Thread: Planescape: Torment Retrospective

Quote: Originally Posted by Ulysses Nerd fury ? Not seeing that here, but then again, that's the standard label for disagreement for gamers like you. Right. When gamers, nerds, dorks (or whatever label of choice you use) argue over silly crap like Fallout 3 vs. Fallout Classic or Star Trek: TNG vs. Star Trek: TOS then I call it a nerd fury.

Nerd fury ? Not seeing that here, but then again, that's the standard label for disagreement for gamers like you.

Quote: Originally Posted by swiftdraw Basically everything except Forgotten Realms was dumped at 3e. And before anyone mentions it, Greyhawk largely influenced the core setting, but wasn't actually included. 4e is seeing some of the old settings come back. Dark Sun was just announced, and there is speculation that the Dragonlance and Planscape settings might make a return. Thanks for the summary. Planescape returning would be sweet news.

Quote: Originally Posted by bean19 Well the millions and millions of us who loved Mass Effect, Oblivion and Fallout 3 disagree with you completely. Thats because millions and millions of you are more than happy to accept mediocrity as the benchmark when it comes to gaming. Don't even get me started on mass effect, it is the epitome of a generic mish mash of genres designed to appeal to the absolute lowest common denominator...and thats...

Quote: Originally Posted by bean19 Btw, I hope I'm not REALLY offending anyone here. I absolutely realize we are arguing opinions here and your opinions are absolutely as valid as mine, so please no one respond with this little obvious life lesson we all already know. It's just your opinions make you decrepit dinosaurs unable to move past the great works of their begone youth. That's all. This. Also, I'm 23 and already a...

Quote: Originally Posted by ElPresidente You're fighting a losing game here bean. Fallout 3 is not a better game than the originals if you are a person who plays RPGs for choice and consequence. Fallout 3 was a great game, yes... as good as the originals? Hell no. Fallout 3 is Fallout for the masses, not Fallout for RPG fans. This. Of course for someone who enjoys playing nu-RPG like Fable that experience is going to be different.

Quote: Originally Posted by bean19 Such bullcrap. I was walking through the Wastelands and heard static that indicated that I was close enough to a radio transmitter to get a new signal. It was a cry for help. A desperate father informed me that he and his family had taken shelter in a nearby storm cellar. After searching about for a bit, I found the storm-cellar in question and went inside eventually finding the radio that was set to a...

I'm not sure Bethesda has the writing talent to pull off a sequel. But then again they didn't have the talent to make Fallout 3 a "real" Fallout game so I guess it doesn't matter.

I'll add replayabilty to the mix as well; playing as a woman (or guy, if your first playthrough was as a woman) actually made a difference in F1/2, and playing as a dumb character...well, I shit myself laughing when I first found out what that did to the game New Reno, little tidbits (reading grave stones, getting the grave digger perk if you dug up too many graves, the stealing kids, the zombies in Klamath, shotgun weddings, random...

Mass Effect was developed by bioware. And no, fallout 3 sucked hard in writing departments, also was much more worse than original ones.