Really inspired by GURPS or only by Fallout?

[FVTB81]

As the title says.
The original Fallout was planed as a GURPS-based-RPG but got a completely new RPG-System. This new system had nothing to do with GURPS.
So, if this game has nothing to do with gurps, i would remove the reference to it.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

What? where? who? Whaaaa?:)
What reference? The game has a lot of them about almost all games who influenced it

[FVTB81]

Originally posted by Neyreyan:

What? where? who? Whaaaa?:)
What reference? The game has a lot of them about almost all games who influenced it

Did you ever even played GURPS?

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

i don't know what gurps is, is it a russian game? older?

[PajTajster]

The authors themselves said that game logic is inspired by GURPS system. When I played it, I felt like they mixed together SPECIAL and GURPS systems, and fused them together.

[atomRPGmod]

Originally posted by PajTajster:

The authors themselves said that game logic is inspired by GURPS system. When I played it, I felt like they mixed together SPECIAL and GURPS systems, and fused them together.

I'd say this comment is the closest one to how things were done.

In actuality, way before when we were building our first prototype on a custom engine, two of us who later became the story artist and the qa manager, learned all about most popular role-playing systems that can be easily transferred to a video game. Our favorite of those was GURPS, so we spent a lot of time studying it, what makes it fun, etc. Nowadays our system doesn't really look like GURPS since it's stylized to remind you of SPECIAL (but it doesn't actually work exactly like SPECIAL if you dig into it) but still GURPS was this first cornerstone in our dream of building a system of our own, our teacher and our mentor, so we mention it out of respect mostly, but yeah, you could also find things working similar to it in the current atom system.

[FVTB81]

Originally posted by Neyreyan:

i don't know what gurps is, is it a russian game? older?

GURPS is a Tabletop Roleplay Game by Steve Jackson.

[wizard1200]

Originally posted by atomRPGmod:

In actuality, way before when we were building our first prototype on a custom engine, two of us who later became the story artist and the qa manager, learned all about most popular role-playing systems that can be easily transferred to a video game. Our favorite of those was GURPS, so we spent a lot of time studying it, what makes it fun, etc. Nowadays our system doesn't really look like GURPS since it's stylized to remind you of SPECIAL (but it doesn't actually work exactly like SPECIAL if you dig into it) but still GURPS was this first cornerstone in our dream of building a system of our own, our teacher and our mentor, so we mention it out of respect mostly, but yeah, you could also find things working similar to it in the current atom system.

I think that GURPS is much better than the ATOM / SPECIAL system, because it offers more options to build your character and the ability scores are really important, because they define what kind of character you play. I was surprised, too, that the current system has nothing in common with GURPS.

[PajTajster]

You guys don't really get it, if this game were to be created on Full Edition GURPS then they would not create this game so fast considering how many rules (both optional and required) there are. This was the very same reason why Black isle Studios decided to create SPECIAL instead of GURPS, it's just too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ massive. GURPS is too generic (since you can create any RP session with it), devs had to create something more specific for their game.

Also, current system does have common ground with GURPS, so did SPECIAL.