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Fallout 3
KvP:
Certainly. In most playthroughs you'll get at least one special Monty Python encounter. Plus, talking scorpions / plants and the like. The fanbois have a point in that Black Isle deviated quite a bit from the first game in tone, but overall I thought it stayed consistent enough. Those first few playthroughs it didn't matter. It's still an excellent game in spite of the somewhat frequent bad ideas.
Alex C:
Agreed; I've actually played Fallout 2 more than the first. Fallout 1 was an indelible experience, but there was more stuff to goof around with in the second, and I think there was a certain amount of wisdom involved with switching things up. Fallout 1 nailed the mythos perfectly, I think, and I really wasn't sure they had anywhere else to go after its completion; the story already had an excellent ending, the kind that the setting's internal logic demanded, which ironically is something we so rarely get to enjoy due to the kneejerk impulse to staple on a happy ending or artificial sense of closure. I guess I'm saying that Fallout 1 was so satisfying for me that it felt perfectly natural to treat the sequel as more of a highly enjoyable victory lap than a true successor. I wasn't in any way disappointed either; I mean, shit, I got to shoot a pissed off super intelligent mutant rat in the balls with a shotgun. Good times.
Stryc9Fuego:
The Monty Python references, Mad Max cameos, troll/ogre super mutants, and general lunacy don't matter. They can deviate from the main games in any way they want. First person, third person, 3D, sprites... but there's one thing they can never change.
War. War never changes.
(>sniff, sniff< who left all this CHEESE here?)
Narr:
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--- Quote from: Narr on 28 Jan 2008, 16:45 ---first person perspecting seems too much like a gameplay device rather than simply another point of view for dramatic effect.
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Heaven forbid, right?
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Yes. I want turn-based action-point CRPG action, goddamn it. There hasn't been many good CRPGs in this millenia, and a throwback to things that were genuinely witty AND difficult AND had good pacing would be awesome. I'm burnt out on first person shooters what with all the good ones released this last year. STALKER, Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock? I don't want Fallout: Oblivion. I want Fallout 3.
Understand where my forboding sense of dread comes from?
Don't get me wrong. Oblivion was very fun and I enjoyed it. Repainting it with the Fallout universe (which they've significantly altered from the look of it) would really irk my chain.
Oh and about Star Wars: Seriously, tell me that guy in the power armor in that photo doesn't look like a Dark Trooper from the old Star Wars: Dark Forces game.
The extra letter:
Hey, at least they still have the little wheel on the back of the power armour.
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