Fallout:BoS review at TeamXBox

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jr. pointed out another review of Fallout:BoS, this time from TeamXBox. The review is, sadly, fairly positive gettin fairly high ratings. The end conclusion:


<blockquote>Overall, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is a solid RPG/action title worthy of accolades. The argument over this title will surely center on if this title is still advanced enough with a two plus year old game engine to hold up to other games within its genre. I feel that the answer is yes, but there are surely some improvements that could have been made. Since the game engine is directly taken from the Baldur’s Gate title it is hard for me to score this one high in the next-gen category or recommend it to those who have already been there and done that in Dark Alliance. Those encountering BoS without ever playing BG will definitely find some sweet RPG style gameplay and some nifty real-time action to boot. Whether Brotherhood of Steel seems dated or not is pretty much a moot point until something much better in the genre is released. Until then, pick your RPG/action flavor; medieval or post-apocalyptic.</blockquote>

Link: review
 
Either it's true that console gamers are dumb as shit, or this was another review site that interplay paid with the money that should have been paying BIS' wages.
 
Mr. Teatime said:
Either it's true that console gamers are dumb as shit, or this was another review site that interplay paid with the money that should have been paying BIS' wages.
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I fail to see why it can't be both.

Although Tiger Woods 2004 is cool, I must admit.
 
It shouldn't surprise anyone that an Xbox review of FOBOS would be favorable. IMO (humble or not) Xbox needs all the help it can get. So giving a bad review potentially means less market share for the Xbox.
 
I've noticed another interesting snippet:

There are also many instances where the firing or melee weapons seem to miss a little too often, even when hit percentage stats are increased. This makes the RPG elements a double edged sword; aiding the gameplay with much needed depth, but leaving a large part of the action up to the numbers, and not much in the hands of the gamer.
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1337 twitch gaming skilz r teh WIN!!!1111
 
Mr. Teatime said:
Either it's true that console gamers are dumb as shit, or this was another review site that interplay paid with the money that should have been paying BIS' wages.
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TeamXBox was one of the sites that got lots of goodies from Interplay. IIRC, TeamXBox also got a link on the official Fallout Enforcer site when they first posted the site. TeamXBox is also now affililated with IGN.

EDIT: Well, look what I found.. TeamXBox hosts the official Fallout Enforcer forum. In fact, read this thread on that forum.
 
OH MY FUCKING GOD! Some retard suggested fallout three be a launch title for X-Box2. He said it would be Schweet or some such garbage. http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?s=da9ae674cb6d9b0f3e3d4469ceafe292&threadid=228878 goes by the name of donknutts.

Also more and more horseshit from the malformed mouths of Interplay employees about FO3 not being announced, BlackIsle not being shut down etc.

I think somebody needs to post there and keep people informed about how terrible the game is, and how ruthlessly stupid Interplay is behaving....

Any volunteers?

*edit* I will see how long it takes, anybody else want to join me?
 
Dove said:
I think somebody needs to post there and keep people informed about how terrible the game is, and how ruthlessly stupid Interplay is behaving....
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Forget it. Jester is there, and likely along with some more forum assclowns at his bidding to make "bad touch" posts vanish just like usual.

Then you have jray, who is a very special little closet child:

Gift? We got two new games coming out in the next two weeks. How about that? [insert goofy dumbshit grin]

BTW, I'm a producer over at Interplay. I actually didn't work on FBOS, but am(was) helping out on a couple of the boards. I'm not in expert on all things FBOS and BGDA2, but I at least played them both through.

[opinion]
If you like hack and slash (or shoot), I don't see why you wouldn't like these two. They're both as good as I've seen in that genre.
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Too bad jray forgot to mention that they didn't play much of that genre. 8)
 
Of Interest

Of Interest

Here we see a console-centric review.

And why was there text space, bandwidth, devoted to the history of that Once And Future Post Apoc' Universe, a la Chuck Cuevas? Obviously, there were not enough paid ad inserts. Blank space is a bane in the land of eye candy, as dead air is to your Clear Channel
Variety Aural Conduit Of Acoustic Products Placement. Commercial radio.

("Once And Future"?: note the allusion to our present oil situation
by name dropping hybrid powered motor vehicles. Add the First Strike
Policy of our Electoral College appointed Commander In Chief, backed up by the nuc inventory of our fore father's Mutually Assured Destruction, and kid's, .. once again we're ""... On The Eve Of Destruction ..."". The Cold War has not gone into retirement. It's been repackaged, with New, new, New, devils and saints on the box, for the "Brave New" 'moral' majority of consumers.)

Console-centric implies that the target viewers might require the spoon feeding of Chuck Cuevas Vision of Fallout. And I don't recall a direct reference to the PC parent. The past references seem centered on the BG:DA engine and gameplay. Same w'ine new bottle.

Cut scenes lack "quality" continuity with the game graphics. Intent or budget? Artistic license or autistic production values?

The once hyped targeting system is back handed by the very market point it was presumed to intoxicate. "Gauntlet With Guns" .. that don't shoot straight. The veteran button masher seems to see a fault. The masterful refinement of the BG:DA engine is now only "good enough'' to stay in step with it's peers in the genre. Interesting.

The hyped "music'' track was shamelessly pimped by fingering the "media anointed bands'' responsible for the sounds. And this 'market point' blew it off like annoying dust on a large screen TV. True soundtrack: the bangs and pows relevant to the gameplay, and the urban-angst is so, soon forgotten. Fascinating.

Some of the features most hyped by the I'play flacks are dis'ed, and the product of a sub contractor, Snowblind's BG:DA engine, is the real focus. The real "star'', whose performance is to be judged.

Same w'ine new bottle? The reviewer has seen post apocalypse some where else, wonder where, and considers it as only another flavor of hack and slash, vanilla and chocolate, medieval and post apoc'. So much for the console market impact of post apoc', the hook is not the setting, the hook is not the eye candy, ...

the HOOK IS THE GAMEPLAY.

""I wouldn't have it any other way.""

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