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Not going to lie, seeing all the boot licking Bethesda fan boys on the Fallout subreddits discover how fucking terrible Bethesda is at game design and how big a stink they need to raise just to get a standard game feature like push to talk voice comms provides a little bit of schaedenfreude as I...

So I didn’t want to pre-emptively title this Fallout 76: PoS 2 but with more information available now I don’t have much hope. The focus of this action game is shooting shit and building bases and getting fucked over by people with no jobs who spend all their time playing the game so they are...

Is it just me or is the gunplay in this game way more difficult than the previous game in the series. In the #3 game as long as you were aiming fairly squarly on the enemy they would be hit. In this game I'm running around wasting ammo as I try in vain to hit the enemy the same way I do when I...

I'm sure that Pitt's criticsm of Obsidian for Honest Hearts is valid. Fallout New Vegas was released in October last year. That's almost half a decade that Obsidian has had to work on fixing bugs (according to Russ Pitt's sense of time).

There are over a dozen goodsprings home mods available of new vegas nexus already regardless. And a bunch of those mods (e.g tag skills add 2 points and getting perks every level) are literally 10 second mods. Load up the geck, change a number, save. It always cracks me up when 'game...

Why even bother with a PC/Xbox comparison. PCs have been faster and with better graphics chips for the past 4 years.

It really depends on how long it takes them to release the New Vegas GECK which will be an updated version of the Fallout 3 GECK. It was possible to do modding with user made tools for Oblivion, but it isn't until the developer tools are released that it becomes easy for large numbers of people...

Such a connoisseur. I'll never understand this constant 'graphics are dated' meme than professhunal game journalists- er self-proclaimed 'fanboys' can't seem to get out of their heads. I mean can you really say that Fallout 3 or New Vegas' graphics seem outdated? I mean by any objective...

Much less useful than it sounds (does it sound useful?). It will only reduce the costs by 3-5 AP for each shot/hit, and when you only have roughly 80 AP to start with the reduction in most weapons AP costs won't allow you an extra shot anyway. I suppose it will mean that you have to wait less...

You didn't notice my xbox tags I see? Xbox tags that tag a line as being from a stereotypical 16 year old Xboy with no knowledge of anything that occured almost a decade ago aka before 2005.

What...but I thought there was only one game before this one, so that would make this the second game wouldn't it? As an aside the last sentence is really poor. If you read it thoroughly then it doesn't really make sense. Compare: The story for Fallout New Vegas is still under wraps...

I didn't mean so much the ending itself, rather that it had an ending. Even if it had been a good ending from a design and storytelling viewpoint the 'fans' would still have demanded open ended gameplay.

I feel kind of sorry for Obsidian by choosing to go this way. We all know that it is acceptable and probably felt the same way about Fallout 3's ending. But there were heaps of people (really dedicated fans of elderscrolls) who were shocked to discover that it had an ending, they hadn't paid...

I know you probably were just meaning that as a minor correction, but to me it seemed one of the biggest zingers I have ever seen. The cynicism at game journalists' lack of knowledge, the despair at how they could possibly mess that name up, the derision with which you hold the whole sorry...

As soon as I read 'definitive ending' and 'DLC' I thought Broken Steel. You could call Pete Hines many things, but he is a brilliant marketer.

I think Mr Urquhart needs to re-read the game style guide...

It's the same deal with the Shivering Isles for Oblivion. While the gaming press were falling over themselves to slobber Oblivion with undue praise and claiming it had no faults (level scaling? brilliant idea) when the Shivering Isles was released it was just 'more of the same' and received a...

Good thing there was only the garden variety aggresive super mutants in Fallout 3. Ambiguous writing is the mark of a poor writer, and the fact that it wasn't picked up is the mark of a poor or non-existant editor.

I remember one text based game that helpfully let me know that "put out" torch should be referred to as "extinguish".

Technically there was. There are 4 stances that actors can have, enemy, neutral, friend, ally. Enemies will always attack one another. Neutral relations mean someone will attack if their aggression is greater than their disposition (e.g if you hit someone their disposition goes down and they...