Fallout 3: I'm getting old

[PurpleRain]

I hope you get to fight those two racoons. Ok, fans will know what I mean, but ever since I found out about them in game 1 I've always wanted to battle them. Giant black and white sons of guns them.

 

[Magnetic2]

I bought the game (morrowind) and beat the bejesus out of it for a year, than started a new game and finally beat the main plot. I bought oblivion and just got tired (sick?) of it. I have a great rig and run it at great settings, just about max, but damn, seeing the same goblin the same place every place and fighting it the same way over, and over again for some how arbitrarily gain a level was just making me wonder why I didn't pick up mass effect.

Man, I really wish I owned mass effect, for i am a poor, poor man right now.

 

[ComradeJim270]

Hey man, change happens. If not, we would all be stuck playing pong until god knows when.

Don't let it get to you though, with out it, a franchise will die.

In this case, that may be a good thing.

Bethesda have said the levelling is halfway between Oblivion and traditional RPG. Some enemies level with you, but some stay the same throughout the game.

Besides, who says it's going to be identical to Oblivion anyway? If Valve did a Halo game for some reason, would you automatically assume it would be full of puzzles, crowbars, and cyborgs? Or would you actually give them a chance to do things differently before condemning them based on what they've done in the past?

I would use inductive reasoning.

Everyone who mentioned the issue of player freedom is in the same boat as me. I don't give a shit if it's not turn-based. I don't give a shit if it's 1st/3rd person. I don't give a shit if they fudge just a little bit on the story and setting, because Fallout 2 did some weird shit, too, that was just... silly. I DO give a shit if I'm forced to do things in a particular way and in a paticular sequence while people harp about how much 'freedom' the game has.

Go read an press release. ANY AT ALL. They just proved you wrong.

You must be reading old press releases. They have now admitted it's 'Oblivion with guns'. Also a single page from "Philosophy for Dummies" probably has a better idea of what 'choice' and 'freedom' are than the entire staff of Bethesda. All they've said regarding this issue has been extremely vague and insubstantial, probably because they realize they don't have a clue how to give a player any kind of significant freedom, and can only give us a small number of stupid, insignificant choices.

To put it simply, Bethesda is not good at making RPGs. Everything they do is uninspired, unoriginal, half-baked, full of bugs and stupid mistakes that are blatantly obvious to everyone but them, and for the most part, each Elder Scrolls game has just coasted along on hype until the next one came out. Without mods and patches, none of them is much good once you get over how huge they are.

Also, I get pissed at Bethesda because they are so far up their own asses, sniffing their own farts so they can evaluate whether they do in fact stink, that they can eat their lunches twice in two minutes. I have a strong dislike of arrogance, and I'm hoping that Bethesda's arrogance is developing into full-blown, self-destructive hubris, in the Classical Greek sense. That would probably teach a valuable lesson to the rest of the gaming industry.