Slowtrain

If nothing else I think RJ deserves a lot of credit for being able to milk his mediocre fantasy drivel all the way until his death. Although I have to admit I stopped reading at book 5, I think. Which was when I realized I had juist read through 1000 pages and nothing had happened. At least Tolkien had the decency to just chuck it all out there in one book and be done with it.

Boo was awesome.

One word: No More Level Scaling! Serisly, swapping a world full of mole rats for a world for of Yao Guai is preposterous. If that's where you want go , then just fill the world with Yao Guai from the start and be done with it.

Cool. Thask you. I was just curious if having something to gain or lose financially based on how many copies a company's games sell changed one's views on hardcore drm.

I'm amazed anybody would cry over the Wheel of Time. Other than crying if forced to read all 12 books.

now that you're a stockholder how do you feel about EA using draconian DRM schemes to help you see a return on your investment?

Only if they are good. Well, the way I see it, out of a horde at least a few have to be decent. So the bigger the horde, the better!

If FO3's success spawns a entire horde of PA shooters, I'll be very happy.

That's why I said the possibilities are awesome! And yeah, bugs. It's the first thing I think of any time the world STALKER comes up. :/

At least someone's doing it. I can't imagine having to rely on US developers for interesting games.

Well the idea would appear to be that you are paying for additional content from within the game vs some other way. The additional content would have to be paid for either way, whether in game or out.

Hah, OK I just got excited about a game for the first time in 5 years. I'm already afraid it will just be a buggy barely functioning mess. But the possibilities are awesome.

I remain unconvinced.

lol. Awesome. edit: I just watched his HAlo 3 review. He doesn't appear to actually hate it. But he's definitely not a fan.

I'm waiting to hear what the esteemed members of this forum have to say before I decide if I'm buying or not.

Did he say why?

lol. Is it better to address something in a dumb way or simply to ignore it altogether?

I wanted to drop that flying elf chick in BG2 off a bridge. Didn't really hurt the game though. edit: As far as intra-party banter goes I prefer party members refrain from ever speaking unless I speak to them first, which I never will. By all accounts I am an extreme minority in this area.

Overall the game seemed sorta interesting. Have to hear more though.

How does a game get 7.4 for story when the reviewer just got through saying there really isn't one?

I never encountered that, but I seem to recall others having the same problems. That would be annoying I agree. While I agree that from a logical and real world perspective the concept of hiding behind a really small bush amd killing mercs without being detected is pretty ludicrous, so is the basic premise of one lone jughead falling off a sailboat and then going on a rampage that kills hundreds if not thousands of mercs and monsters. I thought the stealth system worked well as part of the gameplay Yeah, I heard a lot of bad things about that difficulty setting and never used it. I just played on normal, I think.

That's definitely a valid point. I tend to forget that because I never used VATS my impressions of FO3 are going to be somewhat different from people who used VATS a lot.

Fo3 was most fun from about levels 1-5, then it crashed and burned in a hurry. By level 10 it was pretty numbing. For a variety of reasons. But even with a low int of 4 or 5 I pretty much had no need to spend skill points after level 10-12.

I still disagree that the system is "meaningless." It's pretty obvious what it does, and that if you spend points in a particular skill you'll get better at it. You don't start the game off with 100 in every skill, and on my playthrough I only hit 100 in small guns. If I metagame and/or am fully exploratory, then yeah, I'll have a lot of skill points. It's just the game rewarding a player for being thorough, it doesn't make the skill system meaningless. You don't really get that much better though. Except for those few areas which are hardlocked to skill level (trap disarming, lock picking) there really isn't much of a difference between a 40 skill and a 70 skill. Is there a difference between a 20 and a 100, yeah, sure definitely. Its not that huge though. And when you add to that how easy it is for any character to get all their skills high in the first place, I get confused as to why there is a skil system in the first place. It's not a bad thing to not have a skil system. So if you don't reaally want one, don't put one in. By You, I mean Bethesda, of course.