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And this is my chief issue with Bethesda -- by conscious design, they follow the "jack of all trades, master of all" philosophy to a disturbing degree. No choice made at the beginning should limit accessibility to content, which is great in a FPS but very central to the ideas of choice and...

On another forum a debate recently arose comparing the merits of Skyrim vs, of all things, Fallout: New Vegas. The original poster posited the straw man argument that "people say" New Vegas stands heads above Skyrim and was curious why this view was held. I've yet to play Skyrim and I wish...

I would. Due to the isometric nature of the original Fallouts, I never felt like the 1950s vibe was rammed down my throat like in the modern titles. Aside from the opening cinematics and sense of 50s camp parody throughout the manual, I felt like the actual game world was more akin to a Mad...

Actually, no. #1. Though it is a side quest, when to accept it you're TRAPPED in it. -1 for design there. #2. Why are you trapped? Because your vision is blurred like they smeared Valvoline across the bloody screen until completion. The upshot is that you can't merely walk away and do...

I concur with the OP -- I absolutely abhor this title. The characters were flat, the missions were atrociously designed (both in structure and information given) and the world was needlessly tiring to get around (want to get up on a cliff? ok, but do you walk left or right for 3 minutes to do...

Probably for the same reason the Kings got the look of Elvis but didn't even know his name. As Obsidian devs have said (Avellone?), Caesar appropriated elements of the Roman mythos to serve a purpose. When somebody approaches a subject like that they cherry pick what is relevant and leave...

Actually, he never said the British weren't the first on the continent. Despite his remonstrations, I agree with the suggestion that America brought (i.e. forced) "civilization" on the Native Americans. The American government had a much longer and protracted interrelationship with the Native...

For what it's worth, I started playing the day the last patch was released and have exclusively used energy weapons (and explosives) for the first 40 hours of my play experience (as of last night, 44 hours and a newly minted level 15). My energy weapon skill is at 20 (!) and I'm still pretty...

Well, I would like to like the Legion. Hell, I even let NCR guys get slaughtered in front of my PC's eyes on a few random occasions just because I didn't want to get involved (just observed and looted bodies afterwards). However, being a role player that constantly tries to base in game...

Regardless of whether the Legion are "grey" or not is immaterial if you don't really encounter them for the first 30-40 hours of game play. Even if the player isn't completely convinced that the NCR is the way to go they'll be habitualized to their presence and conditioned to take that side...

Thanks, Lexx. Yeah, I would hope another was in development but wasn't sure if word had leaked to the official forums and hadn't migrated through the channels yet (I really need to start hunting those dev quotes down myself and stop relying on Ausir to cough them up to me).

Preamble: I'm not a modder. Hell, I don't even own the PC version. However, I am handy with programming languages and plan to pick up the PC version when I invest in newer hardware sometime next year. I was just curious whether the mod tools were flexible to implement these ideas. The Ideas...

Well, if I'm really going stealth I tend to leave them behind. However, the bipeds in my party do affect the "stealth" stance (crouched position) so I presume the game is placing them into that mode. I'm just unsure whether it's like Fallout 2 (where the companions were essentially invisible to...

I started playing on the Xbox after the latest major patch (i.e. the one that fixed Veronica's data based leveling bug). I've only suffered one freeze in the 40-50 hours that I've been playing and most of the AI bugs are ignorable (generally they're confined to behaviors at the draw distance)...

Ultra quickie: Do companions have their own stealth skill or do they use your own? Secondly, as this just came to me, is ED-E bugged even with the latest patch? "She" seems to aggro on enemies faaaaaaaaar more than any of my other companions, even when set to passive. Thanks.

Lexx, it's not that it wasn't explained, it's that the explanation wasn't good. Crni Vuk, it's interesting to see them admit to it and I respect their honesty. However, I don't really want to get sidetracked with this singular example (unless the underlining thesis is that Fallout 3 *was*...

The game is still piss easy, however. I have yet to load into the DLC so I'm speaking generally (and with an implicit reference to Fallout 2) but I'm lvl 12 with combat skills below 20 and doing just fine (solo or otherwise). I almost never wear armor anymore either. VATS is a huge cheat mode.

This will just be a quickie: I was reading through Nonsensical Elements in Fallout 3 thread and stumbled across Brother None's message which made an offhanded commentary to the fact their discussion didn't help explain "retarded shit, plotholes, internal logical inconsistencies or doing stuff...

Well, simple can be bad, especially if you toss around that classification on issues of originality (as simple tends to touch upon archetypal elements of Western narrative done to death, "the hero's journey," etc). That aside, I'd disagree that Fallout 3 was really about the writing or...

No, the have little to do with each other. If bad writing = bad game then we'd have never gamed before 1995~ (txt based and point'n click adventure titles aside). I certainly enjoyed my fair share of coin-op experiences in the 80s and that was entirely due to gameplay (well, and that soft spot...