23rd March 2008, 4:35 PM
I think that was a quite descriptive, and accurate, thread title. :)
If you want more detail, the fundamental problem with the article is that, while written in a supposedly 'consiliatory' perspective or something, comes across very, very strongly as a Bethesda RPG fan tract. He's basically saying "Sure I loved Fallout, but TES is great too, so why would Fallout done like TES be bad?" ... well, because a lot of fans don't think TES is all that great, of course! But in that article, all of that is completely lost in favor of standard 'Bethesda is awesome's. If you're trying to convince any Fallout fans with that kind of stuff, you are going to completely fail.
The article is aimed at a very small group of gamers: People who love both Fallout AND TES. It does absolutely nothing to assuage any of the complaints of the vast majority of the hardcore Fallout fanbase, people who don't like TES very much. It might do a decent job of convincing TES fans to try out Fallout 3, though... and since TES fans are obviously the game's target market, that's not such a bad idea.
I mean, I obviously haven't played Oblivion, but I have Arena and Morrowind and the Daggerfall demo, and while the games are okay, if deeply flawed in a bunch of ways, but Fallout is a much better game.
Honestly... go read this...
http://tcforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=792
Note how my primary complaint isn't that the game isn't fun, it's that it's just not Baldur's Gate. As it was I liked it, but with a different name I would have liked it even more.
Not the same composer either, we now know (see that Mark Morgan interview). :)
If you want more detail, the fundamental problem with the article is that, while written in a supposedly 'consiliatory' perspective or something, comes across very, very strongly as a Bethesda RPG fan tract. He's basically saying "Sure I loved Fallout, but TES is great too, so why would Fallout done like TES be bad?" ... well, because a lot of fans don't think TES is all that great, of course! But in that article, all of that is completely lost in favor of standard 'Bethesda is awesome's. If you're trying to convince any Fallout fans with that kind of stuff, you are going to completely fail.
The article is aimed at a very small group of gamers: People who love both Fallout AND TES. It does absolutely nothing to assuage any of the complaints of the vast majority of the hardcore Fallout fanbase, people who don't like TES very much. It might do a decent job of convincing TES fans to try out Fallout 3, though... and since TES fans are obviously the game's target market, that's not such a bad idea.
I mean, I obviously haven't played Oblivion, but I have Arena and Morrowind and the Daggerfall demo, and while the games are okay, if deeply flawed in a bunch of ways, but Fallout is a much better game.
Honestly... go read this...
http://tcforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=792
Note how my primary complaint isn't that the game isn't fun, it's that it's just not Baldur's Gate. As it was I liked it, but with a different name I would have liked it even more.
Quote:For example: ABF is upset, or however you want to say it, that Fallout 3 is going to be different from Fallout 1 and 2. It's first-person, not really turn-based, and doesn't have the same writers as the previous games. This makes him ANGRY. On the other hand, SSBB is just too similar to SSBM. Why couldn't Nintendo have changed things up and made it more interesting instead of just updating the roster and level list? Angry!
Not the same composer either, we now know (see that Mark Morgan interview). :)
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