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Sniper mechanics in most games are pretty awful, generally. You usually switch from a broad view where you can move your targeting thing-a-mabob around quickly, to a tiny circular view where the targeting thing moves soooooooooooooooooo sssssssllllllllooooooooowwwwwwwwlllllyyyyy.... Never been...

I never paid any attention to my level. That, my friend, is immersion. ...Honestly, I can't even guess.

I definitely agree.

Sad thing: I can actually believe that it is true. Or that the father's the final boss, and that he's like the Master. Or like the Behemoth Mk2.

The guide also could have been more disjointed- like with the Fallout 2 manual, where the book had some general advice about wasteland survival from the Vault-Tek guide writers... and then notes next to them from the Vault Dweller. Or it could've been a bunch of notes on the wastes, some hand...

Looking at the new videos, I'd say- no. There's a Coke machine (with a FLICKERING DISPLAY) apparently plugged into nothing, OUTSIDE, with sodas still in it, in the first of the new demo videos. It's just another one of those things that doesn't make sense- like the single-person fallout...

Hmm... this is something that nobody's mentioned yet that I thought was weird: Isn't it sort of strange, and sort of illogical, that the character meets Mr. Burke in the Megaton bar, and that he's talking about "removing the blight" of the town IN the bar? Seems a bit... I dunno, it just...

Not really surprising, since they're using exactly the same engine, and considering their track record of lying about it, I don't believe a word they're saying about updating the AI. Even in the demo- a scripted event that was obviously rehearsed (I mean, check out all the demos with Todd- even...

And that's mainly because, as you said, original Fallout fans are in the relative minority, compared to Oblivion fans. I was one of those FO1/2 fans who was really looking forward to the game. I truly believed it was possible that Bethseda could have pulled it off. Yet they haven't proved...

Well, a lot of us here at NMA are really looking forward to the game. Morbus is one of those; he's simply stating his opinion about how the game's coming along. It's too bad you've got a rotten feeling about the game. I don't get that at all... but I really started looking forward to it a...

I agree with Cow. Looking for food really detracts from the fun of the game. Try and play the early Ultima games, or Realms of Arkania, and not get pissed off at constantly needing food and water. Not possible. Though the Corpses Eaten thing, if it's true, is stupid as hell. I think...

It's pretty obvious we're talking past each other here. This isn't a good excuse for Beth's disregarding of Fallout's PnP roots. First point: No shit. So what? It's happened before; there are indie designers now who are doing it, and yes, it is a niche market, but it's not out of the...

And I find it funny that we're taking the tack of "change can be good" when the real problem isn't that it's changed so much as Fallout 3 has utterly (from what we've seen) ignored the core design purpose of Fallout: Pen and Paper simulation. Where is it in Fallout 3? .... go ahead, I'll...

I definitely agree with that. McDowell's done great in his little role in Metalocalypse. Good point, though professional voice actors are *supposed* to mix it up, so you know you're listening to "The Vault Dweller" rather than Joey McSchmoington, whose character in other games sound...

Vince? Yea... he's got a few bags of spare balls, keeps them in the shed. What can you say, IRL he's an ad guy... they're as gutsy as used car dealers. So happy to hear AOD's still moving forward. Awesome, awesome project that I'm just itching to have in my hot little hand.

:D Thanks! I don't post too much, but that's mainly because I let folks say what they need to say... if a point's been made, I don't feel the need to repeat it. Really, though, all my points about FO are things that have been documented. I'm just re-hashing the FO1/2 developer...

"Some" is an understatement. The names are the same, that's it. And how do you know it'll be good? I'm going to keep an open mind as to whether it'll be a good game, by itself, but I'll repeat: it's not Fallout. Heh. You do realize that FPP came *before* ISO, right? That RT RPGs...

They actually weren't *that* ahead of the times. Scientology was pretty damn big (at least monetarily, and, thanks to the link between money and power in the U.S., rather powerful elsewhere) in the L.A. area well before the parody showed up in Fallout 2. Creepy, creepy religion...

Yea, but again: wasteland. You're in a hostile environment, supposedly there are raiders about, society still hasn't exactly rebuilt itself.... a) why would it be safe for your stuff, and b)why would the people of whatever town whose collective asses you save have a spare building around, let...

1. No need to be condescending. 2. Why Beth didn't think of this, and decided the game needed an oversized doll house, I don't know. I know. We all do. Point is it's still one of those silly design decisions that were fun as all hell. Like the New Reno casinos. And that Beth...