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I guess I'm moderately excited. I think Abrams was a bad fit for Star Trek, but he might make a decent science-fantasy film like Star Wars. Getting the films away from Lucas can only be an improvement, and I really don't care about the prospect of ditching the EU stuff. The best use for that...

That's pretty shocking, because New Vegas was not a challenging game. That was probably my biggest knock against it.

This is pretty much exactly how I feel.

Hexes are more logical for tactical play, since you avoid the problems associated with treating diagonal lines like straight edges. Hexes were a common standard of pencil and paper play, and Fallout's use of them was deliberate call-back to those games.

The points made about digital sales are totally valid, but I'm strongly considering pre-ordering just to support Obsidian and South Park.

This is pretty much correct. Bethesda tried a fair amount of legal dickery, but none of it really influenced the outcome of the case. What it really boiled down to is that Interplay couldn't show the progress they were legally required to show. At one point Interplay tried to claim the license...

Looks good. This is a great idea!

I don't really agree with that. Aside from the superficially obvious mechanics of exploration and building, the game has excellent progression without artificial constructs like character levels, a system for making magic items, alternate dimensions, farming, animal breeding, generated dungeons...

Fallout 1 was not a Wasteland sequel by any stretch of the imagination. Wasteland, in tone, was probably closer to Fallout 2 than the first. Like Fallout 2 in included a bunch of disparate game elements, for example the cyborg infested sewers or Harry the bunny master, with no explanation as to...

It didn't just set the tone, it set the tone very effectively. If Fallout 2 had been a stand-alone title or the first game in a series, it would have set a tone of goofy, scifi parody. Instead, we had a retro-tech post-apocalyptic world that referenced its ancestors, like Wasteland and Mad Max...

I love it. I think the survival mode strikes the right balance of creative freedom while providing the bare amount of setting and motivation to help keep me building.

Are those apples to apples though? I honestly don't know, but one might be trying to track actual retail sales while another tracks number shipped to distributors or something.

The fallen fence doesn't perfectly align with the battle grid, and neither does the cliffside at the top or the rocky outcropping at the bottom of the screen. I think you're overstating the effect.

I think that's most likely the ion beamer animation.

Agreed. This is one of the moments in the game that really stood out to me as different from typical Bethesda fare. Especially coming off of Fallout 2's clumsy racism storylines from Brokenhills, a quest with no clear good guys was a breath of fresh air.

I just don't buy it. It's not like his wife disappeared never to be heard from again; he tracked her down and even laid his eyes on her. He had already done the really difficult part. Carla was stolen in the night once, so she could be stolen in the night again. If anyone had the skills and...

I always disliked Boone, because the guy felt completely reckless. Making the legion instantly hostile is probably enough to keep me from using him on a regular basis, but his back story really bugged me. Shooting his own wife was. . . rash to say the least. If Boone managed to infiltrate so far...

Same. I wouldn't pay $20 bucks for it alone, but it's not a bad game.

Looks great. I can't wait to play it.

Victor didn't chase them away; he simply waited for them to leave before he visited the courier. In the game House explained that it was because his combat logic had determined that he was out-gunned. On the topic at hand, head shots simply are not 100% percent lethal, especially in a future...