Recent content by sarfa

Avellone was the lead designer for Van Buren and it's clear that much of the "ground work" for NV was recycled from Van Buren. Methinks MCA did an awful lot of work then (in terms of characetrs etc) that was re used in NV.

I'd say Fallout was an RPG. Getting subjective here, but RPGs- from all subgenres are about people, and by people I mean characters. Even Final Fantasy 7 is about Cloud and cohorts- who are characters who are individuals (some more so than others, some more interesting than others, but the...

For open world games it also makes intuitive sense- as the player does more in the world, the save game bloats and it takes longer to load all the info. I was just pointing out that it's not a new thing in New Vegas- which seemed to be what sampson70 implied.

In my experience, load times becoming longer as you play more has been a "feature" of New Vegas, Fallout 3, Oblivion and Morrowind.

And those 95% also don't find themselves making games from buggy foriegn engines.

Thats actually funnier. They changed law firm to keep this incompetant hack.

Ok, and with Red Dead Redemption's zombie add on, that makes about three add ons I can think of from the last 4 years (the other two being for Dragon Age and Red Alert 3). Add ons, while they still happen, are very much the exception rather than the rule. I think Ausir is currently sort of...

I don't have the game yet (My reason being that it'd be far to buggy until patches arrive). For those of you that do, given that this is a game by Obsidion using Bethesda's hillariously glitchy engine, is New Vegas more or less buggy than you expected? If less, well, isn't that a worrying...

Didn't one of the other bits of information that has been released say that San Fran (and by extension the Shi) were now part of the NCR?

Still far to soon to be considered a classic.

In order for a gaming publication/website to survive they need to be able to do interviews with developers, be invited to demos at E3, etc. If they break the review embargo, or if the publisher feels they have there is a risk that said publisher will no longer invite the publication/website to...

Set theory time! Thats precisely what he's reffering to. "DS9 Actors" is the set of actors from Avery Brooks to Rene Auberjonois. "Star Trek actors" is the set of actors who appeared in Star Trek- from William Shatner to Connor Trineer. Hence, "DS9 actors" is a subset of "Star Trek actors", as...

I think LionXavier was reffering to VATS. Mocking VATS was certainly not the point of the ad.

As I said- the right level for epics depends on the story and setting. These are simply two examples of the right kind of epic for Fallout. I hate those as well. Even if you accept the basic idea that the Liberty Prime section added something to the game (which I don't), a 30 second cutscene...

Every genre has it's own epic- getting the right scale of epic for the genre is the problem. For some genre's the right scale of epic is actually rather small- only fantasy and anime inspired sci fi (sic) can get away with one hero versus a giant monster for instance. That is to say- Fallout...