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Probably something like 99% of the human population are raiders,, but they still count.

Without posting about Fallout games or their developers, I will say that I generally prefer everything to real-time first person, since that sort of thing gives me motion sickness after prolonged play (especially if I'm trying to navigate like building interiors or non-open spaces.) I spend...

So this is the Fallout game where the best result for the world is that you decline to play it?

The thing I have been thinking about is "what would have happened in the setting had the events driven by the player in the game simply not occurred." Like in Fallout 1, the Master's army would have taken over a good portion of California. In Fallout 2, Arroyo dies out and the Enclave poisons a...

There are two insects in the world that rate a 4 (the max) on the Schmidt sting pain scale: the bullet ant and the tarantula hawk. The stinger is an inch long, and it is used to paralyze large spiders so that the females can lay their eggs inside of the helpless spider. Thankfully the males...

Even if they had mastered the recipes it does feel like they're trying to make a swedish meatball tiramisu with a pulled pork ramos gin fizz on the side. Just because you can make four things really well, doesn't mean you don't have to consider whether they actually go together.

The issue though is that once the game goes gold, the time until the game is available for sale is basically based on how long it takes to manufacture, print, ship, stock, and shelve the game. There's no real incentive to waiting, but you can set aside some of the first handful of printed...

I think the Jet thing would be fixable *if* they had omitted pre-war references to the drug. It's conceivable that two people on two different parts of the continent both named a drug "Jet" because it was an upper that made you feel like you're going fast and/or flying (like uppers are apt to...

The one incident I ran into this feeling in NV was one game where I got to Cottonwood Cove fairly early in the game, said hi to Anders up on the telephone pole, then went off and did things for another 20 or so hours before getting to Red Rock and being asked to go get him down. It's not like...

A lot of the people who ended up disappointed in Fallout 4 actually enjoyed it quite a bit for a good number of hours at the beginning. I imagine that the structure of the professional review system work in Bethesda's favor here, since critics are up against a deadline to play enough of the...

I have played tabletop characters who I attempted to make surprised by the way they phrased things, it was pretty challenging, but it was fun. That's perhaps related to this. There's some fun to be had in knowing in advance the semantic content of what you're going to say ("I want to acquire...

The thing I like about the "special one" narratives in New Vegas (and also the original Fallout) is that it's not really due to any sort of destiny or unique characteristic about you, it's literally just that the player character just happens to be in the right (or wrong) place at the right (or...

I did like the bit where he talks to you for a while before you kill him. I recall that being more smartly written than I expected from Bethesda.

I think this is just an instance of whichever game is the most about "you are awesome, let's celebrate how awesome you are, what would you like to do right now oh awesome one" is going to collect some of the worst fans. That's not to say that everybody doesn't enjoy some of that feeling, but...

I think that if you're setting something in the post-apocalypse, you should probably limit the mutated animals to mutated versions of animals that either live in that region before the apocalypse, or could thrive in it afterwards. The thing about mutated insects/arachnids? Those animals are...

Games (and other piece of fiction really) aren't necessarily good (or bad) in ways beyond "this resonated with me in a manner I found meaningful or enjoyed" (or failed to do so.) We can dig and come up with reasons that we did or did not connect with things, but it ultimately reduces to "I...

I mean "the ghouls went insane from prolonged isolation and became hostile to outsiders" makes sense, particularly given that said isolation could easily last more than a normal human lifespan. But they really ought to have had some way to express their antipathy towards you besides running at...

It sort of seems like another instance of the BSG remake (which was great, but...) when they said "The Cylons... had a plan" the writers had absolutely no idea what said plan was, they just figured they would figure out what the plan was sooner or later before the plot got that far, but they...

It's not like they couldn't have just invented new mooks for us to shoot. It's not like Fallout 1&2 came loaded with Yao Guai, Cazadors, Tunnelers, Trogs, Nightstalkers, Bloatflies, Spore Carriers, *lurks, Swampfolk, etc. and most of those things fit in pretty well with existing canon or could...

I really wonder if Bethesda regrets blacklisting Kotaku, since as far as I've seen they've been as hard on Fallout 4 as any AAA hit except possibly Destiny (which really had it coming to be fair.) I mean, not that I doubt the sincerity of their writers, since Patricia Hernandez is someone who...