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To be honest I don't think having a buggy game is nearly as serious as any of the defects you listed as examples. Bethsoft do it because they can, I guess. If people didn't buy products with these flaws, Bethsoft would be forced to fix them.

Positives, then: the supermutants looked good - not like the orcs I feared. The parts that don't stand out are like that because they feel natural and Falloutish. The environments... the ghouls looked good... The trench warfare looked OK - the explosions etc (but the fatman - ugh. Considering...

Finished watching them. The way the enemies simply don't show any physical reaction to weapons fire is irritating to say the least. That sort of thing shouldn't be in games in 2008 :/ Anyway, my overall impression is one of not being particularly moved either way. Certainly not a 'OMG that...

Watching the first now. The supermutants don't show the slightest reaction to being hit by sustained minigun fire. It looks... bad. So hoping the game works well in areas other than combat (visuals). EDIT: Watching the BOS one now. Is it just me or do people move too quickly when compared...

Because it'd sound like something from Star Wars. Still, something's failed somewhere when you have to explain a joke.

Count your blessings. It could have been 'May the Steel be with you'.

I watched 20 seconds or so of footage before stopping due to spoilers - but the part I saw were rad roaches attacking someone in Vault 101. The woman's response to being attacked was to go 'Arg!' 'What's going on?' 'Arg!' 'Arg!' 'What's going on?' 'Arg!' 'What's going on?' I wanted to shoot...

I like the music in the video. Going by this it seems the composer has done a pretty good job.

I like that 'lie that you've done what was asked of you' thing. Very much so. The evil fingers thing seems strange in light of this - why can't I kill good guys and take their fingers and claim they're from bad guys?

If the Sheriff going to face off the bad guy alone is in character for the Sheriff, cool. You're right, it demonstrates unpredictability and NPC independence. But if it's just something completely random - well, then it grates a little. If it's a WTF moment, for instance... you'd have thought...

I'm not sure about the Sheriff dying thing. As I understand it, you can warn him about the guy in the bar, after which he'll run to the bar for a showdown, which he is scripted to lose. The player apparently is given no hints that this will be the consequence of his action - as I said, I'm...

The arguments have been thrashed out pretty well here, so I won't repeat them. Suffice to say I think this karma grind, the mechanics that scream 'you're in a game!!' to accommodate it (eg. the 72 hour reset) are, to me, the single worst feature(s) in the game. Fatman and so on are quirks; this...

It's obvious the karma system is core to the game and we're going to have to work with it, but I know I'll be thinking to myself, 'how does this guy know I'm so good/evil?', as well as when I commit an act, 'will this drop my karma?' (not to mention: 'who's defining this act as good/evil?')...

I still feel that, regardless of the talent at the studio, it's the execs forcing them to develop a game in a genre that really doesn't suit it. Fallout's is a sparse world, yet the nature of an MMORPG is that you bump into someone every couple of seconds. Unless they come up with a really...

Will keep an eye on this but Fallout and MMO remain two things I can't imagine going that well together. Perhaps a huge, huge vault filled with a million people opens its doors and they all spill into the wasteland...

Lawbringer sounds stupid. They're taking the poor karma system to new levels of WTFness. Suspension of disbelief doesn't cover some guy somehow knowing that you're presenting him with an evil finger. I agree with Ausir, this ranks with fatman. It just doesn't make sense. On the positive...

Ah, OK, knew it was along those lines :) But Todd's the 'head guy' really, isn't he?

He's not the greatest speaker in the world. He's a bit nerdy. To be honest, I don't care - do you? I'm interested in what he has to say, and really I don't think his geekishness is so terrible that they shouldn't allow their lead designer speak in public. I really can't see it costing them...

I bet all the posters on NMA are manly men and not geeky or nerdy at all. Bullies would run scared from your bulging muscles and you all probably had sex when you were, like, 8, right? My point being, laying into a guy for the way he speaks or looks isn't particularly clever or funny, nor...

Have to say I'm having a lot of fun with this. The advantages of having money to spend, I suppose - a smaller dev studio would never have been able to do this sort of thing. I imagine the budget will raise the game's quality in a similar way as well (though the core game has to have a quality...