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Adagio is offline Adagio

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Jun 2001
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Anyone here heard about The Fall?
Sounds like Fallout



· Innovative 3D role-playing game illustrates a haunting, non-linear story of epic dimensions
· Simulation of a complete post-catastrophe world with realistic character behavior, plausible flora and fauna as well as a stirring end-time atmosphere.
· Up to six party members, each with their own characteristics, interact with the other members.
· Day- and night-cycle effects plus lifelike daily routines for every single NPC enhance realism.
· Novel fight system for real-time and simulated turn-based battles and countless tactical options develop replay value.
· New possibilities of interaction with the environment such as digging for water, hunting and gutting animals bring unexpected experiences to the genre.
· More than 500 different weapons, armor and other items provide extensive freedom in combat.
· Players have direct control of vehicles like pick-ups or buggies.
· Intuitive game control and menu-driven user interface make for easy pick-up-and-play.
· Free-roaming zoomable camera allows many different perspectives, from ISO to 3rd person.
· Five difficulty levels from beginner to hardcore appeal to gamers of all backgrounds.
· Stunning 3D sound and speech


I saw that it's released Germany, but haven't seen it here yet. Has it been released elsewhere? Does anyone here have it?

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Just checked the forum, and it doesn't seem like they will release the english version before next year

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I'd heard about it but it seemed to have dropped off the radar. I hope the german version gets a good reception, what had been shown in early media looked promising.

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it surely reminds me of Fallout...

some nice graphics too...

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Oct 2001
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Oh it's already releaesed? Hmmm, I've had that game in my Gamespot tracked games list for a long while now, and there haven't really been any updates, so I assumed it was dead or something. Now only trouble is I guess it is only released in Germany you said, ADG? Too bad I can't get my hands on it...

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From the little I've read, it sounds like it takes some time to translate the game. The game features says it includes speach, which might be one of the reasons it takes so long before being released other places...

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is there a dog named dogmeat in it?

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Just get the German version dudes. Germans have to get the English version all the time.

-Jam

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Just get the German version dudes. Germans have to get the English version all the time.

-Jam


no.

and there are no reviews for this game as well. It could suck for all we know.

I find foreign companies cannot designe games as well as americans. . Except for the Candians of course.

Canada

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I have consideret getting the german version, but for the time being I don't have cash, and I'm not happy about giving away cash for a game I haven't tried yet

Though after reading this interview I'm getting more interested in getting this game:

http://www.gamebanshee.com/interviews/thefall1.php

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Just get the German version dudes. Germans have to get the English version all the time.


I don't have a problem playing a game in German. Now, do you think Amazon Germany ships to the US?

Although then again, you didn't say anything about buying the game did you?

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it surely reminds me of Fallout...

some nice graphics too...


Who's the guy at the bottom left?

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Although then again, you didn't say anything about buying the game did you?


I haven't found it anywhere* yet

*from reliable sources that is...

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Now, do you think Amazon Germany ships to the US?


Probably, since IIRC amazon.com will ship to Germany. I'll probably pick this up in Hamburg at Xmas time, if anyone wants a "review"

-Jam

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Dec 2000
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Who's the guy at the bottom left?


a somber, post-apocalyptic game, brightened by the appearance of Juan, a happy go lucky bandido whos moved north in the post nuclear world, but doesnt take things so seriously

This has potential, I think.

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You realise this game will only be cool if it has the minigun in it.

Right?

-Jam

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It reminds me more of Jagged Alliance but 3D...(I mean the design)

I heard they were working on a sequel to Fallout Tactics (or Fallout 2 woteva) and that it would be in 3D as well.

I really should try these games out because everybody I hear talking about the game says it kicks ass.
Just too bad I don't think I'll have much time with exams coming up pretty soon, and having discovered pen&paper D&D with some friends

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Just get the German version dudes. Germans have to get the English version all the time.

-Jam


You are crazy. German sounds so ridiculous. For foreigners who don't know the language it might even sound pretty cool, but because I can correlate the words with my own language which is teh suck in terms of gaming terminology btw, I just laugh my arse off when they translate enemy monster names and the like...

A Headhunter = ein Kopfjäger

Not everything sucks though... eine Hexe pretty much pwnz a witch

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But trust me, german sounds so much cooler than danish

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Germany produces some pretty top notch games, both boardgames and PC games. Gothic I and II spring to mind. Of course there are others like the Patrician series which only seem to appeal to a narrow section of players, but they do innovate. The Guild is one I just wish had sold well enough to get fully debugged.

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II heard they were working on a sequel to Fallout Tactics (or Fallout 2 woteva) and that it would be in 3D as well.

Not happening.

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Just get the German version dudes. Germans have to get the English version all the time.

-Jam


Btw all Jamski sounds a little bit German, so he is biased.

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I just got the game, but so far I've got lots of complaints about the game:

The game is laggy as hell and so far I haven't found any options to turn down for the graphics
And the camera is very difficult to use. So far I've found two options for camera: 3rd person view, and a view were you can turn around the selected character (stuck like in 3rd person view except where you can turn the camera 360). You can't zoom that much out, so it's hard to get a good view of things. In the beginning there's a training mission where you had to get over a wall then shoot the enemy behind the wall, but because of sucky camera it wasn't possible to shoot the enemy just after landing on the other side of the wall because you couldn't see him. Ok I could see him, but I couldn't shoot him, since the mouse-cursor for the getting over the wall had a higher priority than shooting enemies, so I had to spend several minutes to turn the camera in a way so I could actually see some ground I could click on, to make the character move so I could finally click on the enemy to shoot him. If this was a real battle I would have been dead already.. I sure hope there's some camera option I've missed (like top-down view)

So far I haven't been in a real fight, but I've got my first mission:
Kill the leader of some very dangerous (or so they say) gang, which would also be the same person as the one who killed your father.
Sounds like some huge mission for a first mission? What's more weird is that even though it seems like my character is just some random person nobody knows, they made me a leader of this group of 5 people (which I could chose myself). I barely know how to control one character, and now they say that I should lead 5 characters?
Ok, I have no idea how difficult that mission is, but I'll see next time I start the game...

Oh, and the voice acting is extremely bad... it's not acting at all. As they recorded it the "voice-actors" just read what was written in the script without knowing what kind of character they were playing (You can even hear when they got to the end of a line in the script, because they're making weird pauses, even though they're in the middle of a sentence

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sorry couldn't resist laughing.

You're our resident beta tester.

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sounds pretty bad, which sucks, cause i was somewhat interested in this game. hope it gets better as you play more!

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I'm just thankful I didn't pay money for it

I sure hope the english voice actors are better and they fix the bugs when they release it...

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/optimist mode
If its from an "alternative source" then perhaps that might help explain some performance issues.
/end optimist mode

Looks like the geran version is up to patch 1.4 already. At least that means they are supporting it actively. The English version might actually be playable out of the box

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I do have the update (and it's 1.5 IIRC) installed

But from a quick read on the official forum it seems to be a common problem... but I should note that I only read very few threads...

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