Another thread ruined by OB1 and ABF! (a.k.a. 2004 Goron Game Awards!)

[A Black Falcon]

But you still like shitty games. Cruisin' is crap no matter how you try to excuse it!

Nope. It's intentionally simplistic. You think it's too simplistic... but the simplicity is the whole point of the game. And in that form it's a great arcade racer. Not worth buying at home for much of anything, due to how it doesn't last long, but fun in the arcades... but you'll never listen so that's enough of that. All I can say is that I hope someday you understand that the opinions of people other than you can actually be valid sometimes.

I've already explained, in great depth, why I don't care for PC RPGs. I will not repeat myself because you were too dumb to get it the first time.

Explaining it all away because of more complex interfaces and no direct controls when everything else about the games is the same makes no logical sense, you know...


Sure, there are plenty of people out there who dislike Fallout and/or Baldur's Gate. But generally they can come up with decent reasons... and if they can't I don't think their opinions are any more valid than yours are. Oh yeah, and actually playing them for more than a little bit helps. By your own admission you have only played them a little bit. Not enough for you to say you can have a real opinion on the stories (oh you said they both were bad, but then admitted that you hadn't played much of either one which fully negated your completely incorrect "point") not exactly the way to actually understand the games. Both of those titles take quite a while to fully grasp... I know the vagaries of 2nd edition D&D as implemented in BG are still a bit confusing to me despite how many hours I've spent in the games...

Oh, and if your complaint is about how you must search out story in these games, that is true in Fallout (and the open-endedness is its great strength!) but BG for the most part is more linear. Oh you can do things in various orders and wander all around but the main story... it's hard to miss. Kind of like KotOR (though probably not quite as extreme, due to the more open areas). Though you may disagree if your point on this issue meant something other than what I thought it did...