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I wouldn't go as far as Daggerfall, but the way Bethesda is stripping their series of any content as of late will likely result in just that, a pure LARP simulator. But I do wonder if that isn't a consequence of their pandering to the largest audience possible instead of an anti-design...

Where does the teaser being released fall in there? Because that was about the only time when I thought they might actually pull it off. Damn, the few weeks after that were a bitch. But that's something of a Pollyanna approach, isn't it? Maximizing one's personal enjoyment of something in...

It gets a little worse, actually. [spoiler:8de50735fc]This sort of cult that forms around Harold, what with him making the soil fertile again for plants in his surroundings, call themselves the "Treeminders". I shit you not. Don't know if he can still speak or has become a full-fledged...

I really don't get this kind of stuff. Did the franchise get stigmatized by the most jarringly silly stuff in Fallout 2 or something, that most people think the humor in it should be the same kind you might expect from Earthworm Jim? [spoiler:18df37b244]The whole Harold/Bob becoming a mutated...

Sorry Emil, but having a difficulty slider does not make a system less broken. Now, I don't know wether it is unbalanced or not, but this is a pretty lame excuse coming from one of the devs themselves, akin to "if you don't like it, ignore it". Were that not the very same MO that spawned...

Say what? Even if one was to accept this premise about RPGs being more plentiful nowadays (which just might be true, considering how anything can and will be labeled as one only God knows why), the fact is that both Fallouts managed to stand out among some of the best games ever for the genre, a...

Sure, but this kind of PR stunt is symptomatic of one of the biggest issues with the gaming industry nowadays. We've all seen how lackluster and plain lazy their product is by now, what with most all the flaws being carried over from Oblivion despite their constant reassuring us that they...

Sure, but just because the setting draws from a lot of silly sources for flavour doesn't mean that anything goes. Granted, the Family is not on the same level of ludicrousness as, say, the AntAgonizer, but my point is that it still steers much closer to Fallout 2 (which had a lot more slapstick...

Ah, but therein lies the problem: Fallout wasn't silly, at least not overtly so. This kind of addition Bethesda is making to the franchise can only be compared to some of the most blatant nonsense that made it to FO2, which is exactly what they claimed to be avoiding. Thanks, but even if...

Sure, but why make their delusions so damn silly? I think it could have been awesome to have a town with only deranged people living like the war never happened; the world is in shambles around them but they all ignore it believing it's still that 50's utopian stuff. As it is, it sounds less an...

Well, there's a spoiler tag now, so fire away. [spoiler:8e575d0352]I think this "family" stuff is dumb as shit, too. Wether they're real vampires or just wannabes, I can't see this stuff belonging in Fallout.[/spoiler:8e575d0352] The main issue isn't about realism, I guess, but that it...

That sounds more inspired by the Sierra Army Depot than the Glow, to me. Still, sounds like an interesting location. Well, that settles the radiation/mutation debate. Indeed just a quest reward.

My expectations already couldn't get any lower with regards to content, but this killed them off on the gameplay department as well. This damn thing is exactly like Oblivion with a pause system tacked on. Third person still looks like shit, I'd say improvements from their last attempt were...

I think this here might be the most important part of that Edge interview: Still, can't say I'm not disappointed by this. Not because I expected him to spew bile all over the game, something that would obviously be unprofessional, but because I really thought that designers as good as him...

Both are defense mechanisms against the fact that reality is a bitch. As a matter of fact I do. What do you expect me to base my judgement prior to wasting 60 bucks on it? The non-existing demo? It is all the more damning, to me, that the info we do have, the info they chose to release as...

How about debating this argument's merit instead of pointing out its existence or popularity as if that alone invalidates it? This game is called Fallout, yet shares precious little with the series, not only in terms of gameplay - which is, according to its very creators, not me nor any other...

In Fallout 3, a straight tone? Really? So far we have the AntAgonizer/Mechanist/Roach King bullshit, a vampire-wannabe maffia who seems to think that pretending to drink blood is more important than gathering food or resources, mini-nukes galore, a gun that shoots teddy bears and another that...

Holy shit, someone please tell me my eyes are failing me. Is this for real? And it's an actual quest, apparently even a major one for its location, instead of perhaps the world's most fucking stupid easter egg ever? Maybe after battling the AntAgonizer with my teddy bear gun I can drink from...

I tend not to like invisible walls, all the more in this case because it is clearly another unfortunate byproduct of the move to FP perspective, but adding a bit of flavor to the text could really do wonders to improve it. Since "immersion" plays such a huge role for Bethesda, one has to...

Heh. This never gets old. What? Shouldn't that read "Rad-Away"? Hope it's just a previewer screw-up and they didn't merge the two chems. Also, that mutation thing sounds to me like a reward for that particular quest instead of a radiation-related gameplay feature, since the shopkeeper sends...