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Metro can be very frustrating because, well, stealth frequently fails and you're frequently shooting, so you die frequently, even if you're good at it. So I end up constantly reloading, like in games where you play a thief and have to reload every time you fail. But in an RPG, realistic...

Really? Because I bought it launch week; they finally had patches that allowed you to be fairly confident that you could actually finish the game about three months after launch, or a week after I finished it and traded it in for store credit. I was very disappointed at the time. Now it's pretty...

Their target audience. :(

...except Fallout 2, of course. Unplayable, unfinishable mess with corruption in save games that prevents you from continuing unless you start over from scratch? I believe that's business as usual for a Fallout game launch actually. :)

It looks like Metacritic is also deleting trash positive reviews. Just saw "this is my fourth review, why was it deleted" from a pretty much content-free 9/10 review. :) I don't see a slow dritf upwards as inaccurate: obviously there are a good number of people who would enjoy a Fallout-themed...

Hell, "multiple playthroughs being different people" is practically the definition of Fallout. I remember an article about a year after Fallout shipped bemoaning the lack of engaging games to play. The conclusion was something along the lines of "want to play the best new game of the year...

Looks like the "reviewers who actually spent some time with the game" and the "reviewers who had to buy the game because they are no longer on the free copy list after being honest in the past" are starting to check in. :) I almost feel sorry for... well... no I don't.

Maybe this is because IRL weapons are made of things like metal and wood. Whereas in game universes they are made of cardboard and tissue paper, apparently. I once read an article where they tested a Sig pistol (228 or 229?) by firing 1000 rounds through it without cleaning it any more than...

This is exactly my plan. Which is sad and cynical and realistic and probably the most satisfying choice. In the end, I'm glad I only spent about $5 on Skyrim because that's about how much fun I had with it. I feel sad (and a bit worried about) people for whom the Skyrim "wander around, talk to...

As I understand it, you need to have the power armor because modding the power armor (and scavenging power cells) is a core gameplay mechanic, because crafting. And apparently it doesn't suck... I can see how having power armor from the beginning could be interesting from a gameplay perspecive...

From what I've heard of the state of the game, that's pretty much what your'e doing. ;) But seriously: they can't have added 18G of new assets to the game in the last two months. Clearly they never planned to include any of them, as there's no way that much data would even fit on a DVD.

I'm looking forward to actually reading actual end user reviews. The critic reviews are as usual useless and the metacritic composite score doesn't tell you anything. I mean, to me Skyrim is one huge yawning festival, but it still has a 95 or something on metacritic. Skyrim. I was curious and...

At last, a game where crafting is a major gameplay element! Well...yeah. I mean this could just as easily describe Fallout 2. Maybe not so much "bad writing" as "rooms full of nothing" and "unfinished", and definitely broken as all hell. Was it also fun? It's always fun to hoard ammo and get...

...and if all else fails, the install CDs are on display on /that/ shelf. :)

There was a time when I would have been excited by this press release, but now I'm just weary. This'll be Fallout-like-world-in-the-Skyrim-engine, right? I can't get interested. How did I get so cynical? Oh, right. I'm not sure I'm even excited about this any more. Obsidian writes well, but...

"As a gamer, I feel that true immersion into the story and setting begins with the intro." Um, sure... uh... wait. What? Yes, by definition: everything begins with the intro. Five minutes later, and for the rest of the hundreds of hours you are playing, good writing is the key. Of course, if...

No, I think he's just trying to find a poetic way to say he thinks the Wasteland graphics are bad, or at least not at all what he was hoping for. :) And this is really the point. I played Fallout (about a billion times), and I've played a lot of 3d based top-down games in the interim, NWN2...

The new inventory is very pretty, no denying that. But does it make inventory management even a tiny bit easier? Except for the all-important feature of making it easy to drop things onto the ground? I am not convinced that everything needs to be configurable. Floating, moveable windows are...

It's funny, because in the steam forums there are backers who are *very* upset because they don't think anyone else should be let into the beta for the same price they paid, or at all. Because, you know, exclusivity or something. And on the other hand you have non-backers who are upset because...

I used to be all excited about the beta and stuff, but Wasteland 2 is so last month. Also, my holiday plans all need to be cancelled now for, um, completely unrelated reasons.