Somehow a failing, broke studio made the best RPG of all time
I don't even like vampire shit that much but goddamn, how did they make a game so good?
Somehow a failing, broke studio made the best RPG of all time
Thomas Gomez
Nolan Wright
You think that's crazy? Gothic I was made as a tech demo.
Justin Ward
Because Activision gave them a lot of money to make it. They only went broke after they finished the job.
Jace Taylor
Fallout: New Vegas didn’t have vampires in it though the rest applies. VTMBs a close second and would’ve been first without the terrible FPS ending missions
Brandon Price
It's not even close to the best RPG
And it shows
Connor Thompson
you will never believe it but guess what? Same people who made VTMB made New Vegas.
Jaxson Ortiz
>And it shows
Lol fuck you
Aaron Miller
3 smart white guys
Lincoln Rodriguez
>Fallout: New Vegas
Fair shout, but for me it will always be VTMB. It is definitely one of those two for best of all time though.
loser
I actually didn't know that, cool
>combat suxx
No, it's actually fine. It's nothing special but it is fine, especially if you disregard melee and embrace powers + ranged. Then it stops being a button masher.
Speccing hard into stealth is the best anyway, though it does come back to bite you with 2 or 3 boss fights.
Isaac Gutierrez
Back then people used passion to develop their games because the industry wasn't corporatized mainstrain yet, which allowed people to take risks and add things to a game just because they wanted to.
Ayden Flores
Goddamn I miss the 00s bros
Goth aesthetic and unashamed boobage coomerism in vidya
Ian Hill
The fact they made this on an alpha version of the Source engine without proper documentation is pretty fucking insane (overlooking the bugs)
Carson Rodriguez
>which allowed people to take risks and add things to a game just because they wanted to
Yes.
Nathan Jackson
>Hyper sexualization wasn't just allowed but fully endorsed, even expected (since the "sex sells" mantra was in full effect)
>Social media barely existed outside of nerd forums and Neopets
>Goth and Emo media in full swing
>Attitude era in WWE, unmatched to this day
>Animated movies were 10/10 kino still talked about to this day
>Open markets meaning you had a hundred different companies trying to offer the same thing as opposed to today where 1 maybe 2 companies even bother to try
>Willful culling of dumb fucks by sending them to their graves in Iraq
>Flash games
>Tourist trap places were a LOT more quiet, like Japan
00s were kino. Barely remember the 10s outside of culture wars, Gamegate and Obama/Trump
Jeremiah Lopez
The facial animations are still top tier, even so many years later. How did they do it?
Nathan Bailey
Access to (again, an alpha version of) Source Film Maker or whatever variant they had at the time plus a heavy lean into cartoonish characters instead of realism means they could be more expressive.
Carter Parker
Political commentary back then used to be candid, so regardless of what you believe in you still appreciate the satire. Look at Deus ex. Now this stuff is pushed by literal billionairs in high towers which completely diminishes them of all soul.
William Bell
Realism was a mistake
They also had top tier VAs in literally every character. I struggle to think of a better cast game for VAs
Joshua Stewart
We've come a long way since then. Damsel is pretty much the only politically cringe person but she is portrayed as cringe so it works.
The sequel will lionise her, it's gonna suck so bad
Logan Long
Old political commentary laughed with the player. Modern political commentary laughs at them.
Kayden Reed
Nothing about this game wow'd me. The art style, especially the characters, was really ugly, the combat wasn't satisfying other than the melee combat which was kind of fun, and the writing was boring and predictable. It did get a laugh from me though when I kept finding journals where the person was writing a play by play of their death as it was happening.