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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by sametmax on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:06AM (#16818635)
Honestly I really wanted to love Fallout 3. I was so excited when it was out, and I tried very hard to get into the game. But it was so shallow compared to the originals. And so short.

It's also possible that once you consumed a lot of excellent products you become picky. We are living on a creative golden age after all. And it's hard to come out with something new, so much have been done.

Plenty of things are probably "good enough", but we have had fantastic stuff already, so it's meh to go back. I'm sure if I'm honest, I can fan many so-so titled I enjoyed as a kid because they were new to me.

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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by Lewton on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:50AM (#16818801)
Did you ever play New Vegas? It got a lot closer to the magic of fallout 1+2
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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by sametmax on Thursday April 12, 2018 @04:27AM (#16818978)
Nope, but I've been told the same about to many things I have a hard time believing advices on modern games now.
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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by Lewton on Thursday April 12, 2018 @08:12AM (#16820013)
Well, New Vegas had a few people from the original fallout working on it afaik. And it's made by Obsidian, who made the excellent Pillars of Eternity which you already praised :)
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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by sametmax on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:03PM (#16822278)
Raising my hopes. Careful. I know your username.
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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by mywittyname on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:59PM (#16823874)
NV is widely considered to be the best neo Fallout. Additionally, people seem to prefer either FO3 or NV, but rarely both. So if you found FO3 lacking (as I did), then it's likely you'll enjoy NV.

With the caveat that it's a nine year old game at this point.

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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by jhbadger on Saturday April 14, 2018 @06:56AM (#16836804)
It also runs nicely under Wine (helped by being old), meaning you can play it under Linux and macOS if you are interested in doing that.
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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by sametmax on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:30AM (#16827550)
I still play the original game boy mario sometime. 9 years old is ok.
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