Interview NMA Fallout developer profile - MCA, part II

[Vault Dweller]

Tags: Chris Avellone; Obsidian Entertainment

<a href=http://www.nma-fallout.com>NMA</a> is still doing that Fallout developer profile thingy that brings you answers to important questions like "What’s your favorite Fallout memory?", "What was it like being part of the Fallout team?", and "If you were a post-apoc tree, what kinda tree would you be?". The latest victim is <a href=http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=14255>MCA</a>, known for Planescape: Torment and, sadly, for KOTOR II.
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<blockquote><b>What’s your favorite Fallout memory?</b>
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I don’t know. Long walks on the beach maybe? The first kiss? What kind of dumbass question is this? I didn’t have a romantic relationship with the game, for fuck’s sake.
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I also have pleasant memories of Odin continually asking for confidential information on the game with the conditional ”Oh, I won’t tell anyone” tacked on. For anyone reading this, if you ever ask me for confidential information, you’re wasting your time, and furthermore, you’re making me angry. Don’t make me angry. I am angry and bitter enough as it is.
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<b>What was it like being part of the Fallout team?</b>
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It was great! Wow! It was the best! Man, the times we had! The hookers! The blow! It was a non-stop orgy!</blockquote>
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Gotta love his style
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[Naked_Lunch]

He's so dreamy...

 

[corvax]

<a href=http://www.nma-fallout.com>NMA</a> is still doing that Fallout developer profile thingy that brings you answers to important questions like "What’s your favorite Fallout memory?", "What was it like being part of the Fallout team?", and "If you were a post-apoc tree, what kinda tree would you be?".

and this sarcasm is coming from someone named "vault dweller"

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

I would be a post apocalyptic lemon tree in Springfield.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Then my answer is nothing inspired Fallout for me, it wasn’t my brainchild or anything like that – thank Tim and the original crew (including Freyermuth, Taylor, and Campbell, who everybody always seems to forget, much to my irritation – maybe you could get him to do an interview next, brainiacs). It was as close to a modern-day setting as I could get, and I was pleased to do quests and characters that weren’t classical fantasy.

People who always seem to forget those guys who didn't join Troika. I think he's referring to us.

Don't forget Dave Hendee, too.

 

[Sol Invictus]

quoted for truth

To be honest, I wish Fallout would just die and people would make new post-holocaust RPGs that are even better than Fallout. But hey, whatever.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

quoted for truth

To be honest, I wish ... people would make new post-holocaust RPGs that are even better than Fallout. But hey, whatever.

So do I. We've been waiting a while for that though.

 

[NeutralMilkHotel]

quoted for truth

To be honest, I wish ... people would make new post-holocaust RPGs that are even better than Fallout. But hey, whatever.

So do I. We've been waiting a while for that though.

I'd rather just have better RPGs than FO, period. Screw the PA setting.

 

[Surlent]

I didn’t have a romantic relationship with the game, for fuck’s sake.

Come on MC, we know you're bluffing. Tell us all the dirty little secrets you did to FO.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Chrissy is, like, my idol.

Deathrace 3000. Who would you bring with you in a future Fallout team and why? Please answer sarcastically, if at all possible.

I would bring all the children of the world, and tell them to design a word ravaged by war where Mommy and Daddy are not yet dead, but are instead rotting from the inside from invisible energies. Then I would make them watch The Day After, right up to the point where Jason Robards (did I spell that right?) is crawling around in the wreckage of the city, gasping for life as he’s dying of radiation poisoning. It’s so touching.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

I don’t know. Long walks on the beach maybe? The first kiss? What kind of dumbass question is this? I didn’t have a romantic relationship with the game, for fuck’s sake.

Seems like the only thing that's dumbass isn't the question.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Odin's profile interviews are full of dumb-assed questions. We've been criticising him for the silly questions since the first profile showed up.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Get a clue, Rex. Odin's questions aren't half-assed. What has been said is that Odin should change the questions to accomodate those he interviews instead of giving them a generic set of questions, to avoid asking questions interviewed developers may not be able to answer (such as asking Fallout 2-only developers what did they work on in Fallout 1).

More to the point of this interview, anyone who is into games can think of their favorite or best memories of a game they played. It's not that much of a mental stretch to remember particular situations in games that you can still remember, years after having played them. Avellone is being purposedly obtuse just to make fun of the interview and just coming off as an idiot who thinks too highly of himself.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Doesn't it strike you that perhaps asking a rather wide variety of interviewees the same generic questions, is perhaps 'half-assed', as it were? And you're telling me to get a clue?

Irony.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Doesn't it strike you that perhaps asking a rather wide variety of interviewees the same generic questions, is perhaps 'half-assed', as it were? And you're telling me to get a clue?

Cconsidering that for some reason you've just missed the content of my post entirely, yes, I find it very appropriate for you to get a clue.

I don't deny that specific problem with Odin's set of questions, hence why I even brought it up. Except your use of Odin's set of questions as a reason for his answer is a false reason because Avellone is not giving a stupid answer based on that "half-assed" problem with Odin's fixed set of questions, he's giving a stupid answer to a fairly legitimate and easy to understand question.

Irony.

No, irony is watching you constant waffling about and telling others to get some reading comprehension and present concisive arguments, then watching you fail to do so.

 

[Sol Invictus]

I find it rather amusing that you feel the need to constantly direct personal insults every time you make a post, not that it helps your half-assed arguments in any way whatsoever.

Considering that Avellone did, as a fact, provide a proper and serious response to the question a paragraph after he made a statement that any able minded person would construe as nothing other than a joke, I would say that your argument about Avellone's inability to sound like anything other than an 'idiot who thinks too highly of himself' is a feeble one. Considering his position in the industry and his ability to constantly and consistently write good games I would say that any attempt to present him as an 'idiot who thinks too highly of himself' would be as ridiculous as accusing Einstein of 'having opinions without merit'.

If you're not able to hold a civilized conversation e.g. one that doesn't start (and end with) a bunch of personal insults, you should seek an education.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

I find it rather amusing that you feel the need to constantly direct personal insults every time you make a post, not that it helps your half-assed arguments in any way whatsoever.

I find it rather amusing that something as simple as a series of links to all the three thousand, six-hundred and ninety two posts I have made here will quickly bury your half-assed accusation that I constantly make direct, personal insults every time I post.

For someone who talks of half-assed arguments, you sure seem to have a problem recognizing them when they have your signature.

Considering that Avellone did, as a fact, provide a proper and serious response to the question a paragraph after

Which doesn't excuse nor relate to the intrinsic value of the other one he gave in this quote, unless for peope who like to use selective reasoning...

he made a statement that any able minded person would construe as nothing other than a joke,

...and nothing of what I've wrote indicated ignorance of his statement being a joke...

I would say that your argument about Avellone's inability to sound like anything other than an 'idiot who thinks too highly of himself' is a feeble one.

Of course, I never said he couldn't sound like anything other than an idiot who thinks too highly of himself - just that it sounded like one in *this* particular case. Reading comprehension failing this early? Make an effort to not fall asleep trough halfway of everything that you read Rexy, it could make your arguments much less laughable.

Considering his position in the industry and his ability to constantly and consistently write good games I would say that any attempt to present him as an 'idiot who thinks too highly of himself' would be as ridiculous as accusing Einstein of 'having opinions without merit'.

Cute. You claim someone who holds a particular position in the gaming industry and who is consistently writing good stories is above thinking too highly of himself, then accuse others of presenting feeble arguments? Obviously, the glorious dreamworld where you seem to be perpetually living on is affecting your judgement.

If you're not able to hold a civilized conversation e.g. one that doesn't start (and end with) a bunch of personal insults, you should seek an education.

Thankfully, I can, even if numerous examples of such events will always fail to conveniently register in your brain. That you recurringly make this accusation but then also recurringly fail to prove it is just icing on the cake.

Speaking of which, who are you again to talk of an education and of civility, when you're just as guilty as anyone else here of doing this? Your level of hipocrisy is starting to stink again, Rexyboy. I suggest shuting up, unless you have no problem wth drowning yourself in the very same shit that you let out nerly everytime you say something.

So, got any more of that special brand of pointless bullshit and arguments that would make a five-year old laugh his ass off, or have you had quite enough for today, sweetheart?

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

People who always seem to forget those guys who didn't join Troika. I think he's referring to us.

No one's ever forgotten Chris "FalloutsChris" Taylor. He's too campy to forget.

 

[Sol Invictus]

You know, all I have to do is read the first sentence of any of your posts to realize that it's going to be yet another long winded personal insult, so I'll just refrain from replying to that one, RP.

Don't you have anything better to do than to turn every god damn thread into a flaming session?

 

[Sol Invictus]

People who always seem to forget those guys who didn't join Troika. I think he's referring to us.

No one's ever forgotten Chris "FalloutsChris" Taylor. He's too campy to forget.

Yeah, but people always forget about Campbell and Hendee.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

And all I have to do is read that sentence of yours to realize you've been caught with your pants down again, sonny. Next time, be sure to bring the appropriate equipment when you challenge others for debates and mind games.

HOORAY FOR GOOKPOWER LOL

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Don't you have anything better to do than to turn every god damn thread into a flaming session?

Just had to add that bit after having said you wouldn't reply, eh?

And to answer that baiting one with pleasure, it only turns into a flaming session after you start it yourself, honey.

FOOD FOR GOOKS

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Ban the gooks, lawl

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

The best part is that I wasn't the one who posted the pic. Hooray for invisible tampering of posts made by admins.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Yeah, but people always forget about Campbell and Hendee.

It's kind of hard to forget Dave Hendee considering he was the main Interplay poster on the official Fallout forum at Interplay. He's also the guy that got to take most of the beating when Fallout 2 came out in the state it was in.