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Hmm, I hadn't noticed that idiotic bit about the cash register before. If they just had to let the player know something in his stats had changed, why not do it with the interface? Just put a pop-up "gained karma/experience" text at the bottom of the dialogue screen and be done with it...

I like the concept of having different types of armor for different purposes without a single best all-around, so that choosing the more suited for your character becomes more than a no-brainer. However, the problem with this is that it A) kinda goes against established Fallout lore...

Oh look, it's a Pipboy 3000 replica. And it's a clock. Well, it looks good, and it's useful, unlike the bobblehead and lunchbox... Wait, they want $50 to $60 for this? Are they THAT high on their own ego? Hell, I wouldn't pay that much for this, much less for their rendition of the Pipboy...

It's looking pretty good so far, and if the dialogues and quests are well-written, I'd say it's easily worth the full $50. I'm not sure how shipping will be handled, though, so I may have to go for direct download. By the way, is that an eye of Horus on the last screenshot? Will there be an...

On the Hellboy topic I have to say that not only I found it a pretty good movie, but also lightyears ahead of most comic-to-movie adaptations out there (except Sin City, I guess). It certainly does more justice to the source material than that damn V for Vendetta or ANY of Alan Moore's work, for...

If you got that vibe from my post that Kyuu quoted, I meant it more like what Brother None said. I know full well that this Bethesda is not the same of yore and that both Arena and Daggerfall were good games, hence the "lobotomy" there. What irks me is that Pete and the whole of Beth's PR...

That punching bit is sort of an in-joke amongst NMA detractors, some poster here thought it would be funny (which it wasn't) and it ended up being quoted out of context by half the internet. I have very few quarrels with your article, as you openly admitted to not knowing the originals...

I think this whole debate is focusing on the wrong point, because a game's duration says very little about its quality. That is as true to Ultima as it is to Oblivion, as much as I like one and dislike the other. Truth is, there WAS much of that artificially inflated difficulty on older...

I like the weathered look of the "making of" cover and the lunchbox, very in keeping with the originals' manuals. That said, this damn "vault secure" picture of theirs stops me from actually liking the latter, which, uselesness notwithstanding, at least has colored versions of Vault Boy from...

I guess it wasn't possible for Ultima to do it a whole decade earlier. Heh.

On the topic of discussion and whining, I think that maybe people underestimate the power that online fan communities such as NMA or the Codex have, especially regarding the backlash to whatever news are presented. Sure, Bethesda will most certainly not change a single thing about their game...

That is really priceless coming from an employee of a company whose only work is giving a facelift and a lobotomy on the same game ever since Arena. Where are these so-called innovations on The Elder Scrolls series? When will we see an isometric turn-based TES sequel? These hacks used to...

I recall this radar-Perception bit being discussed before, though having actual confirmation is all the more saddening. Should the game use a GTA-style "radar" - as in an automap which is simply part of the GUI, being NEVER mentioned within the game - then this would be acceptable, since it...

Sigh. If this bit of info didn't piss me off to no end, I'd actually feel vindicated; so much for the "you're assuming too much" argument from the yaysayer crowd, who actually managed to twist the word "zap" into slang for punch. It seems it's radiation magic for us, after all. (By the...

Is the Incredible Hulk an orc? Because really, he's more akin to Fallout's super mutants than most current renditions of orcs, like the LotR movies, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, etc, who all look A LOT like Bethesda's design. That said, there are more cartoony depictions of orcs out there...

Wow, there's an actual cockroach in there. I missed it completely the first time around :shock:. I, for one, was talking about that crab-thing on the top-left, whose somewhat insect-like "tail" might have thrown me off. Don't mind the real cockroach at all, and honestly can't see why someone...

Well, not all is bad there. The leather jacket is cool, some of the equipment also, such as the VDU and the Nuka-Cola machine and maybe that thingie above the giant lawnmower/vacuum cleaner which I believe is the air purification gizmo from the vaults, plus the robobrain. The rest, however...

You do have a point there, but your jab was pretty unfair. Notice how every positive comment in this thread was because they didn't buy into the hype, while the preview's credibility was brought into question many times. That said, child-killing was present in the original (their purported...

Fair enough, it IS simply my perspective that both the setting and the music are somehow linked, and it may very well be wrong. I just don't see why it would be stupid to consider the musical style associated with the setting while the visual style, for an instance, is an integral part of...

It is orchestral, period, which is already by itself a big departure from the musical style associated with the setting. Also, "Main Theme", for a particularly significant instance, does take a turn for the epic, and really fast. Absolutely true. Then again, so wasn't the very setting, as...