HoonDing

I'll just wait for the GOTY edition this time, so I get all the inevitable DLCs & expansions. The Witcher 2 comes out in the same month, anyway, and that's a much bigger blimp on my radar.

I found a T51-b in the middle of nowhere but that thing is just too heavy and neither Boone nor ED-E want to carry it around. FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU

In my game, the sky is green around Searchlight at night. I don't get it, since radiation isn't supposed to be visible. Also, I find it a bit dubious how the NCR could drive the Brotherhood from Helios One. Even if they outnumbered the Brotherhood 20 to 1, what would they do against power armour with their puny service rifles? It must've been a meat grinder.

Buffy MMO? I think you mean The Secret World.

Riiiiight, and the Japanese say exactly the same about western games.

I've had two freezes in ~20 hours of play.

Before I set him to passive, I've had ED-E proudly charging into groups of golden geckos & young cazadores, and somehow winning (with a little bit of help). If he dies, I'm in big trouble since he carries around all my loot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdoVWX3JPeI

So not David Gaider, the lead writer, but rather EA tells them what to write?

I don't get some of the quest design in this game. During a fetch quest for Camp Forlorn Hope, I was attacked by some Legion clowns and obviously defended myself which made my Legion standing plummeting from 'neutral' to 'hated' immediately. Then somehow not even 30 seconds later, several Legion Assassins spawned and attacked me because "Caesar himself had ordered it". But then not much later it became completely mind-boggling that a Legion clown took me right into Camp Nelson to speak with the Denarus there... who didn't seem to care about my bad reputation at all, and just rattled off some lines and left me alone afterwards, allowing me to go outside and take out the entire camp. Afterwards, when I returned to the Denarus, he and his bodyguards were not even hostile. Maybe it's a bug, or the game wants to force me to deal with the Legion in a peaceful way, but it doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

ED-E is a good companion for his perk and he lets you target invisible creatures in VATS. Just tell him to wait in front of a dungeon while you clear out everything and he should be OK. Also, I finally encountered some low INT dialogue:

I bet somebody already made a Dartgun Mod...

Play the Underdark section of BG2 and you've played 50% of HotU. Or maybe 75%, considering you can sleep with a drow if you're male and there's some romance drama as well.

I'm very happy so far with the Ratslayer. Anything unarmored goes down with one long-range headshot.

Press four buttons and each one will do something awesome.

Wait til you get a giant radscorpion.

exactly, man. not only that, but SPECIAL doesn't seem to affect combat (except VATS), at all. I have 10 AGI and 5 STR but I don't think there's gonna be a big difference in combat if I go for, say, 6 AGI and 6 STR (6 seems to be the magic number for perks) and have 3 points left over. also, a lot of useless perks, they should've made it every 3/4 levels and left the Gifted trait in the game. I'm lv 29 now and some of the perks I took I did so only because it felt wrong to not take anything. maybe this is the reason there's so many "filler" perks. to satisfy the Beth fan boys. what I don't like is that this game doesn't encourage "builds", you can play through with almost any setup. this was not the case in F2. makes me a sad panda I don't think I could play any other build than a long-range sniper. The gunplay is just not fun for me. Worse twitching than in Counterstrike when human enemies are involved, who basically charge to the player character, then dance around like morons. But at least the healing over time makes it a bit more exciting, especially when being swarmed by packs of nightstalkers or radscorpions. A melee/unarmed build could be fun, though.

Well, FO3 just doesn't tag a name on every random shack and burnt out caravan. I just wish FO:NV had a better manual. There's no perk list so I had to waste one perk on Intense training already to get my Perception to 6 (started out with 5) to be able to get important perks later on. I should've also dumped CHA completely and started out with 6 STR, but whatever.

What exactly is the penalty for using a weapon without meeting the STR requirement? Is it just more difficult to aim?

Why Bethesda? They don't do romances & emocrap in their games.

I have a ton of dino toys myself. If only there were a Rock-it Launcher...

The game froze once on me so far, and I presume it's an audio issue just like with FO3. But I do have a very annoying hiccup every time I exit a loot screen or dialogue screen, which I presume is also audio related. I'll have to try to use Madfilter codec with it, which is how I solved audio/freezing issues in FO3.

I'm pretty sure a male can flirt with Cass and/or Veronica? Anyway, ED-E is darn useful with his sensor perk. He also allows me to safely pop heads while he's shooting stuff. The Ratslayer is really overpowered. I've been one-shotting golden geckos, nightstalkers & lakelurkers with it without any problems. Basically I've covered the entire area between Mojave outpost & Crossover wood post. I thought about killing Centurion Jackass and the rest of his clowns, but decided against it... since scooting around Searchlight made me end up with 859 RAD. Also: This guy probably wished he didn't win the lottery at Nipton.

I read it in the IGN preview about rogues.

The pirate-chick is apparently Isabel(l)a from DA:O, the duelist in the Pearl that you can have a two/three/foursome with.