Look, I'll admit that this is a pretty trying time to be running a videogame website. In between working as a teacher, running a full newspaper's website over at The Carillon, taking university classes, writing papers and trying to have a life, it's tough to keep up with the flood of new and potentially awesome-looking releases coming out. In my spare time, I don't necessarily want to spend time with something that could end up being terrible and taking what little time I have. Now, some things are sure bets (the new Bit.Trip game is all kinds of holy shit awesome, and I'll have a review of it later today), but a lot of the time, something like Fallout: New Vegas, which I have every intention of purchasing as soon as I can, just won't fit into my schedule.
What will fit into my schedule, though? Well, the original Fallout will.
I've kind of become obsessed with the idea of playing my favourite late-90s PC RPGs on my Mac, possibly in the downtime I have at work. I've been yearning not only for the likes of Fallout, but also Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate. Making these games work on my three-year-old Macbook is a challenge that I can't wait to tackle.
More than that, though, I've found that I just love the type of gameplay and world that these games created. They didn't shy away from the use of 2D, isometric perspectives, a perspective that's all but disappeared (except maybe on the DS) in modern gaming. It really makes me feel like I'm traversing a genuine world, one that has an element of handcrafted-ness that I'm not seeing from something like New Vegas. Don't get me wrong – that game looks fantastic, but I'd love to see what someone like Obsidian or Bethesda could do with that game in a classic 3/4 perspective. It would probably look amazing AND would satisfy old PC gaming buffs like myself.
Seriously, though, don't even get me started on the new XCOM. Fuck. That. Shit.