Feargus Urquhart said:
In other words - what you guys are saying is not helping your case. I'm sure Bethesda will listen to some of what you guys say if the words "No Talent Ass Clowns" or "it better be better than MW" are not included in every sentance.
Maybe, maybe not. Ok, Bethesda Devs, I'd be surprised if you were still reading here...here is what I, senor crufty, would like to see in my very own fallout game.
1. A 3d isometeric interface. Let me zoom out ridiculously far and zoom in ridiculously close. 2D kind of sucks sometimes. If somebody wants a 2d interface, let them disable the rotate. This is a big one, because nobody really lets you zoom out very far these days. NWN to a degree, but that doesn't count, as it's not...
2. Turn based combat. Because I'm too crufty to direct the action in real time.
3. Full party control. Yes yes it's fun and all having my teammates waste me, but I would like to be able to control their inventory and their combat movements.
4. Dogmeat
5. Give me a car
6. That I can arm
7. And let me buy a few for my teammates
8. And let me start my own gang
8a. vis-a-vis Dark Future. Not car wars. Dark future.
9. give me a gun out of the blocks. None of this starting with a knife shit.
10. Give me peversion. Not simply murderous, bloody satanic perversion--but dark, twisted perversion like the kind propogated by fat politicians. Or, fly to Tijuana and just watch 24 hours go by.
10a. Give me a story that follows the memes of the post-apoc. worlds. Isolation. Despair. A world gone terribly wrong, people trying to make it right, but following a different moral path then what we know today.
10b. Read the mangas "Grey", "Frontierline"
11. And make it funny.
12. And gibs. Lots of gibs.
13. Focus on specific events and one off action. Avoid copy/paste events. That's part of the magic of FO (and nethack). Avoid the tempationt to write design docs that say "This is bob. He says foo, and uses model A. This is fred, he says bar, and uses model B. Other than that, the impact on the game world is the same, except the player knows foo and bar." Not every npc has to be unique, but the more little things a player can do, the better the environment. The more interactions between actors outside of the player, the more involving the environment.
13a. And because it's turn based, you won't need as MANY locales to stretch the game out.
13b. But still give us a lot.
14. Watch kung fu movies for plot inspiration. You don't see the anti-hero of Iron Monkey going on any fex-ex quests do you? No, he's just a hungry mofo who steals some rice, see, because his son is in jail, and now he needs to go hunt down the local robin hood to get his son out--but the locals all love the Iron Monkey, and won't serve him so his theft leads to...the Iron Monkey. etc.
15. Include obscure pulp / pop references. Special encounters, etc.
16. The story arc, that's a toughie. Location is everything. Well, how about Florida for starters? Stick it in the dirty south. Lots of long stretches of highways suitable for car fighting. Also, alligators, and mutant alligators. And the keys, with bermuda.
16a. For the actual story, well, don't be afraid to blend lines -- FO is great because of the shades of grey. Not like NWN, where we have Aribeth who one minute is "Good" and the next minute "bad" for all the right reasons. More characters like Jules in Pulp Fiction. Most console games are so black and white, I think that's a reason for most of the "fallout" yuk yuk.
17. And no respawning monsters, that's a personal pet peeve. If I've laid waste to an area, I want it desolate.
Well, that's a start.
That's all. Good luck! Succeed and you'll be hailed as heroes; fail and you'll be crucified - I don't envy you 
