the original FO1 char, and make him come from Vault 34 or come from a town, or a tribe/clan.
Make his quest completely different.
No longer a huge threat and a big prob, but make his quest, FOR ONCE, about HIMSELF or not related to saving his home, and THE WHOLE AREA from a big threat.
For example, make him discover that he has a brother/sister , and he will go search for them.
He doesn't know where to start, so he goes out to the wasteland, leaving his home - and going to find clues.
Then in the end, he finds arroyo and his brother/sister becomes your NPC.
Then you go NORTH, to north-west USA, and play the 2nd half of the game.
ORRRRRR..........
You could just GO.. you say: "father, it is time... i am an adult now, and im sick of staying at this boring town. It is time for me to discover the wasteland."
And you go out, when only given a small map, with like 3 cities marked on it.
You can choose to go to any of them, and the one you choose, will set your main path.
THIS WAY, you have 3 main ways of playing the game, and each of them will have some end, and when you finish one, you can try the other 2!!!
anywhen, again, I've written way too much
Klayhamn - ThieFoRent
