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I'd expect nothing less; only the very worst console ports lack those features.

But, in practice, it is an invisible wall. Surely it is much better to handle the barrier in a way that maintains the illusion that I have decided to turn back, or that some element of the ingame world has forced that choice upon. Invisible walls are nothing so much as the hand of god...

And chose to sneer at that, illustrating it with a quote which almost exactly didn't represent the broader point I was making. You appear not to have understood the difference between two different arguments. If A is true therefore B, is not the same as A is true therefore B. I stated...

Which is almost exactly not what you accused me of in your last post. Was that all they had? The dumbing down has nothing to do with what they've left in - clearly not. The dumbing down, in this case, comes via the careful pruning out of content other than those things you've listed...

It really isn't so funny... That assessment was predicated on acceptance of the apologist's explanation that invisible walls might have been implemented on behalf of those unable to cope with anything as subtle as visible walls. Note: I do not think that this is the case, as I clearly...

Don't throw that charge at me - I did no such thing. I have no absolute standards for depth in computer games. (I have happily spent hours wasting time playing on Wii Sports.) I have only two complaints with regard to depth in contemporary gaming; firstly, I'm irritated by the general...

Well, fine, but shouldn't those same people also take care to avoid seeking out forum discussions dedicated to examining those ideas? You have every right to argue that the comment about game-playing kiddies is wrong, but don't damn by innuendo those of us who want to discuss the game in...

But the argument isn't actually about suspension of disbelief, it is about the hypocrisy or inconsistency of Bethesda making appeals that a first-person perspective is required for immersion into the game world whilst simultaneously implementing the clumsiest and most intrusive form of map...

Re: Stop - STOP - Stop, Stop If You've Heard / Seen This Bef Wander off into the isometrically rendered wastelands, into uncertainty, facing only a sunset seen in long shadows and the nuclear-green tint of the light...? The moment that the naive Vault Dweller finally recognises that, for...

Which sounds extremely patronizing, and slightly incredible. Map boundaries are are a feature of almost every game in some form or another, and as such are familiar and intuitive to anybody who has played games. Invisible walls are a lazy substitute for design, and especially so with a...

Remember all of those other disappointments and terrible design decisions? It is a long list... Otherwise, people have given their reasons - don't ignore their reasoning and just accuse them of unwarranted negativity. It isn't even a Perk in the Fallout sense of the term, as far as I...

Dofus is crap, but mainly because it is underwritten (possibly just in the English language version, I suppose), was badly infested by harvest bots, and is poorly balanced. The combat works, but can be just as slow (and dull) as a fight with a cave full of rats with the slider set to...

Why? On the basis that we already know (suspect) it that it fails the test of verisimilitude, and should therefore revise our expectations? It should be judged first and foremost as what it claims to be - a sequel to Fallout. After that, if it fails to live up to the name, then I might...

Radiation Ltd. of London made cookers in the 1950-60s - my mother still has her own mother's Radiation 'Regulo' Cookbook, which brings a smile to my face when I see it... It is a horribly naive piece of branding, but it certainly exemplifies the positive connotations still attached to radiation...

Lots of scientists knew what genetic meant. The term genetics was popularized by William Bateson after he rediscovered Mendel's work around 1905, although the term had been in use in a different biological sense from the mid 1800s. Not so, the public. That I'd agree. The short-term effects...

Yeah, MCA nails it in the Bible, but remember that Chris Taylor and Tim Cain gave different explanations for the Ghouls. Depending on which source you consider to be authoritative, even Ghouls may not be radiation mutants.

The deleterious effects of ionizing radiation were well known about by the 1950s. It really was only pulp fiction authors who thought that ionizing-radiation was a beneficent source of superpowers. By the '50s, the FDA had been clamping down on quack radio- therapies for decades, notably after...

Fair enough, I really wasn't trying to represent some authoritative voice on the matter. Which is probably another reason to hope that Interplay thrives in some form. Still, hope has been just about the only positive commodity around here for some time, and there is little of that...

Circle jerk? I couldn't maintain wood in the presence of another man, if I tried. Perhaps I sounded a little contrary, though. Maybe two years is a long time, and some things change, but I'd like to think I've been pretty consistent (even if I didn't convey it). Titus/Interplay/Black Isle...

Er, what? They clearly are moving to generate revenue from their back-catalogue, but what is the problem there? Interplay is a company that once made great games, still has great IP, and could - barring the kind of stupid mismanagement that precipitated the entire crisis in the first...