Recent content by 3rdRate

I think it was in Paradise Falls. A girl was coming at me with a sword while wearing a pink dress. I had power suit armor and was blasting her away at point blank range with my minigun as she was hacking away mindlessly. And yet she was doing more damage than I was. That's about when I realized...

I feel exactly the same way.

I posted about two days after I got the game: I really, really hope Bethesda does not get to make Fallout 4. Wow. I've never felt like such an idiot in my life. This game is such a dropped-the-ball disaster, it's embarrassing. I take back EVERYTHING I said in the above, because this game...

No, I definitely include gameplay, but I don't restrict the definition to strict categories like Shooter vs. RPG. Gameplay in this sense is really game progression, how new information is acquired, the types of challenges that are presented, how they're presented, the manner in which the...

I've been a fan of this site for years, though I've only posted once or twice (note that my account wasn't created yesterday). I love F1 and F2, never cared to play Tactics and was one of the hated-BS-even-though-I-never-played-it crowd. There's a massive amount of negativity toward the new...

one thing i hate about rpgs in general is the total inability to end combat through dialog once fighting has started. basically, once the first gun is fired, one of you is going to die. obviously, for an inexperienced character, this will be true - but for those with greater speech skills, one...

death brings the play directly to the load screen. kinda simple, but im sure over time, those "you have died" messages have added up. or maybe i should stop dying. nick

Fallout: Bullshit. POS is good, but Fallout BS is more fun to say outloud. later, nick