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Sounds like they're just lamenting the FO2 easter eggs here. Personally, I think it was a smart move for Bethesda to keep the tone fairly straight. Camp it up too much and they run the risk of screwing the pooch. I don't trust their sense of humor anyhow.

Well said, with emphasis on your second paragraph. I'll be interested in reading your take on FO3 once the game releases. Well, they have officially stated that the Megaton scenarios is a high water mark for multi-branching world development. Many had assumed, and probably still think...

I took the usage of the word "buff" as a poor attempt at creative flare in his writing style. I seriously doubt it's any kind of statistical buff at all.

What would that be, exactly? Personally, I'm fine with the 3d. I'm fine with the first person perspective (though I do love isometric views and would love to see one in full 3d with controllable camera). I'm even fine with the setting and plot of FO3. What bothers me are the elements they...

To be fair, most on this forum are teddy bears compared to the RPG-Codex crowd (though many probably post in both communities, like Brother None). I honestly haven't met a fan of the original fallout that wasn't a little " :? " in regards to FO3. I consider myself fairly even tempered on...

I actually found his commentary some of the most insightful in this thread. Through the use of Swiftian satire he exposed to the len the logical hypocrisy being extolled by many posters. On a related note, I find it an interesting social commentary that 50 posts about killing kids gets a...

Mandrake has a point, i.e. that the invincible children aren't an issue, but he's going about the argument all wrong. Fallout isn't just for one market. It might surprise some of you but there are countries that would outright ban this game if it had killable children (see the censored...

Over the intervening years since FO3 was announced by Bethesda I've been intermittently following the press. Personally, I fall in the "well, they'll probably screw it up but at least it's something new" camp that cynically expects the worst but feeds the Bethesda machine more quarters than it...

It has been years since I played FO or FO2, but I hope they were. It would be lame for somebody with a high level of Sneak skill proficiency to not get some kind of benefit from initiating an attack while unnoticed.

What are you talking about? The Shivering isles were better than the whole base game, aside from the Thieves Guild and Assassin's Guild quests.

As does your concerns about this issue from the perspective of the guys advising you to ignore it. I said ignored by the justice system specifically to prevent you from using this loophole in logic. :) It is ignored by the justice system by virtue of not being a criminal offense...

No offense, but isn't that what your justice system does with cannabis and prostitution? Sometimes letting go of one's insistence that X or Y is problematic becomes the best solution for a tolerant and moderate mind.

Hey, I read it. No worries or need to apologize for venting what you feel. Good show, and all that. Ultimately, however, we're going to have to play the "wait and see" game. Honestly, with emotions running so high (and so many gamers unfamiliar with the original titles) I probably won't have...

Any word on what INT does now? I mean, obviously it ties into certain skills.. but did they give it any other purpose outside of that to compensate? Bethesda disappoints me.. Why did Van Buren have to die? ..

No, but I'd like to know myself. Ironically, if I were this age when FO2 was released I'd probably hate it (retrospectively speaking). Thankfully, I was simple minded enough to take it for what it was and consider it one of the better games I ever played (save for the bugs and forced combat...

What was it that David Folly once said? "Embellishment is the root of good storytelling.." Anyhow, I remember being run out of Klamath Falls in FO2 and getting the chance to interact with them all at a later date. Perhaps I merely reloaded a save, but I could have sworn it was a case of...

Granted, but there are reams of minutia about a title that get referenced which fall into this grey area of potentially inconsequential color or flare. In this instance, much is made of the unique post apocalyptic setting. I could see a bartering system, if included, get referenced to breath...

You hit the nail on the head for why I'm so disheartened by playing video games in this modern era. Technology has advanced, but only graphically. What always interested me was the statistical tracking systems and world reactivity. Sure, back in 1995 we needed to code in black and white...

Anyhow, it wasn't like Fallout 1 or 2 were perfect. At the time I saw them as very good titles that (I had assumed) would be surpassed by the next big thing. They were developmental stepping stones. Sadly, as the "next big thing" came about, they seemed to be taking steps backwards. For...

You're right, it doesn't.. However, something about the passage implied to me that the bartering system was out and, come to think of it, I've not heard a single reference to it in this firestorm of media coverage. 'Course, implications exist solely in the head of the person deducing it -...