Comments on: Reliving an Old Game Experience

By: Shaz

Shaz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:55:28 +0000

Bit late here, but both of those series are in my Top Ten as well. As a matter of fact, of all the games in my collection, Thief 2 is one that is always, ALWAYS installed on my computer, and is played a few times a month. Not the original missions anymore, but fan missions from the incredibly active fan community (yay for ttlg.com!). I’m debating replaying the Fallouts. Part of me wants to, in preparation for Fallout 3, and part of me doesn’t, fearing that I’ll be doing a disservice to Fallout 3 if I do… where I’ll compare 3 unfavorably to the 2 previous ones. (Fallout 3 scares me. It looks way more FPS than RPG – despise with a raging hatred the former, acknowledge I’m a gamer girl junkie for the latter. I imagine I’ll still be buying it, though, even if my fears are true.)

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:38:09 +0000

You have not played anything that has done non linear game play better than Fallout 1 & 2…still thy blasphemous tongue.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:30:14 +0000

The part of Thief that I enjoyed most was archery from the shadows, and it's repeated perfectly in Oblivion (though you have to reduce the game difficulty for head shots to kill). There are elements of old games that seem rarely matched. One of my favorite DOS games was Nuclear War. Like in popular boardgames (Monopoly, Sorry!, Chutes and Ladders, etc), chance plays a huge role in that game. But few games since have demonstrated much respect for the thrill of luck. I'm especially surprised that adventure games give players so much power over the direction of gameplay, since every one of the most popular adventure stories in literature and film involve a protagonist who is swept up in unexpected, and often uncontrollable, events. Bilbo and Frodo, for example, respond to circumstances, rather than create them.

By: Cameron Sorden

Cameron Sorden — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:35:06 +0000

Ah, gotta love the Fallouts… Every time I play them, I’m reminded just how fun and awesome they are. Shredding deathclaws with a chaingun never gets old.

By: JoBildo

JoBildo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:16:11 +0000

It’s funny, I must be a complete loser. Because I can’t even play though Mass Effect a second time and I LOVE that game. It’s just that the storie’s the same regardless of your alignment, and it’s a 20+ hour story to boot. I don’t have that kind of time. The game’s I love and call my favorites, like Ocarina of Time for example, I hardly ever play more than once all the way through. I just can’t do it.

Now if a game was only a few hours long I’d replay it again and again. Maybe that’s why I keep coming back to Civilization over a lot of great RPGs and adventures I have on my PC and Xbox.

PS – Ryan, don’t forget to apply on the forums at Casualties. You’re not quite “One of Us” yet.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:11:09 +0000

I still re-install Fallout 1 from time to time and play through it again. It’s still a lot of fn each time, though I do agree that the bloom’s off the rose too.

Still and all, I loved the game when it came out and still do. Fallout 2 is nice as well, but I never quite managed to get past the final area on the oil platform. Still had a lot of fun getting up to that point though. Good times.