Yeah, I know. I just want to give the guy credit for daring to publicly like the game at all on NMA, if not as a Fallout game.
Do you even read NMA? It is full of people "daring" to publicly admit they like the game, including me.
Just because you backpedal later on because you know the ground you are standing on isn't safe doesn't excuse the rest of the drek. Totally agreed with your first post.
For Frith's sake people, that was a Let's Play article to warm up to real impression pieces. It notes multiple times it's not supposed to be read as a review piece and yet people do so. There was no backpedalling, it was a write-as-he-went piece and thus opinion is bound to go up and down.
NMA's forum is filled with people expressing positive points on Fallout 3, including me - I think it's a good game, as - for that matter - does Vince.
If you really want to look down your nose at a whole community of people, you might want to make sure you actually absorb what they're saying rather than dismissing them out of hand - ironically the same thing you're accusing them of doing.
Thaurin said:
I think it's interesting and educational to witness how someone can be so caught up in their own world as to be completely unable to comprehend any way of thinking other than their own.
Look, guys, I understand if you don't like NMA, you certainly don't have to, but I expect better from this community than this. The attitude of "NMA" (as if we're some kind of hivemind) has nothing to do with being unable to accept other people's ways of thinking (we're not the Codex, grrrlol). It has to do with dedication to a design school that is - indeed - niche. Very few people on NMA think that niche design should be the only design school in RPGs or is somehow "better" than the FPSRPG design of Fallout, we just think it's a shame Fallout had to be turned from one design school to another - no matter points on how inevitable that was it is still a shame.
I think it's fairly safe to say Fallout 3 does not stick to either the core gameplay design or the main setting expression of Fallout 1. If you want to argue that point on NMA you better bring your big guns. But what you're saying makes it sound like it's a crime to say "I like Fallout 3" or "Fallout 3 is a good game" on NMA, even though our forums are filled with those kinds of posts and nobody is being attacked over that sentiment (unless there's a moderator oversight, but it's been a busy few days), which is also being expressed by more than one veteran or member of staff (Grizzly is running back and forth defending this game).
I would imagine that since NMA is such a horrid community there's enough there to just dislike without making stuff up, which is more-or-less what you're doing. You're free to, don't get me wrong, I think NMA's got beyond really being bothered what other people think (we have to, otherwise we'd have shut down the place ages ago
), but hey, I'm just asking, for the sake of fairness, you might want to consider if your mental image of the community is all correct.