Quote Originally Posted by Whacker
Because some of us actually agree with some or all of what they are saying. The hard truth and reality of it is that the Fallout franchise and games have survived only because of the hardcore fans like them, not through other developer's attempts at actively destroying the game. Witness FOB(P)OS.
That doesn't explain it at all. How can the reason behind my interest be "some of us actually agree" when I don't agree? It seems to me to be more of a Jerry Springeresque episode in text form. It's not actually interesting, but it's too mesmerizing to turn away.

And sorry, but I most certainly do not agree that the Fallout franchise has survived because of hardcore fans like them. If anything, I would say it has survived in spite of them. If the franchise had truly survived because of them, it would have survived in the original FO1/FO2 format. We are now three games and a decade past that, with nothing even approaching a return to the original format at all. The only attempt at doing it (Van Buren) was canceled.

No, Fallout has survived simply because the underlying concept was so damned good that it is consistently appealing, in whatever form it takes. Fallout is still alive today because of the stylish post-apoc setting that it embodies, not because of action points.