Recent content by TheFlyingBuddha

Ultimately the number of consumers that regard the lawsuits as negative will be far, far outweighed by the number of consumers who would probably think less of the Fallout IP after an MMO that will differ vastly from the look and feel of FO3 is released. That's all this has ever been about -...

Both valid reactions but there are a few issues at work here. First, ignoring consoles completely: [EDIT: Skip this, that's been covered]. I'm willing to bet the vast majority of sales on this will be for consoles, where mods aren't an option. Second, even with PC users there is an audience...

A friend at work claims that buying it on D2D gave him a CD key, which he then was able to redeem on Steam. I'm not sure how this might impact localized copies, of course. Edit: Wow was the steamworks part in the newspost earlier? I need to go to bed.

I think the most interesting thing to me was that the last few seconds seem to show an area with an awful lot of green. A little hard to see with the focus effect they used, but still. Looks like we might get an area with some legit plant life. As for the music - nothing surprising there...

"Basically we're doing all this testing we should have done before we released it on the other platforms." Well at least PS3 users get something out of their wait. I know bug-testing and squashing is tedious and hard, as already discussed, but for a company with such a high profile over the...

Assuming they haven't replaced the stupid perks and other various game design flaws, we all can still safely snicker each time we state the name. Just not quite as much.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess it's probably some Live bullshit.

I'm honestly more flabbergasted by the "balanced to level 20" comment. The entire reason people stopped playing the game was because they hit the cap too fast and felt they didn't gain anything by exploring whatever content was left over it. While the ending itself was unsatisfying, that wasn't...

I have returned with the 10 [Hand of the Reviewer]s that you requested. I would like my reward in the form of light armor, please.

To be fair, all this means is Beth used the exact same leveled lists in the Pitt that they used in the regular game, which your mods overwrite. That is to say rather than do anything new or interesting they just recycled the same loot options. While this is sort of nice given modding, it has...

The auto-axe? Amazing? Really? It's just the ripper, again. Which itself was the stupidest addition to an already boring melee system. After all the mods to Oblivion's melee combat, you'd think Beth could have at least STOLEN a good idea by now. When all is said and done, the ethical choice...

So essentially they had planned an end sequence with even less player agency? Amazing.

I think your sarcasm detector just broke.

The "technical reasons" are probably a combination of the need to make a new model for the clip, and then add them to the leveled lists that the merchants use. Neither of those are *terribly* hard but the problem is likely that they don't want to get into changing leveled lists. Because of the...