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Boy, the more I read about the combat system, the more it sounds like a complete disaster. So let's assume you're not using VATS. If you're wielding a Big Gun™, but you don't have a particularly high Big Gun™ skill, does that mean you can have a mutie dead-center in your crosshair, but your...

You guys would probably just get held up at the border, have your laptop and all your personal belongings rifled through (and possibly seized), and then get shipped back as suspected "turrists". It's really fun flying to and from the U.S. these days. And by really fun, I mean horrible.

My bad. I guess I mis-remembered. I was focusing more on the "it's our game and we're making it our way, for ourselves" part of the quotes - which, at the time, incensed me.

I could swear I remember a similar quote from Hines - it came off as a bit defensive and slightly arrogant, like "No, it's our game, and we're making it our way, so there's no reason to talk to those guys, and fuck you for asking that question".

I've decided that so long as Fallout 3 isn't as mind-numbingly boring as Oblivion, I'm going to give it a fair shot, fucked-up combat system and all. I gave Oblivion another try a few days ago and played for a couple of hours. I came to the same conclusion that I did the first time I tried...

So as I understand it, only the media who have been fellating Bethesda, both literally(?) and figuratively, for the past couple of years will have the opportunity to do so again at E3? "Epic...OMG...immershun...LOL headshot...game of the year...epic...." These are the sounds that will be...

Why would anyone need to play a demo? This game is from the creators of OBLIVION, for God's sake. Also, nearly every media outlet in existence is calling Fallout 3 the Game of the Year. Why would you need to demo the future GOTY?

I've bought enough collector's edition versions of games to know that 99% of the time, the extras aren't worth a shit. Same thing with those "bonus feature" discs. Who actually watches that shit? I've yet to see one that was even slightly compelling. At any rate, this is one game that I'm...

I dunno, those critical groin hits were always good for a chuckle (ironically, they're missing in Fallout 3). But the animations of people being torn apart by miniguns and whatnot, those were more "satisfying" than "comical".

Damn dude, mix in a few words of English here and there, will you? Maybe it's slightly unrealistic (or maybe not if you buy Sander's theory). But at least you have the choice. Bethesda's taken that choice away. I never played as a particularly stupid character in any of my FO playthroughs...

That's an unfortunate typo. Gizmo_Iz_Slug, I agree. If someone came to me and asked me to create Fallout 3 and I had never played the previous games, my first priority would be to play them - multiple times - in order to really understand the storylines, the setting, the games' sense of style...

My feelings exactly. Being "locked" in an area sounds even worse than those dreaded "invisible walls" that more linear games like to throw at you. I say if you enter a room and the door closes and locks behind you, and 20 super mutants armed with rocket launchers and miniguns then appear from...

I just read that. WTF? "Functionally, the ghouls seem to act merely like quick radioactive zombies, though an interesting touch to each glowing one you encounter is a very brief (think blink-and-you'll-miss-it) flashback scene showing what that ghoul's life was like before it mutated into a...

The preview snippet you're referring to is just jaw-droppingly stupid. I mean, seriously. Do they really think Bethesda is breaking new ground by making death permanent? For fuck's sake. Innovashun! A really bold move would have been to retain the isometric, turn-based gameplay of the...

Well, I'm neither a "regular hardcore gamer" or a fan of the Elder Scrolls series, so I don't know what the hell that makes me in the eyes of the author. I know one thing - I'm not a douche nozzle who uses terms like "hardcore gamer". But apparently, Bethesda has something to prove to me...

I dunno, I play a lot of other turn-based games so I can agree that Fallout's combat is clunky by comparison. But it's charming in its own special way (and fun as hell), and I find it easy to overlook its faults. As for the whole speed thing...you know you can hold down a key to make your party...

They say that it's like Oblivion when it favors them. When Fallout 3 is compared to Oblivion in a negative way, then we get "Oh no, it's not like Oblivion." ......................."except in all the best ways."

A little different? I don't think anything bothers me more about this game than the combat system. RE: queued bullet time actions, I think Red Steel for the Wii had a feature exactly like this. I can't say if it was any fun or not as I never played the game. Also, I always thought the...

It isn't your English. There's nothing charming about it. And yeah, I know Rob Zombie was behind both movies, that's why I specifically mentioned those two steaming piles of shit. Substitute "entertaining" for "funny" where I said "not funny in any respect". Good horror movies? Well, I think...

Yeah, I meant to refer to the concept of black humor in general, but in particular the way it's used in Fallout. The original developers and Bethesda have vastly different ideas of what black humor is and how to implement it in a Fallout game, obviously. I'm not a prude...really, I'm...