Wrath of Dagon

NV only froze a few times for me during my entire playthrough on the 360, and none after the latest patch, although I didn't play it for very long. Same as pre-patch Oblivion. Not much else of significance. For a huge game like this, it's pretty hard to test all the different permutations in every location, so bugs are almost inevitable. Of the main stream games, I might try the Dragon Knight Saga once I feel like another RPG. Also DX if reading forums indicates it's any good.

Stealthboy doesn't work if you try to approach the inner room of Ceasar's tent. All I wanted was to take the book for the Great Khans' quest.

I don't think the game supports the 360 controller since it came out long before the 360. There's free software that lets you use a 360 controller with any PC game, you could search for that. You don't really need the controller anyway, since you can pretty much control the whole game with the W key and mouse.

It worked fine on my 64 bit Windows 7 machine except often after combat I couldn't move my character until I saved and reloaded. But there's no way to know for sure till you try it.

NV did look very good, especially for an open world game.

MMO's or NV?

Vince posted something on Iron Tower forum I thought might be interesting to someone following this game:

Well, we're not all as tough and rugged as the Finns Anyway, I'm not against doing things which make sense anyway, like building nuclear power plants. As a matter of fact, Texas is #1 in the country in wind energy. But the same environmentalists who scream loudest about Global Warming are the same ones who stand in the way of any reasonable solutions.

Yeah, and the only people who disagree with it are monetarily motivated, corporate scientists. Between the two, I know who to believe. Of course, it's always EASIER to believe the side that tells you everything is ok, please keep consuming more, right? Objectively, I don't think it's been proven either way. Personally, I think it's a big left wing scam, like Nuclear Winter and Y2K (ok, Y2K wasn't left wing, but consultant scam). Carl Sagan, the leftist wind bag who was most prominent in pushing Nuclear Winter to force unilateral disarmament by the US, predicted that the oil fires in Kuwait would have an effect on climate similar to Nuclear Winter based on their Nuclear Winter studies. He was debating Fred Singer, who is also one of the most prominent Global Warming skeptics. Singer said there would be no significant atmospheric effect from the smoke because it would be washed out by rain once it reached a certain point in the atmosphere. Singer was proven correct. I tend to believe people whose predictions actually came true, like the article I quoted earlier, rather than alarmist windbags who've never predicted a thing, like saying soon there'll be no snow at all. Here's what Time was saying in 1974, predicting a new Ice Age:

I can think of one thing: remove the average joe's unfounded scorn for and distrust of science. It's not the science, it's the politically motivated, leftist environmentalist scientists. Oh, I forgot, the science is settled, sorry. Global Warming - the only scientific theory that predicts nothing and is confirmed by everything.

Global warming - Is there anything it can't do?

If you go and talk to the BoS after NCR tells you to destroy them, it turns out the BoS are willing to aid the NCR. But since NCR told me previously that no compromise is possible, I didn't try that until I already sided with Yes Man. @Tigranes: It's not good storytelling to force the player to commit an evil act either way, especially when it can be easily and logically avoided. That suggestts the player has no agency.

It was clear, but it's not clear that the issue can't be resolved with a compromise, in fact the abassador specifically talks about trying to improve relations with Mr House and NV and not getting anywhere. Well, I even tried to appeal to the abassador hoping the poltical branch could overrule her, but of course the game doesn't support anything like that. The point is if you're going to force the player to make a choice, at least fully implement it, let me side with either one, whoever's more reasonable, or let me wash my hands of the whole situation. I'm trying to role play a consistent character, and that's impossible if the game forces me to always betray someone. As it turns out, you don't have to destroy the BOS, but the game confused me into thinking that you do. Exactly, we just wiped out the entire Legion Army, which is something NCR hadn't managed to do. And no, it doesn't necessarily make sense, I was the one who defeated the Legion, not them, and I was the one who saved the President. And it's not redrawing the map, it's keeping status quo. Not to mention the Boomers are also my allies, aren't going anywhere, and could unleash a devastating artillery and aerial barrage on the NCR should they try anything.

It is a fair complaint, because to collaborate with the NCR I'd have to betray the BOS, so either way I'm forced to betray someone. If you going to implement something like that, at least support it fully, so you can explicitly side with either the BOS or the NCR depending on who's more unwilling to compromise. And no, it's not necessarily clear that NCR will attack, there should be a diplomatic option through the abassador or whatever. Assuming the NCR would throw away the lives of so many soldiers by trying to seize NV makes them not much better than the Legion, but that's not how they are portrayed in the game for the most part. Edit: NCR didn't demand that I hand over Vegas, I demanded they hand over the Hoover Dam, so I'm put in the position of the bad guy.

Yes, because I never really wanted the Independent ending, it was just the least worst choice I was given. It would be OK if there was a logical reason to force me into it, but there really wasn't. Anyway, NV could've still stayed independent with NCR controlling the Hoover Dam, just as it was before. Sure, NCR are now in a stronger position, but the robots are also upgraded, would've made more sense to have a new treaty than essentially delivering a near-mortal blow to the NCR, which really isn't in NV's interests since they need customers.

The NCR demanded that I destroy the BOS, who I was also friends with, and NCR told me there was no peaceful solution, which turned out to be not the case. But believing them I decided to side with Yes Man, since that seemed to allow me to do what I thought was appropriate. So I essentially continued to help the NCR, but at the end I had to demand they leave the Hoover dam as I was given no other choice. It also seems I was being manipulated by Yes Man instead of truly working for myself, the theme of manipulation in Obsidian games is getting really tiresome as it takes away player agency, as are their choices which aren't really choices.

Finished the game, got a very usatisfying ending. At the last moment I was forced to stab NCR in the back after helping them throughout the whole game, though there was no logical reason for the betrayal, I just wasn't given another choice. Very disappointing after putting 150+ hours into the game.

Yep, if you want K3, they want you to subscribe to TOR and pay monthly subscription.

At least at Howe's estate you could stealth through, instead of tediously killing everyone.

The campaign is a series of tactical battles, and the outcome of one can affect which one you fight next, although in the first campaign that wasn't noticeable. Supposedly the campaigns have improved since, but I haven't had a chance to try the latest ones (this is in the modern warfare version, the WW2 with a bunch of improvements isn't out yet). It'll be worthwhile to at least check out the demo when it's available. Edit: The game just got officially announced and named: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?optio...&Itemid=456 Should be out in a couple of months I'd say.

If you read my link, you'd see that US considered KLA a terrorist organization, as well as reports on KLA atrocities and ethnic cleansing by groups lke HRW. Also it's Serbs, not Serbians. Here's a link about Iran and Al Qaeda involvement in the Balkans: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m157...ag=content;col1

They have a fairly static campaign now, not one where you control the operational map, and stubbornly refuse to implement that. The new game should be quite different from the old one though.

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Libera...terrorist_group The wikipedia page also provides a lot of other info on this, as well as links. As far as links with Al Qaeda and Iran, that info is quite a few years old now, but you could probably google about it.

I'm pretty sure there's an oxymoron there. Anyway, the 2-D trees are placeholders, the rest of the stuff should stay pretty much as is. You probably don't need a lecture about how the prettiest graphics aren't the point in a sim etc, etc.