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So if they wanted to change everything, why did they acquire the license for the brand? And why are they changing things for the worse? To follow your dumb analogy would make it seem that computers are worse than paper archives and manual tabulators, just as Fallout3 looks like a step back from...

There is nothing to accomplish. Bethesda will make the games as they damn please. Everything that could have been done to persuade them to listen to the fans and do a game that plays like the original ones has already been done. Voicing my opinion on the game (and voting with my wallet) is...

The recruitable NPCs in PS:T are awesome. Even without a talking head, and having almost no spoken dialog, they were very well characterized. I think it's a tie between Dak'kon and Fall from Grace for me. There's just so much well-written dialog in them, and so much to be learned/gained from...

I don't know russian, but Wikipedia has an article on Soviet medals, and an article for that one in particular. According to it, it says "Patriotic War". Edit: forgot to mention that I also love soviet imagery, despite not being much into communism.

They complain all the time about GTA et al. and it didn't hurt the franchise the very least. In fact, I bet it made some people buy the game out of spite for those "think of the children" whackos. It was free publicity. Also, I'm against speaking about games to such people in principle.

While we should be wary of jumping to conclusions based on quotes taken off their context, everyone here already knows that anything one can conclude about the journalists previewing the game, and about the game itself, from those "pearls of wisdom", is probably true.

If you can get to San Francisco, the shopkeepers there have a lot of money. Also, try resting or going somewhere else to allow them to restock.

Ah, I love Metal Fatigue. The combot fights are lovely to just even watch and rushing to obtain enemy parts to research and integrate into your own combots is just neat. Many RTS games use "capture and research" as a means to tip the balance, but the way it's done in MF is very unique and...

Toilet Healing. Sounds pretty dumb... if a toilet can gather air moisture, it surely can also gather radioactive dust. Yes, I find it impossible for a toilet to actually hold century-old water without evaporating, thus the "air moisture" bit. And if the creators actually intended the water to be...

Although work leaves me with little time for games, I've been playing 3: Planescape: Torment. I've been hearing about this for years, so some months ago I decided to try it. I tried some characters, but finally settled, and I'm about to finish it. Everyone here knows about this game, so I'll...

Weather's crazy around here. About a month ago it was intermittent (sunny/rainy). Now it leans more towards sunny, but the odd rainy day still shows up. Yes, in plain summer, I can still expect rain nowadays. :roll: The wind has also been strong. Gotta love weather talk.

Just wow... The growing stupidity demonstrated in these previews isn't even amusing anymore. And in almost every one of these news threads there's someone saying that all that the people here do is bitching, without actually defining what Fallout is and how Fallout3 should be. As was commonly...

How about sending live fire-geckos? That would convey the message much more effectively. Just kidding... I don't wish for anyone to die, unlike someone at Gamespy. Anyway, there's no way Bethsoft will back down now, with all the time and money spent making FO3 their way, and with the...

Aphex Twin - Maximim Electronica

My PC, with some versions of the nvidia drivers, used to BSOD and reboot sometimes when I switched to/from any fullscreen directdraw or direct3d apps. Fallout and Fallout 2 are directdraw apps, if I recall correctly. You could try updating your graphics drivers if it keeps happening. Also...

A little update on Synnergist: it appears that the latest version of dosbox can already run the game flawlessly. Check this thread at VOGONS: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=12378&start=20 I'm definitely going to try it this weekend.

It's a snowball's chance in hell that this will do any good, but what the hell... signed. Also, this is news to me: The french guy actually wanted to make a sequel? Great...

A very rare adventure game I had the chance to try out some years ago: Synnergist. Unfortunately, it's very hard to find (unless you, uh, borrow it from a friend) and impossible to run perfectly in dosbox (there was even a thread at VOGONS about this). Dust off your old PCs, I'm sure it's worth...

This is an old video, still cool to watch... not faked though, just sped up a lot. Here's 2 more similar videos that have been floating around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ovCm91SbJY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUWqRhReaZk Edit: I can see two justifications for someone to spend so...

We'll remember it as we remember FOPOS. The rest of the world will not remember it at all, I hope. That's what happens to mediocre games. Ouch. It does say a bit about who is the "average game consumer" these days...