1: "Piracy is Theft." This is bullshit. Theft involves taking something illegally. Piracy involves copying something illegally. Get it straight already.
2: "Fallout 3 isn't a true fallout game!" Yes, it is. It's fully canon, and dammit it rescued the series from obscurity. Be thankful it was released and that it was a smash hit, because if it wasn't for Fallout 3, failings and all, the series would just be a road sign on Memory Lane. Besides, I've played Fallout 1 and 2, the turn-based combat system is so boring it puts me to sleep even when I use hax...literally.
3: "If you don't like Crysis your rig sucks!" ...Elitist bullshit, do I even need to elaborate? Yes? Fine then. The only reason this game is so well received is that it's a tech demo in the guise of a game, useful for e-peen whores to justify four thousand bucks worth of credit card debt. Judging it on it's merits as a game it's average at best. It's better than Call of Battlefield: Source, but I'm not going to trade in Portal to get a copy anytime soon.
4: "Piracy is killing PC gaming!!!" ...So why was New Vegas on TPB for xbox 360 a week
before release, yet didn't show up for PC until a week or two after? Explain that one. Also, kindly explain how Valve manages to make fistfuls of money catering to PC players.
5: "You just don't like game X because you suck at it!" See Crysis, but replace credit card debt with lack of a life outside of gaming.
6: "Game Z doesn't have lean, I'm boycotting!" ...So? You never use it anyways. I've watched plenty of COD4 matches on youtube and never once have I ever seen someone using lean.
7: "Looooool SP sucks." Play something other than Call of Duty then. If your only experience of SP is the half-baked shit stuck to the side of competitive shooters you're not going to think very highly of it, so grab a game that focuses on it's SP and is generally accepted to be good. Like Half Life 2, or Portal, or Fallout 3, or Bioshock. There's plenty of viable games, and you may just find it's good when handled by developers that aren't howler monkeys.
8: "Shooter G sucks!" "No, Shooter T sucks!" Honestly guys, I can't tell the difference. Sure one looks a bit different, but when you boil it down to the gameplay, they're completely identical. So stop your bickering, buy both, and have some fun already.
9: "Gaming PCs are expensive!!!" Bullshit. I paid no more to build mine than I would have on an xBox 360. You just have to know where to look and not shun used parts.
10: "A proper gaming PC costs more than a used car!" Again, bullshit, and again, I point at mine. It can play any game yours can, it costs no more than the average price of a console, and it's a PC.
11: "You don't like competitive multiplayer? CONSOLE SCRUB LOSER! GO PLAY BEJEWELED!" Oi. Just Oi.
12: "Console controls are better in every way!" Negative. I'll grant you platformers and driving/flying games, but you have to concede that shooters suck big hairy donkey testicles when they have to use a joystick to aim, and then we have the RTS, a game genre which single-handedly created the market for mice with half a keyboard attached to them. There's a reason console FPSs have auto-aim and huge hitboxes, and it isn't the userbase. Speaking of which...
13: "Consoles are dumbing down PC games!" Negative. What's dumbing down PC games is PC gamers constantly buying the same boring, tedious, repetitive shooters. Balk at those games, refuse to buy them, only buy the games that aren't dumbed down, and you'll notice a change in games.
14: "Fallout 3 isn't an RPG!" Bullshit. You've got perks, character stats, choices to make, you can be a ponce or a savior, weapons get better as your stats change, you don't even have to use combat a lot of the time, and you can make your Lone Wanderer look like whatever the fuck you want them to. It's an RPG. But if you want to get absolutely pedantic, every game with a protagonist is an RPG, as you're in a game playing the role of Douchebag McGee. 'Course, you and I both know it's not that literal, but my point stands just the same.
15: "Don't play your music over the game, it ruins the atmosphere!" Uhh...what? I find the atmosphere is improved when I have music I like in the background.
16: "That game sucks, it's graphics are sooooo 2007." Right, and that's why it's Game of the Year....
Drummie666 said:
Vault101 said:
9. Fallout 3 was a bad game, lets just put certain plot points ASIDE for a moment, I think some people really forget what the game did incredibly well (and that was alot of things)
I agree with (I think) everything you just said other than this.
I think that Fallout 3 was a bad game. But why that is has nothing to do with any plot point stuff. I probably can't anyway seeing as how I stopped playing it a couple hours in.
I just thought that stats were terribly balanced, almost to the point where putting points into anything but small guns was a waste, combat itself was rather dull and that the inventory system could use something of a revamp IMO.
But ignoring all that for a moment. Let's talk about the atmosphere. Or rather, the lack of such. Yes, I'm serious. Fallout 3 has absolutely no atmosphere and that is entirely due to that lack of audio. There's no music, but I could forgive that, they could pull off a wasteland tone without music. But at least add in some environmental sounds! I'd settle for some wind blowing through the jagged rocks!
Don't try saying the radio stations add some atmosphere. They don't. Because any immersion you get from the radio at first is immediately shot when you realise that the radio just has a few minute track that loops over and over again.
That's why I think it's a bad game: Lack of atmosphere and immersion.
I don't care about how good the rest of the game is. I couldn't get into it.
The way I see it is that every game is a box full of goodies, which you have to find a way into. Some games, like IMO Metroid Prime, allow you to jut hop right in a play with the goodies. Fallout 3 on the other hand is a box made of solid steel with no way in.
I feel the exact opposite. I find myself far more immersed in 3, and New Vegas for that matter, than I do most other games. The only time that immersion breaks is when I encounter some sort of dumb bug.
though I do agree about the radio station. But that's why I downloaded a mod that put 100 tracks in...and let me select the music. There's just something epic to have Wherever I May Roam blaring while you pick through ruins in the ass end of nowhere...
