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That's not a matter of game mechanics, it's a matter of Bethesda's ****ty writing. I mean, really, would you have responded with any degree of belief that a guy in a trench coat carrying a 10mm pistol can kill a super mutant with a gatling laser? And calling the explosion nuclear would have just been Bethesda's ****ty writing getting ****tier. Irradiated water isn't a fissile material. The entire thing was a typical Bethesda railroad storyline with the player expected to white knight the whole thing, with "bad" options tacked on to no effect since there are no real ending slides in F3. Bethesda doesn't "do" games that "end."

That's lower than the top tax bracket in the US under the Eisenhower (a Republican) administration, which topped out at 90%. See, the thing that Hayekians/Randians don't understand is that redistribution of wealth actually strengthens the economy. http://www.alternet.org/story/153304/rich_people_don't_create_jobs:_6_myths_that_have_to_be_killed_for_our_economy_to_live?page=entire Note that the article links to copious amounts of legitimate sources.

There have long been different arrowhead designs to fit different roles. The Warcraft II elven archer upgrade JFSOCC cited, for example, is a real-world arrowhead design meant for warfare. The point of the hollow in the center is to get caught up in the innards of the victim so that pulling the arrow out will do near as much damage as the entry, thus increasing the lethality of the arrow. Even the material of the shaft and bow are major factors in archery performance. Some woods are more flexible, some are more hard, having different effects like longer range vs. more force on impact. It's more or less standard knowledge that bow composition is a major factor, the mongols used short composite recurve bows (bamboo, horn and sinew,) in their successful conquest of much of the world, while the victory of the English archers at Agincourt is frequently attributed to their use of Yew longbows. I don't know if there should be a balls-out complete arrow customization system (choose head design, head material, shaft material, fletching material, fletching alignment, etc.) but it would definitely add more possibilities for Rangers and archery in general without the need for magic buffs or enchantments. i.e. Arrows with more armor penetration, arrows that cause DOT through bleeding, etc.

I would rather ask something different. Have I really lost my chance at getting a decent boxed version? Since Project Eternity pays homage to the great Infinity Engine games of the past, we SHOULD get a decent boxed version. I'm talking about those huge cereal boxes. Hell, not only were the manuals gigantic, some games even included a 200 page novella to set up the backstory! Nowadays all you get is a DVD and a piece of paper that says "Read the .pdf manual in the DVD". Here Here!!! "Hear, Hear!" is what it is. Anyway, I sort of, kind of wish I was old enough back then to appreciate the value in keeping the boxes for all my PC games, since most of them are gone (still have SimCity 2000, though. Even though the CD itself looks like Strong Belwas' belly.) Although in actual fact I wish I was younger.

Hohohohoho, but you can't play the new classes without paying Bioware/EA for the privelige! Unless you want to play 6-10 20 minute horde mode (as if there's any other kind in ME3,) matches to accrue enough in-game currency to buy a Booster Pack that may or may not have a new class in it. It probably won't, and if it does, it'll be a garbage one you didn't want. Or one you already had. Best part about the ME3 MP Collectible Card Game? The cards are untradable! See, I would actually buy a DLC (so long as it wasn't above $10 in price,) for the main game if it added a bunch of the new classes for single player, because a lot of the new MP classes actually play differently from the vanilla ME1 class set that has gone unchanged. Also wouldn't mind getting some of that armor, mixing and matching the standard armor parts starts to look like ass (in the bad way) in the normal game.

Well, the point of a pawn shop is to get a quick loan in exchange for some object/s of equal or usually greater value than the loan itself, with the pawnbroker/shop getting to keep the object/s if you fail to repay the debt on time (which is usually a short-term.) You don't get a discount on anything for pawning things, and items of little/no value are flat-out rejected. That aside, no problems have been solved because you haven't provided an alternative source of income for players. It's trade that generates income. Even high lords typically made money by selling off surplus produce farmed by their slav-err serfs. They could levy taxes, but who is the player going to tax? Are we going to be operating "protection" rackets in the Big Cities? I kind of like the idea though. Having a class of medieval peddlers or solicitors that buy goods for later sale would be an interesting change of pace. Money lenders that take items as collateral may likewise be willing to perform straight-up trades of goods for gold. How is that different from the standard? Every other RPG already has medieval peddlers that buy goods for later sale. If it doesn't show up in their sale inventory they're obviously sitting on it (in their infinitely-deep pockets) long-term or already sold it, right? Every merchant buys goods for later sale.

You shouldn't be given the option to be some moustache-twirling Ming the Merciless type of character, it's silly if not outright stupid. This is supposed to be a game without the stereotypical black and white good and evil morality sliding scale/alignment grid. You should be allowed to play a character that some NPCs and factions see as evil, or even most NPCs and factions see as evil, but with a believable basis. Barring that, if you want to openly play a sadistic serial killer, most of your potential companions should not tolerate it (as in will leave or turn hostile when they see you flaying the skin off of a little girl you just raped, because that's what you want, right? Black as black evil alignment, right?) as the majority of them do not appear to be sociopathic sadists. The Buddha does not condone slavery or rape. Also NCR, not NRC.

Well, the point of a pawn shop is to get a quick loan in exchange for some object/s of equal or usually greater value than the loan itself, with the pawnbroker/shop getting to keep the object/s if you fail to repay the debt on time (which is usually a short-term.) You don't get a discount on anything for pawning things, and items of little/no value are flat-out rejected. That aside, no problems have been solved because you haven't provided an alternative source of income for players. It's trade that generates income. Even high lords typically made money by selling off surplus produce farmed by their slav-err serfs. They could levy taxes, but who is the player going to tax? Are we going to be operating "protection" rackets in the Big Cities? There's no guarantee thus far that there will always be quests available, or that those quests that are available are completable with your current party, current build, or current level.

Ignoring the fact that "diplomation" is not a word (no, Esperanto is not a real language and the rest of the post is broken/poor English so it's clear that the intent was not to use Esperanto,) there's no reason not to have every option. Aside from the philistines who want there to be no communication skills in the game and have it play like a JRPG with a railroad plot and dialogue options restricted to "No." "But thou must!" "No." "But thou must!" "No." "But thou must!" "No." "But thou must!" "No." "But thou must!" "Yes."

YEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH So now we finally get to RP Klarth in a WRPG.

That's an awesome mug. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I can't stop myself. Godlike = Pudgy Na'vi.

Numenera is an interesting setting, but I can't really see a true successor to PS:T without Avellone. Sure, he can give his blessing, but that doesn't confer his writing ability on all the developers of this Numetormentera. He can't cast a mass buff on all of their creative writing skills... so far as I'm aware. Besides, it's selling the setting short to associate it with PS:T before it has a chance to stand on its own two proverbial feet.

Probably not, never played the first two. I'll admit to a bias against western Action RPGs (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic and Arx Fatalis were basically the same clunky messes, and the good version of that game design, Dishonored, isn't an RPG,) with the exception of Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Actually, Kingdoms of Amalur was actually pretty good, gameplay-wise. Not so much in the questing and story design (when you get an Oblivion designer, you get Oblivion quality, sadly.) Eh, maybe I'd play it. Wouldn't back a kickstarter blindly or anything, though.

I'd say you're not burned out if you're still playing Skyrim. How many times can you dive the same* dungeon for random loot without feeling burned out? It's not like the combat system is actually "fun," so what's the appeal? I shouldn't say this on a game developer's gaming board in a "what are you playing" thread, but why not read a book, or learn some fringe hobby like sailing (admittedly, if you went to Yale or live on 5th avenue in Manhattan you probably have a few Yachts already,) or survival training (not like hoarding guns, but learning to be like Les Stroud,) or practice archery in real life (if that appeals to you,) maybe even put in some overtime if employed? Sure it's "less fun" than Skyrim, but if you're really burnt out you might as well do something else that will reset the metaphorical cooldown on gaming burnout. *Yes, the geometric layout is different, but in the end, aren't they all the same, even taking into account the 4 different "tilesets"?

Every time I go to buy a new console, I put the old one in its original box. With the exception of the Atari 2600 which I'd bought a plastic container designed to hold the console and its games (and the whole thing now sits in a box). And my NES, C64 and SegaCD which were bought secondhand. But I admit to being a bit of a hoarder, in that sense. I've only recently started to get myself away from keeping the packaging games come with (putting them instead in folder sleeve container things). I've never sold an old console. Prices are too low, and you know a functioning "antique" console will be worth a lot more than its original MSRP decades out. Unfortunately, don't have the boxes for anything predating PS2. So that'll hit the collectors' value in 50+ years. Even some 15-20 year old games sell for 2-4x their original retail value these days (no "Greatest Hits" editions allowed!) Back in the 90s it was "common knowledge" that these things would never accrue in value over time, but I'm sure most people said that about what they bought new in the 1850s, 1900s and 1950s, as well. Obviously there's a difference between this and hoarding (hoarders keep actual garbage and sell nothing, even if it has great monetary value.) Admittedly, Elvis Presley's used underwear failed to sell at a recent auction. Anyway, I only just bought a PS3 in January (just to play a single game that I know will never appear on PC, yes it was worth the $300 total cost,) so it'll be a long while before I get a PS4 so long as I've got a gaming PC. Sit on it longer. They're going to become more rare and more valued by collectors as time goes on. When these guys are 50-60+ the nostalgia value is going to skyrocket the price you can get.

Well, rather than having emergency rooms foot the bill for emergency coronary bypasses for the people who choose to eat such nauseating dishes, we should let them make the choice to become a walking conduit of cholesterol, forgo any form of medical treatment for any problems that arise (it's not like smoking, aside from unpleasant odors they're not harming anyone else,) and give a boost to the XXXXL casket industry. American manufacturing jobs! Even though there's a part of me that supports government bans on forms of stupidity that cost the public money, i.e. Michael Bloomberg's crackdown on diabeetus-causing sugar-water (it's the government that foots the bill for emergency room patients who can't afford to pay, part of the need for healthcare reform that certain parties willfully overlook because such reforms would hamper the health insurance industry's ability to shaft customers in a non-medical way, despite the fact that, in the end, healthcare reform would reduce government spending, and until a Republican takes the white house again, it's the deficit and government spending that matters most,) if people are stupid enough to eat these things regularly they're probably not a boon to the public good in the first place. It's not like the line cooks and waiters/tresses employed by these joints are paid a fair/living wage to begin with. Which is part of the problem, of course. I never ate that sort of garbage even when overweight, but these people are a whole different class of apathetic (remember what Kreia said!) lumps. There is an addiction aspect, and sort of a cycle of low self-esteem feeding that apathetic attitude toward self-image and health, but after dropping below the 200lb mark, things like a Big Mac are absolutely disgusting to me where they weren't before. It's like they exude a miasma of fatty grease, like a morbidly obese guy who hasn't showered in a week.

The only problem I ever have with steam is connectivity or server issues. Like when it says "DERRR YOU CAN'T PLAY THAT NEW SINGLE PLAYER GAME/GAME THAT DOESN'T USE STEAM FOR MULTIPLAYER CONNECTIONS THAT YOU JUST DOWNLOADED BECAUSE TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO PLAY IT SO WE CAN'T GIVE PERMISSION RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE SHOULD INVEST IN MORE SERVER CAPACITY AND/OR INCREASED BANDWIDTH. Also buy this new TF2 hat for only $14.99! These funds will not go towards improving the aforementioned issues, or Half-Life 2 Episode 3. Or Half-Life 3. Or Left 4 Dead 3. Or Portal 3. Or anything with the number 3 in it because that's the first digit in GabeN's weight, and we have big-budget Hollywood-quality props from WETA workshop to fill our offices with." THAT SAID, all they've done over the years is improve Steam, especially with the Workshop allowing you to download and install/uninstall mods easily and seamlessly (even in-game without needing to restart in the case of some titles, like Civ V,) and you can do it without having to wallow through the **** encrusted sewer infested with perverts that is the "nexus" family of mod sites that has come to dominate the modding scene over the past few years.

You sure are fixated on this "enemy who steals your identity and/or all your skills and attributes permanently forever" thing. Here's an enemy for you: A rock. It falls down on your head and it's invincible because it's made out of stone. But it only gets one move, which is falling on your head. Once it moves, combat is over. There's no experience for combat so it's not a loss. It doesn't stick tentacles in your butt and become you and turn you into some kind of tentacle rape monster who has to tentacle rape someone else to become them, thus permanently becoming not the protagonist and ending the main story.

He's literally just ripping off names of characters and techniques used in Fist of the North Star and applying them to his derp ideas without really addressing the concept he's talking about. And then talking about turning your character into "DIAMOND THE HARDEST METAL" and making us all laugh.

Trying the Steampunk scenario in Civ V G&K. ....Odd. At least the leaders don't have 598 brass-rimmed monocles attached to stovepipe hats with actual stovepipes and steam whistles sticking out. Yes, I'm calling you out, steampunk cosplayers. You look like buffoons.

That's not how "cloud gaming" works, and the concept of getting a livestream of a game running on a server 500 miles away has always been stupid. Lag is always going to be an issue, no matter how high bandwidth goes. It's just watching a compressed streaming video that you get to make inputs on. Lower visual quality AND input lag is not a step up from having your own machine to play games on. The "cloud" is servers. Cloud computing is using your device as just a way to access the processing power and applications of a server some distance away from you. Putting a disc in a machine has nothing to do with that concept. You have the information on the disc. There's no cloud involved. Why would you want to put in the disc containing the info you already have so that you can download it from a server and waste time when you can use the information you physically posses?

He's just spouting hyperbolic reactionary BS. Like all the conservatives who went out and bought extra guns when Obama was re-elected in preparation for the coming war for the abolition of Obama's socialist Kenyan muslim atheist takeover. Keeping in mind that no actual socialist on Earth considers Obama a socialist, or any of his policies socialist. Obama is still filling his administration with Wall Street insiders just as a GOP president would. He's letting Wall Street off scot-free, just like any good GOP candidate would. Ignoring, of course, the scientific and medical consensus that smoking is terrible for your health and incurs huge cost burdens on the public who have to pay for smokers' healthcare. And the class-action lawsuit filed by most of the US states against the Tobacco industry in which the courts ruled that cigarettes are deadly, designed to be addictive and that the Tobacco companies had to pay recompense to the states for all the healthcare costs incurred as a result of tobacco products designed to be more addictive, and more deadly as a side effect (i.e. the addition of ammonia to quicken the nicotine's crossing of the blood-brain barrier in order to increase the probability of addiction and the frequency of cravings.) Unfortunately, the world is full of other people. Economists refer to this phenomenon as harming others as a result of economic activity as "external costs." Conservative economists like to bury their heads in the sand of right-wing political zeal and say that external costs don't exist. They'll maintain that water is a naturally combustible substance rather than admit that corporate industrial pollution caused the Cuyahoga River Fire. Yes, that river in Ohio that caught fire because of all the industrial pollutants industry was dumping into it. It's events like that that forces government to expand to protect the citizenry, it was Nixon who signed the Environmental Protection Act into law, after all. And it goes to show just how lazy today's Americans are about politics. It was public outcry over the environment that forced Nixon's hand, but there's no similar mass movement against the religion of the free market and all the ills its caused over the past 40-50 years (reminder: Under Eisenhower, taxes on the top 1% were 90%, and that's the golden age the tea partiers and rightists want to return to, it was 70% before Reagan dropped it into the 30s and all these problems started popping up along with Alan Greenspan's Ayn Randian sociopathic policies.) Even if there were, it would have to be massive to overcome the influence of big money on politicians. No private citizen has a right, or a privilege, to infringe upon the health and well-being of others except in self-defense, neither do corporations, even now that the conservative majority on the SCOTUS has ruled that corporations are human beings.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/california-dept-transportation-be-sure-black-out-united-states-and-motto_703014.html?page=1 So do you have any actual journalistic evidence of this flagrant violation of the federal government's right to slap its emblems on a state or local public artwork? A right-wing political opinion rag isn't journalism. If they were instead banning depictions of Che Guevara I don't think the Weekly Standard would be up in arms over this. Assuming the contents of the article are accurate. Which they cannot be, given the inherent anti-evidentiary nature of the source. Besides, if you want to be the Republic of Texas, who are you to infringe on the rights of another sovereign state? Oh right, conservative. Question answered.

Not really New Vegas anymore, then. Obviously the title should be different if the setting isn't centered on/directly adjacent to the New Vegas area.