And is he wrong? If all you want is make money, then moving into console - especially before there was huge competition - would have seemed like a good idea. He didn't say "Why, PC gaming is dead and sucked anyway. I wish I had fulfilled my secret dream and made the first cover-based console shooter."
I fucking loved that game
Saw this is apparently coming out in a few days, not sure if good though xD:
While Fallout's combat is okay, and I would be satisfied if it was like that, wouldn't it be better if it was more like Jagged Alliance 2 or a hybrid between the two? Jagged Alliance 2 has awesome turn based combat.
The main inspiration coming from Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics is not bad. It's not ideal but it's not bad by any measure either. I would love to have JA2 combat too, but the people saying that JA2 combat is too much have a point. The point is that having JA2 combat would put the focus squarely on combat at the expense of exploration, C&C etc. In order to balance combat with exploration, the combat needs to be somewhat simpler than the combat in JA2. Now, it's up to inXile to find that perfect balance, and where that perfect balance sits between Fallout Tactics and JA2.
I read the interview and he mentions that inspiration for combat will probably be Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics. Why no love for Jagged Alliance 2?
Feargus has managed to keep Obsidian afloat despite them making several games that were critical and commercial failures, and without any certain income stream - only what they can squeeze out of the publishers. The guy obviously has some idea of how to manage a company for the long term.
The main inspiration coming from Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics is not bad. It's not ideal but it's not bad by any measure either. I would love to have JA2 combat too, but the people saying that JA2 combat is too much have a point. The point is that having JA2 combat would put the focus squarely on combat at the expense of exploration, C&C etc. In order to balance combat with exploration, the combat needs to be somewhat simpler than the combat in JA2. Now, it's up to inXile to find that perfect balance, and where that perfect balance sits between Fallout Tactics and JA2.
I read the interview and he mentions that inspiration for combat will probably be Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics. Why no love for Jagged Alliance 2?
Of course I agree. As I was saying, I would love to have Fallout 2 exploration and C&C combined with JA2 combat, but for many, that kind of combat would be too much, too complicated and, thus, too slow. So, a compromise will be needed for WL2. I hope inXile will hit the sweet spot when it comes to that compromise. Realistically speaking, that's the best we could hope for.
Nobody is disputing the claim that JA2 should be the benchmark for turn based combat. However, because JA2s focus is combat, it can't be used as a benchmark for an RPG that also needs strong exploration and C&C. It's not a matter of the developers being able to do that in a RPG that isn't almost exclusively combat-oriented but a matter of would whether or not it would be wise for the developers to do that.
