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Oh, I'm sorry, I took your comment to be a sarcastic and scornful observation about FPP RT games, along with your thousand other remarks deriding FPP. Obviously you were casting "FPP RTWP" in a good light.

Bethsoft have a great opportunity to try to adapt the SPECIAL system to FPP real-time. If they pulled it off in an imaginative way, e.g. ensuring that a low perception really has an effect on the player's abilities in combat, then it will make for a very interesting game. I like the idea...

Given that character creation plays the same role in any game in which it's present (namely, it tends to be at the beginning of the game and thus shapes how you play the rest of the game) I would say that its role is pretty damn important. Key, you might say. I've already agreed that an RPG is...

Fair enough, point conceded. FOT "looks"? As in, your opinion?

I agree to an extent, but an opinion is neither inherently valid nor invalid. It is not governed by fact and so cannot be 'wrong'. Can you point me to something which backs this up? I just find the concept of deciding upon game mechanics before deciding upon a storyline strange. Surely the...

As regards NMA's reputation and whether or not it's deserved: I agree, for the most part, that NMA's news section is fairly impartial. The preview of Fallout 3 was perhaps needlessly bitchy in parts and overly picky, but aside from this the articles are informative and enjoyable to read...

Fair enough, though John Cleese's voice work was stellar and Brian Doyle Murray turned in a decent performance. Yes, the facial expressions weren't great, but I'm obviously not as much of a perfectionist as you are. The storyline was very good, with a nice twist, and the combat was satisfying if...

I'm an English teacher, if that goes any way to assuaging your concerns about my poor vocabulary. I reiterate, and this is partially backed up by your dictionary quote: "alright" is not correct. This whole fiasco stems from the simple fact that you attempted to claim that my vocabulary was...

Really? I thought Jade Empire was a good game. In terms of conveying emotion- there simply aren't all that many games that deal with emotion on a very deep level. Even if the graphics do not manage to convey it, decent voice acting can. A blatantly hyperbolic assessment of the situation...

I would maintain the optimistic outlook that it's still too early to write Fallout 3 off.

Nice flame. We're just going to have to disagree on this and move on. Repeating what you've already said isn't really a counterpoint either. As for New Coke: see Diet Coke.

Obviously the NPC's of Oblivion are no better, with their unrealistic facial expressions and generic voices, but Bethsoft have stated that there is a much smaller number of NPC's in Fallout and that they are working to make them as unique as possible. The old cliché "a picture is worth a...

I don't get the big fuss about the loss of text descriptions. They are utterly superfluous in this day and age, and they were used in the past out of necessity. In Fallout, you had about ten different character models for men and even less for women, and the only way to differentiate between...

There are a great many words included in the dictionary that technically stray from 'correct' English, but are included for the sake of completeness. "Alright" is one such word. Your own assertion is your opinion, not fact. I could just as easily claim that it is "bullshit", but I happen to...

No, it is not. "Alright" may be frequently used and is listed in some dictionaries as an 'informal' equivalent, but it is a misspelling whose use is propagated by certain authors using it. It's still the same company, which is entirely relevant. If the original developers got hold of the...

Ad hominem attacks are for cool, interesting people with style. By the way, "alright" is not a real word. Clearly your grasp of English spelling and grammar is lacking. I suppose your writing style is all right, though. If my question is so "silly", by all means don't bother to answer it. I...

You know, the assumption that console users are mindless sheep that take any old shit dumped on their plate is rather prejudiced and ignorant. We can't all afford to spend two month's wages on a super PC that will play new releases for a year at best, and buying/playing a console doesn't make us...

All right- allow me to pose a question I've already posed: had Fallout 3 not included character creation, would you have accepted that, or would you have lambasted the decision at length?

Fair enough, I didn't realise I had written that. Allow me to rephrase: character creation is key to RPG's. I didn't say that it did, but you seem to have formed an opinion of me, namely that everything I say is wrong, and nothing seems to change that. Such games are often stated to have...

Well said, WarmMachineME. I can't say I entirely agree with your opinion of us console users, but aside from that I agree with your points. The inclusion of your father in this game is, if anything, a rather interesting choice. The vast majority of RPG protagonists with any form of...