fizzbang and options
Fred “fizzbang” Zeleny talking about Oblivion:
[...]Personally, I thought Oblivion was a big advance in RPGs of its day. It provides freedom of direction and play-style that hadn’t been seen in any RPG since the heydays of Fallout, System Shock, and other classics in the field. Its expansive size ensured that players who enjoyed it could lose themselves in it for days, weeks, and months and still discover new things. And the inclusion of the construction set meant that players were free to easily change elements of the game they didn’t like, and to create new experiences for others.
But it’s important to point out is that nobody here thinks it’s perfect. Like any finicky creative types, we’re painfully aware of the flaws in the final piece. And, like any creative types, knowing about those flaws means we can focus on overcoming them in our next piece. That’s one of the reasons I’m always working on writing more dialogue for characters and adding options to quests.
This awareness, coupled with more resources to work with – thanks to the commercial success of Oblivion – means we’re set to make our next work better than our previous. And that’s always the goal of any creator, isn’t it?
A lot more options, and a lot more (and better) dialog please ok?
Filed under: Bethesda, Bethsoft, Fallout, Fallout 3, Fallout3, Games developer
Why dod they always say bad things first and good things second? I stopped reading that post when he said “It provides freedom of direction and play-style that hadn’t been seen in any RPG since the heydays of Fallout” so I missed the intresting part -_-
yeah that’s the same line I got to before having to reach for my vomit bucket. yeah, you could do the quest lines in any order you want but they were all linear and dull dull dull. to make matters worse your actions in said quest lines had zero impact on the rest of the world. so you’re the arch mage eh? how about you go run this package over yonder to prove yourself. OH SURPRISE ITS NOT JUST A PACKAGE DELIVERY YOU HAVE A DUNGEON CRAWL LOLOLOL. Even the thieves guild quest line degenerated into this kind of idiocy.