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No, but I do buy every game I play, and I cetainly judge a game on its merits before deciding whether or not to buy it, and I buy every good game in a series that I'm a fan of. I don't see what principle is at stake in buying Fallout 3 if - but only if - it turns out that Bethesda actually...

So, even if it turns out to be a good, if not actually spectacular, game you've already decided you're not going to buy it? It sounds a lot like cutting off your nose to spite your face, to me. I've given up on the idea that it is going to be a brilliantly worthy sequel, but if - on its own...

Yeah, see that is the the problem; I could probably accept it if, once, on a mission to retrieve a power core from a rare nuclear-powered car, outgunned, I had the chance to fuck the mission and blow up a party of huge supermutants, maybe... In Fallout, the best weapons were things to...

Er, the Ford Motor Company? Well, at least they came up with the Ford Nucleon, a "nuclear-powered" concept car, in 1958...

One thing Delicatessen definitely lacks is any sense of the wider world beyond the block and a short section of sewers. It is intensely claustrophobic in that respect. One thing it does well though - as with Brazil - is to provide a satisfying and plausible synthesis of retro- and PA...

Except that you can end up with two theoretical sources for radioactivity in a deuterium fusion reaction (especially if the cold-fusion crowd are to be believed), the first being tritium (although its only a beta source, it would be potentially dangerous if you inhaled it in a aerosol, say, from...

If this kind of scaling is properly implemented, then it could be good in terms of maintaining the challenge throughout the game; it can be painful finding yourself at a high level forced to fight endless streams of crappy rats for no loot, just because they're there. Of course, the flipside...

Look, I'm not going to labour this one too much, so I'll stop after this one. It isn't just you, not by a long chalk, but there has been a lot of calling people Trolls, Plants, and whatever else. That is no way to win an argument. By tossing the phrase around, it cheapens the meaning, and...

Off topic, but anyway: can people please stop calling "Troll", when they're faced with someone doing one of the following; who seems as though they might be making a poor argument; defending themselves against an accusation of such; is a Bethesda apologist; is a Bethesda fan; is ignorant of some...

Ah, I see. I have patched the children back in, and didn't really find it changed my game experience. They are - at most - a satisfying detail, from my point of view. (Perhaps, having already developed a playing style, I didn't make enough of an effort to interact with them, although I do...

Gads, no! I thought the suggestion was that there might be unkillable children, which might be easier to mod around. Random outbreaks of children-for-slaughter wouldn't be big, clever, or funny... Manhunt 2 is the first game to be refused classification since the introduction of the system...

Surely someone will be able to fix it? It isn't a matter of balls, it is a matter of reality. The world was a different place when Fallout was released; the so-called moral majority weren't allowed to dictate common sense to censors, but unfortunately society as a whole is now hypersensitive...

Wait a minute; you can't just go quote mining in an article and then claim that it shows some sort of bias or lack of understanding. 1) It is true - and we'd be the first to complain if the violence was santized. 2) There is plenty of other stuff in the article that isn't about gore and...

Erm, that isn't how I read it... I took this to mean that you'd be choosing things which affect your base stats, and that the reveal of your father would reflect those. (I was thinking of something along the lines of, well the only thing I can think of off the top my head is the player...

This sounds like a good way of introducing ingame character design, to me. I'd much rather do that than simply check boxes on a design page, then press Start. This way is potentially more organic (although, you also need some clear way of interpreting how your choices will affect your character...

Is it? I'm not sure that the lack of overt religiocity is in any way a bad thing in Fallout. The first problem with including religion in games arises from the real world implications. I cannot see much function for recognisable religion in RPGs, other than to provide a lazy hook on which to...

I'm not sure that really makes any sense, because if they wanted to stifle protest they could simply ban people, delete posts, and censor opinion directly..., er...

Although history suggests that many technological superpowers have tried to extend beyond their regional influence in exactly that manner, and with the consequence of precipitating their own downfall. (The Japanese switch from isolationism to regionalism, to attempted empire-building is a...

Well, maybe.... But, I'm not sure that there was much debate taking place, so much as a lot of spleen-venting due to frustration arising from Bethesda's tease-campaign. The thing is, people have been responding to this concept art with a number of fairly consistent gripes. One of them is...