Posted April 06, 2012
I really enjoyed those Dark Alliance games as well. They weren't valuable contributions to the BG series story-wise and really didn't seem to need to be BG games at all, but they were fun to play and that's often good enough.
With that enjoyment in mind I gave BoS a go, hoping for a fun romp a la the BG console games, in a Fallout-ish setting.
So they completely miss the point on the setting. None of the witty dialogue, none of the humour, just "RAR GRAR ME BIG BADASS DUDE OR LADY WIFF GUNS N STUFF!" with the occasional "look at how edgy I'm being over here!" swear word.
And the gameplay is just lousy. Nothing like the fun of the BG games, which of course makes the terrible writing and environment mentioned above all the more noticeable. The problem with the game isn't that it's nowhere near as fun as the other Fallout games (like you say, they exist and are still there regardless of this nonsense), it's that it just isn't fun at all. It's anti-fun.
KingCrimson250: I know it gets a ton of hate dumped on it for butchering the series.
But, I'm a long-time Baldur's Gate fan (got the original shortly after it came out and have played the trilogy umpteen times since) and I actually quite enjoyed the Dark Alliance games. The key is, I went into them with the expectation of it being a hack-and-slash action RPG. Never saw any tie-in with the PC games, and heck, for all intents and purposes, I never considered it a Baldur's Gate game at all. Because of that, I could enjoy it.
So it seems that BoS is a similar kind of game, so I'm asking: Is the game any good if you imagine that it's got nothing to do with the Fallout series? Like, is the reason it's hated on because it's not what Fallout is about, or because it's actually a bad game? If it's the first one, I can handle it. When I want Fallout, I can play Fallout, and BoS being a big departure from that isn't a big deal, to me. Like with Dark Alliance, I can mentally write that "Fallout" out of the title and just enjoy the game as "Brotherhood of Steel."
With that enjoyment in mind I gave BoS a go, hoping for a fun romp a la the BG console games, in a Fallout-ish setting.
So they completely miss the point on the setting. None of the witty dialogue, none of the humour, just "RAR GRAR ME BIG BADASS DUDE OR LADY WIFF GUNS N STUFF!" with the occasional "look at how edgy I'm being over here!" swear word.
And the gameplay is just lousy. Nothing like the fun of the BG games, which of course makes the terrible writing and environment mentioned above all the more noticeable. The problem with the game isn't that it's nowhere near as fun as the other Fallout games (like you say, they exist and are still there regardless of this nonsense), it's that it just isn't fun at all. It's anti-fun.
But, I'm a long-time Baldur's Gate fan (got the original shortly after it came out and have played the trilogy umpteen times since) and I actually quite enjoyed the Dark Alliance games. The key is, I went into them with the expectation of it being a hack-and-slash action RPG. Never saw any tie-in with the PC games, and heck, for all intents and purposes, I never considered it a Baldur's Gate game at all. Because of that, I could enjoy it.
So it seems that BoS is a similar kind of game, so I'm asking: Is the game any good if you imagine that it's got nothing to do with the Fallout series? Like, is the reason it's hated on because it's not what Fallout is about, or because it's actually a bad game? If it's the first one, I can handle it. When I want Fallout, I can play Fallout, and BoS being a big departure from that isn't a big deal, to me. Like with Dark Alliance, I can mentally write that "Fallout" out of the title and just enjoy the game as "Brotherhood of Steel."
