The good: new X-Com game announced.

[A Black Falcon]

Wait wait wait...how was Fallout 3 not successful again? Because last time I checked it was an incredible game and a huge success. The only ones who would disagree would be those who only saw it for what it wasn't, instead of what it was.

... I've been criticizing it ever since the day it was announced that Bethesda bought the rights to Fallout, and have said many times that while I respect the accomplishment I don't really like the results of Bethesda's "huge, open worlds with boring, simplistic combat and mediocre writing" school of game design... you've forgotten all that, I guess?

Obsidian's upcoming Fallout 3 standalone expansion has promise storywise, because we should get a Fallout game with actual good writing and story again, but it'll have the same combat I'm sure, so it won't be all better.

Anyway, yes Fallout 3 is successful, sure, but I was talking about how true it is to the franchise and the kind of games that made the series popular, not how successful it is. Fallout 3 is not Fallout. It doesn't interest me very much either, I don't have it and won't be getting it anytime soon.

And FPS's are big because they're arguably the most popular genre with the "hardcore crowd" right now. Sales don't lie.

True. And it is true that there's always a fad genre, like platformers in the third and fourth (NES/SNES) generations... it's like that, now, with FPSes. And sure, I've liked a few FPSes here and there, I don't dislike them all or something. But I definitely do not like them enough to want most games to be FPSes, as I said I like many other genres more. Also I still can't stand, and am awful at, Halo-style dual-stick console FPS controls...