Recent content by JOG

Well, I more or less got what I expected after Pagan, all the ruckus, then the silence, the problems Origin was in, and the fact that they started from scratch with a new engine 3 times during development... After all that there wasn't much room for disappointment, it was just sad, to play...

Disclaimer: Random rant of an old crock, not directly related to thread or quoted posting, "we" is a placeholder for "I and likewise feebleminded folk", "you" means "you ignorant younglings who think i'm senile because I don't like Fallout 3" aberant grammar is a sign of individuality, senility...

The point is that RPG was supposed to mean "Role - Playing - Game" 10 years ago - playing a role as in "to pretend" not "to play act" there aren't many kinds of characters that would wander the wastelands aimlessly (desert=hungry wild animals, heat, cold, lack of water and food) or are...

Well, I should be 25-30 years out of that age but it's still fun from time to time ;) There aren't many games where you actually can do what you want no matter how silly it seems, Fallout was on one end of the scale, actually joining in, and the TES series (sans Oblivion and the other action...

There *IS* a possibility: 150 years after FO1 a person named Greyana Richards, the exiled beauty-queen of Vault 108 was hired by a Raider named Rholda to ambush a merchant caravan. The merchants fled, and in a rush of bloodlust they followed them into the Butterfly-Base. After killing all of...

Well, this kind of imaginative roleplaying works, of course it's better when the game has a proper reaction to all your actions, but when there is no reaction at all you can play pretend, just like children do. This worked well in Arena Daggerfall and Morrowind, but Oblivion's "AI"...

Actually, having been an ambulance man for some time, I can affirm you, that most practicing doctors are completely overchallenged when taken out of their natural habitat, surgeons too, lacking all the assistents and medical devices of their OR. The Mac-Giverism, at the cost of sterility if...

Actually yes. I made quite a few Morrowind mods myself, and one for Oblivion (before I actually began playing the game. ) I'm still in contact with many first-hour Morrowind-modders, only a few of them play(ed) Oblivion, and none of them made mods for it. For a reason... It's 2 years after...

Well that's exactly what we remember from Oblivion, all those funky Havoc features used in the tutorial dungeon, the tight atmosphere in the Imperial City, the NPCs that really seemed to have a life. It's all targeted to get the journalist enjoy the first 5-10 hours before he writes his...

But hey, this time we knew beforehand, right? All I need to know is that it's "even better than Oblivion" and I know FO3 for what it is: a "next-gen" RPG, tailor-made for people that don't like RPGs. Neither "Super Avatar Brothers" nor "Moongate Raider" could destroy the legend that is...

How is that knockout handled anyway? You fail critically and the fight ends at once, is there an extra check for the "lost round" status, just like the checks for kicking or removing the gloves? When such a check exists and is removed then the opponent should get his turn normally, and...

Uhm. Not really http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.223_Remington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9x19mm_Parabellum It's the same with the Tommy Gun, why use a WWII SMG? Why not rechamber it to use .44 or even 10mm?

The C96 is ingame and powerful (and originally unique) because Homungus, the leader of the raiders in Mad Max II used one. It's a rather moving scene when he loads the gun with his last couple of cardridges. Also the 9x25mm Mauser cardridge is much more powerful than the standard 9x19mm...

For me boxing works fine, and yes, I lost one fight intentionally to get the fifth DR-boost. There's a bug for Killap to fix, but this is not an RP issue but an old bug from vanilla FO2, and most likely this is what happened to you: From Per's Walkthrough: If you lose by knockout there...

Hmm. What I meant was that I thought there was only one of them in the original game: the quest reward from the tanner in Modoc, but well, maybe they were always sold in shops later on and I just didn't care about them anymore.