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I prefer the one that isn't a blight in the annals of movie making.

We rule!

That's the best thing about Total War. I can't wait to capture Scandinavia with Portugal.

This is too crazy, even for you.

I saw The Queen today.

A lot of that footage had already appeared before. I guess the highlight of that trailer is the airplane crash and the lighthouse.

TISM - Everyone Has Had More Sex Than Me

In my experience, most "professional" reviews sites aren't very good. Whit that in mind, I don't think IGN is worse, than Gamespy, Gamespot, or whatever. But I don't think they're better either.

As long as he doesn't scream Lou's name out loud in the height of passion, then I'm ok with it.

Review collection sites: http://www.gamerankings.com http://www.metacritic.com

Is there anyone around who didn't know that?

That's not from Ultima VII, so don't worry.

Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

Note that I'm not saying that a Fallout style game could never be successful nowadays, I'm just saying that it wouldn't be a big hit among the mainstream crowd. Fallout was successful because it managed to appeal to a certain market niche, not because it sold bundles to the mainstream crowd.

...that right there be what's wrong wit' the gamin' community today an' where the "dumbed-down" effect comes inta play...noone wants ta play a well written, well designed 40+ hour cRPG anymmores...theys want gore, eye candy, an' li'l else matters...more's the pity...a FO or PS:T style game will'na sell, an' that truly be a sad thing... :'( ...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!... There are also a lot of people that just don't have the time for 40+ hour cRPG.

But he wasn't a hero. He was just a guy with amnesia.

And Arcanum, Bloodlines, ect... Okay, I can agree with Bloodlines, but definitely not with Arcanum.

I don't think Fallout has too much text. However, every casual PC gamer I know (and many hardcore gamers too) thinks it has too much text. Not to mention that they also think RPGs in general are too time consuming.

The only "recent" RPG I can think of that didn't have a "stupid hero plot" was Torment.

It was still too text-heavy for most people.

In my experience, most gamers don't want to read when playing their games. That would kind of destroy any hope of making a mainstream Fallout style game.

I wasn't asking you specifically, I was just throwing questions out to see where they landed.

No, not at all. It's just that Sony managed to beat Xbox 360 sales without even trying.

Well, I wouldn't say Fallout was made for a mainstream market either. By definition, a Fallout styled game is not usually directed at mainstream game players. The question is whether they can make a Fallout style game profitable today, given the rising costs of game development. What game mechanics made Fallout a successful game and how would you implement and change them to adapt them to today's gamer expectations? Would a more open ended NWN2 do the trick?

So what you actually want is a non linear game which gives the player numerous options, and has a dialogue system like Fallout and the IE games? You wouldn't mind if it uses first person view or has real time combat, for example?