Interplay Interactive LIVES!!!

Yee-haw! More Redneck Rampage to come hopefully!

Earthworm Jim the TV-SHOW is RETURNING!?!? *Dances jig*

In fact! *Runs out in the street to do the naked jig of getting arrestedness*

Oh! And a Fallout MMO? THAT I might look into!

-Fred

Maybe a Kingpin 2 is too much to hope for?

Maybe they will finally make that Lost Vikings 3 I've been waiting for...

That says nothing about adventure games. Like Black Dahlia 2!

I've refused to play any and all MMO on the basis of being too dangerous to lose my life to them.

But.

How do they expect me to resist Fallout?

Seriously.

Fallout.

FALLOUT!

I hope you all remember that this is the same Interplay that shut down Black Isle Studios while they were making Fallout 3, canceled the project when it was over half complete and then sold the rights to Bethesda for cash.

You know I am really excited about the Bethesda Fallout 3.

I'm not. That way I won't get my hopes crushed when I try it out. Fallout was originally created to show people that you could make a proper roleplaying game for the pc. And it did so, well. Very well.

Bethesda hasn't made a decent rpg since Daggerfall.

However. This Fallout MMO? It sounds kind of like... The end of my social life as I know it...

-Fred

I really enjoyed Oblivion though, so it might just do well for me.

freepizza wrote:I really enjoyed Oblivion though, so it might just do well for me.

Oblivion was great. I don't understand why people hate Oblivion so much. Perhaps it was too popular, and more than just your typical lifeless basement nerd wanted to play it, thus making the typical lifeless basement nerds feel less exclusive and a little irate.

I never played an RPG before, hate them... I loved Oblivion. That indicated that what they managed to make was an RPG that sold to not just the above-mentioned demographic. It looked good, was fun to play, but did not require you to quit your job to be able to play as it was not TOO engaging, to the point where the only way to progress is to spend a sickening amount of time playing it.

That's just my $0.02.

-Cub. =o)

It was buggy as hell, at least on the 360, but damn if I didn't have a good time playing it on the HD projector and 102' screen, trotting down the sunny forest or snowy mountain on the badass horsie. I think I spent more time exploring the countryside on horse than doing anything else, with the possible exception of stealing and assassinating for guilds.

As long as Fallout 3 remains in the same wonderful Fallout spirit I'm sure I'll enjoy it. Whether or not they screw it up is very subjective, but if they screw it up for me there will be blood

And yah Fred, I'm still worried about that MMO project. I sense the Devil to be behind this mischievous soul-stealing scheme!

To break it down, Oblivion failed as a roleplaying game. No matter what class you chose, you could do anything, train anything, accomplish anything. If you choose Assassin as your class, why can you go directly to the Mage's Guild and join up and go spellslinger instead? You could train anything at once from the word go, making classes redundant.

The levelscaling. Jesus, who thought that was a good idea? You can actually complete Oblivion at level 2. Yes. Level 2. Because all the enemies everywhere are scaled to your level. Making leveling... well, redundant.

You can kill anything as long as you click either fast enough (melee) or aim well enough (ranged). Therefore whatever class you're playing does not regulate your skills down to your CHARACTER, which is what ROLEPLAYING is about. (Playing as your character, not as yourself.) This made the ability system, you guessed it, redundant.

What Oblivion is, is an adventure game that's trying to be a roleplaying game. And fails utterly at that.

I will say, in it's defense, that the quests were decently thought out. I liked the Assassin's Guild quests.

However, the bugs that were littered through the game ruined every attempt at "Immersion(tm)" that Bethesda tried so hard to implement. It's hard to retain the illusion when npcs change their dialects (and even voices!) from topic to topic.

What pisses me off terminally is the sheer amount of potential this game had when it came out. But they messed up so bad I was actually let down...

Anyway, if they mess up Fallout 3 I will never, ever purchase anything with their brandname attached to it ever again. That's my solemnt vow.

-Fred

I worry about Interplay. I'm not too hyped about their being in business. The V13 project? Sounds like Vault 13 and that sounds like they are using Fallout as a back drop. Too bad they sold the rights to Fallout. That just sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Is Christopher Taylor unable to write anything but post apocalyptic story lines?

Maybe they should get the rights to Wasteland and do that.

As for Oblivion... it worked just fine for me on my 360 with only a few glitches in all the time I spent playing it. It was enjoyable but not that great. It is easily the best and least glitch filled Elder Scroll game. Daggerfall? That is the most bugged game ever to be released. It is one of those games that you couldn't win without downloading a patch. That is just pathetic.

I will be getting my hands on Fallout 3 in a week or two. I'll let people know what I think.

AS for Interplay, they already did so many things wrong it's hard to believe they can turn it around.