Thorton_AP

Do the kids usually wear patriotic colors to school?

I think pistols and assault rifles for weapons, with technical aptitude for my guy. Professional too! :D

I think FO2 had in general more interesting characters than FO1.

Wouldn't that mostly just mean that as designers, they are willing to accept any criticism towards the JNPCs because they made that choice. I don't think it invalidates someone's opinion that various aspects of the game are considered weaknesses. How many things do people not like about Fallout 3 that they consider weakenesses, that are because of active design choices? Are they no longer weaknesses then? How did the devs really make Dogmeat cool though? Wasn't he just a dog that you could get with some food or by wearing a leather jacket? I don't remember him doing anything "cool." Unless the "haha dogmeat is running up to the supermutant and he just got gibbed by a rocket" is cool or something?

Now THAT'S sensible. It also virtually encourages piracy (how else is one likely to get in depth comparisons of voicework) - I despise piracy and that's why I preferred to simply ask the developers whether the voice acting released was indicative of the final product. It also means pre-ordering is out (which is a pity, because I usually try to support Obsidian games as much as possible). It only encourages piracy if that's where your mind goes. I don't pirate either, but there will be no shortage of increased samples and opinions of the game once it gets released. I don't see how it encourages piracy at all. Unless you feel you must have the game at release. At which point, I must contend that the current sampling of dialogue really isn't that big of a deal for you. Buy the game when it comes down in price. Which is also one thing I was hinting at. You're not a slave that has to buy a game you have reservations about at release.

Sounds to me like you just need to wait a bit for the game to come out so you can get a better idea based on impressions and extra clips being made available.

Woohoo!

No. But I'm not sure your point. Are you saying it's just as likely for you to pull off the long range shot as the sniper? The article comments that the wind was pretty much a non-factor as it was a calm day. I dunno, I'm pretty impressed that he could hit 3 targets at that range