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What is Bethesda telling us with making ghouls and mutated folk the most powerful enemies ? Is that a joke I don't get ? Somehow it made sense with FEV-Mutants being a threat in old Fallout, as they were some sort of hulks and the FEV was designed to work almost like this. It made sense of...

Someone got it right, it seems. In a RPG you play your role and rise in power (called leveling + getting better equipment), which can be part of roleplaying too (but doesn't have to). Growing past your former enemies is part of the play. We really don't have balance in such a game - you start as...

Someone should create a mod with a single ghoul NPC running around at Bethesda ingame side being a Vault Tec executive and having a lot of dialog explaining all that stupid designs like for example: "Why are there still children in Little Lamplight ?" "You know Vault Tec wanted to...

VATS is broken. It's fun for going into SloMo and autofocusing the camera on what's happening like switching camera from player firing to hitting the enemy in SloMo - really wonderful - it's just some very bad tactical things that happen: player won't get hit too much or at all, headshots don't...

Why shouldn't it be impossible for a movie to be better than a book or a good game with modern graphic and action to have a better story than an old story based game ? I didn't say impossible - it's rather statistical and rare to see such things. Just consider the amount of design work that...

No - the difference between Fallout 1+2 and Fallout 3 is like the difference of a book and a movie !!! And as more and more books get replaced by movies and the average human knows more and more about movies than about books (other than the title and its description), it's the same with the...

Most of the DLC content is not truly part of the fallout world and no true gain of fallout elements. Operation Anchorage is a winter world without fallout elements The Pitt is rotten industrial but not fallout-like Broken Steel is true fallout - but without an evil karma layout, so you'd...

Another one taking so long to realize that it never works if artists rule above authors - because it doesn't take long for them to think they can write fantastic stories themselves - which is the begin of the final downfall (my memory banks tell me this happened a lot of times in media history)...

My machine core never gets those human jokes ... so I'll just answer: Have you ever seen npcs or the pc in fallout struggle for search of water and food or other resources that are hard to get in a world where the resource chains have broken down ? Did the player need to eat or drink ? -...

Power Armor isn't designed to be balanced and balancing is only overly important for shooters or any combat dominating game. Easy to see that power armor is high tech that makes you superior - what's the story about the enclave and brotherhood and other high tech factions anyways ? - to allow...

that's 1 down for Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium, Ultraviolet - Logic) and 1 up for Christian Bale (he can act and prefers more thoughtful action roles), so chances should be still 50% for a not-too-stupid movie. Remakes still milk the cash cow if there's enough time/quality distance from the...

Hi there ! While I'm uploading myself to cyberspace I thought to spend a few decades speaking with some humans about their unavoidable future and a few games to simulate it. My hobbies are crushing and mocking about human logic, a few weird science theories and downloading heaps of digital...