The Fallout franchise is a post-apocalyptic series of role-playing and tactics games originally developed by Black Isle, and most recently, Bethesda Softworks and Obsidian Entertainment.
does this mean they dont like current gen fallout so retro'ed their own? I am not sure where the idea came from or who it was directed to but it is certainly very good looking.
It's strange to see how little the games have changed since the 1980's.
Fallout 1/2 (the old 2-D isometric versions) were kind of spiritual successors to a game called Wasteland - which had an open, persistent world and party members/NPC's that would react differently based on conversation trees, etc. The path to the Capitol & Vegas wasteland is clear.
It's also easy to see how little Japanese RPG's have changed -- many still have the same menu items you saw in Dragon Warrior (Quest) back in the mid-1980's, which were actually borrowed from early western RPG's like Ultima.
I personally think that modern JRPG's need a major evoluton or revolutionary change, because the current batch are stale & completely out of sync with most gamers in the West. They should keep tradition, but need to look closely at what Bioware/Bethesda have done recently and borrow a few things. If there is another round of Final Fantasy games as bad as the current one, then the series will live up to the name.
I'm interested to see if this at all is successful at accomplishing its purpose. Will this have any affect on the Japanese consumers' mindset regarding WRPGs?
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