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Read the original article closely: Noordzij (the author) is being imprecise in his language. What he intended to say was that the plot was good but the writing/storytelling/execution. Here on NMA, we focus a lot on the latter - it was ear-blisteringly awful, after all - but we focus on...

The line "My people are slaves" couldn't help reminding me of the Korean Animators from the Clerks Animated Series (skip to 1:00 if you just want to hear the quote): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ReoBPl4mM It's said in nearly the same tone of voice.

Hopefully, it means it's nothing like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGMfb60lc14 I could see this going either way. Animation could mean that he's taking an artistic approach to the movie (like A Scanner Darkly - though as pointed out earlier, it won't resemble A Scanner Darkly). Or...

That little 'zwip' sound you hear from a silenced pistol is the sound of the bullet's sonic boom. Mind you, in the case of a high-powered rifle, it would be a lot louder, and the weapon would be a lot less accurate. Like Wooz said, it's not very useful. It's like putting heavy armour...

Credit where credit's due - you can get into a conversation with some old man in Megaton about the Enclave. He thinks they're good (a priori), but since you're the PC you know they're evil. One of your dialogue options is "But isn't that why the founding fathers gave us the second amendment...

Nope, they're a greyish/brown... just like everything else.

"...but the radiation levels in there are through the roof!" "How radioactive is it?" "Let me put it this way - there's enough radiation in there to kill a SuperMutant." Problem solved. Honestly, that took five minutes for me to come up with - I gave up on the game weeks ago, and...

Oh, absolutely. I'm still waiting for my dream game to come out. When you hit start, a screen comes up saying 'You Win!' while an electrode zaps the pleasure centre of your brain. *Sigh* The whole point of gaming is frustration - in discrete, measured ammounts. You set up a series of...

Looking forward to it. Listen, to the scripters... I just got unemployed; if you need anyone to edit the writing, I'm largely free. References available on request.

One caveat - the first six pages of that article were clearly written by somebody who loved Fallout (or at the very least, did a great job researching what Fallout fans loved). As for the last two pages... well, I've got some friends in the industry,and they get far too excited about whatever's...

But does any of it matter? Quests: He argues (in regards to The Family, referencing The Power of the Atom) that the quests are simplistic, with a single solution which is OBVIOUSLY right, disregarding all deeper questions about true morality. I find, that if I've decided to play a good...

I'll say the same thing to you, that I say to anyone arguing politics or the economy - I blame the consumer.

You know, one thing you do have to say about Fallout 3, is that the load screen was well done... sure, the jokes were a over-campy, and the germanic heroism wasn't a traditional Fallout theme, but after a while it started to grow on you. If you can ignore the campy humour, and just watch the...

The setting followed the design logic. There's a reason the majority of RPGs are set in the medieval era. Times of lawlessness are the best settings for player choice. The real question is, where are all the Spaghetti Western RPGs? (Da-dada-Da-dada-Da-dada-Da-Da-dada-DUH!)

I honestly don't know how you can do this. I'm not speaking out of sheer stubborness, but versimilitude. Fallout 3 is such a mess of conflicting ideas and inconsistencies, how can you call it canon? Just pick and choose the parts you want to keep? Ignore the 200 year late Survival Guide...

It's funny, this is the second time I've read a developer's profile and thought, wait a second - this man, this genius - was part of the Fallout 3 team? Then I go back and read the first paragraph more closely, and realise that it's a developer from Fallout 1 or 2. Ah. That makes sense.

Has anybody tried entering Minefield with their weapon slung? I couldn't be bothered reloading to find out if that made any difference. I'm playing from a 'consequences be damned' perspective.

To play devil's advocate for a moment, I think what he's trying to say is that by easing the process of starting up an RPG - simpler number crunching, simpler interface, a bit of hand-holding - gamers who've never touched the RPG genre before might give it a shot and say "Oohh... hey, this is...

That was so groovy it was groovalicious!