WTF man? Are you trying to flamebait the entire forum?

Playing victim as usual?

As usual? Whose alt are you? Obviously one of the larger trolls. Why don't you just come clean and tell us your real avatars name.

I know you're one of the guys who complained about the PS3 version of the game, and that no-one should buy it. I also know that's really why you made this topic. Nobody makes topics about "their opinion" without an obvious motive. I've been investigating you from this thread opening, but there is no way I can ping your IP without having admin access, so why don't you tell us.

You own a PS3, you obviously know me, and we've had quite a few runins in the past, and I have a very, very good idea who you are....but I'm not gonna bust somebody out like that. Post on your real avatar, and then we'll talk.

For future reference, hanging around with a little "online" below your avatar when you have like 50 posts, waiting for someone to take the bait...is a dead giveaway to your experience as a troll.

*Online*

Holy hell, wtf are you talking about man? If you think I'm a 360 fanboy you are completely mistaken, it's also VERY funny to see how the PS3 fanboys immidiately think it's a 360 fanboy who is dissing them, but that's a topic for a different thread. I'm sorry, a walking burlap sack.... people have come up with better ideas while high or dropping acid. Why is he a burlap sack, what's wrong with his whole world, why does everything look like a 3 year old made it?

Edit: Zen made the rest of this obsolete so no point of saying it.

The game has its moments

I came across a radio message from a man describing the medical condition his son was in. He was practically in tears, begging for anyone to come and help him. Eventually I found the shelter he described and I expected to be greeted by the man and some sort of side quest. Instead I found two skeletons, arm in arm, lying against the wall. Next to them was a radio repeating the pre-recorded message.

Its stuff like this that makes me overlook the games faults.

Fallout is clearly a '50s influence, as seen in the advertisments, leather jacket gangs, and dialect.  Bioshock's influences predates this era by around 15 - 20 years.  I know its supposed to feel WW2 era, but Bioshock always reminds me of the roaring 20's with flappers, guys wearing knickers, and ragtime.

Nice catch there. Though the OP fails in many many more ways that are far simpler than that.

The setting for Fallout is pretty perfect actually. Fits in with previous games, and fits in with the apoctalyptic literature of the 50's.

Even though I gave my 12 point bitchiness about the game, that really is just me being an elitist fallout Fan (Hey, it has the name). I do recommend giving it a shot.

Okay. It's very simple kiddies.  So, drop the air of anger and listen.

In the 50's following the end of Wordl War II, and the panic ensuing from the invent of the atomic bomb, we entered an era filled with fear and prophecies of nuclear armageddon.  Therefore, regardless of the year listed the decor of the 50's was used as it was this period of time that personified the fear o9f what has actually occured in the game.

Secondly, the era of the artwork of Bioshock was primarily art deco with afew steampunk elements thrown in for good measure.  Art Deco architecture began in the mid 20s and ran until 1939.  Putting it long before the decor of Fallout.

Thirdly, while I understand the initial confiusion as to what the repating element on the highwat is, as I thought the first one was a cell phonbe as well, they are actually the reflectors that are placed in the lane lines on every road in America.  Do they really look like that?  I don't know I've only seen them at night, and they are reflective then.  Some clues to that should have been that they were always located in the lane lines, they repeated ever so many feet, and that there were no cell phones in the 50's.

Fourthly, the only noticable repeating trash texture is not a magazine, it's a pack of cigarettes.  And just like today, there are dominant brands of tobacco.  So, it's highly likely to see the same bran over and over.

The Oblivion engine is becoming dated regardless of the platform.  I still find distant textures and architecture, as well as the use of HDR to be brilliant and beautiful, but your charcter, weapon, and nearby textures not on NPCs have begun to look dated.

Finally, I appreciate that some people may not like the retrofuturism theme present in games like this and Bioshock, but if you already knew that, why even play the game?

Regardless, I think the ambience and immersion factor surrounding the atmosphere of the game incredibly enjoyable.  Elemetns such as pausing combat are there only to appease long time fans of the FO series, as it was a top-down turn-based series until FO3.  No one forces you to use VATS, or to heal in the middle of combat.  If you find that breaks the immersion for you, simply don't use the featires.

I find it is a great compromise between the Elder Scrolls series and the heart of the original FallOut series, and I am pleasantly surprised at how much I have enjoyed it, as I felt sure it wouldn't do FO 1 and 2 justice.