Editorial Diablo III proves old-school Fallout can do well today

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: Diablo III; Fallout

Pixelitis put up an editorial pondering the subject.

Now in 2012, as I troll the depths of Hell in Diablo III, I’m now more than ever certain that that a new isometric Fallout game would work (and sell) in today’s market.

For me, the widespread critical acclaim for Diablo III - a game that still plays much like Diablo II – tells me that making an isometric PC exclusive title isn’t going to lead to lackluster sales. In its first week, Diablo III received rave reviews and sold a record-breaking 6.3 million units.

An isometric game making bank in 2012? Inconceivable!

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Well, his reasoning is obviously pretty retarded.

 

[hiver]

newfag discovers that the sky is blue. news at eleven.

 

[SCO]

keyword: troll

 

[RK47]

Oh.. OooH!
"Patrick Kulikowski Says:
June 26th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
@Quarex: You’re speaking from the perspective of someone who grew up with and preferred Wasteland’s universe to Fallout’s. Correct, I have never played Wasteland (I hope to someday), but I am speaking as one who started with Fallout and was more familiar and enamored with that universe. Fallout being the literal aftermath of Brian Fargo’s inability to claim rights to the original Wasteland setting doesn’t sully Fallout for me, personally. Wasteland 2′s details and setting will no doubt initially appeal to you more than it will to me, even though I am still looking forward to it immensely."

 

[Outlander]

For me, the widespread critical acclaim for Diablo III tells me that making an isometric PC exclusive title isn’t going to lead to lackluster sales.

And you need Diablo 3 to know that, you hype-swallower, marketing shit-slurper, insolent fuck?

 

[RK47]

See, there's some good from Diablo 3 after all?

What a leap of logic these writers have nowadays...

 

[grotsnik]

as I troll the depths of Hell

Freudian slip. I do hope.

 

[Angthoron]

as I troll the depths of Hell

Freudian slip. I do hope.

Probably an autocorrect from patrol.

 

[grotsnik]

See, I assumed 'trawl'. As in, 'trawl the depths of the ocean'.

 

[SCO]

Troll is actually used as a verb. Mostly as 'looking for' or 'hunting'

3.
to fish for or in with a moving line, working the line up or down with a rod, as in fishing for pike, or trailing the line behind a slow-moving boat.
4.
to move (the line or bait) in doing this.

 

[Grunker]

 

[waywardOne]

Right, because isometric was the sticking point for PC games. Get past that and voila!

 

[mondblut]

Comparing diablow and Fallout, weren't we already considering those people retards back in 1997?

 

[communard]

This might be the dumbest shit I didn't bother to read ever.

 

[Marsal]

 

[Coboney]

What.... The....

I think my IQ just lost a point on the stupidity of the logic here.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

Bioshock:Infinite proves old school System Shock 2 can do well today

Civ V proves old school Alpha Centauri can do well today

Firaxis's X-COM proves old school Jagged Alliance can do well today

 

[Infinitron]

Journotards think camera angle=genre, news at 11

 

[maverick]

Diablo 3 is successful because it is a trend. Not because it is isometric.

 

[Black]

See, D3 does you fags a huge favour, showing that true, hardcore isometric cRPGs are still viable and yet you throw shit at it

 

[Mrowak]

See, D3 does you fags a huge favour, showing that true, hardcore isometric cRPGs are still viable and yet you throw shit at it

So where's the RPG in this RPG?

 

[Black]

What makes an RPG?

 

[Zarniwoop]

We all knew this day was coming, gaming journalists have officially dropped 2 spots on the world IQ rankings:

Old:
Insects
>Gaming journos
Plants
Loaves of bread
Rocks
FretRider

New:
Insects
Plants
Loaves of bread
>Gaming journos
Rocks
FretRider

And it's by no means a clear-cut case, rocks are ahead in several categories.

 

[DragoFireheart]

We all knew this day was coming, gaming journalists have officially dropped 2 spots on the world IQ rankings:

Old:
Insects
>Gaming journos
Plants
Loaves of bread
Rocks
FretRider

New:
Insects
Plants
Loaves of bread
>Gaming journos
Rocks
FretRider

And it's by no means a clear-cut case, rocks are ahead in several categories.

- Are you implying that gaming journalist were living, thinking things at one point? I mean, you put them above plants and rocks but just below insects. I thought they were just automated programs of shit like gaudaost.