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I'd think "they didn't bother to check around the immediate vicinity of their home at any point in the last 200 years" is even more implausible than "ghouls don't need to eat or breathe."

I imagine it will be more like the stuff in Point Lookout where you swam down into the submarine, or the crashed ship, or the cave with air in it that you can only get to through an underwater entrance. The "whole underwater city" idea is probably too big for a DLC.

The problem is that if you're going underwater, and you don't move noticeably slower than you do on land that's going to feel very unrealistic. So if you're going to do it right, "underwater gameplay" isn't going to be as dynamic or exciting as shooting people in the air. So it's mostly...

Because if all you want out of the game is the old shoot and loot, then there's a good time to be had. Also, if you get really into base-building, there's some fun to be had there. So you can't really deny that people who enjoy the game *for those reasons* are justified in enjoying it. It's...

They could cheat and just rework the perk system to be a skill system in all but name. I mean, 10 perks per skill, subdivide it into 2 sub-perks, and you have 20 points of granularity. Since New Vegas never had any skill checks that were not multiples of 5, a 20 point scale is enough to...

If nothing else, Bethesda's going to be able to churn out a Fallout 4 DLC pack much quicker than anybody who hasn't been working with the Fo4 engine for years has. If they actually wanted to appeal to the old school/NV fans all they need to do is put "Written by Chris Avellone" on the trailer...

It does seem really weird that in the post-Bethesda Fallout we have characters with British, Irish, Russian, and New Zealand accents (among others) but post-apocalyptic Massachusetts is strangely lacking in Boston accents. Even just a humorous quest where someone asks you to find the "cah...

This is a thing because people think "this piece of fiction is good or bad in some sort of objective sense" which never made any sense when you drill down on it. Like the value of fiction is to entertain you, make you feel something, or make you think about something. Whether it succeeds or...

I guess that this is basically because there's no accountability on Youtube, really, and there's no traditional barrier between advertising and editorial ("the chinese wall"). I mean, if you're Johnny-Random Youtuber and you take a deal to say only positive things about a game in exchange for...

I sincerely doubt that any video game publisher engages in any sort of bribery of anybody for positive impressions from the press. The potential damage from the fallout if that sort of thing if it came to light would far outweigh any sort of potential gain you would get from the good scores or...

Why would anybody think that critic reviews meant something? A review is ultimately nothing more than "one person gives their opinion on a thing they spent time with, and attempts to justify and explore that opinion." That people have different (and often irreconcilable) opinions on books...

It's not like they can't come back. My sense was that Avellone left mostly because he was doing more work for people other than Obsidian than he was for his employer. I figure the likelihood of the canon NV endings are: 1) Yes Man 2) NCR, 3) House, 4) Legion.

I think it's fine to make a game in which certain conflicts are resolved by challenges to the player's skill, but have that still be meaningfully a roleplaying game because the game is designed to legitimately change based on your input both in terms of action and dialogue. Like if a game had...

It honestly depends on the character I'm playing. Some characters would prefer to go the diplomatic route, since it causes more long-term harm; some characters would prefer the diplomatic route because it avoids direct confrontation; some characters would prefer the diplomatic route because it...

Well, prior to basically the 7th generation of consoles "RPG" meant one thing on PC ("it's a licensed D&D game!") and a completely different thing on consoles ("A whiny androgynous teenager saves the world!"). With games like Oblivion and Mass Effect landing early on in Gen 7, there was a bit...

I think a thing we need to keep in mind about the resurgence of sub-AAA but polished games from talented studios (like Wasteland 2) is that because InXile is not beholden to a corporate master as publisher, they're really not under much pressure to churn out games as fast as they can. As long...

This is all relative isn't it? Like in the grand scheme of things, almost no video games are well-known, but when you restrict to subcultures that changes. We're in a place as a culture where "pop culture" is more fragmented than it's ever been anyway, and this trend has no signs of slowing...

Bethesda has published three Fallout games, and has sold 10m+ of each, I doubt they're looking to sell it, and if they were the asking price would be astronomical (to the point where the only people who could afford it and would be inclined to play would be like EA and Ubisoft). It's more...

As a game, very little. It's a good game, but it suffers from a lot of overcorrection to the rough edges for its predecessor's mechanics. Like the first game had a poor inventory system, so Mass Effect 2 just drops the inventory system entirely. It caught a lot of flak from RPG purists...

You *can* do a dialogue wheel where you get different choices that lead to different places. You will probably want more than four options, and descriptions that are more helpful than a couple of words, and a game that has a lot more verbs than "shoot" and "loot", but it can be done. I mean...