John Yossarian said:Watch it boy, or I'll unsig you! Now that VD gave up his secret search function thingy, I can find dumb stuff* going all the way back to 2002 and sig them.
*Like: "For the sake of coherency, we dumbed down our review."
Of course.. I just suggested it to get Gold Box games fair recognition, really (with individual games, none of them will make the cut, as everyone will likely label a different one as their favorite). I personally disliked the Savage Frontier series, but enjoyed Krynn.. I still ended up playing GSF/TSF through once.Ladonna said:It wouldn't work if we are to answer the OP honestly; What is the most fun, etc. I merely answered this based on a)What games I enjoyed the most and b) Which games I finished and perhaps even played through again. If I didn't finish a game, I didn't put it in my list.
As to your thoughts of 'Mobbing' certain games together, I loved POR but hated Curse.
I'll give you the engine (there were minor differences, but eh), but FO1 went for the 'less is more' approach while FO2 was a lot longer (with better party management, etc), but not as focused as FO1.Volourn said:Huh? FO1, and FO2 have the same exact engine with the game play being exactly the same as well. L0L
Fallout 2 more votes than Ultima 7...
*shakes head*
Jasede said:Well, if it was according to me, everyone who considers Fallout better than Ultima 7-2 or Wizardry 6, 7 or 8 should be stoned, but-
Because Fallout 2 is so... bad. The jokes. The 4th-wall breaking. China-men in San Fran. Way of the dragon. A god-damn porn studion. Too many hookers. Everything felt so incoherent and pasted together, like a jigsaw puzzle where pieces have been modified with scissors to make them fit. The only thing I liked in Fallout 2 was... hmm... Vault City. (Then again, I am not a huge Fallout fan in the first place, though I do think Fallout 1 is leaps and bounds better than 2).
Keldorn said:Your criticisms are subjective.
Jasede said:Keldorn said:Your criticisms are subjective.
I stopped reading there because... well, think about it.
The fact that both the Fallout games are introduced with such stylistically coherent and pitch perfect black comedy makes those issues all the more grating. Pre-apocalypse Vault Boy, his 'instructional' movies, and the sense of upbeat '50s naivety are all brilliantly conceived and juxtapose wonderfully with the post-apocalyptic grimness of Ron Perlman's introductory speech.Jasede said:random cultures mixed together in no coherent manner, fourth wall breaking of the foulest kind and Monty Python references in every third dialogue.
muds_animal_friend said:The fact that both the Fallout games are introduced with such stylistically coherent and pitch perfect black comedy makes those issues all the more grating. Pre-apocalypse Vault Boy, his 'instructional' movies, and the sense of upbeat '50s naivety are all brilliantly conceived and juxtapose wonderfully with the post-apocalyptic grimness of Ron Perlman's introductory speech.Jasede said:random cultures mixed together in no coherent manner, fourth wall breaking of the foulest kind and Monty Python references in every third dialogue.
And then they go and piss it all away with infantile pop-culture references. Note to game developers: art assets require an art director, writing assets require an editor, code requires a lead developer, and the game as a whole requires a project director capable of ensuring all these elements mesh together coherently. If I wanted half-assed versions of Monty Python routines I’d hang around in student bars.
Jasede said:Well, if it was according to me, everyone who considers Fallout better than Ultima 7-2 or Wizardry 6, 7 or 8 should be stoned, but-
Because Fallout 2 is so... bad. The jokes. The 4th-wall breaking. China-men in San Fran. Way of the dragon. A god-damn porn studion. Too many hookers. Everything felt so incoherent and pasted together, like a jigsaw puzzle where pieces have been modified with scissors to make them fit. The only thing I liked in Fallout 2 was... hmm... Vault City. (Then again, I am not a huge Fallout fan in the first place, though I do think Fallout 1 is leaps and bounds better than 2).
cardtrick said:Also, Whoopi Goldberg sucks.