Torillian said: Ahh...well if your indignation was toward fanboys in general than I apologize. You must not know Shio's preference as well as I, his utter disdain of JRPG's and love for WRPG's interests me as it's the complete opposite of my own. |
In my bitter experience with the man, I've found him to be a stealth assassin's type poster, who likes to simply watch until the opportunity for a scathing comments reveals itself.
That's vastly off topic, however.
It appears that Fallout 3 is everything I'd hoped. Here are the facts of my knowledge about the game.
The presser at the MS conference kinda sucked. I was dissapointed in the game.
Then, luckily, later I was able to view the game on G4 at a personal demo and I realized just how great the game really does look.
First, is appears that the world and order in which you do things is completely open. Also, the game isn't a FPS and doesn't revolve around the combat, unlike the MS demo made it appear. Instead, combat is actually very nearly turn based, with percentages covering each limb.
Also, your own limbs are suceptable to damage, which can gimp your abilities until you've healed your wounds.
You can takes pills, but you can also get addicted to them, and your abilities will decrease until you find more of them.
There are these booths that you can just duck into in the middle of battles to protect yourself, very wierd.
The story seems fantastic with this sort of overworld halfassed government thing. Lots of cool stuff, and a very fallout2esque flavor in the game.
Most people who hate on it, don't really know much about it. They've seen the MS presser and the demo sucked, so they assume the game was a dissapointment.
However, they failed to follow E3 pass the press conferences or marginalized the game, judging a "book by its cover."
I am fully expecting a 2 page flame about how my opinion is wrong, and how I've unfairly characterized everything, ect.
Really though, I mean, I've been posting here long enough, you know what's up. Fallout 3 will be great. You don't have to go track down if I'm right and post opinions about how you think it'll be. Just TRUST me. Fallout 3 will probably be great. I'm guessing AAA. Don't flame it, cause it's gonna come back on you when the game is released.