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Geez. How did a thread about Oscuro working on a new Fallout title get derailed into arguing about Slof? Since I've been playing with OOO as part of FCOM for a while now, I must say that I'm pleased Jorge will be working on a Fallout game. He has impressive experience and success using the...

Killap, you'd better get this out before Alpha Protocol is released! I don't have enough gaming time to divide up that many ways. :P Misteryo

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Yeah... I think I remember just the guy you're talking about. Came into town not too long ago.

It's partly because of the shift from text to graphics. In a text-based game, the cue, "You see a heavy-set man," becomes useful info because the phrase remains specific, while not giving his exact name. So, you can ask the smith down the block about the "heavy-set man." In contrast, in a...

I guess I don't understand you at all. Who tried? Bethesda? They paid money for voice acting that stinks. The voice actors? Who cares if they tried? Because they stink. And, Bethesda did indeed dump money without much thought into the writing, too, which is why it also stinks. As to...

Just listen to the Redguard smith in Oblivion's Imperial City say, "A pleasure to serve you." It's a standard shopkeeper's line, not some poorly written piece of drivel. And the voice actor says it likes a come-on in a 70s porn movie. You can complain about Bethesda's writing - I won't argue...

I think the movie should be planned from the start to be multi-parted, at least a trilogy, and the entire first part would be: Maybe, performed by Jack White Gene Hackman as the Overseer, giving the opening speech 83 minutes of Jake Gyllenhaal as the Vault Dweller fighting rats in a dark cave...

I agree wholeheartedly with this. Funny, I blame it on it being difficult and time-consuming to create complex, branching, consequence-laden gameplay choices. As much as I bitch about they lack of good moral/karmic systems in games, have you ever looked at the dialogue files in, for...

I would favor a reputation system over an abstract moral standing system. Divide player actions into two groups: global and local. Global actions are knowable to almost all of the npcs in the gameworld (perhaps with a time-delay to simulate news spreading). These would be actions like saving...

In this case, I would, because uninstalling and then reinstalling OpenOffice is going to take far less time than identifying the problem. Also, more than likely, the problem will go away after clean install. Plus, you don't lose any data uninstalling, so why not? Misteryo

Try uninstalling/reinstalling? Sounds like something got corrupted. Misteryo

Killap has accomplished more for the players of this game than probably anyone else. So, no, your track record of nothing accomplished at all doesn't fly here. Misteryo

Yeah, making armor out of dogmeat would be cool. Misteryo

Are you talking about real and actual bum fights? Either videos of hooligans beating up homeless bums for fun and laughs, or videos of homeless bums forced/bribed to beat each other for other people's fun and laughs? If that's what you're talking about, and if that's what you watch for...

GM: Okay, everybody got their notes from last session? We're in the courtroom, and the judge is hearing arguments. Bethesda: I accuse Interplay of marketing new material that is damaging to my franchise! GM: [rolls dice] hmmm... You failed your intelligence check, there. Looks like the...

I've never acquired the best armor in the game. Misteryo

The end areas of Arcanum (Tulla, Vendigroth, the Void) were certainly emptier and less interesting than the rest. But, tell the truth, that's a pretty common flaw of rpgs in general and of Troika games in particular. I wonder, though, if the letdown at the ending has to do with the...

I place Arcanum higher on my own personal list, simply because I've logged more time on that game than probably any other. I don't think I've enjoyed the character generation of any game more. Also, there are more delightfully perfect moments in Arcanum than any other rpg I can think of: the...

BN, I'm really enjoying this. Well-examined and -articulated lists of personal favorites bring to light things that even well-examined and -articulated lists of "the best" don't. Objective measuring of which games "do it better" can be useful, but I always think that real creative progress...