Interesting that you mention Fallout in this regard. I would probably agree if it was a random FPS, but it's all those little things that make the Fallout universe what it is. And I think everyone who ever suffered from advertising knows it's not going to be just that Coca-cola. After all, there's profit to be made.
If my character carries an IPhone instead of a PipBoy, wears a Levi's leather jacket without the torn-off sleeve and drives a BMW convertible with the super cool new gadget car key that can remotely convert it, then Fallout will lose one of its main attractions for me: its atmosphere. It'd become another soulless commercial product without most of the witty humor and its ambiguities, because all the new stakeholders want a clean and politically correct product.
For some strange reason the game my mates and me (Germans) play most is Axis&Allies, though we do know and played Carcassonne, Settlers, Puerto Rico etc. I reckon it's just because of the atmosphere of the game.
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Interesting that you mention Fallout in this regard. I would probably agree if it was a random FPS, but it's all those little things that make the Fallout universe what it is. And I think everyone who ever suffered from advertising knows it's not going to be just that Coca-cola. After all, there's profit to be made. If my character carries an IPhone instead of a PipBoy, wears a Levi's leather jacket without the torn-off sleeve and drives a BMW convertible with the super cool new gadget car key that can remotely convert it, then Fallout will lose one of its main attractions for me: its atmosphere. It'd become another soulless commercial product without most of the witty humor and its ambiguities, because all the new stakeholders want a clean and politically correct product.
For some strange reason the game my mates and me (Germans) play most is Axis&Allies, though we do know and played Carcassonne, Settlers, Puerto Rico etc. I reckon it's just because of the atmosphere of the game.