This news has been around for AGES, and I've been signed up for the beta for awhile now. A special email was sent off to people that signed up, they might still send it and it might still end up in every single person's Junk drawer(it's from "Mr. Handy").
Interplay doesn't mean anything in terms of the "original company" anymore, since the main creative force of the original two games founded Obsidian, which is working on New Vegas. Still, I'm interested in any non-Bethesda Fallout project at this point.
They re-hired some of the old people to work on it.
and it was from Mr. Handy? I never got my e-mail. Might've been why.
Wait, so who cares if they messed up the canon...other than the people who are upset about the canon. Of course nobody. Who cares about the holocaust except foaming-at-the-mouth Jews and Jew sympathizers?
Pursuant to Godwin's Law, you lose the argument.
Never played Fallout 3. FO2 was my favorite game of all time, so really it's only downhill from there. Bethesda is good at their formula and I enjoyed Daggerfall and Morrowind, but in my opinion they are the wrong company to make Fallout.
And the real talent behind the Fallout series went to Troika (not Obsidian) and made Arcanum, which is the closest thing to a genuine FO3 that will ever be made.
And the real talent behind the Fallout series went to Troika (not Obsidian) and made Arcanum, which is the closest thing to a genuine FO3 that will ever be made.
You don't consider Feargus Urquhart and Chris Avellone to be "real talent"?
You don't consider Feargus Urquhart and Chris Avellone to be "real talent"?
Well, I didn't mean it like that exactly, though most of the Fallout team did go to Troika. But the relative quality of Troika and Obsidian's games post Black Isle is what makes me say that.
Well, I didn't mean it like that exactly, though most of the Fallout team did go to Troika. But the relative quality of Troika and Obsidian's games post Black Isle is what makes me say that.
I'd take any Obsidian game over Temple of Elemental Evil, easily.
Haha, I can't argue with that one, but I would take both Arcanum and VTM:Bloodlines (once it was patched up) over anything Obsidian has done.
KOTOR 2 with all the content (that LEC made them cut to release the game for holiday season) replaced is actually quite amazing, NWN2 with all the expansions is great, and Alpha Protocol is good for what it is, but unfortunately it had to come in the wake of Mass Effect 2, and therefore everyone judged it as though it should have been ME2. It got a bum rap.
Although none of these games play anything like Fallout/Baldur's Gate/Torment/etc, they are still great games, but if you're looking for things more reminiscent of 90s RPG games, they're basically nothing like that.
Although none of these games play anything like Fallout/Baldur's Gate/Torment/etc, they are still great games, but if you're looking for things more reminiscent of 90s RPG games, they're basically nothing like that.
Which makes me sad. One of my favorite game play types now lost in time.
KOTOR 2 with all the content (that LEC made them cut to release the game for holiday season) replaced is actually quite amazing, NWN2 with all the expansions is great, and Alpha Protocol is good for what it is, but unfortunately it had to come in the wake of Mass Effect 2, and therefore everyone judged it as though it should have been ME2. It got a bum rap.
Although none of these games play anything like Fallout/Baldur's Gate/Torment/etc, they are still great games, but if you're looking for things more reminiscent of 90s RPG games, they're basically nothing like that.
It has nothing to do with nostalgia. NWN2:MotB was very good (though the fact that some Troika people moved over to work on it might have helped ), though I wasn't crazy about the rest of NWN2. Having to wait years and years for fans to produce a complete game of KotOR 2 doesn't really fly. Oh well, I guess it's just personal opinion.
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and it was from Mr. Handy? I never got my e-mail. Might've been why.
Pursuant to Godwin's Law, you lose the argument.
Never played Fallout 3. FO2 was my favorite game of all time, so really it's only downhill from there. Bethesda is good at their formula and I enjoyed Daggerfall and Morrowind, but in my opinion they are the wrong company to make Fallout.
And the real talent behind the Fallout series went to Troika (not Obsidian) and made Arcanum, which is the closest thing to a genuine FO3 that will ever be made.
You don't consider Feargus Urquhart and Chris Avellone to be "real talent"?
I consider them big talent in the fallout franchise since they've worked on F1&F2, and well... New Vegas.
Well, I didn't mean it like that exactly, though most of the Fallout team did go to Troika. But the relative quality of Troika and Obsidian's games post Black Isle is what makes me say that.
I'd take any Obsidian game over Temple of Elemental Evil, easily.
There are a lot of games with monthly subscriptions..
Haha, I can't argue with that one, but I would take both Arcanum and VTM:Bloodlines (once it was patched up) over anything Obsidian has done.
KOTOR 2 with all the content (that LEC made them cut to release the game for holiday season) replaced is actually quite amazing, NWN2 with all the expansions is great, and Alpha Protocol is good for what it is, but unfortunately it had to come in the wake of Mass Effect 2, and therefore everyone judged it as though it should have been ME2. It got a bum rap.
Although none of these games play anything like Fallout/Baldur's Gate/Torment/etc, they are still great games, but if you're looking for things more reminiscent of 90s RPG games, they're basically nothing like that.
Which makes me sad.
It has nothing to do with nostalgia. NWN2:MotB was very good (though the fact that some Troika people moved over to work on it might have helped
Blame LEC for that one, it wasn't Obsidian's fault that time.