Duck and Cover

Well well..
Having played Fallout and Fallout 2, then seeing a new twist with Fallout Tactics....

After having sat there playing FO: BOS with my brother (who is NOT a 2-player co-op friendly person sometimes) for most of yesterday, I can safely say this : The game rocks.

And here's why : For folks like me, who no longer have a computer and have to resort to mooching time on other's systems, Fallout isn't an option. However, having a tiny inkling of Fallout on a console is JUST enough to keep my inner-Vault Dweller alive and itching for the next installment, though it be years off.

Yes, there is room for good improvement, but overall, the game fits it's genre, with enough true-to-Fallout tidbits to keep a fan of the series happy.

So before you people jump all over it, shut the hell up, give it a play, and tell me you aren't sitting there glad it's a console game instead of a pc game. There's only so much you can do with consoles, and as such, the team did a good job on this. Granted, at times, it would be nice to have the 2-player screen split so you can say, pincer-attack a group of raiders, but hey, let's leave it for the next Fallout console port.

To say that FO:BOS and FO:Tactics aren't `Fallout` games is like saying bananas aren't a fruit because they're not round like apples or oranges.

Life is nothing but change, games are the same. They advance and morph and grow. And of ALL the games I've played, I'd think a game such as Fallout, with it's heavy doses of radiation and mutation, could simply NOT remain the same, time and again.

Yes, there is room for good improvement, but overall, the game fits it's genre, with enough true-to-Fallout tidbits to keep a fan of the series happy.

Say wut?

Nicely written, but I disagree. While games should grow and advance, a series should not morph. FOBOS should have gone along with Fallout, not created an alternate Fallout. It might work with the genre it's created for, but for the franchise it's spawned from, it doesn't work.

FOBOS may be a good/average game for it's genre, but it is pure abuse to the Fallout series. To grade it on it's own merrits would be to ignore the greatness of it's predecessors. It could better be reviewed in comparison to BG:DA2, but even the reviewers that compared the two said they were almost identical in gameplay and on par with each other in graphics.

Compared to most new games for the XBOX, FOBOS looks like a first generation attempt; possibly a Final Generation PSX (PS1) title.

I played it for the XBOX. I did have some fun, but I couldn't ignore the fact that it bastardized my favorite games (FO1 and FO2). I didn't like the all powerful BOS or the ever-changing mutants..I especially disliked the Ghoul cliques.

The "unlockable" players should have been at least somewhat different than the ordinary players you get at start-up. And what's with the language? I think in FO1 I saw "fuck" maybe 2 times, with some "shit" thrown in. Those were sparce. FOBOS is like hanging out in a dirty little bar with ignorant rednecks. It's just not an intelligent game.

Have you played other PA games for the console? How does something like Roadkill compare?

I happen to think it's an awful game, perhaps the worst I've seen of its genre, and that it has little to no appeal for those interested in what Fallout provided: A fresh, smart, truly open-ended role-playing game with a clever retro-future setting. What's there for them other than the few tacked-on cameos and references?

SeirX wrote:The game rocks.

No it fucking doesn't.

SeirX wrote:let's leave it for the next Fallout console port.

Game developers don't make sequels to games that don't sell.

SeirX wrote:Life is nothing but change, games are the same. They advance and morph and grow.

Yes, but the intention is to advance and morph and grow for the better. FOBOS didn't.

SeirX wrote: Yes, there is room for good improvement, but overall, the game fits it's genre, with enough true-to-Fallout tidbits to keep a fan of the series happy.

Such as being able to play as the Vault Dweller even though he travelled to the far north of California after his quest?

SeirX wrote: There's only so much you can do with consoles

Which is why they suck.

SeirX wrote:To say that FO:BOS and FO:Tactics aren't `Fallout` games is like saying bananas aren't a fruit because they're not round like apples or oranges.

Fruit has mutated. Apples aren't round anymore. And FOBOS isn't Fallout anymore.

SeirX wrote:To say that FO:BOS and FO:Tactics aren't `Fallout` games is like saying bananas aren't a fruit because they're not round like apples or oranges.

No, it's like saying bananas arnt a fruit because they suddenly taste like dogshit while the others taste good. While it may be a fruit by look, it certainly isnt like one on the inside.

SeirX wrote:Well well..
Having played Fallout and Fallout 2, then seeing a new twist with Fallout Tactics....

After having sat there playing FO: BOS with my brother (who is NOT a 2-player co-op friendly person sometimes) for most of yesterday, I can safely say this : The game rocks.

And here's why : For folks like me, who no longer have a computer and have to resort to mooching time on other's systems, Fallout isn't an option. However, having a tiny inkling of Fallout on a console is JUST enough to keep my inner-Vault Dweller alive and itching for the next installment, though it be years off.

Yes, there is room for good improvement, but overall, the game fits it's genre, with enough true-to-Fallout tidbits to keep a fan of the series happy.

So before you people jump all over it, shut the hell up, give it a play, and tell me you aren't sitting there glad it's a console game instead of a pc game. There's only so much you can do with consoles, and as such, the team did a good job on this. Granted, at times, it would be nice to have the 2-player screen split so you can say, pincer-attack a group of raiders, but hey, let's leave it for the next Fallout console port.

To say that FO:BOS and FO:Tactics aren't `Fallout` games is like saying bananas aren't a fruit because they're not round like apples or oranges.

Life is nothing but change, games are the same. They advance and morph and grow. And of ALL the games I've played, I'd think a game such as Fallout, with it's heavy doses of radiation and mutation, could simply NOT remain the same, time and again.

Ok you poor poor tard. I hate to thread dig but goddammit I hate people who say FO:POS was good. It wasn't it was more like playing a shittier version of Baldurs gate or watching porn with camera focused on a guys ass crack and balls without ever showing the chicks. POS was perhaps one of the worst games I have played along with Road Kill which was like a snowball fight using crap. People who have played POS will know what I am talking about when I say that. If evolution was meaner SeirX would have been been the second of mothers nature wrath of active eugenics. And please whatever you do SeirX don't breed for you will be getting your offspring killed.

SeirX wrote:Well well..
Having played Fallout and Fallout 2, then seeing a new twist with Fallout Tactics....

After having sat there playing FO: BOS with my brother (who is NOT a 2-player co-op friendly person sometimes) for most of yesterday, I can safely say this : The game rocks.

And here's why : For folks like me, who no longer have a computer and have to resort to mooching time on other's systems, Fallout isn't an option. However, having a tiny inkling of Fallout on a console is JUST enough to keep my inner-Vault Dweller alive and itching for the next installment, though it be years off.

Yes, there is room for good improvement, but overall, the game fits it's genre, with enough true-to-Fallout tidbits to keep a fan of the series happy.

So before you people jump all over it, shut the hell up, give it a play, and tell me you aren't sitting there glad it's a console game instead of a pc game. There's only so much you can do with consoles, and as such, the team did a good job on this. Granted, at times, it would be nice to have the 2-player screen split so you can say, pincer-attack a group of raiders, but hey, let's leave it for the next Fallout console port.

To say that FO:BOS and FO:Tactics aren't `Fallout` games is like saying bananas aren't a fruit because they're not round like apples or oranges.

Life is nothing but change, games are the same. They advance and morph and grow. And of ALL the games I've played, I'd think a game such as Fallout, with it's heavy doses of radiation and mutation, could simply NOT remain the same, time and again.

Ok you poor poor tard. I hate to thread dig but goddammit I hate people who say FO:POS was good. It wasn't it was more like playing a shittier version of Baldurs gate or watching porn with camera focused on a guys ass crack and balls without ever showing the chicks. POS was perhaps one of the worst games I have played along with Road Kill which was like a snowball fight using crap. People who have played POS will know what I am talking about when I say that. If evolution was meaner SeirX would have been been the second of mothers nature wrath of active eugenics. And please whatever you do SeirX don't breed for you will be getting your offspring killed.

God dammit there goes my shitty internet service telling me I never clicked the appropriate link. Sorry about the inadvertant spam. I really do have crappy internet providers.

Why do you keep digging up dead threads? No one is monitoring this anymore, least of all the guy your post was addressed to.

This conversation has been had. It was had over six months ago. Hell, it was a finished conversation before I even joined. Its ressurrection serves no purpose.

I dug a nearly year old thread on my first day. Thats pretty bad.

fallout ranger wrote:spam

Why do you people feel it necessary to dig old threads and then post nonsense. Contrary to popular belief; you don't get DAC PHAT LEWTTM when you reach 1000 posts. Lock plz.

I got crazy phat lewt when I hit 1000. boywoos is lying. Just keep posting and posting and spamming and spamming and watch the goodies flie in.

On a side note, digging any thread made before maybe May 15 is pretty worthless as 99% of the posts are made by people who don't know DAC is back, or even care. Just stick with threads that are currently in topic and have been replied to within the last maybe 10 days. Thread digging used to be quite the offence, but I think the mods are taking it easy as the rebuilding process continues.

This is a warning, though I hold no authority.

You can dig any fucking thread you want, as long as you add something USEFUL. However, posting a direct response to some idiot who hasn't visited this site in half a year is worse than useless.

boywoos wrote:DAC PHAT LEWT

Now THERE'S an idea for marketing. DAC hats! DAC t-shirts! DAC fuck-me-in-the-ass Lynette blow-up dolls. The amount of ideas are endless!

MurPHy wrote:DAC fuck-me-in-the-ass Lynette blow-up dolls.

*gets out wallet*

I'd tap it, without a doubt.

And the money generated can be used to get www.duckandcover.net back!

Or make Killz a filthy rich bastard.

On the plus side, however, the NMA boys would be REALLY pissed at us for thinking this one up. The only problem is copyright infringement. *sigh*

Killz wouldn't get the money, silly. Killzig gets a horses head in his bed.