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Actually, it's a common misconception that Tenpenny is British. He's actually Imperial. Yup, that's right: In an effort to REALLY improve on Oblivion, Bethesda opened a portal to Tamriel and brought Tenpenny into a retro-50s alternate reality. He's squatting in the tower because it's the...

Add onto the fact that a gigantic ret-con like this is just... well, it's just impossible to ignore (Facepalms.... FOR EVERYONE!! [Harvey Birdman reference... no pic :oops:]) and it's kind of easy to understand why so many people are ripping on this expansion. It's just a damn stupid idea.

Corvin, your logic is off. Here's how: You've been saying, basically, that if there are stats in a game, it counts as an RPG. Or at least it's close enough to be considered a hybrid. What we're saying is that that "it's got stats" isn't a good enough argument. Starcraft, for instance, has...

Oh. Dangit. It's really tough to tell on the Internet.

See, but population density I can see. Though that does beg a lot of questions about the Vaults in general on the East Coast. Stumbling ass-backwards into lots of mutants, ghouls, mudcra...er...mirelurks... and so on, IS stupid. And it doesn't make sense logically. Why wouldn't everyone move...

Why would he feel stupid? The Karma system alone in Fallout 3 is REALLY not Objectivist. The blog writer is just throwing the term out there with absolutely no connection to the game. Possibly to look clever. Or to somehow tie Bioshock in to Fallout 3. In any case, it's way, way off.

But did the game explain it that way? If it didn't, it just didn't happen.

'Kay, fine, so take out the Fat Man specifically. The Chinese Soldiers, though? A land attack? In a world where most fuel was gone and major fighting was going on in Alaska? And there were enough of them to be around when the bombs dropped, and several ended up sticking around for about 200...

Oh, so it's more like we've cycled through the 'quick play' reviews, scraping bottom there, and now we're getting through the medium or long-length play reviews?

-Helped to expand my interests to even older, considerably more forgotten games (DOSBox rules!!) -The videos (legal and otherwise), and the plot summaries from the warez, helped me to realize I NEVER want to play this game. Saving me, at least, the money from a rental. Oooooh, yes it does...

*Shrug* Guess so. It's got some decent FPS', but those have been available on PC (and generally better quality) for longer than even the first XBox. Damn thing breaks constantly, though. So "brick" is a pretty good descriptor; at least some of the time.

Why? This is the 59th roundup of the 'reviews' of Fallout 3. It's been almost 20 roundups since it was said *in the News Announcement* that the bottom of the barrel was getting scraped. At this point, we're into the Sour Mash that got caught in the splintery bottom of the barrel, which was...

Damn, man, where have you been? It's been almost six months since Bethsoft and MS announced that they were building FO3 as a primarily XBrick game. And it was about that same time that they implied (later admitted) that PS3 owners would NOT be getting all the little bells and whistles that...

I wouldn't really call any of those 'blessings.' More like 'IP expansion laziness.' Sure, have remnants of the government, but there's no reason to call them "Enclave." Sure, have junk-metal knight-types (new setting, so...whatevz) just don't call them "Brotherhood of Steel." That sort of term...

That was fantastic. And pretty much the best Fallout-related thing I've seen since... well, ever, really. Great work.

Emphasis mine. This has nothing to do with what's happened with Fallout. Ideas about "What Fallout means to me," when taken by the developers of the current game, helped bring about the results that they did. Those sorts of arguments are pointless. Fallout is not just the setting (which...

We've heard this before. We know it's not supposed to be a simulator of reality (even though Bethsoft did market Fallout 3 as closer to reality, more "immersive," based on its perspective and the fact that the game is real-time). What we're talking about is CONSISTENCY. Consistency to the...

Oh my god, sigged!!! As to this actual review: I also agree that Bethsoft, even in this alternate universe, shouldn't get any slack for doing the absolute basics and nothing more, even considering the abysmal state of mainstream cRPGs (whether that "c" stands for "console" or "computer.")...

Perfect Fallout? Van Buren came closest; that Troika PA tech demo wasn't too shabby either (*understatement*). Yes, the graphics would need an update, but that's true of any project that's carried through several years. More off topic: The song in the Troika PA demo is from the Dune...

How is it a grey area? They're a drain on local resources and are insane to boot. Now, maybe when things calm down a bit societies can talk about justice for the Family or shed a little tear over their sad fate, but at the stage of society in Fallout 3? No cure, no Family. Simple.