On a good side however, I suppose it means more pen & paper games in person. I hate to have to keep repeating myself but we the few that enjoy an RPG and the challenges it may bring are to be left behind and ignored by games developers.
I know it counts for nothing in the long run as developers will do whatever they fekkin well please, but I honestly believe that the original fallout / S.P.E.C.I.A.L system was one of the most balanced player character systems I've ever come across.Īnd as for Jax Sparrow's comments, Yes the FO3 aberration of the SPECIAL system was purely for the 'powah playah' style (my recent exploits in my no-weapons run through have proven this quite well) FO3 has turned the system into mush, the stats mean next to nothing, the skillpoints are almost a redundant set of numbers that seem to relate to little in terms of in game effect, its safe to say that FO3, and any game which may use it as a base is going to be first and foremost an FPS game.
I see it the system was changed because the developers are lazy as hell and they probably didn't really understand S.P.E.C.I.A.L seeing it more like D20, stat driven etc etc, even base D20 they don't hand out feat's like confetti
