Interplay hiring even more

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Interplay seems to be on a roll when it comes to hiring people ever since the lawsuit started, and now they're looking for a producer, with the usual "Previous MMORPG experience" and "Familiarity with the post-apocalyptic genre".
 
Deadman87 said:
"Must have seen Mad Max"?
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More likely "Must have seen 28 Days Later" or "Must played WoW and FO3".

I seriously doubt Mad Max will be as much of an influence on modern post-apo games as it had on Fallout.
 
Ravager69 said:
Deadman87 said:
"Must have seen Mad Max"?
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More likely "Must have seen 28 Days Later" or "Must played WoW and FO3".

I seriously doubt Mad Max will be as much of an influence on modern post-apo games as it had on Fallout.
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There's a lot to see and read, really, from A Boy and His Dog to The Road (crushingly depressing, really) and even crazy things like Cherry 2000. The post-apocalyptic genre seems to be experiencing some kind of resurgence. Its roots were pretty clear in the '80s -- we were reeling from the Cold War with the spectre of mutual annihilation overhead the whole time. Now we're looking more toward environment collapse, but for some reason the spirit of postapocalyptica seems to be catching the imagination again. Looks like it's one of those things that comes once per decade . . .
 
I read the road in the summer, because everyone kept talking about it. I'm not much of a reader, because I can't spend much time risking reading a book I don't know is great. Because reading takes so much time in comparison with other media. But I went and bought myself The Road, UK edition or something. It is depressing, yes, but I don't think it's anything brilliant, and that kind of takes away from the emotion. It's like any melodrama based on Romeo and Juliet. It's depressing, but it's all "been there, done that". The Road is a bit like that. Not entirely, just a bit. But it was a good read, all in all. I think.
 
Morbus said:
I read the road in the summer, because everyone kept talking about it. I'm not much of a reader, because I can't spend much time risking reading a book I don't know is great. Because reading takes so much time in comparison with other media. But I went and bought myself The Road, UK edition or something. It is depressing, yes, but I don't think it's anything brilliant, and that kind of takes away from the emotion. It's like any melodrama based on Romeo and Juliet. It's depressing, but it's all "been there, done that". The Road is a bit like that. Not entirely, just a bit. But it was a good read, all in all. I think.
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Well, The Road is very much a human drama story, and it leaves the protagonists to a partially uncertain fate. It's not really covering any sort of new ground -- it just does so in such a bleak fashion that I suppose it's like The Day After in that it just doesn't pull any punches or give you much in the way of hope.
 
Jesse Heinig said:
There's a lot to see and read, really, from A Boy and His Dog to The Road (crushingly depressing, really) and even crazy things like Cherry 2000. The post-apocalyptic genre seems to be experiencing some kind of resurgence. Its roots were pretty clear in the '80s -- we were reeling from the Cold War with the spectre of mutual annihilation overhead the whole time. Now we're looking more toward environment collapse, but for some reason the spirit of postapocalyptica seems to be catching the imagination again. Looks like it's one of those things that comes once per decade . . .
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Yes, I agree, but you misunderstood. I'm saying that nowadays postapocalyptic setting is quite diffrent that it was. It's often demons\zombies apocalypse with uber weapons and mutants. The classics of the genre aren't *that much* of an influence nowadays, it's rather copying Fallout\Bioshock.
 
Ravager69 said:
Jesse Heinig said:
There's a lot to see and read, really, from A Boy and His Dog to The Road (crushingly depressing, really) and even crazy things like Cherry 2000. The post-apocalyptic genre seems to be experiencing some kind of resurgence. Its roots were pretty clear in the '80s -- we were reeling from the Cold War with the spectre of mutual annihilation overhead the whole time. Now we're looking more toward environment collapse, but for some reason the spirit of postapocalyptica seems to be catching the imagination again. Looks like it's one of those things that comes once per decade . . .
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Yes, I agree, but you misunderstood. I'm saying that nowadays postapocalyptic setting is quite diffrent that it was. It's often demons\zombies apocalypse with uber weapons and mutants. The classics of the genre aren't *that much* of an influence nowadays, it's rather copying Fallout\Bioshock.
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Sure, but if you're going to do Fallout, you have to go back to the originals for your baseline before you try to put a new twist on it. "Feral ghouls" aside, Fallout is not really a zombie apocalypse game. It really comes down to being about those old standbys, war and greed. (Never changes . . .) You want to stay on top of what's current -- hell, I play plenty of Left for Dead -- but ya gotta have a good grounding in the essentials if you wanna do it justice.
 
terebikun said:
The Road is like Romeo and Juliet...how?
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If you read what Morbus said, he clearly says "It's like any melodrama based on Romeo and Juliet." Meaning it's qualities are "depressing, but it's all "been there, done that". " He didn't say The Road is based on Romeo and Juliet.
 
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