Jaime Lannister
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"When we started this, we would go to great lengths to explains the differences from Fallout," explains Age of Decadence's executive producer, Vince D. Weller. "If you're talking to an enthusiast, there are so many differences, and we feel it's under-selling the game to say it's Fallout with swords. But when we started talking to more consumer-oriented magazines, we'd have, like, two seconds...and we'd say, 'it's like a Roman Fallout with swords.' And they're like, 'Awesome!' To Joe Public, it's mainly a turn-based, isometric game and you get to do what you want. The game it's closest to is Fallout. So now when someone asks, 'Is it Fallout with swords?' my main answer is, 'in all the best ways.'"
The truth is, the list of comparable titles is pretty short. As Art Designer Oscar puts it, "How many isometric, turn-based, non-linear role-playing games are there?"
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"I think it's more in the Tarantino fashion, which is to have some fun with it," says Weller. "It keeps it almost surreal. All these jokes and situations are winking, but when the guys die, it's over-the-top. It's rendered really nicely, so on some level, it's believable - but it's ridiculous. That's the point."
"It would be a lot less fun without that level of gore," adds Oscare. "It's part of the visceral experience. You laugh your ass off when you see a legionnaire''s leg get chopped off. It never gets old - it hasn't yet."
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And that's the final piece of gear you'll need to pack before your vacation at the end of the world: a wicked sense of humor. "It's so depressing that you have to see the humor in it," says Oscar. "If not, you'll lose your mind or slit your wrists. Part of your brain refuses to admit it will ever happen, so you have to look at it and laugh. The dark humor of talking to an old lady who's really nice to you, and then cut her head off, put her head on a counter, and pretend to talk to her...there's a certain charm to that."
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"We're still messing with how your companions heal, but you can give him potions if he's hurt," says Weller. "We're not sure how much of that [companion maintenance] is interesting. But we think Dogmeat is going to be pretty popular - 'I'm going to do the Mad Max thing and wander the former Empire with my dog.'"
The truth is, the list of comparable titles is pretty short. As Art Designer Oscar puts it, "How many isometric, turn-based, non-linear role-playing games are there?"
(...)
"I think it's more in the Tarantino fashion, which is to have some fun with it," says Weller. "It keeps it almost surreal. All these jokes and situations are winking, but when the guys die, it's over-the-top. It's rendered really nicely, so on some level, it's believable - but it's ridiculous. That's the point."
"It would be a lot less fun without that level of gore," adds Oscare. "It's part of the visceral experience. You laugh your ass off when you see a legionnaire''s leg get chopped off. It never gets old - it hasn't yet."
(...)
And that's the final piece of gear you'll need to pack before your vacation at the end of the world: a wicked sense of humor. "It's so depressing that you have to see the humor in it," says Oscar. "If not, you'll lose your mind or slit your wrists. Part of your brain refuses to admit it will ever happen, so you have to look at it and laugh. The dark humor of talking to an old lady who's really nice to you, and then cut her head off, put her head on a counter, and pretend to talk to her...there's a certain charm to that."
(...)
"We're still messing with how your companions heal, but you can give him potions if he's hurt," says Weller. "We're not sure how much of that [companion maintenance] is interesting. But we think Dogmeat is going to be pretty popular - 'I'm going to do the Mad Max thing and wander the former Empire with my dog.'"
