Editorial 2008: The Year in Review

[DarkUnderlord]

Tags: The Year in Review

<p>In the grand tradition of summarising the year's events into some kind of summary, here's our summary of the events of 2008 in a summarised fashion. <a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=181">What did 2008 bring in RPGs</a>?</p>
<blockquote>In 2004 Bethesda Softworks decided that what the world of Tamriel needed was guns. Only they couldn't bring themselves to just add guns in and call it a day. Oh no, instead they decided they needed another name for it... so they bought the Fallout 3 license. D-Day arrived on the 28th October, 2008. After years of speculation and false starts, ITZ had finally happened. That of which we dared not dream had finally been born... Fallout 3. Sure, it may have been born as the bastard son of Oblivion but it was born none-the-less.</blockquote>
<p>If you're feeling nostalgic, catch up on previous years below:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=181">2008: The Year in Review</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=167">2007: The Year in Review</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=139">2006: The Year in Review</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=122">2005: The Year in Review</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=115">2004: The Year in Review</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=94">2003: The Year in Review</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=27">RPG Codex's picks for best CRPGs of 2002</a></li>
</ul>

 

[laclongquan]

Sigh

We can just feel the love in the air last year, right.

Sigh

Let's turn back to Fallout 2. I heard some peeps released a bunch of mods for it.

 

[Claw]

This article reminded me that I still haven't unwrapped Alpha Centauri myself.

 

[cutterjohn]

Someone should clue Vogel in on the Torque Engine or other similar cheap/free ones, and the many producers of generic fantasy(and other) models, textures, and FX. Also cheap computer graphics guys.

You forgot to mention all of the nifty new little animations that to TWEE. It was the very first thing that I noticed! Also your new machine, must not be much better than your old (or Vista really and truly still blows) as my load times were never excessivle long (4800+ x2, 2GB win2k then xp (damn you securom, damn you! also damn the half-assed "cracks")). I sort of like the music CDs too... But yes, TW is really an ARPG, but I thought that most people would figure that out in the first 30s, and it was one of the better games of the year in which it was first released. (I still don't know why they bother to license Aurora as they re-wrote the main/important chunks of it completely(rendering engine).)

Also you didn't give Space Siege nearly enough credit for removing every last vestige of RPGishness from DSII and placing it in space. Of course it sounds as though D3 is going this route as well.

 

[oldschool]

Y'all should really play Alpha Centauri. It's awesome.