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It would've been much more interesting if they had entered some moral slippery ground in the Megaton-bomb quest. For example, you could show Megaton off as a cesspool of corruption and amorality, enter an occasional murder, perhaps a scripted lynching, lots of theft, lying bastards, quests...

God that is some funny stuff there on that wiki page. What strikes me as particularly ironic is the fact that most of these 'RPG' ways of playing the game are roundabouts and excuses for people who don't like certain of the gameplay elements Bethesda added/removed. The entire section about...

Blowing up a settlement better have some serious repercussions at some point and not just end at 'You've lost karma'. Sure, you could go the apologist-route and say 'but hardly anyone knows you did it! and nobody will tell!' but that's just saying 'we went the easy route, you get lots of...

Hell, you don't even have to enter the realm of RPG's nowadays anymore to be treated to gorgeous, nice or at the very least adequately designed faces; anatomically correct movements; actual facial expressions. Even the FPS genre found out that having a stone with a face painted on it was not a...

I'm getting the impression that their site can't handle the traffic. I'm in the Netherlands, there's no option to click that country, so I just went with the UK like I always do. Either that or they've made a retarded version (perhaps just for me). With stutter I mean the sound. There's...

Is it supposed to stutter like hell? Firefox says the site is fully loaded and I doubt a relatively new PC shouldn't be able to handle a site. Where did they get the idea that 50's TV technology could 'lag' the way computers do nowadays? And what's with all the static? A bit of that, sure...

Ah, The Witcher. Great game but it might have some less-than-good thingies. Well, depending on whether you like 'em or not. For example, some parts of the game, especially side quests, make you feel like you're playing a single-player MMORPG. But the atmosphere, the story, the music, the...

I usually don't like nitpicking but that 'blinding' effect was just the screen going white for an awkwardly long time. And the feeling was also pretty much destroyed through the fact that you went through a loading screen. Compare it to Half Life 2, where certain tunnels that end up bringing you...

Holy shit, somebody else apart from me actually played and liked Anachronox? God that was some great/weird/wacked game. I mean, it had a freaking planet as a playable character. A planet you first actually played on. Oh and I'm sorry that I haven't got anything useful to add to this topic...

Yep, Zeitung, like in 'die Bild-Zeitung' which is probably the most horrible conglomeration of news articles you'll ever find in a published piece of paper. At least in Germany. Luckily I haven't seen one of those assorted pieces of waste in quite a while. And 'Zeitgeist' is just one of...

You know what, I'd love it if a game wouldn't judge me at all. And with this I mean, that the game wouldn't judge me. The world the game tries to somewhat simulate may judge me however strongly, weirdly and even unjustly as it wants. Now that I think about it, I don't want to know what my...

I’ve found some time while eating to translate some interesting snippets of the second article. It’s pretty clear it’s written by an old-time gamer, knowing his Fallout. OnlineWelten Then the article goes into the history of the RPG post-apoc genre. Pretty interesting, and a nice touch...

I'll give it a shot to translate the most interesting parts of those German articles. I'll only translate what I haven't seen come across here too often. Krawall Gaming Network I cannot say for sure whether he means there is no anti-aliasing possible (remember Oblivion? If you had the...

Hello fellow historian! Historical accuracy was actually why I quit watching Rome. Now, not because it wasn't as historically accurate as I wanted. No, it was because once I watched the first some episodes I found out that my knowledge of ancient history had become rusty, so I went back to...

Half Life 2, again. I've started playing through Half Life and Half Life 2 because I'll finally be buying the Orange Box. I've already played some Portal at a friends place and I've waited far too long for this gem. But I holding back the good stuff for later. Also, Fallout 1. Just fun to...

And the minstrel would be able to eloquently sing and praise your exploits, especially while valiantly running away from a three-headed-knight. If a radio and radio stations are such a bad idea, why not have a minstrel in Fallout 3? Of course, the minstrel must be edible. "In the frozen...

I definitely have to say that part of what changed wasn't just the games but me as well yes. Time becomes so much more valuable when getting older. Suddenly, when I'm gaming a few hours, I find myself unable to do things planned, like running a few miles, reading up on some good history books...

The First World War kind of taught the world how things ended if you punish a country after a war but not do it absolutely perfectly right. They basically left Germany too strong not to be a threat but weakened it too much not to be felt by the people and used by the politicians of their times...

Now, I’m not that much of an old-timer, I’m ‘just’ 23. But I’ve got a great bottle of whiskey next to me and I’ve got this incredible urge to rant on about ‘the olden days’ like some ancient demented person. So if you got bored from too long conversations in RPG’s, don’t try to read through my...

My favourites kind of change depending on the mood. Though this hardly ever means it changes from the category whiskey, it just changes within that category. Right now it's that bottle of 9 year old Bunnahabain I haven't opened in a while. Top class stuff when it comes to peat. Natural...