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I'm surprised no one's mentioned the "Used Car Salesman" special encounter from the first game. One of your responses to him is "Sure, I'll buy a car - as long as you toss in a full tank of gas." I've always filed the Fusion-cell powered Highwayman under 'suspension of disbelief'. It made...

Heh, that reminds me of when I got my brother to play Fallout. The guy's a bit of a spaz, and when Vault 15 didn't answer any questions (he didn't even bother stopping in Shady Sands) he got pissy and quit playing. These kids nowadays. Not enough beatings, I reckon.

Note: by "really pissed off" for murdering her father in front of her eyes, when she's stuck out her neck to help you against his wishes, what they mean is she tells you in a monotone that "It will take a while for me to forgive you." Later on, you meet a man at the bar who asks each passerby...

Honestly, these are some of the worst gore graphics I've ever seen. Every single time a head gets shot, it breaks off at a weird 70* angle. Instant immersion killer. I see the awkward angle, then the flat stump and arterial sprays reminiscent of GTA3, and I can't help thinking about how the...

It really trumps the notion of using a number to describe a game. Really, a game should be either good or bad, how do you 'measure' the quality in any sort of objective manner? Oh, wait, you don't - that's why we're getting 8's and 9's. I'm looking forward to getting some honest reviews -...

That's an almost direct quote of this guy: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/37-Mailbag-Showdown, amalgamated from a few of his video; a game reviewer who actually is smart and cynical - attributes which are the new 'Maddox' of the internet, with everybody trying to...

Don't forget - while they cut out the images of children, they were still there; enabling you to get the 'Childkiller' trait without even realizing it. Thank you, censors. I would've hated being offended by something.

Honestly, I don't find that too surprising. Given that they're targeting two main groups - FPS console kiddies, and Fallout/RPG fans, they only run a risk of alienating either group by focusing on it at all. The first group is largely illiterate, and the ones that aren't might only be...

Different game, different patter; suspension of disbelief. When the world-map time counter is flipping from day-to-night, and I imagine how long my journey's lasting, then the occasional encounter seems normal - and even then, retard-hostile Ghouls were an exception. You had a better chance...

I can already see it - Fallout 4: Super Smash Party.

These 'Exclusive Interviews!!!11!' are driving me to new, profound depths of cynicism. Back in the day, I'd found the Glowing One ghoul perk (from Fallout Tactics, I think) an amusing tongue-in-cheek joke, that played well with of Fallout's Science! - it was on par with the silliness of some...

I'll give you an example of what bothers me about it. Early on in the first season, the town of Jericho is realizing that they need to restructure the economy; the American Dollar doesn't have the value it once did, there's no supply of gasoline coming in, and most jobs that people had before...

Wait a minute, Season 2 was only seven episodes long? Goddamnit. I left off at S2E5 a couple weeks ago; I thought that there would be plenty more coming. I'll agree with the Dawson's Creek/24 analogies - but it was still a hell of a lot better than most of the pap on television. Maybe if...

You're completely right. You're creating a character, not immersing yourself. Otherwise, what's the point of have an 'Evil' character path availabe? For the population of evil people out there, who buy the game? Immersion is what happens in Half Life - where you really feel like are are...

Hmm... You might just be right. That would explain the coal shuttle on the chest. From the looks of it, she's asian. Yeah. I'd hit it. EDIT: I'm no good with this HTML stuff. R-click, view image. Sorry team.

If you stare at the pic for a while, it's not the head that's out of proportion. The Paladin inside is just really skinny. Damn near immaciated. Maybe he got worms from all that toilet water?

Have you ever fired one? Well, I haven't either. But my section commander on my Gunner course had - and he said it was the longest fifty rounds of his life. .50 cal rounds are for penetrating light-armoured vehicles - it's even against the Geneva Convention to use them as antipersonnel...

If I remember correctly,* it's based on the D20 system. Those that disliked it (including myself) primarily disliked it because, well, D20 sucks. Especially since Fallout was inspired by GURPS (well, I think it was GURPS; either that, or one of the other PNP systems that didn't stroke the...

They could have learned enough during a day of research on the Fallout wiki to fake this interview - and maybe even fake a Fallout game. But they didn't. I'm beginning to think they just don't care. :shock: Just for the record though, so I'm not mistaken for a rabid Fallout fan, I'll...

Hell no, I didn't, but I don't think that's a fair comparison. BoS wasn't remotely good. At all. In fact, it was so sub par that I never even heard of it - at the time I was plugged into Penny Arcade, but didn't know about this site yet. Hell, I didn't even find out about BoS until six...