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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: "Fallout Classic" and "Wild Card Football"
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:06:51 +0100
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On 30/08/2024 16:28, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 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.