Brother None said:
Kradath said:
An isometric Fallout simply would not sell good, it is simply a fact.
Oh cool. Since it's a fact no doubt you'll be able to point to empirical evidence.
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The evidence: "It's not how the gaming industry works."
->Industry is capitalistic thus following supply and demand, if there'd be a demand, (and there ARE such games out there, or were, BUT they sold less and less, the days of the last decades are today "only" arcade titles), then someone would bring out those games.
Edit: It is like with the old lucasarts etc adventure fans. They all mourn about them not existing, but on the arcade market are so many good and new ones of different kinds, but they simply don't get bought, so why should someone fund full price game if even the arcade, lower price games don't get sold good.
What I liked, as said, was the atmosphere. And for me there's no better gameview than first person to really drag me into this atmosphere giving me the feeling of really being part of it, it's the same with novels, those who want you to bind yourself to a character show you the character as close as possible and not from a top down view.
You could even consider that Fallout 1, made by the same team as back then, would have been first person from the start of the technical possibilities were given, back then they weren't.
@Morbus: I play games the hardest level when it still makes fun, I plan to play Fallout NV on the hardest level with hardcore, because for me it adds to the atmosphere, so I'm not part of the majority I talked about, but I know it pretty well. gaming is not a geek thing anymore you have to understand. Back when the first rpgs came out they were made and played by those DnD people, the geeks. Today, especially due to consoles many casual gamers simply entered the market. With NV they go both ways so there's no problem there.
@Reconite: If you don't like discussions or personal opinions, you can go to any of those many countries were dictatorship says what is right and what is wrong. And if I say fact, it's still opinion, just wanted to say with it that I'm pretty pretty sure on this one, of course it can be totally different as well.