Applegate's Breasts
Scholar
Well since everyone else is posting shit from NMA, I might as well post one that stood out:
This is actually what concerned me more about FO 3. If it tanks like Hellgate and people say "Bethesduh'd" from now on, things wouldn't bother me. But Oblivion was well-received by most developers such as Warren Spector and Fallout 3 will probably be held as an example to strive for in the industry.
The depressing thing is, on one of the forums I visit where I consider the users to be of a high degree of competence and intelligence (the majority work in the industry, including Lionhead devs, Realtime Worlds devs, etc.), every one of them is really keen to be playing Fallout 3, and very few of them have any problems with Oblivion.
They also couldn't care less that the game strays wildly from the gameplay and canon of the originals.
They just want a cool looking real time shooter in a post apocalyptic world with RPG elements; the majority even consider Oblivion's role-playing mechanics to be good. And to a man, they all love the look of VATS.
Even when I directed them to the appaling Trench Warfare video, they couldn't see the flaws of the game.
I think this speaks volumes as to why the industry is in the current state it's in.
This is actually what concerned me more about FO 3. If it tanks like Hellgate and people say "Bethesduh'd" from now on, things wouldn't bother me. But Oblivion was well-received by most developers such as Warren Spector and Fallout 3 will probably be held as an example to strive for in the industry.