Fallout:Brotherhood of Steel

[greylord]

It looks like this has fallen into the bargain areas of gaming and I could get some at a cheap price. This is one I have to admit I've never actually played.

 

I realize that it won't be anything like the rest of the Fallout Series, and perhaps even a wider difference between the Fallout's and it then there was between the Baldurs Gate series and Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance series.

 

I did enjoy the fallouts...

 

I immensely enjoyed Baldurs Gate...

 

I also immensely enjoyed the Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance series for what it was, as well as the Champions of Norrath series.

 

With that in mind, is it worth it for me to get Fallout Brotherhood of Steel for 5 to 10 dollars, or is it still a waste of money?

Edited September 9, 2006 by greylord

[Judge Hades]

Its a piece of crap game that should have never existed.

[Slowtrain]

edit: nevermind

Edited September 9, 2006 by CrashGirl

[Judge Hades]

He is talking about FOPOS not FOT.

[Musopticon?]

It's a great game on it's own right that shouldn't be mixed as an rpg. Think of it as a Jagged Alliance-FF Tactics-kind of game and you'll be fine. A mix of tactical group battles in varied missions and the wealth of Fallout lore, coupled with an amazing athmosphere.

 

Everybody who likes the setting should get it, it's hardly an rpg, much less than say BG, the ultimate hack'n'slasher, but there's plenty of other stuff than plain combat to keep you going and SPECIAL is the still one of the best systems to ever grace an rpg.

 

Edit: Wait? Not Tactics, but BoS? That gun-ho Fallout-thing? I wouldn't bother, since it's really short and not nearly as varied as Dark Alliances were. If you want a similar, but better, game; get Shadowgrounds. Unless you really really dig the Fallout-world.

Edited September 9, 2006 by Musopticon?

[Darque]

Yups, that's what he's talking about alright.

 

I've been tempted to get it, if only to satisfy my curiosity... but I can't bring myself to do so.

 

Plus I hate "dark alliance" style games anyway.

[Judge Hades]

BGDA is one of the worse games I have played on the X Box. Second only to The Bard's Tale.

[Darque]

You don't like any games though.

[Judge Hades]

Stop lying.

[Slowtrain]

He is talking about FOPOS not FOT.

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Oh OK. I always get them confused since Fallouit:tactics is actually called Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel which is how I think of it.

 

I never played the one he's talking about then.

 

edit:quote fixed

Edited September 9, 2006 by CrashGirl

[Darque]

Stop lying.

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Just going from memory

 

All I see is "I hate this, this sucks, that blows, that was a waste of money, I'll never buy from them again."

[Judge Hades]

Then you have very poor memory.

[Darque]

Or you're just a broken record

[Judge Hades]

So you are joining the attack and ridicule as well now, eh Darque.

 

Fine.

Edited September 9, 2006 by Judge Hades

[Tigranes]

I thought this forum had flood control.

[CoM_Solaufein]

I got bored with the game. The only Fallout game I never completed.

[Pop]

FOT:BOS is really its own game, and while it strays from canon and loses most of the Fallout humor, it's still an adequate game, and an interesting play.

 

FO:BOS, however, you'll want to stay away from. I approached it with an open mind (ie before I knew it was so antagonized by the FO community) and man, it was terrible. Repetitive gameplay, bad design all around, incredibly bad story elements. It was a disaster. Absolutely no redeeming value at all.

[Volourn]

FOBOS was a fun game. It was more challenging than either BGDA though the character system wasn't as good. Plus, it has b00bies which is always a plus in my book.

 

FOBOS is severely undderated. People judge it wrong by comparing it to the FO RPG series which FOBOS is most certainly not trying to be.

 

FO FOBOS GO!

 

P.S. FOBOS is superior to FOT as FOT simply got boring, and uninteretsing. In essence, FOBOS was fun, FOT was not.

[Judge Hades]

If it has the Fallout name I will compare it to FO 1 and FO 2. I don't care if it is FPS POS, an action game, or strategy. Fallout is a CRPG therefore all games with the Fallout name will be judged as such.

 

FOT and FOPOS are Fallout in name only and thusly crap.

[Llyranor]

You know exactly what the console BGs and FOs were about. If you played them, it's your own fault. I don't blame the commies if I end up hating Barbie's Picnic Adventure.

[alanschu]

If you played them expecting them to in any way mimic the original games that used the name, then I'd have to agree that that would be his fault.

[Judge Hades]

Sorry, but now you're just being silly.

 

It's hardly the first time a game was made on an existing license for a different genre.

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Of course its not the first time. I never said it was. Any game that uses a name of a previous game but that is all they have in common is crap. You can either make the game similar to the original if you are going use the name or you can come up with an original title and let the game stand on its own merits. I prefer the latter than the former.

 

If a game is going to have Fallout in its title I expect a Fallout game. If a game is going to have Quake in its title I expect a Quake game. If a game is going to have Might and magic in its title then I expect a Might and magic game. So forth and so on.

Edited September 9, 2006 by Judge Hades

[alanschu]

Then that's your own fault.

 

I'm sure there were plenty of people complaining the WoW wasn't an RTS

[Judge Hades]

hades is the only one who matters. if you dont get it then it's your own fault.

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I am the only person that matters to me as much as alan is the only person that matters to him in this discussion. If it is my fault for my tastes and expectations then it is his fault for his.

 

My views works for me and Alan's views works for him, however his views do not work for me as mine does not work for him.

Edited September 9, 2006 by Judge Hades

[alanschu]

I have different tastes and expectations in games than you. For you it is perfectly acceptable to have a game take a name of a better game then have it be complete junk according to your posts. For me, it is not. Therefore we have different tastes in games.

 

I don't recall ever saying it's acceptable for a game to be complete junk.

 

I'm saying it's acceptable for a game to use the same universe in a different genre.

 

I never once said FOBOS was a good game and in any way justified. I'm saying you can't compare it to an RPG Fallout.