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It's an emotionally charged subject, isn't it? I read through the entire thread emotionally swinging back and forth, but in the end it's just simply too early to call. I like Obsidian. That opinion is inflated somewhat because other companies making similar games have set the bar quite low. So...

All of the bickering really boils down to different degrees of this emotional attachment, doesn't it? I'm in favor of new, different types of games set in the same general world--I have friends who enjoy Fallout 76 and I'm happy for them. Hope they find plenty of whatever junk they need to craft...

I never wanted the "dream game", I really just wanted a good one. I guess I sorta got one in WL2, although playing the beta pretty much took any joy out of it for me. The console focus is inevitable I suppose, but it's still sort of sad that, for example, WL2 now really only plays right or gets...

My theory is that the less a kickstarter developer communicates with the backers, the better the end product will be. Too much end user input neuters all the game's best ideas. Conversely, if you don't trust the developer enough to develop a product without micromanagement, you shouldn't back...

It does look interesting, and maybe I'll play it when it comes out. I'm not entirely sure that "real time with pause" combat is one of the things that makes any game great. I always suffered through it because I liked the other parts of the game. But I guess a lot of people feel the same way...

That reminds me, I keep wondering when we will see an "ignore user" feature to this forum. There have been a lot of cool updates lately, and I keep expecting one to appear. :) As the Fallout franchise gets dumber and dumber, the trolls get less and less interesting and automatically ignoring...

On the subject of WL3 though, I'm quite sure that *more* console-ization and the addition of more (now-mandatory-in-all-games) crafting and base building features will not make it a better game, but will probably be great for sales. All they need is some survival horror features, zombies, and an...

[edited because let it die already] (Leaving this because it really bugs me when people use it as an excuse: ) "Suspension of disbelief". It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card, in fact quite the opposite, the whole point is that once you push believability past the breaking point, you *lose*...

You are entirely correct. I bought goat simulator, and gave it a thumbs up review because it pleased me immensely in exactly the ways I expected. :> Goat Simulator did a very good job of setting expectations. F4... maybe not so much. Meta scores look about right. From what people are saying...

Sounds right to me. I have no love for their products, but the dev teams are doing fine, delivering exactly what is specified by the marketing research, with exactly the level of quality specified. The fact that the games are kind of sad and the end users do most of the testing is very much a...

This attitude is why I stopped giving away software I wrote. (In this case, audio drivers.) You give people something that they do not have the skills to write themselves, and that nobody else is willing to make for them, and you do it for free, and they act like you've failed them in some way...

On the one hand, I'm assuming that you meant "cardinal sin". On the other hand, it's not entirely inaccurate either way. :) El Punisher as a character is kind of fun in small doses, but... yeah. In fact, the more recent movie shows that without taking time to create some depth around the...

Yeah, it was *really* weird playing Fallout 2 for the first time, when I actually had so many "unique guns" in inventory, I had to drop a few to stay unencumbered. :)

Common misconception. While Atomic Bombs can reproduce asexually, this normally only occurs in very speciailized conditions. This is why we have "breeder reactors", to simulate the conditions that result in budding and the production of a new baby bomb, or "bomblet." The large number of bombs...

So... finally caught up on this thread and it's insteresting, but after reading 12 pages of text, the thing that sticks in my head is "but 'stupider' is a real word."

Well, that's sad. It's the kind of thing I could imagine in one corner of the world, not a serious threat, just a little "of course it could happen to chickens too, but they'd still be pretty much pathetic." If done carefully it would be one of those darkly humorous and ironic... Ah I think I've...

I'm probably swimming against the tide here, but I simply love what is implied by the word "radchicken".

(note, response not directed at Zyax, it's just the clip I quoted, K?) Wait, as I recall... "coming from vault 13, regardless of who you are or how you feel about your peers in the vault, a corrupt overseer throws you to the wolves in an attempt to preserve the status quo, and because you're...

"Radioactive fog" -- so, basically entire zones like a radioactive vault, where you're frantically exploring as quickly as possible before your radiation level gets too high and/or you run out of meds, and then most likely do it again from a save from before that area because you missed...

Speaking as a guy who's done some recording--the real question is: if these actors are the limiting factor, why *didn't* they walk out into the street and choose some hobos. They could use the money and would probably do just fine. :) Half of the time the problem is not the voice actors, it's...