Fallout Fans Are Big Meanies

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:32 pm

<html><body><A HREF=http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/october03/falloutbos/ target=_blank>Gamespy</A> conducted a hilarious interview with Chuck Cuevas and Chris Pasetto about FOBOS, but spent most of their time to cry about Fallout fans.<blockquote>Chis: …Way back we were like "Well, let's see what they have to say." And some of the biggest detractors were like "There's no way you can do this without making it turn-based, there's no Fallout without being turn-based!" A lot of us were like, with this really cool post-apocalyptic world, how is turn-based combat and a keyboard and mouse intrinsic to that? There's no pleasing them on that. If they have no keyboard and mouse, and they have to play in real-time, they're never going to be happy. Fortunately, a lot of us here and even the guys we talked to from the PC team -- the Black Isle guys -- they said they're really a minority and to be honest they get all upset when there's something that they don't like even in the Fallout PC games. They're equally vocal and pissed off.

Chuck:Yeah, they have their own debates going on about even games that have already shipped. So Fallout was the best, Fallout 2 was the best, etc. So trying to please them was almost like trying to please everybody, but you can't. We took our licks early on in the forums, but then we just stopped dealing with them. Because even behind the scenes it was quite evident that there was just no dealing with them.

Chris again: There were a couple fans out there who were like "This sounds cool, I'd like to see it," and those people were shouted down. It just became unreasonable. They couldn't even get a chance to check out screenshots and see the game without someone flaming them.

More from Chuck: Yeah, you know. The PC sites, we basically don't talk to them anymore because they were so negative, and looking for things to jump on that we just stopped talking to them, stopped providing them things because all they did was turn it around and use it against us.</blockquote>There’s plenty more. Funny how they stick to the argument that only a few people hate the game because it isn’t turnbased and 2D. And instead of “not talking” they censored everybody. When did they ever try to talk to the fans? Oh, almost forgot to mention there hasn’t been a single positive response to FOBOS outside the fanbase. I guess everyone at <A HREF=http://www.interplay.com target=_blank>Interplay</A> should hold hands and cry or something.</body></html>