>>17324Well for me Fallout 4 not BAD game if we talk about "bad game=unplayable mess" but I don't say it in any way entertainment
Again what I said - original Fallout was done by small team of people with basicly minimal budget and concretic goals - and what what it is do a concretic experience, and whole game was done to fullfill this concretic experience - maximum depressing post-apocalypse horror that in right proportion use all historical stereotypes of it to give concretic stylistic picture of it, and gameplay-wise it was awesome simulation of kind of tabletop session with good gamemaster. Actual limited, but "alive" world that works exeacly what it need to be.
Fallout 4 is just modern "adventure" FPS in openworld did with trillions budget. This game has nothing to do with atmosphere, goals and ideas that had Fallout 1, same with gameplay. This is just modern company using famous trademark and famous words like "supermutants" and "brotherhood of still" just to earn money. Without this "trademark" words this is just another crappy openworld adventure FPS like Far Cry, or Xenus or all this Witchers and Mad Max game etc. etc., there hell lot of this games and all of them get me bored. Their target audience is just console players who want just press button and "go across open map".
And about style - bethesda change their style efery game in their series. Not because it something cool just because they don't give a sigle fuck about previous games. Well, I don't give a fuck about modern bethsda games - I have many thing how to spend my time than another Todd's open-FPS on gamebryo.
Speaking of which...
I finished Might and Magic 2, first time I finished it compleatly and properly and I may say that this game is really awesome. I know nobody will ever care about it and nobody will ever play this in their lives but anyway...
I remember when I tried it right after I ended WoX and IoT - I like passed trought series first time in opposite order - from 4-5 to 3 then to 2. And I can't get shit, what the fuck I need to do and all this things. I remeber same way I tried Wizardry 6 and failed same way because I don't kow shit about what the fuck is "encounter" mechanics. Don't do this mistake - MM2 is actual absolute direct sequel to the first game. In one of examples when developers not changing old things they already did, just add more. And in case of MM2 - much more. On top of MM1 mechanics was inserted many cool things - new spells and idea that you need find or buy some spells, new character classes, mechanics of "skills", class promotion mechanics and quests etc.
Combat difficulty and amount of enemies from middle of game to end goes to insane numbers like infamous encounter (that actually avoidable tbh) with 60 devil kings. Basicly this game made as some sort of "giant expansion" for players who already played shit out if first game and want more. You transfer your party from the first game, they start already level 7 20 to all stats + basic equipment and you can go immideatly do some things: you already familiar with interface, basic mechanics, all you need to do - learn new features and look at new awesome 16 colors graphics with animated enemies, day-night cycle and other awesome improvments.
I love gamedesighn of this game in therms of plot and quests and worldbuilding - nobody will tell you shit what you need to do. Around world spread hell lot of puzzles and riddles that may give you clues what to do. Nobody show you directions, markers or any other stuff go explore world. And unlike modern parodies on "RPG" world there is truley dangerous - with many insane encounters, dangerous places and all things like that - and all of it unexplored. Whole time till the end I feel actual danger even when my party baffed to hell. Monsters that immune to everything. mosters that can destroy people of specific class or specific gender. I remember sorcerer promotion quest with this two castles with funny mirrored labirints full of fucking "Iron wizards" (robots that shoot plasma at you", I remember when accidentaly stepped in encounter with like 1000 aggresive mercants or accidentaly meet boss battle. Things like idea that more cheap trainig service give you less health per level than more awesome ones in more high level towns will never be repeated in series - later you will be allwoed to train in cheaper services to certain level only.
My favorite part of cource time travel and visiting elemental plains. Basicly at start of game you giventask to get acces to command room - you don't know where it is or how get to it. King that had acces there died 100 years ago. And by clues and many riddles and many insane leveling you need to figure out what you need to to do queen to get her help (basicly you need do all class promotions, black triple crown challenge, and some other things I forgot already. Additionaly you need crusader in party to help one of lords save his son to get acces to time machine, then you need find specific mechanical parts, then you need travel in time to get specific discs, than you need travel in time in 4 other eras and in this time get acces to elementail plains to get 4 talons and than in your time get orb, connect all this and travel 100 years ago from present and give defeated king before actual battle this orb and talons.. and when you get back in your time this is another timeline where king lives and this king give you parol to acces control room where already sheltem doing nasty things and you need to stop him.
Not even talk about actual game endig and sidequests - like taste all foods in world, find one guys keys from giant spider, become CHOSEN ONES, get acces to all hierlings etc. After you playing this game you really feel like you worth something - game not treat you like idiot and cover all it's content behind it's mechanics, it's riddles and it's RPG system. To get enjoyment from it you need to have patience, think what you doing, already be familiar with previous game and don't expect that all clues will be given for you just for nothing.
I played MS-DOS version, it same as orginal Apple-II release. There also Amiga version with improved graphics elements and Sega Genesis version which basicly Amiga version but with music but sadly not best interface controls because this is console yeah and combat taken more like from 3rd game and onwards - without any kind of mechanic with "party order" and who in close combad and who not - not matters and not exist as mechanic too. But well it show you spell names in combat so this may count as improvment, I guess.
There also even more graphicly better SNES version but it was censured by Ninedo so fuck it. And also there ridiculous japanise ports which are basicly other games compleatly.
>>17061Interesting. How is this simulators? They more hardcore or more arcade in therms of gameplay? How they compare for example to Wing Commnder... or to TIE Fighter?
>>17324Well for me Fallout 4 not BAD game if we talk about "bad game=unplayable mess" but I don't say it in any way entertainment
Again what I said - original Fallout was done by small team of people with basicly minimal budget and concretic goals - and what what it is do a concretic experience, and whole game was done to fullfill this concretic experience - maximum depressing post-apocalypse horror that in right proportion use all historical stereotypes of it to give concretic stylistic picture of it, and gameplay-wise it was awesome simulation of kind of tabletop session with good gamemaster. Actual limited, but "alive" world that works exeacly what it need to be.
Fallout 4 is just modern "adventure" FPS in openworld did with trillions budget. This game has nothing to do with atmosphere, goals and ideas that had Fallout 1, same with gameplay. This is just modern company using famous trademark and famous words like "supermutants" and "brotherhood of still" just to earn money. Without this "trademark" words this is just another crappy openworld adventure FPS like Far Cry, or Xenus or all this Witchers and Mad Max game etc. etc., there hell lot of this games and all of them get me bored. Their target audience is just console players who want just press button and "go across open map".
And about style - bethesda change their style efery game in their series. Not because it something cool just because they don't give a sigle fuck about previous games. Well, I don't give a fuck about modern bethsda games - I have many thing how to spend my time than another Todd's open-FPS on gamebryo.
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