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Horrid, completely horrid.

funny

but mostly horrid

Their laugh is hilarious.

Yeah, it's so amazingly awful that it's great... just like the other ones I've seen (the Nintendo 64 video I have with these people brought to Nintendo HQ to see the N64, Mario 64, Pilotwings, and Shadows of the Empire), as well as a few others that are on the web... there was one 1995 one for DKC2, etc I saw... all similar designs. And all so terrible that you've got to love them...

The only promotional video I ever got sent was from Interplay. It has Fallout and Descent to Undermountain and some other games on it. It made me really want Fallout and Descent to Undermountain. I regret buying one of those games, can you guess which one?

Yes. But I doubt anyone else knows that, they'd have to have been interested in PC games back in the mid '90s...

I own one of those games, and not the other. No bets on which one it is that I have. :)

Hey, I played quite a few PC games back in the mid '90s.

So you know about those two games, then? Without looking them up? Or does your silence on the details in that last post imply something different... :)

I've played Fallout before.

The fact that you aren't saying much ... yeah. :) I will, then.

Fallout was one of the most important RPGs ever... Baldur's Gate may have truly brought back the RPG, due to greater success, and it may have been a better game (I think it was, though Fallout is a truly great game), but Fallout was extremely important... it helped bring the RPG back from several off years... for several years before Baldur's Gate there had been a clear downward trend in the quality and quantity of PC RPG releaseds, and there were articles in PC gaming magazines questioning about if the RPG had a future; some thought that it didn't have one as a major genre (like how the graphic adventure, futuristic sim (MechWarrior, TIE Fighter, Freespace, etc), wargame, and serious vehicular sim genres have all faded greatly from the places they held in PC gaming years back). Fallout helped change that... not to mention, of course, how it was a fairly nonlinear, complex, mature RPG, something rare then and still rare now... it was a modern update to the acclaimed Interplay classic Wasteland (which I have not played), and it was great...

Descent to Undermountain, in contrast, was a failure. It was much more in keeping with the general trend of mediocricy and failure of the RPGs of the mid '90s than the rennaisance brought on by Fallout and Baldur's Gate (and Interplay's 1997-2002 record of being the best RPG publisher on the planet). It was Interplay's last attempt at a first-person RPG, kind of in the Stonekeep style (in itsself probably a bad idea, as that style of game just never worked as well for an RPG (first-person with hack and slash combat -- Stonekeep, Ultima Underworld, Elder Scrolls, etc) when compared to better combat systems for first-person RPGs like the turn-based systems of Wizardry or Might & Magic... but they wanted to try again, and some of those first person action RPGs had been pretty good. Unfortunately, this one wasn't. Not even close. In fact, it was pretty much awful. Sad... The Descent engine just didn't work for the game, and the rest of the game didn't work well either...

I've never played Descent to Undermountain, actually, but with its reputation (seemingly well justified), I never exactly wanted to...

I know what Fallout is, Brian. And I've been on gaming forums enough to know what it means to a lot of people.

My personal choice for 'most important Interplay RPG of the '90s' would be Baldur's Gate, though, not Fallout. :) ... what can I say, I like D&D, I like party-based RPGs (solo with semi-controllable henchmen just isn't as fun...), I love the pausable realtime combat (Fallout's pure turnbased is alright, but just not as fun... though maybe it would be with a true party; that's what Fallout Tactics tried, but I never really played that game so I can't say how it turned out...), the graphics (tiles vs, hand-drawn maps... BG wins.), etc... Fallout's great, but not quite as good.

I don't blame you for not knowing Descent to Undermountain though. It's not exactly one really worth remembering. :)

But the video made it look so fun!

Really?