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*edit - Oooh, sly. Generally, yes. They love the suffering of others.

Bethesda licensed out Fallouts 3, 4 and 5. Hervey retained the rights to FOOL and everything else, Fallout RTS, Fallout golf shoes, Fallout sanitary napkins, Fallout insulin, all of it. Now Bethesda's got the whole silly burrito. Chins up, everybody. Hugz & drugz! They can't keep us down!

THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING. It's not as if the future of the franchise was ever in doubt.

Oh yay, that sounds like Radiant AI.

This doesn't have anything to do with Fallout 2 directly, but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else that the Fallout IP has of today become the exclusive property of Bethesda.

IBL lol

Huh, never seen a red wyvern before. Hmmm, if that last shot is any indication, some part of the campaign will take place in the Umber Marshes, which lies between Thay and Aglarond :push up glasses: As there's a very heavy shambling mound presence there. "This spans of bogs, swampland, and mudflats is Aglaron's first line of defense against Thay. Inhabited by dangerous creatures such as stirges, poisonous snakes, hydras, shambling mounds, trolls and disease-carrying insects, the swamp has foiled attacks by Thayan armies more than once." Could be wrong and it could be somewhere else, but IIRC the Red Wizards magically terraform Thay, such that the middle of the country is prosperous and gets all the rain, while the outskirts are wasteland and desert. And let me be the first to say YAY EPIC LVLZ. I wonder if this means that the PC will start off at a higher level, or start off at first ala SoU.

Causin Hocus Pocus like my man, Kurt Vonnegut. RIP

The only real determining factor in any Pirates sequel is Johnny Depp's level of interest. All he has to do is make a few more sequels and he'll be getting liquid gold enemas, as well as financing for any and every "arthouse" movie he wishes to make in the future.

other than being a mayor of a small town, making records and running a succesful record label? He does regular spoken word gigs in my town, which ain't far from his hometown of Boulder. New Lard record out here soon, too, hopefully.

I found that suit too. It was kickass back before the game got patched and armor became destructible I just pushed a crate over to an unboarded window and jumped through, and I had a few anti-rad pro-bleed artifacts, so I got through to the suit unscathed.

Kurt Vonnegut died today.

No, I think you've got it right. One of the big Enron guys cashed all his stocks in a little bit before the company collapsed, after doing his part in swindling investors and employees. Since he was going through a divorce at the time, he used it as effective cover for flushing his stocks. Walked away with $250 million, he's the second largest landowner in CO, and he's living in Hawaii now with his stripper wife. He'll never have to answer for anything he did. An effective counterplatitude to "what goes around comes around" is "nice guys finish last". They often do.

l0l karma.

There's only one quest with a real time limit, and that's Modoc's missing child / farmhouse quest. It's a real pain in the ass unless you know exactly what you're supposed to do. As far as melee goes, it's certainly not as varied as small guns, but once you get the super sledge you'll do pretty well, considering. Tip: find a combat knife. Better than the spear, uses less AP. I was always kinda disappointed that melee isn't creatively inserted into the game like unarmed was (boxing title, kung fu challenge, etc.) Goddamnit, I've suddenly gotten the urge to revive my Van Buren PnP. *addendum - Re:car - If you're playing an unpatched version of Fallout 2, you should be able to just pay Smitty 2,000 chips and get the car, without snagging the part from Gecko.

I never got through that one with a good rating, either. There was always a point at which I had to go Rambo. If I could just find a way through that dining room without alerting the guards... Depends, really. Max Payne is a straight-up noir satire / action game. It's funny and entertaining. But it might not hold up as well as it did when I first got it. It was the first game I ever played that had bullet time, and the novelty of it was enough to get me through most of the game without being bored by the kinda samey combat throughout. The style and story of the game, however, are generally superb. As for Hitman, it's a lot more varied in its approach. You can run through and shoot everything, or you can isolate and assassinate your targets quietly, or you can find the "trick" methods of murder: falling chandeliers, rigged pyrotechnics, poisoned drinks, whatever. The story, or at least the stories of the missions that relate to each other, are mildly interesting. but nothing to get excited over. So I'd recommend them both. It just depends on what kind of experience you're looking for in your game.

How about a game where you are not the chosen one, but rather some guy who scams people into think that he is the chosen one. After all the chosen one is the one who gets all the perks, fabulous riches, all the girls, that new castle next door. All through the game you have to dodge assassins sent your way who think that you are the real chosen one and various other people all mistaking you for the real hero. You could either help or hinder the real hero depending on how you act in his/her name, possibly ending up thrown in the dungeon by the BBEG who really doesn't want to hear your story about how you aren't actually the chosen one and just happened to have the same name... So it's a Life of Brian RPG, then?

okey dokey. I like the original large file of that picture a lot; wasn't sure if the avatar really captured her expression or not. Awww.

I've only heard two Tom Waits tracks - Chocolate Jesus and The Eyeball Kid, and both were pretty good. In addition, my game will always feature Micheal Ironside (\m/>.<\m/) in some pivotal role. Then make a game that is pure love.

Well, if there are no limits, I'd make a dynamic RPG that would generate deep, involved storylines when you start every game, like Simcity generates terrain. You choose the setting, the prospective tone, the "genre" (action, mystery, whatever) the perspective, all of that beforehand, and every new game would be just that, a new game. The game would be absolutely flawless. Also, it will print money. It will feed starving children. It will ensure that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. It will cure blindness. It will instantly compose the most moving orchestral score ever created, all the time, everywhere. It will join all people as one. It will let me and everyone I love live forever. It will bring JFK back from the dead, and he will be the benevolent vampire President for all time. It will make people honest. It will make capitalism work. Everyone will want to buy what you sell and sell what you buy. It will eradicate obesity. It will allow all people to truly love the skin they're in. While you play it, you feel no pain, only warm fuzziness. It will make every week shark week. It will replace all dogs with pandas. It will kill Fidel Castro. It will have gay sex replace baseball as the national pasttime, while baseball will replace television as the focal point of family life. It will allow exes to be friends. It will make PETA sane. It will make all beards look good. It will allow grown men to cry, and women to play football. It will make all the men good looking and the women strong. It will make the children above average, which will raise the average, creating a rapidly escalating trend that will result in all children becoming God-Kings. It will teach Gromnir typing ettiquette. It will make Kevin Bacon everyone's best and closest friend. Oh, and it will be a Fallout game, of course.

Iggy Pop - I Wanna Be Your Dog (live)

Man, that patch did change a lot of stuff. The enemies are actively rushing me now. During the first mission. It's a lot harder, and I've had it on the easiest difficulty (I usually save harder difficulties for later playthroughs)

On the Bioboards, I suggested that they make a TOTSC-style expansion -- restore the cut content and add more quests to the current OC, before continuing with the sequel. I think a lot of people would love more content added to the OC. I'm one of them. I doubt they'd devote much if any resources to that though. It would be cool if they started adding small bits of content to the OC with patches though. Nothing huge, like maybe a quest or two per patch. Or maybe an OC expansion premium module. That would be super cool. I think it'd be a good idea, but Obsidian would get a lot of stink for it from the same people who think the whole idea of patches/extra content is offensive. For example, when the Godfather game came out on 360/Wii/PS3 the people who bought Xbox/PS2/PC versions were pissed off, because the next-gen console versions contained loads of extra features the old versions didn't. The complaint was, why release an inferior version of your product when you could just as easily release a superior one later? Why release a game that needs a patch?

I loved the WW2 scenarios back in Civ2. Never bothered with anything beyond that. *lulz*

I love it when advocates of plutarchy and advocates of communism come together and circle jerk like this. It's the battle of the ****ty ideas. I love this ****, too. It's as if the market, not labor law, eradicates poor working conditions! I heard that coming out of Wal-Mart management, too, and it was just as suspect coming from them. People were coming to work the day after surgery so they could make a dent in their medical bills. I look no further than Enron for a perfect example of the Invisible Hand doing what it does best. If you look at the schemes they employed, that was art. They earned every penny they fleeced from their employees. If what they were doing was wrong, they wouldn't have made the money that they did. That's the genius of unfettered capitalism. What was unfair was the government taking it all away from them once they beat the market and their investors.