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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: "Fallout Classic" and "Wild Card Football"
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:29:53 -0700
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On 8/31/2024 7:39 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
> Mike S.  <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> I played the original Fallout when it was new. I remember the graphics
>> looking like crap and the inventory interface also being crap. I am
>> not surprised in the least that the original fallout games have aged
>> poorly.
> 
> Most of the complaints about the original Fallout's graphics back then
> though were about how it wasn't in 3D, which would've made the graphics
> look even worse by today's standards.  I do remember people complaining
> about the UI though.  Specifically I remember a thread here on Usenet
> where people were trying to figure out how to interact with a ladder.
> 
> Personally I didn't have a problem with the graphics back then, though I
> did find the UI a bit clunky.  It helped that I already knew the trick
> to using ladders.  Even when I finally got around to playing Fallout 2
> for the first time 10 years ago I didn't have a problem with the graphics.
> 
A bad UI is a much worse sin than "poor" graphics.  Poor graphics are a 
form of beauty/ugly and therefore are in the eye of the beholder.  Bad 
UI makes the game physically difficult to play.

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