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  1. More challenging? Sure. But if you built your character decently and don't self-gimp, it's still pretty easy. Not that the game needs to be quite as hardcore as Gothic, but I too would have preferred a little bit of challenge. Oh well, there are still mods for that. Heck, actually, I should learn to use the GECK and build one myself.
  2. Now Lady Crimson just needs a naked body replacer for males and her playthrough will be perfect! ...poor Boone.
  3. Yup, but to be fair, as far as I understand, they're just an option when fighting, instead of the typical QTE "if you don't click you die". The first "leaked" video wasn't a section in the game anyway.
  4. You're forgetting the much lamented Aliens RPG, which was cancelled. I didn't say released games. It wasn't an original IP
  5. Their original "games" is only one...
  6. It's likely, but I have no idea how it worked for other games.
  7. How about an original IP, fantasy or otherwise? I want Obsidian to be successful as much as anyone else, but damn, I want them to make their own games, not just work on other people's games and franchises.
  8. I didn't use energy weapons that much, so I didn't really have the chance to get a good feel of them, but my impression is here that, as expensive to feed as they are, using overcharged mfcs is an option that's quite more problematic than simply (for guns) taking out a high DAM weapon (and that's not even tackling AP ammo). Still, I think that some of the ideas behind EW mechanics are quite interesting, and I probably should have waited playing with them more before commenting.
  9. I imagine they're just happy--happy that many people seem to be enjoying the game and happy that it looks to be a commercial success. They probably are, but we're still all going to imagine them envious and angry because this the Obsidian forum, a place where we all substitute reality with our own.
  10. Another gameplay video. Lol at the guy telling them that they couldn't film it after they already filmed all the first part of the demo btw. Nice job!
  11. NPD is more reliable because they HAVE the sales number, while VGChartz uses methods to estimate sales. Unfortunately, afaik, NPD doesn't show its numbers anymore, so we're stuck with VGChartz. And, I'm pretty sure that New Vegas' numbers were US only.
  12. Nah, splitting skills too much generates pretty huge balance problems and is rarely worth it. I think Josh did a good job with how he rearranged combat skills, though the balance kinda sucks and probably need at least a couple of months more to be perfected. In other words, the design tenets he followed are almost all good, but the execution is sometimes poor (energy weapons and high DPS top-tier guns are almost useless).
  13. VGChartz posts guesstimates (pretty good most of the time, but still inaccurate) only of the US sales iirc, while these are worldwide number. Still, yeah, these are shipped numbers, not sales. Still, I do remember Fallout 3 shipping less copies (around 4 millions?), so from that point of view it's doing better. Of course, Morgoth also has a point: Fallout 3 paved the way in the first place, and it's likely that among those sales the majority are from people who thought "more of the same = great!". Hopefully most of those people are satisfied, but alas, there's no way to check that (and forums are pretty unreliable when it comes to that, being prone to house a lot of negativity after release). So really, overall, it's a really good number for Obsidian, but they've still got a way to go. And the comparison to Bioware seems, frankly, unwarranted, unless yeah, people are trying to summon Volo.
  14. I am 12 years old and what is this
  15. Interesting, but what do you base that on? (according to the fallout wiki - Denver is a ruined city overrun with feral dogs) That's Van Buren though. There's really no need for Obsidian to follow Van Buren in everything (and in fact, they didn't, see the Hoover Dam).
  16. Pic of the card that depicts the character. Seems unlikely that a Legion member would have the flag of the United States on his back.
  17. It's not that they don't play a big part. Au contraire, their part is pretty damn big. It's that they feel like a caricature and not like a believable faction.
  18. And yet the NCR won the first battle of Hoover Dam just barely. Regardless of what you or I could think about whether that scenario is plausible, the game clearly presents the Legion as a threat to the NCR. And the Legion isn't composed by a "couple of tribes". 86 tribes were made in what is the Legion today, and the Legion is proficient enough in warfare tactics to sneak nuclear devices into the enemy camps, use firearms and so on. It's a far cry from the guys at Arroyo.
  19. ? I don't think you can compare the Legion's role to the slavers in Fallout 2. Since the beginning the Legion is presented as an enemy that's giving a lot of problems to the NCR, it's a faction that you can join and work for 'til the endgame, and was hyped by Obsidz as morally gray during the pre-release PR rush... except it isn't. It would have worked much better if the Mojave Wasteland really was much more anarchic and the Legion was shown in some areas as really bringing civilization, twisted as it may have been. That's not even touching the fact that Caesar has pretty weird ideas about forging a society that can survive the post-apocalyptic wasteland (a society that doesn't use chems, apparently ). I guess his idea may work in Arizona but there's no reason for him to try and destroy the NCR. Also, the Roman empire wasn't quite as savage, but eh.
  20. Admittedly only for nostalgic nerds, but it could be a cool mod.
  21. New Vegas is darker (read, more cynical and down-to-earth) than Dragon Age, it's just that I don't see it as a stark difference.
  22. Maybe I've been swayed by the discussions on NMA, but am I the only one that was unsatisfied by the Legion as a faction? I can live with the silliness (though I'd have preferred if they were dealt the same way they redesigned the Khans), but they are pretty much evil with little to no grayness, in a world that offers much better alternatives.
  23. I don't think Fallout 3, or heck, even New Vegas are that much darker than, say, Dragon Age, or Baldur's Gate II.
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