Oh God, is it Thursday again? Fine, let's do this. Open the Epic
client, figure out what games are available, find the URLs, do a
write-up... you know, the usual. Well, I'm sure the effort will be all
worth it, right?
* Fallout Classic Collection https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/fallout-classic-collection
Just in case you somehow (!) haven't managed to get this
games yet, here's another chance: this collection includes
the original Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout: Brotherhood of
Steel (but if you've been a regular to these posts, you
probably nabbed them on Epic back in December 2022). Ehn.
They're good games, I guess, but they haven't aged all
that well and they're such common freebies that its hard
to get excited about them anymore.
* Wild Card Football
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/wild-card-football
It's American football, in case you were wondering. I
suppose if you're into the game, this isn't a bad title
with some good visuals and competent mechanics. But keep
in mind it's far more arcade than sim game, with power-ups
and quick action as the primary focus. Unfortunately,
it's marred by requiring an always-online connection and
has a lot of MTX. It's got a number of bugs too. It's a
game that COULD have been great, I think, if they hadn't
gotten so greedy.
I'm not sure it was worth the effort. Well, at least I don't have to
worry about doing it again for another seven days...
Oh God, is it Thursday again? Fine, let's do this. Open the Epic
client, figure out what games are available, find the URLs, do a
write-up... you know, the usual. Well, I'm sure the effort will be all
worth it, right?
* Fallout Classic Collection https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/fallout-classic-collection
Just in case you somehow (!) haven't managed to get this
games yet, here's another chance: this collection includes
the original Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout: Brotherhood of
Steel (but if you've been a regular to these posts, you
probably nabbed them on Epic back in December 2022). Ehn.
They're good games, I guess, but they haven't aged all
that well and they're such common freebies that its hard
to get excited about them anymore.
On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:37:19 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh God, is it Thursday again? Fine, let's do this. Open the Epic
client, figure out what games are available, find the URLs, do a
write-up... you know, the usual. Well, I'm sure the effort will be all
worth it, right?
Right. ;)
* Fallout Classic Collection
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/fallout-classic-collection
Just in case you somehow (!) haven't managed to get this
games yet, here's another chance: this collection includes
the original Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout: Brotherhood of
Steel (but if you've been a regular to these posts, you
probably nabbed them on Epic back in December 2022). Ehn.
They're good games, I guess, but they haven't aged all
that well and they're such common freebies that its hard
to get excited about them anymore.
I'm still a Fallout virgin so this is might chance, but when will I play
them? Will I enjoy them? :P
I mean, I don't want to denigrate the original Fallout games. They're considered classics for good reason. But more than many other games,
they feel /old/.
But "Fallout" looks so much like a modern isometric CRPG that it's
foibles --its grainy visuals, its uneven difficulty, its shallow
characters-- feel less like something the developers COULDN'T do as
something they chose NOT to do. Even as much as I tell myself, "this
was a game released almost three decades ago!"* I still bump into this incongruity.
I have played FO:2 for quite a few hours with some mod's including a
high res. one. Even then it does feel old if I compare it to the
enhanced editions of say Baldur's Gate or Planescape:Torment which are
of a similar age. Part of that is possibly down to the UI in the latter
games isn't that dissimilar to what became the norm whereas I've found
FO:2 rather clunky and non-intuitive.
I played the original Fallout when it was new. I remember the graphics >looking like crap and the inventory interface also being crap. I am
not surprised in the least that the original fallout games have aged
poorly.
Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
I played the original Fallout when it was new. I remember the graphics
looking like crap and the inventory interface also being crap. I am
not surprised in the least that the original fallout games have aged
poorly.
Most of the complaints about the original Fallout's graphics back then
though were about how it wasn't in 3D, which would've made the graphics
look even worse by today's standards. I do remember people complaining
about the UI though. Specifically I remember a thread here on Usenet
where people were trying to figure out how to interact with a ladder.
Personally I didn't have a problem with the graphics back then, though I
did find the UI a bit clunky. It helped that I already knew the trick
to using ladders. Even when I finally got around to playing Fallout 2
for the first time 10 years ago I didn't have a problem with the graphics.
A bad UI is a much worse sin than "poor" graphics. Poor graphics are a
form of beauty/ugly and therefore are in the eye of the beholder. Bad
UI makes the game physically difficult to play.
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