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[ElectricBlue187]

Have their been any fan projects for Arcanum to fix the bugs and broken quests? (a la Gizka KOTOR 2 Project)

 

[Jefklak]

no, if you don't count car arcanum

 

[gregor7777]

So I'm a complete fallout noob... But I'm curious, what are the core qualities of a true fallout game that if Bethesda changed, would cause Fallout 3 not to be "true Fallout game" in spirit? Basically, what makes fallout what it is?

I'll give you a fairly simple but meaningful reason why we don't trust Bethesda to make Fallout what it should be.

You know how in Oblivion, you have all these great hidden caverns that you can explore, or not, that have tunnels upon tunnels filled with monsters and magical weapons?

Well, even wonder why there are man-made buildings down there? An empty throne four levels down?

Well, Fallout told you why, and it usually was funny. Oblivion left you wondering. While I loved Oblivion, it was cold and distant, Fallout was intense with life.

 

[PedroLumpy]

Oh my god, that forum is a ****ing wasteland. My brain hurt just scrolling through topics. Without a shred of information about the game, people are screaming from the rafters about how good/bad it will be. Man and I thought Shadowrun threads were annoying. The mods over there could probably ban and lock shit at random and be justified.

Although I did get a kick out of that Fallout dialog done Oblivion style that someone mentioned earlier.

 

[sugaki]

ROFL. I can't stop laughing. Sad yet true.

Thing is Bethesda would need a dramatic shift in attention. Forget spending all of your resources on artists and zomg purty polygons. They'd need to focus on coherent plots, compelling sidequests, intriguing NPCs, sophisticated battle systems... all things they never were good at to begin with.

 

[Lonesome_Raod]

Yuck. That forum is just vile at the moment.

 

[duckroll]

I clicked on the thread expecting the same childish arguments and the same stupid baiting. I largely got it. I hoped for some new information about the direction the game would be taking, I didn't get that. :lol

 

[MrPing1000]

I cannot wait for this.


Although having said that I am a tad worried how it will turn out. As long as I can blow a man in half with a sniper rifle 50 feet away without getting hit I'll be happy.

 

[Durante]

Even Bloodlines, my favorite RPG of that year, had sloppy coding or design that got in the way of enjoying the game.

If games like Arcanum and Bloodlines are the results of "sloppy coding and design" then Bethesda should hire more sloppy people for their Fallout 3 project.