Our new voice actors arent superb either

Its simple really. If you dont want to play the remake then DONT BUY IT. Noones taking the original FO1 and FO2 games away from you, You can play them whenever you want. For those of us who didnt get to play the game in ugly ass graphics and bad voice acting, a remake should be made. Nostalgia is over rated. 10 years from now you might be nostalgic about the remake of FO1 and FO2 games you played.

Our new voice actors arent superb either

There are alot of voiced characters in FNV. Granted all of them arent perfect, but some are amazing, example : Chief Hanlon (Kris Kristofferson).

As for the same guy being used for alot of voices...You cant really do something about that when every character in such a big game is voiced. Its not practical to give each one a unique voice.

But Major characters in Bethesda games are superbly voiced, like chief hanlon, 3 dog, That guy who comes to recruit you for brother hood in oblivion.

There are things I wouldn't mind saying to you right now, but I'm pretty sure they'd get me banned.

Suffice is to say, no, Fallout 3 and New Vegas are not turn-based in any way whatsoever, and you are completely incorrect for thinking so. The difficulty in bringing up your Pip-Boy is due to animation delay - before putting the stupid gadget up to your face and hitting the "pause time" button, the game waits for any animations your character is performing (usually reloading) before bringing up the menu. This a natural consequence of Bethesda's asinine "let's put cool [censored] in our game without a single thought as to how it would impact gameplay, lore, or narrative" approach to design, an obvious example forcing something that should be easily accessible and functional (a menu) to be of secondary priority to their AWESOME NUKE CATAPULT RELOAD ANIMATION BRO.

What you're doing is effectively looking at what is best a terrible design decision and at worst a bug, and calling it a feature in order to contort into some completely arbitrary and incorrect misconception of what turn-based gameplay is. Which I guess is par for the course. You should give Todd Howard a call, they could use more people like you at Bethesda.

Bad voice acting? What little there was in the originals was actually better than in either of the new games, and quite good on general level.
But you're right, nostalgia is overrated. Good thing there's hardly any at play here.

There's this one guy who did a lot of characters in Oblivion and FO3. I hate him with a passion because he always has the same sneezing, ear-scratching voice.
Here's an example if you're curious about him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6JTtFzURs&feature=related

There are alot of voiced characters in FNV. Granted all of them arent perfect, but some are amazing, example : Chief Hanlon (Kris Kristofferson).

As for the same guy being used for alot of voices...You cant really do something about that when every character in such a big game is voiced. Its not practical to give each one a unique voice.

But Major characters in Bethesda games are superbly voiced, like chief hanlon, 3 dog, That guy who comes to recruit you for brother hood in oblivion.

But Major characters in Bethesda games are superbly voiced

And Tony Jay.

My question is, how do you make a turn based game FP?

That being said, having played the originals... I would object if it was first person, just don't see how it can be done. Would I still buy them? Probably, but I'd also probably break the disc in half and throw it in the corner with FOBOS.

My question is, how do you make a turn based game FP?

That being said, having played the originals... I would object if it was first person, just don't see how it can be done. Would I still buy them? Probably, but I'd also probably break the disc in half and throw it in the corner with FOBOS.

Nerdrage much, my friend? Wow. Methinks you need to step back, take a deep breath, and get a life. I think there are far more important issues in the world worth getting upset over than my mere trifle of a post. But what do *I* know?

But, either way, you're incorrect -- look up some of the development history of not only the post-Interplay Fallout series, but also The Elder Scrolls, going back to at least Morrowind. The Gamebryo engine utilizes turn-based gameplay and combat, but it's under the hood, and damn near invisible, except at certain moments. The "dice-rolls" occur offscreen, in other words, and so rapidly that it appears to be "real-time."

You need to conduct a little basic research first and get all your facts straight before coming in here and acting on impulse, amigo.

Voice-acting-wise, the originals were strictly hit-and-miss, at best. Richard Dean Anderson, for instance, sounds like he was rolling four Valium deep the day he showed up at the recording studio.

Wes Johnson (the guy you're thinking of) and Stephen Russell are the only decent voice actors Bethesda hires for their games

To be sure, though, I wouldn't necessarily preclude any Fallout game simply over a gameplay-perspective shift -- if done well, I'd play it.

The series had to adapt with the times, and a lower-detailed, 2-D isometric overhead RPG is a slightly tougher sell in this particular era.

They need some new people if you ask me. His voice (or rather the voice he uses in recording) is too distinct to be used on that many characters.

Uh no he's quite right. There's nothing turn-based about Fallout 3 or New Vegas' combat under the hood or not. Morrowind used a dice roll system to determine whether you hit or missed your target but it was axed after that game and even in Morrowind there were no turns.

*And BTW... Oblivion defaults to the same screen resolution as Fallout had.

First off since when is 14 old? second off Fallout 1 looks better then most 3D games from the early 2000's as 3D ages poorly, even more so these days. And finally there is not a damn thing wrong with Turn Based Combat.

It's also 2011

I was referring more to the tiny, zoomed-out, pixellated screen-objects (like guns, crowbars, etc.) seen in the original Fallouts, there, compared to the better-detailed and larger-sized versions that we got in FO3 and NV.

And?

My question is, how do you make a turn based game FP?

That being said, having played the originals... I would object if it was first person, just don't see how it can be done. Would I still buy them? Probably, but I'd also probably break the disc in half and throw it in the corner with FOBOS.

Todd and some of the other devs have mentioned in past interviews that all of the "modern" Elder Scrolls games are completely numbers-driven behind the scenes, with the Gamebryo engine essentially drawing upon its own internalized version of turns, rounds, and "rolls" (of a sort) to determine onscreen character initiative, etc. (which is a slightly-better-expressed version of what I was attempting to put into words, back there ).

The Super Mutants and Protectrons didn't sound too much like Mister Burke/Lucien Lechance to me, so he's certainly capable. He's a heck of a lot better than most of the other Fallout 3 VAs, at least he tries to do a wide range of voices. Stephen Russell though; he was definitely the best VA in Fallout 3, and he should do more voice work. I couldn't tell that the Mr. Handys, Mr. Gutsys and Harold were all voiced by the same guy. He also gets brownie points for being the voice of Garrett and some minor characters in the Thief series.