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I was never a fan of the timer, but there are two things to say about why it wasn't arbitrary; firstly, there was a reasonable ingame explanation as to why there was time-limit, and secondly, it was there as a deliberate mechanism to impel the player through the early game. Personally, I...

That strawman you were arguing with... Otherwise, my memory is that Oblivion wasn't show off much outside of E3 and the few journalists invited to private previews by Bethesda. At least, that is going by British media... I did say that they could well choose to show Fallout 3 more widely...

This has come up before, and been discussed thoroughly. Remember, children were cut from the release of Fallout in Britain and Germany because they were killable. Graphical realism being what it is, then this is going to be even more of an issue in the present day. I cannot imagine that a...

The Fallout development team doesn't exist any longer. Take a long, hard look at the last Fallout game Interplay released, and think about the fact that they canned Van Buren whilst doing so. There really is no guarantee - even setting aside their current somewhat uncertain status - that...

The point being that there are plenty of shows, but Bethesda is apparently only going hands on at the press-only E3. It is no great wonder, but it is very typical of the approach to games releases that Bethesda has taken thus far. They rely heavily on press previews and reviews, and give little...

Actually, it is more like, "We bought the licence, because Black Isle no longer exists due to catastrophic mis-management of Interplay which saw Fallout 3 cancelled in the advanced stages of production, when the entire PC development team was laid off..." Bethesda didn't steal anything, and...

Hines has - along with previewers - been cheerfully pointing out all of the problems with Oblivion which are going to be fixed for Fallout. All of those problems which, apparently, didn't exist until this new round of previews came about (and they'd made sure that they'd shipped as many...

Well, Interplay are certainly claiming that they're going to do a lot... Let's hope they don't spread themselves too thinly. Will Herve remember that they aren't the big players they once were, and be able to restrain their development programme until the company is financially secure?

I do have a certain sympathy for Bethesda's viewpoint on this one, because I can easily accept the argument that a demo wouldn't give a true sense of the gameplay. Actually, they're almost damned if they do, damned if they don't. If they made a demo which is action-heavy, then they risk...

Indeed... I just went into the kitchen to make a cup of tea - the loading screen took ages... First-person, third-person, whatever, isn't going to cange the fact that this a computer game, and not a Star Trek holodeck. It always surprises me that people find perspective to be so important...

That might be one of the most depressing things I've heard for a while. Given what happened to Get Carter, I think there should be some kind of law passed against this kind of idiocy... Independent films, independent gaming. Praise be. People who make products for the love of the thing...

The thing to note about all of those games is that they were only available on a single platform (or one-and-a-half, if you count the Mac). The broadening of sequels is not about taking games which couldn't sell and making them more successful, it is about appealing to absolutely the...

re: The Glowing Ones... The ghosts of past lives thing is potentially interesting but not original, e.g. System Shock 2, and carried over into Bioshock. (Also, this is going to be a much more effective dramatic device if they are zombie ghouls, rather than authentic Fallout types. Let's...

Yeah, I know really. It was just an excuse for a craptastic pun on my part. I'm not offended by the use of the word orthodox because it is utterly correct in this case - although I suspect it is synonymous with archaic or unimaginative for many commentators. Still, it is an interesting...

Yeah, well, I'll be touching myself when I play it, and e-mailing them them the pictures to prove it; how will they like them apples?! (Don't worry: I won't be enjoying myself - I'll be crying as I finger my own arsehole...)

Cholera from drinking foetid toilet water? (Shitting yourself inside-out is probably worse than obtaining a rad-count high enough to make your cock fall off.) You remember when they said that Fallout 1 would be the reference point...?

What? We're orthodox now? I remember when we were just a bunch of cults...

Does that mean we should all just give up? With the internet, we have the perfect medium for criticizing the media, and we can only hope that this site goes some way to providing balance. Hopefully, even a just a few of the readers of print magazines and official media will take the time to...

Well, we will see whether any of the Supermutants or Ghouls do have personality. I replay the games fairly regularly - probably once a year at this point, but it used to be more frequently - and I never remember the ghouls as seeming mindless. There was definite atmsophere in that first...

That shot of the Vault Dweller and Dogmeat walking through the remains of suburbia is nice; certainly puts me in mind of The Road, which many of the developers have name-checked. (If Bethesda could capture even five minutes of that atmosphere, then it might go some way to repaying the insult.)...