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Nah, it's a fairly generic term in the U.S. I know personally I think of Army Rangers first and foremost when someone says "ranger", then after that, I think of a ranger in the typical fantasy sense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger In any case, I'll give Bethesda the benefit of the...

Sorry, to clarify: I'd prefer that the map screen fill up the whole screen, instead of being portrayed in "real time" on the player character's wrist. Yeesh.

Yeah, I think I'd prefer the world map to be somewhere other than the Pipboy as well. But that wouldn't be immursiv.

Speaking of Rage, it's sad that I got way more excited over the short teaser trailer for this game than I have been over everything I've seen thus far regarding Fallout 3. That Rage trailer was awesome.

It isn't so much that the concept is stupid (I personally love the Bloody Mess perk, if you couldn't guess from my avatar), it's that Bethesda's execution of it is terrible. It should be clear to anyone with a pair of eyes that the death animations are horrifically bad. That's what people are...

Yes, the world of Fallout 3 is a harsh, barren wasteland - filled with teddy bear rocket launchers that decapitate the target on impact. That's what Bethesda considers "black humor". But thank God it's not cartoony. That's what I've been saying for the past year or so. FO3 might be a great...

The amount of douchebaggery in this video is overwhelming. Also, intentional or not, it's really misleading to show clips from Fallout during a voiceover that says "Todd Howard is known for creating expansive and detailed fantasy worlds". Fuck you, G4.

I thought the same thing about the Fat Man. Seems to be an overpowered rocket launcher that causes mushroom clouds, nothing more. But at least the Fat Man has been surpassed on the Retard-o Meter™ by the mutant-dismembering Teddy Bear Launcher. Also, the "violent" death animations look...

Wow, combat sure does suck ass. Just like I figured it would. And I see that Bethesda hasn't improved the terrible AI from Oblivion. On the plus side, the game does look pretty damn good, aside from some questionable design choices that we're all familiar with by now. But jeez, they managed...

Or incredibly depressing, depending on your point of view. It's Fallout! It's Oblivion! It's Fallout! It's Oblivion! It's both! Who knows anymore?

Thing is, most mainstream media think that Oblivion is the best RPG in the history of gaming, so they have no reason to be pissed. Nor do the majority of them care about the original Fallout games.

This is my favorite line from the preview, regarding Oblivion: Ok then. Oblivion with guns it is.

Har har, but I think my gripes are more legitimate than complaining about the color of the haze in a dungeon ("Gayness"? Really?). Also, I maintain that Diablo 3 will be the shit, despite my reservations about the music. I can get over it.

I don't really get the big deal with the specific lighting issues (either of those comparison images looks good to me), but I guess that the world of Diablo 3 seems to be a slightly cheerier-looking place than the world of Diablo 1/2. In any case, I'm pretty stoked for D3 and I'm sure it's going...

...the hell?

Yeah, that was one of my favorite aspects of the FO games, but Bethesda has cut that out, as BN said. Gone, just like child-killing, groin-shots and eye-shots.

Or we can just try to ignore it, the same way I mostly ignore the fact that the Star Wars prequels exist.

You make some great points about ecology that I'd never really considered. However, this last part that you wrote is what I always thought of while playing Fallout - that the whole world was a "desert" as a result of nuclear holocaust. I didn't think much about it past that. I dunno, it just...

Level-scaling is still technically in the game, though it's been revamped. Maybe these guys missed the memo.

Why do these dumbed-down games sell so well? Doesn't that say something about the intelligence of the modern gamer?