Fallout 3… and Oblivion
Yes, I did actually buy Fallout 3, but on steam. So I probably won’t have it until tomorrow…no, make that definitely. Wow, what a huge download. And the truth is that while I don’t approve of what Bethesda has done with the franchise, and I hated Oblivion, I also don’t blame them. I think Bethesda is doing a good job of delivering “huge” games to a mass market. Granted, I don’t actually like these games, but I believe they have the potential to make great games, and I respect the attractiveness of a huge paycheck.
And, anyway, Fallout looks like it fixes the thing I hated absolutely most in Oblivion, which of course is the stupid difficulty adjustment. If Oblivion had actually been an RPG, it would have been pretty good. But, because of this, it wasn’t. Well, that and the lame speechcraft minigame. The problem with Oblivion is the problem with most Action-RPG games: if your choices have no consequences, it’s not role-playing.
But all of this talk of Oblivion has made me curious, so now I’m looking at it again, playing the classes “the way the developers expected”, because the bitterness has faded enough that I can treat it like a toy instead of a game now. We’ll see how that goes.
