Woah

[Professor Frink]

I believe that this has more to do with the publisher - constantly pushing for earlier and earlier release dates - than with the actualy game makers. Troika was founded by the creators of Fallout... maybe they just got lucky once and created one of the best games ever, but my gut is more inclined to say that they had some actual real talent and were just destroyed by their publisher.

But, like I said, I only played Arcanum and have never played their two latest games.
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Fallout -- both 1 and 2 -- were beautiful games, and I love them dearly, but they are two of the most bug-ridden travesties of programming ever delivered onto the gaming public (doubly so in their unpatched forms). Game balance was shamelessly left up to the players, you pull up the configuration menu and adjust the little bakelite knob to how hard you want the game to be at that moment. (and how much save-load cheese you let yourself get away with). I don't know who is at fault, but most other Interplay games i've played had a similar theme (the turn-based strategy game MAX was also buggy and poorly balanced, yet great fun, at least until it stopped peacefully coexisting with modern computers).

-- frink