Recent content by Oblique Strategy

I was referring to the "Hey, we have this dangerous, horrific thing that just wiped out a bunch of people...let's treat it as the Messiah" aspect of A3. People will worship some crazy shit. I can easily imagine people going nuts over the symbolism of an unexploded device that destroyed their...

Their definition of "big Fallout fan" is likely "yeah, I played that once years ago and really loved it"

I've watched footage of houses built with unexploded Vietnam War ordinance serving as part of a wall. As for the worshipping angle - go watch the workprint version of Alien 3.

I agree. Agreed, but we're not talking about more than a few short minutes of "Wow cool!" shit that Bethesda pulled out to show them. The inevitable previews of the playable version will likely produce more varied opinions. Ask yourself this question: "How many of these journalists...

I already made a valid argument. You don't have to like it, or simply dismiss it as "invalid" because your opinion differs. I think I argued my position quite well, as I laid out the options and showed why they all suck. I've never played Daggerfall, but Morrowind's infinite sea worked...

Absolutely. But if you're shown a few short minutes of carefully arranged gameplay and features, are you going to be more likely, or less likely to find it appealing when the person setting up the preview is being paid to make it look as nice as possible? Several things to remember: -...

I think you just confirmed my point.

I simply see it as a case of the writers not seeing anything but snippets that Bethesda thought would be appealing to them. Furthermore, they are likely hesitant to come to firm judgments about anything in a game that won't even be feature complete for a year. Of course not, I've never...

Which would then almost undoubtedly lead to claims that Bethesda had created an "empty, boring world outside of the central areas" Nothing is going to be perfect here. You don't have to like the concept of the invisible barrier, but to me it's just more honest and less contrived.

A great majority of Fallout fans I've encountered shy away from the big fan sites as they feel distinctly out-of-place at any of them. Like it or not, they tend to be a monoculture where fans who do not feel hostile towards any future progress in the series are viewed as pariahs. Even if...

If you leave a destroyed central city and move out into the surrounding landscape you are not likely to find an endless pile of powdered rubble, but similarly ravaged towns and cities.

Infinitely-generated terrain works when an endless, uniform landscape makes sense. D.C. is part of a super-city stretching all the way north to Boston - an area of extremely high population density and urbanization that makes such a solution totally unbelievable and unworkable. I haven't...

I don't think you can speak for all fans of the series. I've been playing and replaying Fallout for years, and I like where the franchise is going. Is it 100% ideal? Absolutely not. In fact, I find the nuclear catapult to be an insanely stupid idea that is an example of silly comic book logic...

If they did that you would have fans screaming "Why would there be fatal bands of radiation on the borders when you can walk right through the center of the capitol - ostensibly the biggest target during the attack - without dying of radiation sickness? Fuck Bethesda!" Either way sucks, but...

It was brief preview, not a review. It's akin to loving everything you see in a movie trailer. It doesn't mean that the movie is flawless, it doesn't even mean that you will like the final product. All it means is that the limited bits of the finished product you saw appealed to you. Nothing...