Would you like Beth to finish the "Van Buren" project? : Fallout Series Discussion

» Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:20 pm

Doesn't FF use a mixed TB and real time system?

So? Van Buren was going to let you choose between real time and turn based.

Just a bit silly yeah, but how big was the game map going to be?(I heard it was supposed to be pretty big)

Just like in FO1 and 2 and many other games, there wasn't going to be one big map. Yes, the overall area of all locations summed up was going to be pretty big (definitely bigger than FO1 and 2 combined), but they weren't going to be one, seamless game world, but separate nodes.

And before you say that this is outdated and would hurt the sales, take a look at the sales of any BioWare game.

» Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:55 am

Tell that to the millions that will doubtlessly buy Diablo 3. I wouldn't be surprised if it caused a resurgence of pseudo-isometric view in cRPGs, actually.

Well I was being sarcastic.

Diablo's a bit different though, people will just love any Blizzard product (sort of scary corporate servants I guess..) but other than that I doubt many will be repulsed by TB or isometric veiw.

» Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:26 am

I think that Diablo 3 might cause a surge of Diablo clones, just like D1 and D2 did.

» Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:52 am

(Besides Diablo) I'm more anxious to see what happens with Dragon Age, as that will apparently be a pure RPG with it's top-down view and real time with pause combat and all those pesky die rolls etc. Hopefully it will be good and sell well - and it might as well, since Bioware is the one RPG company that can really compete... and if it does get popular enough then at least we won't have to keep facing the "anything that's not as Bethesda would do it, isn't popular anymore" argument.

» Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:23 pm

Imho Bioware has more potential of making great rpg's ..Dragon Age soon and don't forget Mass Effect 2 is on it's way as well.

» Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:58 pm

The problem there is that the original design team was broken up and spread to the four winds.

Some are at Obsidian who are making New Vegas, so we may see some of the ideas from Van Buran in NV. A couple are supposedly still at Interplay and were/are slated to be working on the Fallout MMO (assuming it goes ahead) The rest are probably with other companies.

Just one at Interplay now, Jason Anderson went to InXile last march.

» Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:42 pm

(Besides Diablo) I'm more anxious to see what happens with Dragon Age, as that will apparently be a pure RPG with it's top-down view and real time with pause combat and all those pesky die rolls etc. Hopefully it will be good and sell well - and it might as well, since Bioware is the one RPG company that can really compete... and if it does get popular enough then at least we won't have to keep facing the "anything that's not as Bethesda would do it, isn't popular anymore" argument.

Drakensang is much 'purer' a RPG than Dragon Age. Prequel coming out next year.

» Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:39 pm

Drakensang is much 'purer' a RPG than Dragon Age. Prequel coming out next year.

I absolutely agree... but it had that camera... readjusting it was so much of a chore that I eventually gave it up after a few days (for the time being at least) - a good example in my most humble opinion, of a game that had no business being so... bloody 3D.

The truth is that of all the games I can think of that were full 3D and featured top-down view only 2 had a camera I didn't have trouble with: Neverwinter Nights 1 (after the patch in fact) and the Witcher (which is probably less pure an RPG than Dragon Age anyway but...).

» Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:53 pm

Just one at Interplay now, Jason Anderson went to InXile last march.

Yes, although if FOOL gets released, it will still have lots of Jason's ideas. Can't wait for Jason's Wasteland 2, though!

» Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:49 pm

Yes, although if FOOL gets released, it will still have lots of Jason's ideas. Can't wait for Jason's Wasteland 2, though!

I'm waiting for that one too. (Wasteland 2)