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Morrowind was a somewhat hardcore niche action-RPG. Oblivion was not. Oblivion was a little like baby's first true RPG, especially at first. And Fallout 3 did a lot less hand holding than that. See my quote above? Where you cut it off and took the first part out of context and left out "in...

Show me where there are (or were) a bunch of ex-BiS developers trying to get hired by Bethesda and all getting rejected because LAWL The persecution complex is strong in this one.

They have an aversion to it because it's not how RPGs get out to large audiences anymore. But you're absolutely right, Obsidian is definitely not going to go and make the NMA wetdream game here. They're going to make a game in the style of Fallout 3 and the sooner you guys all realize it...

Everything is swayed by opinions. Game sales are fueled by opinions brought on by marketing, word of mouth, availability of the game, critical response, and accessibility on whatever hardware the buyer has. It's a combination of them all. Plenty of bad games with huge marketing have done poor...

I think they can do without the few thousand sales generated from here. It's probably much more that the number of competent and experienced RPG developers not already embroiled in a project or their own IP is pretty low right now. Bethesda needs someone to pick up the torch while their own...

It was a stupid question. Some here mildly like Fallout 3 and will rationally discuss its perceived upsides and downsides, but many of the vocal people will jump on just about every chance they get to rail on about its failings and how bad Bethesda is and how the guys that made it are terrible...

Bethesda is not trying to sell this game to NMA. They're selling it to the new Fallout fanbase.

One of these things matters. One of them does not. I had a blast playing Oblivion and Morrowind last month. They're damn good games. Please refute. But the actual point is that I don't let those games ruin my experience of every damn game that comes out since, something that some people...

Most of the reviews you see today for games do not have this concern, unless you only read PC Gamer, GameSpot, and IGN. The deviations being talked about on this forum - isometric view, turn-based combat, all-text dialogue - IS a recipe for some pretty mediocre sales right now. And a lot of...

Yet many, many people got hundreds of hours of fun, each, out of this game without any DLC. Remember back before the GECK was released? People still played then, on their second, third, and fourth playthroughs. Unless you think Bethesda somehow would have been better off NOT releasing it...

Is your rhetorical question silly? Most video games that are greenlit do not become moneymakers. And everyone can come up with nitpicks about the game design, but many here seem to believe that Fallout 3 - Bethesda's body of work in its entirety, in some cases - is almost completely worthless...

How many Xbox 360 owners even know how to open their console, much less buy the hardware to mod their 360s? Do you even know what it takes to mod an Xbox 360? On the flip side, how many PC gamers have used file sharing?

This is a ridiculous fantasy that has no place in rational thought. Maybe if Fallout 3 was some kind of failure in the eyes of pretty much anyone but NMA it'd have some kind of grounding in reality.

Do you have a better way? That's because they were good games. They had some issues - GTAIV had a really rough start but the issues were mostly patched, and Far Cry 2 has those annoying respawning outposts and the characters talk way too fast but the action is solid and the visuals and...

The Fallout 3 modding community is plenty healthy, and the game still gets mainstream attention. As far as the console community, Microsoft doesn't really share numbers of how much playtime some games get, but I don't see any reason why that matters so much. Is a game only really good if you...

I'm pretty sure these people don't take kindly to realistic looks at what Obsidian will and won't change for an audience like NMA's. Get out of here with your logic and reason. :) Obsidian will do their best to tweak the formula and make New Vegas their own but they're not going to...

And unlike with the PC version, they can't just load it up and play. Pirating 360 games requires a lot of work.

Six: Arena, Daggerfall, Terminator: Future Shock, Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3. Starting with Morrowind they got the reviews and sales to back up my opinions. But that's just my opinion, one I'm sure you'll dispute. Name an Obsidian game that was a large success both at retail and in...

As far as Steam goes: Fallout 3 was still widely distributed and pirated on the PC with minimal effort. Bethesda took the admirable stance of only including a basic CD check and no DRM, but that *still* meant that Bethesda made it easier for pirates to play than legit customers. The number...

Name one game Obsidian has done that is remotely as successful as Fallout 3. This story shows that Obsidian had to lay off people. Laying off 20 people at a studio their size shows they were in trouble. It's understandable - Sega wasn't really doing much good for Obsidian, developing like...