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    Gamescom Fallout 4 Impressions

    So the question that springs to mind after watching that video is,"can I max out agility (or charisma, or perception, etc), forsaking the more typically important strength or intelligence right at game start and NOT have my gameplay crippled?" Did they actually [try to] make the game broad...
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    Gamescom Fallout 4 Impressions

    My unrequested thoughts on level caps: Hard coded level caps don't make much sense to me. If someone wants to grind out 100+ levels to reach supreme jerk status, why not let them? Games are so easy nowadays; gaining some ridiculous level can't 'ruin' the challenge if no challenge exists in the...
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    Fallout 4 coming out on November 10, free mobile spin-off out now

    The presence of armor variants not put into full production is easily handwaved away if they claim that some of the test units were put through their paces at the Springfield armory, or some other close by location. Further, it's completely plausible that some of the original PAs were...
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    Fallout 4 coming out on November 10, free mobile spin-off out now

    My guess: the protagonist was fatally injured by the nuke blast, and is then either cryogenically frozen or his conciousness is downloaded onto disk (holo tape?). Some system fault either thaws him out (after having been repaired by an autodoc) or uploads him into a synth that happened to wander...
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    Fallout 4 announced with official trailer

    I assume the Bethesda presentation at E3 will touch on the game engine, whether it's an evolved creation kit, or some new ID tech derived thing. Can anyone tell me how the gamebyo engine change from oblivion to fallout 3, or between fallout NV and Skyrim? My guess is that whatever feature...
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    Fallout 4 announced with official trailer

    Well, that would be a problem, too, but it seems like Steam and Bethesda are drifting back away from that kind of thing. I have more confidence that free mods will be the norm than I have for fallout 4 being as readily moddable as skyrim.
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    Fallout 4 announced with official trailer

    My main fear with this new game is the possibility that the game engine will be so different from the one used in Skyrim that it will be difficult for modders to leverage the work done for all of the mods made for Skyrim. It seems to me that Fallout is already at a disadvantage with regards...
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    Fallout 4 announced with official trailer

    I liked the ink spots song (and the fact all their songs have the same intro riff), and the daytime stuff looked slick, but they lost me with the airship. I mean, sure, in a world that ran out of gas, airships make sense, it's just that they come off as more steam punk than retro 50s kitsch...
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    Oak Ridge, TN / Smoky Mountains

    I think that area would work better for the game style used in Fallout 1 and 2. That way, you could include more cities without worrying about the logic behind being able to walk from Atlanta to Knoxville in an hour. The main problem with setting the new-style games in any given city is that...
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    I want to hear ideas for new factions/organizations

    I'd like to see some variation on the theme that was to be part of Van Buren - a society controlled by an AI computer. You could riff on The Matrix, Logan's Run, the old roleplaying game Paranoia, and every episode of Star Trek that used the same premise. Basically, you'd have a group of...
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    Gaming Made Me: Fallout 2

    It's interesting that Fallout 2 allowed her to see beyond her family's worldview and helped her find her true self. That said, I'm not sure that if I were writing an article about how a video game helped me discover who I was that I would have led with, "I didn't want to follow the orders of...
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    Fallout 2 Restoration Project 2.1.2b (Unofficial Expansion)

    I found a version of sfall that is from august 2012 [version 2.19]. Should I install that over F2RP 2.1.2b, or should I wait for the next version of F2RP?
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    The Fate of the Deep South?

    I think a scarier mutation would be man-eating kudzu. If you aren't around to weed-eat, the weeds start eating you
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    The Fate of the Deep South?

    I think the fate of the region should be determined based on what the region was like in the 50s. There were several industrial centers in the area back in the day, but they were all pretty much surrounded by farmland - basically how Fallout portrays every region. Birmingham was a major steel...
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