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I have to agree here, it is more interesting when the choice of armour isn't clear cut, but I'm not sure that works within Fallout's established world, where Power Armour is inherently superior to everything.

That's not really fair. I can't think of any FPSs that measure weapons that simplistically, if at all. For instance, even with Doom, it's ludicrous to try and compare the chainsaw, shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher, plasma gun and BFG with a single value, because they all serve a different...

Regardless of any other logical reasoning, the ghouls you see up close in the Fallout's don't have shiny skin, so I'd say, yeah they look pretty wrong.

Another thing to note about Fallout's "feral" ghouls, is that they were pathetic and useless in a fight. Ultimately, getting in a fight with them is like getting in a fight with kids - you're supposed to feel bad about it, especially in context of stealing the glowing ghouls water supply...

The collection (1, 2, Tactics) is still available in Australia, my housemate bought a copy for his girlfriend last week. I high fived him.

And, the two at the entrance speak to you. They also speak if you take the waterchip: But hey, talking zombies would be confusing, it's better this way.

See, this is why I fucking hate Bethesda. Do they really need to be so utterly transparent when they're ripping off other games? I've already got the "Cache Checker" achievement in Half-Life: Episode 2. Give me something new, you fucks. Also, if it weren't for the powerlines, the shot of the...

God, if a fun quest gets boring after 20 playthroughs, imagine what an Oblivion quest must be like after 20 playthroughs...

Is the 200+ endings bit really that hard to get your head around? I'd hate to think of the reaction these guys would have had to the 40+ billion unique combinations for custom vehicles in Need For Speed Underground or Juiced. Does the lack of the word "combinations" in Bethesda's hype really...

Hmm, anyone remembering their whole "good-neutral-evil" guff? I'm thinking Megaton will have: Player Diffused Bomb Ending, Player Did Nothing Ending, Player Blew Up Megaton Ending - and other major settlements will have the same sort of shit. You don't have to multiply 3 by itself very many...

I really loved the first half, especially the Brotherhood spreading lies about plains of food and letting the more disposable population do their work. It really fits with my impression of the Brotherhood as not particularly nice guys, or at least not "good guys". The idea of gaining the...

I enjoyed this one. Even though I think the whole schism thing is a bit overused in context of the BOS, I like the ideology that reeks of isolationism and elitism, and the idea of actually mentioning the various chronicles of a story far too vast to be contained within a short piece was a nice...

For anyone who cares, I started out wanting to avoid any kind of schism. It seems to happen all too often with the Brotherhood - mainly because if they stick to their guns, they're probably never going to leave the Lost Hills bunker. Which led to the next idea - that they'd need a reason to...

Yeah, I definitely tried to do a bit much, only to lead toward a fairly simplistic ending. I could have used the same "twist" in a more focused, and less roundabout way. On reflection, "meh" is probably overly harsh. They were all good, I just thought Kirby's was great.

The only difference I can see between what he considers an archetype and a stereotype is that stereotypes are "more often than naught (sic), offensive". The jive-talking token black guy is just as boring as the badass space marine or the seductive sorceress because they're all overused and...

I really dig Kirby Go's entry. It's pretty unique, and has a real character to it. Best of all, the actual premise of a bunch of thugs usurping the Brotherhood's name for their own means really works for me. The other two were a bit "meh" to me, but they beat my entry, so thumbs up. :clap:

Author's Notes: I wanted to avoid the shitfight of trying to decide what of Fallout 2 was canon and what was a bad joke, so I pick up where Fallout left off. The Aftermath With the Master's army defeated and scattered eastward, the wasteland enjoyed relative peace and gradual prosperity...

I've always thought this is a great strength of turn and phase based systems (phase based particularly) - the fact that the execution of actions is compartmentalised away from actually interacting with the game. You can cut between cameras, apply post-process filters, play with rate of motion -...

They should have a uterus gib that you can pick up with the gravity gun and then have a conversation with.

That's pretty much because it's more fun to make those shots yourself. There's a certain charm to diving through a doorway in Max Payne and using bullet time to kill four guys before they can even get the drop on you. It's gratifying that your skill as a player is what gets you through...