Re: FREE GAME: "Fallout Classic" and "Wild Card Football"

On 8/31/2024 7:39 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:

Mike S.  <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:

I played the original Fallout when it was new. I remember the graphics
looking like crap and the inventory interface also being crap. I am
not surprised in the least that the original fallout games have aged
poorly.

 Most of the complaints about the original Fallout's graphics back then
though were about how it wasn't in 3D, which would've made the graphics
look even worse by today's standards.  I do remember people complaining
about the UI though.  Specifically I remember a thread here on Usenet
where people were trying to figure out how to interact with a ladder.
 Personally I didn't have a problem with the graphics back then, though I
did find the UI a bit clunky.  It helped that I already knew the trick
to using ladders.  Even when I finally got around to playing Fallout 2
for the first time 10 years ago I didn't have a problem with the graphics.
 

A bad UI is a much worse sin than "poor" graphics.  Poor graphics are a form of beauty/ugly and therefore are in the eye of the beholder.  Bad UI makes the game physically difficult to play.
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