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by Jerry Whorebach 10/28/2010, 11:53pm PDT |
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Sure, it would make MORE SENSE for critical hits to be governed by Perception, gambling by Intelligence, random encounters by Outdoorsman/Survival, etc., but then - what are you gonna do with Luck? And you gotta have luck, because it puts the "L" in SPECIAL, and for some reason the designers are really fucking married to that acronym.
Sometimes I wish developers were forced to start fresh with each new project. Instead of codifying and classifying everything people liked about the original Fallout, wouldn't it have been great if the sequels actually added something new? I mean, in the first game, "ghouls" and "super mutants" were just various kinds of mutations, presumably representing only a fraction of the diversity to be found in the wasteland. In the sequels, they've been sperged over to the point where they're now basically Tolkien-esque fantasy races, each with their own little bundle of cliches and niche in the fantasy ecosystem - Ghouls are technicians, Super Mutants are warriors, Centaurs are guard dogs, and really bizarre and interesting stuff like the Master doesn't exist because it'd be too hard to even think up let alone animate.
Part of the fun of the original Fallout was encountering something new around every corner, whether it was a creature, a faction, a piece of technology, or some revelation about what the world was like before and how it got to be this way. The fun of the sequels is apparently watching the corpses of all these neat ideas get exhumed and shoved into little display boxes. Maybe it appeals to the kind of people who'd rather have a mythos than a story? You know, the ones who firmly believe that if HP Lovecraft were alive today, he'd be on book XVI of the Cthulhu Chronicles: Doom Troopers: Assault on R'lyeh (comes with fully-annotated pull-out map of R'lyeh!).
I'm getting off track. As far as character systems go, I'm partial to the one from id Software's Sandy Petersen's Ghostbusters RPG. Brains, Muscles, Moves, and Cool - what more do you need? |
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How can this be anything but HORRIBLE?! by Bodybag 04/19/2007, 5:58am PDT 
I'd be like, oh all they need is critical hits and dismemberments and shit. by Jhoh Cable o_O 04/19/2007, 6:27am PDT
Re: I'd be like, oh all they need is critical hits and dismemberments and shit. by Last 04/19/2007, 7:11am PDT
Re: I'd be like, oh all they need is critical hits and dismemberments and shit. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/19/2007, 1:53pm PDT
Re: I'd be like, oh all they need is critical hits and dismemberments and shit. by The Gaijin 04/19/2007, 6:46pm PDT
Re: I'd be like, oh all they need is critical hits and dismemberments and shit. by Quentin Beck 04/19/2007, 6:50pm PDT
Awesome. Well said, sir! NT by Bill Dungsroman 04/20/2007, 12:09am PDT
Re: I'd be like, oh all they need is critical hits and dismemberments and shit. by The Gaijin 04/20/2007, 3:21pm PDT
Re: I'd be like, oh all they need is critical hits and dismemberments and shit. by Jhoh Cable o_O 04/21/2007, 6:05am PDT
FALLOUT: TICTACS was awful. by Jerry Whorebach 04/20/2007, 1:08am PDT
Long story short. by Jerry Whorebach 04/20/2007, 1:22am PDT
So wait, they made a Fallout game where you don't talk to people? NT by Jhoh Cable o_O 04/20/2007, 4:37am PDT
Clicking on some friendly NPCs gave you a few paragraphs to read, à la Diablo. NT by Jerry Whorebach 04/21/2007, 2:27am PDT
Re: FALLOUT: TICTACS was awful. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/24/2007, 11:15pm PDT
Re: FALLOUT: TICTACS was awful. by The Happiness Engine 04/26/2007, 11:48pm PDT
Maybe this will change your mind? by Jerry Whorebach 06/05/2007, 4:56am PDT
There's more Fallout in Bethesda's teaser trailer than in all of Tictacs. by Jerry Whorebach 06/05/2007, 1:11pm PDT
and now it is, Jerry.... it is NT by helpful lurker 11/14/2008, 7:05pm PST
It's about FUCKING(!!) time. by Jerry Whorebach 11/15/2008, 2:04am PST
Re: How can this be anything but HORRIBLE?! by motherfuckerfoodeater 04/19/2007, 12:46pm PDT
Re: How can this be anything but HORRIBLE?! by laudablepuss 04/19/2007, 11:30pm PDT
Does the fact that, by far, it's the shittiest Fallout artwork ever bother you? by Motherhead 04/19/2007, 11:41pm PDT
Granted, but nothing is ever going to live up to this by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/20/2007, 12:51am PDT
The superimposed Pip Boy was what really killed it by Entropy Stew 04/20/2007, 1:32am PDT
I agree. Pip in no way embodied 50s propaganda clips NT by Flavio 04/20/2007, 3:07am PDT
Idiot by Entropy Stew 04/20/2007, 3:54am PDT
Style, not theme you fucking philistine. by Motherhead 04/20/2007, 4:00am PDT
Wow, art class. I guess you guys win. by laudablepuss 04/20/2007, 11:37am PDT
You're welcome. NT by Motherhead 04/20/2007, 12:44pm PDT
Where could the rumor of Fallout fans being the biggest faggots have come from? by Flavio 04/20/2007, 4:15pm PDT
Guy with no taste and gayest possible haircut calls me fag, mentions haircuts. by Motherhead 04/20/2007, 10:20pm PDT
It's a poster of some people playing football. by Jhoh Cable o_O 04/20/2007, 4:38am PDT
Try imagining them being eaten by post apocalypse scorpions. NT by laudablepuss 04/20/2007, 11:36am PDT
I've never played Fallout but that's a sweet poster. by Fullofkittens 04/20/2007, 12:28am PDT
If you still didn't play fallout yet, enjoy AIDS by Grumah 04/20/2007, 1:31am PDT
^^^^^^^^^^ THIS IS SARCASM UP HERE ^^^^^^^^^^^^ NT by YOU MOTHERFUCKS 04/20/2007, 12:50am PDT
Well they could still fuck up the game. NT by Jhoh Cable o_O 04/20/2007, 6:09am PDT
YOU MOTHERFUCKS is correct. by Bodybag 04/20/2007, 10:54am PDT
HIS NAME ISN'T PIPBOY! HIS NAME IS VAULT MAN! READ YOUR FUCKING MANUALS, PEOPLE! by Jerry Whorebach 04/21/2007, 2:23am PDT
"Vault Boy" NT by Leonard Boyarsky 04/21/2007, 4:52am PDT
No, "Vault Boy" is the name of Vault Man's bumbling negroid manservant. NT by (At least in my fan fiction.) 04/21/2007, 5:17am PDT
I'm just glad you guys aren't calling me Fallout Boy NT by Vault Man... phew! 04/22/2007, 5:35pm PDT
You just got that for your ringtone didnt you NT by Grumah 04/22/2007, 7:12pm PDT
Re: HIS NAME ISN'T PIPBOY! HIS NAME IS VAULT MAN! READ YOUR FUCKING MANUALS, PEO by Last 10/28/2010, 8:33am PDT
You can't lockpick a jukebox. Should also work for repair NT by Entropy Stew 10/28/2010, 11:19am PDT
I wonder if they still have time to change it? by Jerry Whorebach 10/28/2010, 11:53pm PDT
Not really related, but Alpha Protocol has a truly awful character system. by Jerry Whorebach 10/29/2010, 1:04am PDT
Poster seems to be another one of those 50s era american propaganda things by Grumah 04/20/2007, 1:41pm PDT
Fag NT by Entropy Stew 04/20/2007, 3:45pm PDT
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