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Joose wrote:If you havent played them, do so, now.

If it was a web game or a DS game I could maybe give it a go, but I don't think I can forgive games that old looking anymore. It looked ten years out of date ten years ago. Someone a year or two ago said I simply must play Baldur's Gate - I tried the demo of BG2, but I just couldn't. It's not just the ugly pixels and difficulty in seeing what some things are supposed to be, it's the dodgy interfaces that piss me off too - every game used different ones, and they weren't slick and intuitive like today's games.

I welcome an Oblivion-style RPG set in such an interesting world as much as anyone, but I don't have any real interest in playing the old games with the enormous catalogue of new ones I have unfinished. I guess we each remember what we were playing in 1997/8 more fondly, but I couldn't believe how shit FFVII looked when I tried it again recently.

FatherJack wrote:I welcome an Oblivion-style RPG set in such an interesting world as much as anyone, but I don't have any real interest in playing the old games with the enormous catalogue of new ones I have unfinished.

Fair enough. On the plus side, you didnt really have to have played fallout 1 to enjoy fallout 2 (you would just get more of the jokes), so if the trend continues, it wont be a requirement for enjoying this one either.

I guess we each remember what we were playing in 1997/8 more fondly, but I couldn't believe how shit FFVII looked when I tried it again recently.

heh, no, I replay the fallout games on almost a yearly basis. Fallout 1 is getting beyond ugly now, but I still easily get over how nasty 2 looks.

Joose wrote:
heh, no, I replay the fallout games on almost a yearly basis. Fallout 1 is getting beyond ugly now, but I still easily get over how nasty 2 looks.

The odd thing is, initial impact is that they're ugly, but you adjust really quickly and can then see everything clearly.

I've noticed this with old games on the Commdore 64 and Amiga's, initial shock over, you adjust, and they're still rather nice.


And, the interfaces in Fallout 1/2 are just great.

Over the past few weeks, Ive been playing 1, 2 and tactics, all I can say about graphics is, 1- unbelievably shit, who cares it such a fucking mint game, 2- still terrible, takes even less time to ignore because again, the game kicks ass, tactics- not that bad really, still a very good game.

Was least interested in tactics when i swept it, but now im enjoying popping supermutant heads with my sniper rifle, i also tried to play this in the traditional turn based stylee, that was a big fat fail. However, the faster paced continuous turn based malarkey scared me at first, then i got used to it, and started to really get to grips with it.

The interface on all three allow for high speed decisions, i always found in Baldur's gate 1 and 2 that when things got frantic, it was mash the spacebar time and try and sort out what the fuck was happening, dont get me wrong, my beard is long and i weep openly at the beautiful insanity that is boo the miniature giant space hamster, but the clean lines of fallout win in the interface stakes.

and just to get it out the way- fallout 3 you say?! o M f G B B Q *splunge* !!!!11eleventyone!

what he said.

I found the best way to play tactics (for me, anyway), was real time untill things got frantic, then spacebar mashing untill it calmed down again.