Why We Love… Harold And Bob

[Diospyros]

Well, let's be honest here for a sec. I mean, it annoys me as well, just like the next guy who played F1 and 2, but can you really blame a younger gamer that just started playing games on his 360 for not playing a PC game that's 14 years old and is visually unappealing by today's standards? More than that, here's a question - would you play Wasteland for many hours today? I doubt it. I wouldn't. It's just too dated even for my retro-gaming loving taste. And I'm quite sure that this is what F1 might be to young gamers of today.

Besides, current gen gamers should be blamed for buying shit like Halo, CoD and Gears by the millions, not for a lack of knowledge on a game that was made when they were like 3-4 years old.

Interesting what you say with the Wasteland comparison. I was a teenager when Wasteland came out. I never finished it at the time but always wanted to come back to it. In the late 90s I tried again but ended up with an autosave in a position where I automatically died after it loaded so I gave up on it. Then a year or two ago I tried one more time, but I just couldn't handle the primitive graphics or game engine anymore. So a game that was cutting edge when I first played it has now become virtually unplayable to me. If that happened to me on a game that I remember when it first came out I can fully understand how todays teenagers would think the original Fallouts are so ancient as to be unplayable. It makes me sad but I can't really blame them.

That being said, I'm sure one day I'll get all the way through Wasteland. To this day I still consider Fallout 1 to essentially be the sequel to Wasteland.

 

[Ausir]

Ripping off DokiDoki Panikku is probably the best thing that has ever happened to the franchise. The gameplay quality is miles ahead of traditional Mario gameplay. Unfortunately, they seem to have learned little from it.

Yeah, and ripping off Oblivion is the best thing that even happened to the Fallout franchise. The gameplay quality is miles ahead of traditional Fallout gameplay.