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Doom easily has the best level design of any videogame I've played in the last 25 years, and I've played Quake and its series for longer than I've played Fallout. I don't know if 25 years down the road I'll have similarly complimentary things to say about Fallout 4.

My first day 1 purchase in over a decade. Hasn't disappointed thus far.

The Tenpenny one is where, if you help the supposedly "poor and downtrodden" ghouls, they massacre everyone in their sleep? Not sure that's a great example for your point. "The Good Fight" is a retarded propaganda phrase because it's used for anything and everything (left, right, sports teams...

Which has about as much impact on my (and I suspect most of NMA's) experience as a particularly well crafted chess set would have on the game experience of chess. Completely extraneous and missing the point.

I don't believe FO4's marketing materials ever referred to it as an RPG. All I ever saw was "Open World."

Outside of both being villainous cults, no, not really. Not that I've seen.

Depends on the build. I've done a Grunt build once or twice, really got a lot of work done with the All-American. Super flexible gun, useful at pretty much any range with decent damage. For my Cowboy runs I've tried La Longue Carabine, Paciencia (which I realize doesn't work with the perk but...

I've noticed a few more games recently trending towards this direction. Pillars of Eternity, while obviously deeply flawed as a whole, only rewards XP for the first few kills on any given creature, and none on "people," to discourage grinding in favour of quest completion and the like.

Borderlands (both 1/2) as single-player games are easily worse than Skyrim/Oblivion. Borderlands 2 as a co-op game, however, is more fun than I ever had in Oblivion or Skyrim, no matter how many mods you pump into them. Borderlands really should have marketed the games as a co-op shooter with a...

Water is scarce in California in real life already. The problems are a) the bulk of California's population is located in areas that lack access to freshwater (literally desert) and b) California has an incredible potential for agricultural production, some of the best in world due to the soil...

The larger scale you want to purify water on, the more complicated the purification process is going to have to be. That being said, I've not seen any models suggesting radiation would remain present at harmful levels in water two centuries later. I don't believe any nukes were dropped in the...

The BoS couldn't hold Helios because the location itself was indefensible, and I'm imagining the BoS would have more resources pre-NCR-BoS War. As far as radiation goes, to my knowledge water can only be directly irradiated in extremely rare circumstances. The dangers of water come from the...

Completely unnecessary biographical information: I played the original Fallouts a long time ago, enjoyed them, and then set them down and didn't look at them again. Over the next decade or so I got a degree (Environmental Econ/Poli Sci with a focus on water sharing across international borders)...

inXile trademarked both Meantime and Van Buren over a year ago. Meantime was supposed to be the original Wasteland 2 (although it looked completely different from the actually released Wasteland 2). Anyone know if we've heard anything about development relating to either of those titles since? I...

I grew up in a family of huge military buffs and used to play wargames with my uncle all the time, which then led to a general interest in D&D. The blue box was my start I think, it's been a couple of years since then so I could be wrong. My first RPG video game was probably Eye of the Beholder...

My original experience with Fallout 3 was my game consistently crashing during the birth sequence, rendering the game literally unplayable. Fallout New Vegas was buggy and would crash every couple of hours, but I could at least play it. The only way I was able to play Fallout 3 was through the...

I know the first Witcher game is infamous for having a really slow opening, but I thought the first area worked really well to build atmosphere. I'm fine with a slow beginning if the game has the writing and atmosphere building to make it interesting but I've not really seen that from 4.