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I generally dislike spoken dialog in games. It has its place in plot-critical conversations, but I read much faster than the characters speak, so I end up skipping most of it , anyway. Sulik's talking head in FO2 bothered me. Every time I wanted him to change combat settings, weapon, or...

The best thing about FO2 was the improved interface. It always pissed me off in FO1 when one of my NPC followers would trap me in a corner or stand like an idiot in a doorway trapping me inside a building. The biggest criticism of FO2 when it was released is that is was pretty much just like...

The first time I played Fallout I borrowed from a friend - just the CD, no manual. I had no trouble learning how the interface and combat worked.

Yep, the more people that play through FO/FO2 for the first time, the worse it will be for BethSoft.

I am as pumped for AoD at least as much as I am for any mainstream title. The setting sounds interesting to me. I recently finished Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, which paints the Arthur legend as kind of a last gasp of Roman civilization in Britain. From that view the "fall" of Rome (or...

I'm looking forward to Bioshock not as a hardcore RPG, but just as a good game with a lot of thought put into setting and gameplay. I like Irrational a lot. I'm intentionally avoiding most of the pre-release hype. I just want to see what Bioshock is when it's released.

Bethesda's engine isn't even theirs; it's licensed. http://www.emergent.net/

It's over. We waited 10 years for Fallout 3 and got a flawed tactical combat game, a moronic console lobotomy of a game, and a console FPS with targeted shots and handheld nukes. The Fallout franchise is dead. It will shamble on in a zombified state, an undead blasphemy mocking its own...

Please inform Steven Spielberg that first person = "teh immersion". I am sure he is eager to make a sequel to Schindler's List shot entirely in full color, first person perspective, now that he is no longer bound by the technical limitations he faced when making the original. He must be...

Kind of makes sense. GI is seems to be a piddly magazine with no market penetration. Desperate to be noticed, they eagerly latch onto the Bethesda teat to get exclusive info in return for a guaranteed positive spin and review. Even apart from the content of the article, this is not a...

Re: LOL! Yes, let Francis the Super Mutant rape you before you judge the experience. Let Bethesda rape the corpse of Fallout before we judge them. Sheesh! Fallout is NOT an "action RPG". It is a reproduction of the PEN & PAPER role playing experience using a computer to allow a...

I tried to play Fable: The Lost Chapters and I couldn't. They didn't even change the control scheme for PC - unforgivable. That's the same reason I couldn't play Lego Star Wars, which is supposed to be a really fun game. The last console I had was an Atari 2600. I had fun with it when I...

THAT was Fallouty. Still no info on the actual game, but that at least got the atmosphere right.

I'm with Vault 69er; 3D would be good for the purposes of camera movement. How many times playing FO 1/2 did you wish you could zoom in/out, raise, lower the camera, or look behind a building? Probably not during the first few years they were out, since we hadn't really seen that capability...

American network TV blows. Nearly every good show gets canceled and replaced by mass-produced garbage. Anything that is not an instant ratings smash goes to the scrapheap and another mindless reality show makes it to air. "Seinfeld", one of the most successful TV shows ever, did not get...

The thing I pinpointed about this picture is that the buildings seem to be all steel frame, and the ruined buildings in Fallout were more crumbling concrete. Yeah, there would be steel inside the concrete, but the concrete seems to be missing here. Plus, there were VERY few multi-story, above...

Nice pic, Dominus. Calls to mind the Fallout load screen with the shirtless running dude shooting over his shoulder. The brush stroke style reminds me of the loading screens, too. Muff, thanks for starting the project, and great luck with it. Alas, I have no useful technical skills. I can...

Some brilliant stuff. Good and evil ways to do the same quest, stupid path, humor, etc. A great example of what makes a FALLOUT game.

With 10 years of technology between FO2 and FO3, I don't know how similar we can expect the two to look. Limitations that had a huge impact on FO2 are no longer a concern. Are we expecting Bethesda to conform to the same 256 color, 640x480 limits of the classics? I fired up the VB tech demo...

I'm pretty sure that Morrowind sidebar was written by a reader. And I'm also pretty sure the reader is about 12 years old. Not just because it's Elder Scrolls on X-Box, but also the way it is written and the comments made about not previously knowing what an RPG is. I hold nothing against...