GreasyDogMeat

Understatement of the year. Like saying the sun is kinda hot.

200 Clams. This stuff might get popular in the future and the price will hopefully drop. It SOUNDS very cool, but until actually seeing it in person I'm definately on the fence about the 3d stuff. The game is great if you decide to get into the 3d stuff or not though. Oh, and some sites like fileplanet have a benchmark program to let you know if your comp is up to speed for RE5.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1004381p1.html Absolutely loved this game on 360 and its getting some neat enhancements. If you don't have a 360 or PS3, do yourself a favor and save up for this.

I found that area annoying too, but I also didn't have that much trouble getting through. I wonder if the area has become harder with a recent patch or something... You should have tried a few user made modules before uninstalling.

Yup, it was only the mods that made Oblivion playable. There were a few cool things, like getting sucked into a painting, but imaginative stuff was few and far between. Why I was absolutely shocked that Fallout 3 was such a fun game. Figured it would only be saved by mods.

Has Van Buren been considered canon by Beth or have they just taken bits & pieces they liked and used them? Almost no one (including the devs of the first two Fallout games) consider BoS canon but Beth have also taken elements from that game, including the mini nukes and the design of the hunting rifle.

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/100/1003434p1.html "players get beamed aboard an alien spaceship. There, they'll meet new characters, both from the Wasteland and Earth's past" Ok, so no actual mention of Elvis in the article. Think about it though. Elvis portrait in the original Fallout... 'meet characters from Earth's past'... I'm rather hopeful for this DLC as each one has progressively been better than the last.

I'm glad it sounds like no one was seriously injured, but that could have been caused by any dozen other distractions (cell phone, kids acting up in the back seat etc.) and not the actual effect of the cigarette on the person's body. As for 'culture change', what will be next? Like I pointed out earlier should they start banning cursing because it gives our soldiers a bad image? For that matter, is it really that soldier lighting up a cig in Iraq that gives a bad image? "I was really starting to like these Americans, but then I saw one SMOKING!"

While they are at it, they should also ban fatty foods, video games and cursing. All of these things either cause health issues, distract the soldiers from their duty or make our soldiers/country look bad.

I can't believe you just compared drinking to smoking when talking about something that requires alertness. Drunk driving is responsible for how many accidental driving deaths a year? (I have a coworker who lost two family members to a drunk driver) Smoking has caused how many accidental driving deaths a year? Gimme' a break.

Excited about this. I've always enjoyed id software games.

Oh brother. North Korea, Iran, an economy in shambles and he wants to ban tobacco in the Military. Priorities... priorities.

Yeah, he was tough the first time I played. I did notice those barrels had odd descriptions so I figured they would play into beating him.

@TwinkieGorilla "hahaha, i love how you're trying reverse hyperbole in order to defend FO3. "a bit", eh? let's look at an old post i made back from the Bethesda board days. it details every single difference between the old and new:" I just wanted to point out atleast one situation where that list is inaccurate or did NOT 'detail every single difference between the old and new'. Luck in Fallout 3 also determines how likely you are to run into special encounters. Yeah, F3 has 'em. First playthrough I ran into a few things, but my second I raised luck to a 9 and I frequently had encounters, like an alien ship exploding overhead raining down alien power cells and a special weapon called the 'fire lance'. Also ran into a friendly super mutant I had never encountered the first play through. Ended up giving me an old pre war suit for being nice to him/her. Yeah, SPECIAL in F3 is dumbed down, but its not quite as dumbed down as that list makes it sound. Either way I DO hope Obsidian expands the importance of each stat in NV, but if they don't I'm likely to have fun with the game anyway.

Uh, no they didn't. Applying stims to limbs (haha, I rhyme like a chime) could be considered use of the doctor skill. Furthermore you have a few chances in the game to operate on dying people to save them.

Well, the dialogue was pretty bad in spots, but it was good in a few others. The main quest became a joke about midway through, but I think most of the side quests more than made up for it. Game had plenty of C&C, some of it may have been meaningless, but some of it was in the original games too. As for the SPECIAL system, it may be dumbed down a bit, but that is happening with just about every CRPG system around. KotOR was dumbed down both as the next game after NwN and especially compared to the tabletop version, but it was a pretty good game. Troika's Bloodlines was dumbed down compared to Redemption, but most people seem to prefer Bloodlines. Another reason I'm willing to look past the rules being dumbed down is BoS didn't even use the SPECIAL system at all. There are a few changes that I actually like. Combinging First Aid with Doctor skill makes sense to me. I wouldn't mind combining the throwing of handgrenades being tied with the explosives skill but they should have also added throwing melee weapons (knives, spears, rocks etc) and combined that with the melee skill.

Hey, if you like it thats great. I just find it to be the height of hypocrisy to criticize F3 for 'silliness' and/or lack of realism while talking about how great Fallout 2 was.

I've had a blast with Fallout 3 and the good has definately outweighed the bad. If you are thinking about getting it and don't have it already read the reviews and watch some gameplay vids before deciding. Same with any game really. Edit: I'm pretty sure I saw you in the Fallout 3 spoiler forum so I guess you already have it. I enjoyed Mass Effect for what it was, a sci-fi action RPG. It has more skills than be counted on one hand (glares at Jade Empire), so thats atleast something... right? I really can't think of any decent CRPGs out right now (besides F3 & Mass Effect). Hope Alpha Protocol hits shelves soon.

That 'cornyness' in F3 is, at the very least, attempting to fit in with the setting, instead of a wink wink nudge nudge to the player. In-depth branching dialogue doesn't do anything when the world feels like a joke. Maybe you have forgotten Fallout 2, but if you added up every bit of silliness in F3 it would fit in ONE town of F2. Vampires as an example right? In F3 they use it as a result of mutation/radiation. The same things we don't seem to have a problem with creating Radscorpions, ghouls and Death Claws. If you were to take the same concept and put it in F2 it would have been count ****ing dracula with a cape underneath the town with a Transylvanian accent. F2 did some great things, it was just spoiled for me with all the jokes and it ranks well under Fallout 3 in enjoyment factor for me. I've played it only twice, and the second time was because I had some foul up at the time that corrupted my game. As for whether Obsidian has the talent: no worries here.

360. I'd probably have to crank the graphics down for the PC version. The physics in the game are groundbreaking. Never seen anything quite like them. Add everything up and its one of the most complete games I've ever played. It certainly isn't for anyone, but if you've moderately enjoyed any game in the series I can't recommend it enough.

Having a lot of fun with GTA IV.

How can you call that woman in the skintight outfit worthless!? She did... stuff... but who cared about that stuff?

I must have forgotten about that inbetween all the sex jokes, talking animals, rocket ships and what-not.

It might also be pulled off like Point Lookout, or any one of the other excellent side quests in Fallout 3. Go ahead and laugh if you are one of those who hated everything about F3, but I'm laughing too when people complain about Fallout 3 while holding up Fallout 2 as some sort of picture of perfection. Hell, look at the main quest of Fallout 2. The search for a G.E.C.K. (which I WISH Beth had retconned/forgot about in F3), a 'magical item' which creates... well an Eden. Compare that to F1 and the search for a mechanical component to repair their Vault. Did they even bother to explain why the tribe in F2 just didn't pack up their bags and head for more fertile lands? In F1 they were atleast stuck in their Vault/ways, but what the hell was holding the tribals back in F2? It just cracks me up when people speak of 'verisimilitude' or realism and how terrible Fallout 3 is compared to the originals. Want to make those comparisons with F1 vs. F3? Sure, ok, I get that. F2 vs. F3? Sorry, I'm laughing on the floor.

Except almost every town had some of this silliness. Hell, some of the towns themselves were silliness (Westworld, Casinoland). Fallout 2's 'wacky' encounters in town were just as wacky as their easter eggs. Hell, there was even a ghost in Fallout 2 and it wasn't even some hidden easter egg. I'm sorry, but an alien abduction just doesn't one-up Fallout 2 goofiness. We also have no idea how this alien encounter is going to be pulled off in Mothership Zeta. The idea works with the 50s theme. It MAY be pulled off decently, or it may be on the level of Fallout 2 cheese.