Sarkus
2881
Here’s something interesting.
Now that the flow of largely positive Fallout 3 previews has slowed and it has probably dawned on them that the game is probably going to be released and sell well, NMA has decided to find a new villain. Their solution? Tom Chick.
Go Tom!
:-)
Oh wow, I like how they resolutely refuse to answer Tom’s point at all.
Holy… The news post asks “And they say we’re the crazy ones?” Then look at this post from the thread (bolding mine):
I don’t like people that walk into my house, and tell me how things are going down. That’s exactly what these tools are doing. Well that’s how I feel. I just wanted to play Fallout 3 and now I can’t because again, they release another crappy spin off that has NOTHING to do with the original game. Why would I want to play Fallout 3 considering it has nothing to do with Fallout 1 or 2? Seriously! Bethesda Fallout 3 = B rated movie. One reason why I absolutely hate Fallout 3 is the FACT it doesn’t have the TEXT box on the bottom left corner that gives emphasis on your environment and sucks you into the game. Instead you see a raped women crying on the floor asking for help.(Sorry if you don’t understand my analogy) I don’t go around bitching about how no one reads books anymore. But I’d hope people read everyday. But I guess this generation is just retarded and all those pills they prescribe to everyone has turned them into big babies who can’t handle doing a little hard work before getting rewarded.
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Sarkus
2883
In their defense,there are a few people in the comments thread that point out the flaws in the Wired article. I particularly like the guy who tries to justify the Wired piece by arguing that it’s so obvious that the writer isn’t making broad statements that there was no reason for him to say so.
Yea, I didn’t read far enough to get to the sane posts, but there are a few in there.
Sarkus
2885
You should, though. I’m in it! You’d think that’d improve my cred with the NMA crowd, but no.
:-(
Heh, “B rated movie”. Shows the intelligence level we’re dealing with here.
Well I for one am shocked - SHOCKED! - that Tom Chick is a neocon.
That level of Forced Crazy is highly contagious to someone not already tainted by the internets.
The commentary thread is awesome comedy, too. http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43649
That NMA thread is awesome.
It first starts with “omgz…so if you don’t like Fallout3, you’re from NMA/Codex??? emo” and then goes to “omgz…he liked the Fallout3 preview, he must be getting paid by Bethesda!”
Man, Tom gets all the attention! One day I hope to have a thread on NMA completely missing my point. For the moment, all I have is this post. Highlight:
[quote="“JustusJ”"]
I really hope it’s this guy: http://www.stapletonmagic.com/ [/quote]
I gotta say, sometimes sharing a name with a cruise ship magician is awesome.
The venom and ridicule that drips towards anyone with a favorable opinion of Fallout 3 is amazing. The NMA forums are such an interesting phenomenon. My first impression if I went there, would be that it’s a forum for people who hate Fallout. And yet, it’s supposedly a site for Fans. That’s just mind-boggling to me.
The NMA forums make me embarrassed at being a fan of Fallout, just like some posters here at Qt3, like KMartin, make me embarrassed to be a PC Gamer.
fox1
2893
That above is probably my favorite post from Dan’s link, because, and maybe this is just me, I think it goes a long ways toward answering this question from the same thread:
I dunno, Makagulfazel, maybe you should ask the “news team?”
NMA and RPGCodex didn’t get hands-on impressions due to past events with Bethesda, who quite reasonably refuses to interact with their almost religiously negative “communities”.
It’s too bad that Fallout has this Albatross that is NMA. It really is, because new fans to the game are shown the ugly, mindless side of the game for no other reason than being excited to see a new game from Bethesda. I have already had two (2!) friends comment on the extreme belligerence that is NMA from their look at FO3. Little did they know that liking an upcoming game and not playing the previous works would cause them to be lumped into that hateful faction of FO. The ones that are waiting to play the game to decide just how shitty it is.
Go NMA. Continue to your quest to destroy everything fallout that does not me your idiotic fanboi specifications.
nutsak
2896
And I can’t blame Bethesda. I haven’t really read NMA before but holy shit.
NMA would like to reminder its readers at this point that whenever one of Fallout 3’s previewers says “it’s not Oblivion with guns” they are directly contradicting the game’s makers. Their call, tho’.
The bit they’re talking about… bolding mine
“When we started this, we would go to great lengths to explains the differences from Oblivion,” explains Fallout 3’s executive producer, Todd Howard. “If you’re talking to an enthusiast, there are so many differences, and we feel it’s under-selling the game to say it’s Oblivion with guns. But when we started talking to more consumer-oriented magazines, we’d have, like, two seconds…and we’d say, ‘it’s like post-apocalyptic Oblivion with guns.’ And they’re like, ‘Awesome!’ To Joe Public, it’s mainly first-peron, wide-open game and you get to do what you want. The game it’s closest to is Oblivion. So now when someone asks, ‘Is it Oblivion with guns?’ my main answer is, ‘in all the best ways.’”
The truth is, the list of comparable titles is pretty short. As Lead Designer Emil Pagliarulo puts it, “How many massively single-player role-playing games are there?”
So basically - they only say it’s Oblivion with guns when they need to describe it to a layman that doesn’t know what Fallout is.
What a bunch of whiny little girls with radioactive sand in their vagina’s. Pretty sure I’ll be ignoring everything they say throughout development.
At last, a title with the word “News” in it that is more ludicrous than “FOX News.”
Shouldn’t you be working on something… else?
“The BrotherNone Factor: The Spin Stops Here”
Marginally less spin than a vertibird. And now back to your sandy rad-crotch.
