Why Fallout3 (in my own mind) can't be online

[Guest]

You see...my perspective is this: Fallout is the greatest CRPG I have ever played. If someone can tell me different, please do so so that I can get one hell of a game. NOW, Ultima Online (from what I hear from players) is just a game where you start off, get good equipment etc., and be the strongest you can be. This would be fun for maybe a week, a month at most. Play king of the hill, so to speak. Be the all powerful player as long as you can 'til someone "gets better."

Fallout can not be this, IMHO. There can be a game like the above with a post apocolyptic atmosphere, but it could not be the wished for Fallout 3. WHY? Fallout is a RPG. Online RPGs simply don't seem to offer the same "feel" needed. Fallout would have to change COMPLETELY to fit the online genre. No one who is trully a Fallout fan wants this, I'm sure. They want a similar game to be their online fantasy Fallout Game. I, like most people I've noticed on this board, have yet to see a GOOD online ROLE PLAYING GAME. I think I'm getting repeatative here, so I'll leave someone else to clean up after me, hehehe.

 

[Roshambo]

>You see...my perspective is this: Fallout
>is the greatest CRPG I
>have ever played. If someone
>can tell me different, please
>do so so that I
>can get one hell of
>a game. NOW, Ultima Online
>(from what I hear from
>players) is just a game
>where you start off, get
>good equipment etc., and be
>the strongest you can be.
>This would be fun for
>maybe a week, a month
>at most. Play king of
>the hill, so to speak.
>Be the all powerful player
>as long as you can
>'til someone "gets better."
>

Case in point, and a very good point.
UO was shit, no mater how you dice it. Ultima (discounting the last two in the series, 8 and 9) were great games, and extremely good CRPGs. Then, along comes UO and every little chimp and their 8 year-old brother come along to "smack down" or kill everyone without care. So what if you can fish for hours on end (within the safety of the guards), or do many other things - essentially it comes down to that there is very little there. No engrossing story, no character depth (in fact, you will find most characters in UO to be as shallow as the player), and certainly no resemblence of order. About the best approxamation could be said that it was frontier law, only run by 8-10 year-olds.

I used to be in one of those "big RP guilds". Half of them don't have a clue how to RP, and couldn't do so to save their (virtual) lives. The other half were just there for the ride.

I still found the game to be lacking severely of anything that remotely resembles a wonderful RPG like Fallout. Or for that matter, anything like Ultima.

Online RPGs are like Marxist Communism.
Good in theory and on paper, but trust it to the loads of hairless apes to mess it up all to hell.

 

[Guest]

Hehehe....I don't know whether to take that as good or bad..

..but I'll take it as good seeing as how you pretty much seem to agree with me, heh. One reason I like the post (along with all the other moderators ''replies'') is that you use humorous, yet truthfully acurate comparisons to other things. AT least YOU guys can bring some humor to this place, hehehe

 

[Roshambo]

RE: Hehehe....I don't know whether to take that as good or b

>..but I'll take it as good
> seeing as how you
>pretty much seem to agree
>with me, heh. One reason
>I like the post (along
>with all the other moderators
>''replies'') is that you use
>humorous, yet truthfully acurate comparisons
>to other things. AT least
>YOU guys can bring some
>humor to this place, hehehe
>



We try to be funny where applicable.

I agree with you about the online stuff, as online games aren't anything compared to real RPGs.

To be honest, and I will impart some info from when I was a Counselor for UO....

Online games are there to get your money, plain and simple. Of your $10 that you send to OSI, not even $5 will cover the expenses of the servers and employees. The rest is pure profit.

So as long as they can make promises and such, teasing the people who play the game to sucker then into continuing for another month, then they get the money they want.

I don't want to see that happen to Fallout. As a UDIC member, I did get together with other UDIC members there in UO, but most of the UDIC I have talked to are thoroughly disgusted with the negative attention UO has placed on the Ultima series.