The Vault Dweller
always looking for water.
Ausir has written his second part of his play of the public demo from gamescom. It says quite a lot and gives an overall opinion.<blockquote>There are many references to places and characters from Van Buren throughout the game, and some even appear in the flesh, like Alice McLafferty or Arcade Gannon. However, calling it a remake of Van Buren to any extent is a mistake, says Sawyer. They did reuse things that they liked and didn’t want to go to waste, and generally things that by now, after years of working on Van Buren and of running their personal PnP campaigns set in the Fallout world, they simply personally consider to be a part of the Fallout setting no more than the returning characters and factions from Fallout 1 and 2, and included them where their appearance would make sense. However, the main story itself was never based on Van Buren in any way – probably because it would require a much larger scope than one city and its surroundings.
While I personally look forward to playing the full game, and will likely enjoy it (or am I writing this only because I got a t-shirt?), I still predict that some people will be (and in many cases already are) disappointed by it – some because it’s still too much like Fallout 3, some because it changed too many of the things they loved about Fallout 3. While I doubt it will be very attractive to people who aren't already fans of the series, especially due to its dated graphics, it will most likely appeal to most fans of Fallout 3 and to at least some of the fans of the original games who were not that fond of Fallout 3, especially those for whom the weak story and dialogues were the main turnoff in Bethesda’s game, as they seem to be among the strongest points of the new game. </blockquote>You can read it all at The Vault.
While I personally look forward to playing the full game, and will likely enjoy it (or am I writing this only because I got a t-shirt?), I still predict that some people will be (and in many cases already are) disappointed by it – some because it’s still too much like Fallout 3, some because it changed too many of the things they loved about Fallout 3. While I doubt it will be very attractive to people who aren't already fans of the series, especially due to its dated graphics, it will most likely appeal to most fans of Fallout 3 and to at least some of the fans of the original games who were not that fond of Fallout 3, especially those for whom the weak story and dialogues were the main turnoff in Bethesda’s game, as they seem to be among the strongest points of the new game. </blockquote>You can read it all at The Vault.
I wonder if that counts as a double negative?