Lexx

I always liked Heather in Silent Hill 3. :>

Heh, I managed it to keep them all alive. Needed lots of reloads and learning of enemy positions, though.

With brahmin armor and gunblade energy laser plasma throwers? :>

Guess that means that DLC 2, 3 and 4 are done already to some extend. Normally, the path nodes and nav-mesh pain is done in the last step of the world creation.

With exemple 1, 2 and 3 that will be...?

I think you could solve all (?) quests at least with two different endings, though. Which is a big improvement over other "rpgs" that get released nowdays. :>

What I liked the most is that the quests are sending you over the worldmap to nearly all places. Don't get me wrong, I like to explore on my own as well, but due to my experience with Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3, I just know that exploring in these games doesn't have any other sense than finding some more random clutter items that you don't really need anyway. So it was pleasing to see that this time you at least will get a "finished quest" and such as reward for it and not only yet-another-stimpak... Reminds me of the Gothic games (and Risen), which works in a similar way. The world is open and you can run around everywhere, but if you just want to do quests and talk to people, you will see the world as well, because the quests are sending you around. (Though, obviously quests that just send you around all day long over the whole map x time to make the quest feel longer are bad as well.)

When I played Fallout 3 the last time, short before FNV release, I thought there is actually only very little to do in the game. Just a hand full of quests and the rest is running around in some dungeons and metro tunnels, killing stuff. So if we kick out all that running around and reading notes on terminals in buildings and killing stuff while this, there isn't much left that you can really do in that game. About the encounters in Fallout 3. They have been more random and could appear in various places, which was good. But I still prefer FNV's "encounter" which tell stories about the world (like that Caravan close to Ulysses Ranch that is on it's way to Novac and gets ambushed by Legion folks). Though I have to say, beside this, I don't remember any other.

Continued a bit with Commandos 2. I slowly get into the controls and everything gets easier / more fun. But damn, the way the objectives are shown is bad. Even though I have a log with things to do, I don't really know where and so on.

Graphic looks really good. But yeah, another hack & slay... reminds me too much of yet another Diablo clone.

I thought about giving Commandos 2 a second chance.... learned the hotkeys for the items now and tried some stuff. If just the interface wouldn't be so bad... Also that game needs a pause button. Really.

I liked Boones and Cass' quest as well. Guess what made the quest from Arcades so fun to me has been the background information and such that you get.

Having them take more ammo per shot is the only way to really balance them. I don't remember the details right now, but there was some discussion short after FNV release about this and it came kind of to the conclusion, that you simply cannot balance various weapons in a good way, without having them eat more than one bullet / energy cell per shot.

I hope that Honest Hearts will give some more freedome in walking around and doing stuff. Especially if we are really going to see New Canaan.

Latest "rumor" (let's call it like that until it's officially announced) says, Honest Hearts to be out on 19th april. Source for this is an entry on Trademarkia. I think the date is realistic, especially beeing around 19th - 22th (Dead Money was released on the 22th february which was a tuesday, just like the 19th april is a tuestday).

I don't care which dev is rated with what value on this plattform. But it should care the devs who got some profile there without having added it by themself. After all, it's their reputation that can get damaged / heavily influenced by stupid reviews and whatnot. Plus, it makes no sense anyway. Example: You worked on various games and have done like two or three minor things for it. Still you are listed on that page and get the score of these games added to your score. Now this can be good or bad for that person... but in any case it's super stupid.

What I wonder is... do they have some fancy algorithm behind it? If it's just all game scores into one and the average rating of it, then in theory one person with just a few but good rated games would have a better personal rating than someone with lots of games and bad ratings in between.

Every monday and friday I hope for the damn DLC announcement. It's scary, because before Dead Money, I've never bought any DLC nor have been interested in it...

They can't be serious with that. Really, this stuff is getting way over the top.

One does not play Gothic 1 and 2 with a mouse. :> They are made for keyboard only. Sure, G2 added a better mouse support, because people whined about it... but I still think it should be mainly played with keyboard only.

Playing Arcanum again in the moment, with a half-elf technocrat (like always).

I don't like it as well. Especially because it's more a "Fallout 3 Fan Movie" than a "Fallout Fan Movie"

It beeing an announcement date seems to be more likely than a real release date, imo. I mean... I wouldn't have anything against it, if Honest Hearts really gets released next week and I would buy it right in the same minute. But it just feels very unlikely to me, as it's only a few days left and Bethesda didn't talked about anything yet. That's really un-bethesdaesque.

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