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Let's see. I'd support Caesar's Legion except: - It's still not Rome. I'd support it if it had a functioning society behind it. Don't give me that "thesis and antithesis" crap: Own up and build it or get out of Dodge. - The slavery theme is excessive and trite. They had the opportunity to take...

Does this mean I can't pitch that nation-building forum RPG even if I do finish it? Shit.

New Vegas is swell until you hit the wall and realize the game is over. There are only so many combinations, so many outcomes, and like F3, there are plenty of broken and dead-ending quests, pointless story arcs that have fudged endings, and ultimately the big elephant in the room: Invisible...

Imma let you finish, but I just gotta say: I finally got off my arse and installed a bunch of survival mods for F3, and if I totally ignore the plot and act out a wasteland scavenger or raider, it's pretty damned good. Question there is: Can you really call it F3?

Then what exactly is the difference or distinction between something serious and not serious? "The game's central story" has always been weighty and cohesive across the whole series, focusing on straightforward themes of what it means to be human, the lengths people with ideologies are willing...

I guess I'm the only one who took things like aliens and ghosts as metaphor for "weird folk stories people spread in the wasteland." Your character could be tripping balls for all you know; games have established narratives, whether you want your character in them or not. So when aliens abduct...

More character-focused than landscapes, eh? Too bad, I've taken quite a number of "vista" screencaps by clipping to places I'm not supposed to.

Consider the ramifications of an RPG based on stat bloat: You fight like mad to get exceedingly rare power armor. If that power armor is uber-powerful, then your stats have been 'bloated.' You could not get any more... bloaty. Theoretically you just beat the game, and the rest is all motions...

So far I've gone to Hell and back trying to work around this junk. Suffice it to say that I grew too attached to NPCs I spawned in as companions, and these references are not permanent, and therefore require a huge amount of babying to keep them with me. For that matter, I'm running into places...

Considering the western wastelands have been considerably settled by 2281, agreed. The Brotherhood looks more like a clan of kooks hiding in the hills next to organized nation-states, and citizens of those nation-states tend to grouse at their position in the pecking order, suggesting they don't...

Not only did they fail to tweak any number of existing 50's and 60's designs that could have easily become Fallout-esque (F-107, Thunderscreech, X-13, 14, 19, etc.) but they directly copied an aircraft part for part, and at that a 1940's jet, with guns, that was land-based, and stuck it on a...

I could see Tunnel Snakes being turned into a barber shop chain... What? Nobody else can see that?

I specifically said he 'should have had' AI, and didn't, making him even less compelling. And no, I never pursued ED-E past the vanilla game's arc. But that really doesn't change much, does it? You're still sending a data-packed and more or less defenseless bot (shown both in the cutscene where...

Personally, the F-80 Shooting Stars on a carrier deck in 2077 made me cuss up a storm, hahah.

Let's see, what did it do right... - The White House was leveled, and then-some. Unlike virtually every other major target of nuclear warheads, at least they made one building so irretrievably demolished that you had to notice the map title to be aware of it. Then again the pillars sticking out...

I would argue it's railroaded on the basis of stat-bloat and enemy spawns, but that's an argument against the game genre in the first place. I'd have preferred some kind of survivalist system where everything simply "was," and your stats and perks mattered far less than how you used items and...

The Soviet Union in our world had a very sophisticated civil defense system, lightyears beyond the US and with a (relatively) huge margin of survivability. This would result in one of three things: Either a large number of semi-civilized tribes/states, a resurgent soviet powerhouse, or a massive...

Could never sit still and play the game as it was meant to be played. Always broke out the console and tweaked the heck out of it. Spawned as a descendant of a U.S. Army soldier that fancied himself the "official representative of the U.S. Army," complete with a sentry bot he kept running as his...

Me, personally? ED-E. There's something about a highly advanced, data-packed Enclave robot that is conveniently shot down ever so easily by raiders, picked up and basically ignored by everyone, only to be rejuvenated by the random Courier, that annoys me. What sense did it make to send such...

The atmosphere snagged me, as did the story... until I began reading deeper into Fallout lore and saw how broken it really was. As for the empowerment fantasy, I would agree on the main, but personally it irked the Hell out of me that my actual options were so limited. Got me breaking the game...