While Fallout 3 is a good game, and one of my favorites out there, I am one of those who maintains it's not a real Fallout game even in spirit. I could go on and on about this, but it's really not that important. I simply think Bethesda should have developed their own post apocolyptic RPG franchise under the current engine as opposed to trying to make a Fallout sequel when simply put they don't have the audacity to do it right anymore. Basically if your going to back down to Australian censors over issues like animations of a guy sticking a needle in his arm, then you really aren't going to make a game messed up enough to truely carry on with the franchise.
People talk about things like "what is the big deal with killing children?" well the point is that Fallout is supposed to be messed up enough where you can do stuff like that if you want to. However in Fallout 3 they have this retarded commune of Beyond Thunderdome child rejects who even point guns at you, and you can't shoot them if you want to (and really if your an evilly aligned callous killer I can't see why you wouldn't, especially seeing as they are in the way of a major objective).
At any rate, the actual point of this is that Fallout 3 is not "massive changes between sequels" it's an entirely differant game (albeit a very, very good one) with the Fallout name printed on the box and a few names lifted from that series (ie Brotherhood Of Steel, Mentats, etc...).
When it comes to Divine Divinity, I think that game was absolutly awesome and one of the best games of it's type ever. I don't think it was ever really topped at what it set out to do until Sacred 2.
It did however already have a sequel called "Beyond Divinity" which was simply put an absolute nightmare, missing everything that made the first game cool. Basically you get this hero and the "evil side of his soul" which is a death knight, working together in a pretty linear top down enviroment. It was pretty "blah" and I'm a guy who tried hard to like it.
A new game in the series should rightfully be named 3... and ummm... I expect the graphics to update, but really this one was about the gameplay. The lost a lot of trust from me with the last Divine Divinity sequel to the point of me considering it a dead liscence more or less. I don't care how pretty it looks, it's going to take some convincing to win me back after a sequel so bad it probably should have gotten them taken up before the UN for crimes against humanity.
People talk about things like "what is the big deal with killing children?" well the point is that Fallout is supposed to be messed up enough where you can do stuff like that if you want to. However in Fallout 3 they have this retarded commune of Beyond Thunderdome child rejects who even point guns at you, and you can't shoot them if you want to (and really if your an evilly aligned callous killer I can't see why you wouldn't, especially seeing as they are in the way of a major objective).
At any rate, the actual point of this is that Fallout 3 is not "massive changes between sequels" it's an entirely differant game (albeit a very, very good one) with the Fallout name printed on the box and a few names lifted from that series (ie Brotherhood Of Steel, Mentats, etc...).
When it comes to Divine Divinity, I think that game was absolutly awesome and one of the best games of it's type ever. I don't think it was ever really topped at what it set out to do until Sacred 2.
It did however already have a sequel called "Beyond Divinity" which was simply put an absolute nightmare, missing everything that made the first game cool. Basically you get this hero and the "evil side of his soul" which is a death knight, working together in a pretty linear top down enviroment. It was pretty "blah" and I'm a guy who tried hard to like it.
A new game in the series should rightfully be named 3... and ummm... I expect the graphics to update, but really this one was about the gameplay. The lost a lot of trust from me with the last Divine Divinity sequel to the point of me considering it a dead liscence more or less. I don't care how pretty it looks, it's going to take some convincing to win me back after a sequel so bad it probably should have gotten them taken up before the UN for crimes against humanity.
