Chris Taylor, Fallout MMO, and the Interplay Website

Psychoul · Post by **Psychoul** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:57 am

rabidpeanut wrote:I care. ISOMETRIC OR FAIL.

you going to have to really fucking hope so, i highly doubt they will go to make an isometric online game. I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt it.

(i know, it is NOT fallout without that view, it would be killer if it was going to be.)

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:10 am

It doesn't have to be isometric.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:00 am

Actually, it does.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:54 pm

Chris Taylor and Jason Anderson are a refreshing addition, but can they turn the shit into anything decent?
At the current rate, WoW (or basically everything I liked about it) is also going down the shitter so I need a new MMO, provided that I keep playing the genre.

However, I wish they could muster the best of the original Fallout squad + ex-Troika, now I'd even support that shit with donations etc. I've been playing Vampire again recently and I'm in the middle of getting hold of Arcanum again. What Troika created in their short duration as a company is some of the best that the cRPG genre has had to offer. EVER. Not like the garbage that we get spoon-fed nowadays.

I've been watching the Fallout 3 gameplay trailers and everything can just be summed up in one word:
INANE
Seriously, I could write more interesting, enticing and capturing dialogue five minutes before I take my lunchbreak. It's boring and uninventive. Lack of character has been compensated for by copious amounts of swearing.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:02 am

It could be possible that they aren't doing a full on retail release type of mmorpg but one of those online type of mmorpgs like furcadia or some Korean one. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper for them and could be fairly quick for them to get out.

Long time no see, Mr Carrot.

frissy · Post by **frissy** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:57 am

Skratches his behinds. They are probably there due to some "small text" in the papers they signed in the year twooo thouuusaaaaannndd.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:39 am

Stainless wrote:They have a deadline for release before they lose the rights to bethsoft, so it'll probably get rushed horribly even if it does get released in time.

What were the specified requirements again? At the time they seemed like impossible for IPLY to fulfill.

It's likely they'll release a horrible pre-alpha to the market prior to the deadline and just improve from that.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:02 am

Pretty much the trend for most MMO's these days. Age of Conan should have been delayed another 4 or 5 months until they worked out some really basic bugs, for instance.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:03 pm

Wolfman Walt wrote:Pretty much the trend for most MMO's these days. Age of Conan should have been delayed another 4 or 5 months until they worked out some really basic bugs, for instance.

I was surprised when I heard that most of Warhammer Online seems to be perfectly in order.
It seems that it's no longer acceptable for massive games to be flawed when released, because then you get the AOC problem which generates a lot of hate hype.

But then devs just cut content instead, like Warhammer did, major cities and classes.

Psychoul · Post by **Psychoul** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:33 pm

rabidpeanut wrote:Actually, it does.

cazsim83 wrote:It doesn't have to be isometric.

Cazsim is right.

Dark Underlord · Post by **Dark Underlord** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:49 am

Isometric my ass.
I want to shoot children and comment it with ice cold one liners, thus winning a special place in the hearts of the entire community.

entertainer · Post by **entertainer** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:23 pm

nice post

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:57 pm

Smiley wrote:I was surprised when I heard that most of Warhammer Online seems to be perfectly in order.

I won't say "perfect" but it certaintly is relatively bug free. There's still afew weird bugs that the next patch or two should fix. The nice thing about WaR compared to Age of Conan is you don't have 60 patches per night that you have to download. Also, the PVP WORKS. The fact that those missing classes will be offered for free via patches is also kinda neato burrito since two of the classes I wanted to try got cut.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:52 pm

The swearing bothers me, too. It's not the "rugged men of the woods, who throw a curse every now and then to enhance their words" type of swearing, more like the "teenagers hanging at the mall and going over and over about the new naughty words they've learned".

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:39 am

Wolfman Walt wrote: I won't say "perfect" but it certaintly is relatively bug free. There's still afew weird bugs that the next patch or two should fix. The nice thing about WaR compared to Age of Conan is you don't have 60 patches per night that you have to download. Also, the PVP WORKS. The fact that those missing classes will be offered for free via patches is also kinda neato burrito since two of the classes I wanted to try got cut.

There's something to be said about planning though.. like I said, they cut off content, instead of cutting polishing like AOC did, and most MMO's before that.

That screws up the balance depending on their master plan. Will the introduction of new classes throw the game? Will they be balanced by the time they're released?
Isn't it unfair that some looked forwards to these classes from the beta, and wont get to play them before everyone else is miles ahead?

Time is limited, and being cut off from your friends is not fun at all while leveling.

"It's done when it's done" is a good timeline. At least it doesn't insult gamers for buying it from the start.

Haris · Post by **Haris** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:42 pm

Hm.....damnit i dont even care about it now.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:23 pm

Fallout is dead, and it should stay that way. the 3 year resurrection window is long gone.

mixmastermind · Post by **mixmastermind** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:21 pm

Smiley wrote: I was surprised when I heard that most of Warhammer Online seems to be perfectly in order.

It did get pushed back by like, 2 years.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:02 am

Better late and working than early and fucked.