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Yes, yes... I was merely describing why I'd like to see the setting intact, I was not making any actual comments on the Fallout setting :ph34r:

high-tech can be included, but it should be OLD high-tech, like powersuits or plasma guns, witch have already been included <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was talking about games based off Mad Max, not Fallout. I could've used Star Wars as an example as well, but I couldn't really think of anything (except cars maybe) that wouldn't fit into the Star Wars settings :D

Well, why the setting and mythos is important to me is because... well, imagine the games being based on Mad Max (hehe). You can make RPG's based on the Mad Max franchise, actions games... heck even Racing games. But it would sorta ruin the whole thing if a developer chose to include elves in it, or in the case of Mad Max as franchise, really high-tech stuff. Although writing new stuff that fits the setting is great (and nescessary). EDIT: Yeah, I really loved the game system in the Fallouts, it was that as much as anything that made Fallout 1 and 2 great... and growing an extra toe, getting a doctor to remove it then eating it. o_o

Van Buren was a real heart-break, all around. How I feel about the subject is that after the cancellation of Van Buren the TB Fallout RPG won't happen again. I don't really see Bethesda's Fallout 3 as a sequel to Fallout 1 and 2, and thus I don't really care if it's isometric or fps, turn-based or real-time. It's Bethesda's game set in the Fallout setting. However, if they mess up on the Fallout "mythos" (i.e, the Fallout setting), that's another deal all-together. I personally have no expactations whatsoever on Fallout 3. Perhaps all my excitement died with Van Buren and all the drama surrounding it, and after. All in all, I don't feel nuthin' about Bethesda's Fallout 3, except mild curiosity.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_patches.htm And while there is no infinite power, you can get pretty decent power by capturing phat souls and using the Azura Star or whatevah (hot tip, get the star. It's a winner). I think the best thing you can do is NOT overdo the spell on your weapon, plus enchanting REALLY phat weapons. That way you get a sword that dishes out a lot of dmg without the enchantment, plus a little bit of fire dmg against Ice atronaches or similar. I don't remember what my favourite was, but I think the drain hp or something like that was very effective against most opponents. Unfortunately enchanting got gimped a lot in Oblivion... there are some spells you can't use in enchanting. There are some mods for this, however.

Hmm, I'm starting to have second thoughts... perhaps I should've bought this one instead of Gothic 3.

Of course I'd love another Fallout game, TB and all etc. If I think Fallout 3 stinks (when it's out), then I won't buy it. I'm not going to buy something just because it has the name Fallout in it... I mean, that'd be crazy. But that's it. I don't see why I have to get upset about it.

Haha, if there was a reward for worst movie sequel, Highlander II would win it... not once, but every year, for all eternity. :D Ah, Talladega Nights... Ricky Bobby: This kinda reminds me of that Highlander movie. Jean Girard: What? I never saw that. Ricky Bobby: It was nominated for an academy award. Jean Girard: For what? Ricky Bobby: Best movie made ever. EDIT: Girias_Solo: What are you talking about? Fallout IS one of my favourite games. What I'm saying is, nothing Bethesda (or anyone else, forever) creates - using the Fallout name - can make Fallout 1 and 2 change. So why should it bother me? EDIT2: Ooh, did I just level up? o_o

I really like the texture painting... seems much faster and intuitive than in Far Cry's editor (which is the closest thing I've worked with to this). Plus it doesn't look like you have to re-bake all the time to get the proper lights to show on the terrain mesh. EDIT: The techno music is a bit annoying though... I hope you can turn it off in the editor.

This is interesting I'd like a demo, though.

Actually, I agree with Metadigital here... adding stuff from Deus Ex and Fallout into Oblivion would (if done properly) be a pretty awesome game. Perhaps not a direct sequel to Fallout, but a pretty awesome game in its own right. And the dark brotherhood quests were actually pretty good, if linear as always. EDIT: Girias_Solo, you know that Fallout 3 will be a new game, right? They're not deleting Fallout 2 and Fallout 1 and then rewriting them. If you want to play Fallout, you can always play it again. I fear that's the only thing you can do if you want Fallout. But, I suppose following your logic, they should prolly name the game Fallout: Subtitle, not Fallout 3.

Since these pay-mods are made by Bethesda, I think they could at least make them more meaty. The horse armor mod and Orrery mods are laughable, if even that. I actually think one guy cried after he installed the Orrery. Anyway, has there been any community made mods worth downloading since the UI-mods? HAHA! Yeah, it all comes back to me now... I had all these different feather spells with varying time and weight compensation, too. The lewting was almost a mini-game onto itself. XD My nord must've looked like Santa Clause when he came popping out of the Oblivion gates. Oh, and he was a master alchemist as well. All in the name of looting the kingdom. I think I had a minimal telekenesis spell just to get those special lightbulb-like gems in the ruins. ps. Now that I think back, I vaguely remember enchanting a ring or something with feather and dubbed it my Loot-ring. You can do that, right? EDIT: Heh, I'm actually starting to feel like installing the game again and make a Master Looter, with a major in Lock-picking, stealth and alteration... and pick EVERYTHING up.

Bethesda would have to be mad not to be able to recapture the visual style of Fallout, in 3D. I think that goes for sound and music as well. I mean, all they have to do is look and listen to the previous games. (Perhaps make one guy play the games, sorta like they did with that one guy and the soil erosion, heh heh). Recapturing the audio and visual style of Fallout isn't enough to make a fallouty Fallout 3 game though. And I'm not hero praising Fallout here, either. I mean, without the getting the gameplay and other meat of Fallout right, you would really end up with Oblivion with Guns, set in the desert.

What exactly is ugly about Eschalon Book 1? I think it looks pretty sexy for a game with 2D tiles, and the characters and monsters don't look like paper-cutouts. I think, on a whole, that it's pretty good looking. Geneforge 4 is pretty much ugly though. Still downloading the demo for Geneforge 3, hehe... I want to see if there's a good game behind the child-crayon like graphics.

Not sure if there are any game-stopping bugs in it now, or quest breaking ones. EDIT: Seems there's still some quest breaking ones. Also, since you can finish quests (and parts of quests) without taking them, etc. you can get into quest problems of dire nature. My problem is mainly with the glitches that make the game crash all the time, and stuff like if you play the game for a while it'll go choppy as hell. There's also this bug, where if you've played a while then polygons on the terrain mesh will not render. And on the crashes, every single time I get a new error msg. So, I'd say they need to work on the stability of the engine more than work on scripting bugs and such. Although, reading through the Jowood forum there's still a whole lot of bugs.

No, if they'd have turn-based, they'd most likely have bullet time deaths. Anyway, I was thinking about Fallout and those gory deaths in real-time 3D when I saw this (It's a bit gory, BE WARNED): http://www.realmatter.com/ It's a fancy Soft Body Physics engine... wait until you see the zombies in that streaming video, or better yet, download it for your own Zombie mutilation fun! It's nothing photoreal, it's just soft body physics with tearing (so if you pull the arm hard, it'll tear and come off). What I fear is that Bethesda will concentrate too much on above mentioned gore, and perhaps try some cheesy humour and not try hard enough at the rest of the stuff that made fallout into fallout. EDIT: I'm not trying to discredit Bethesda, it's just that Fallout is so different from the games they're used to making.

Hehe, I remember that most of the oblivion gate quests for me was all about figuring out which loot was most profitable vs its own weight. I was usually crawling out of Oblivion every time. Although I sorta disagree with the "Done one, Done em all"... there was 2 oblivion gates that were different. Don't wanna give out spoilers, though.

With my first play-through of oblivion, I was primarily a swordsfighter with shield and a wee tad of healing. And I finished that plot like it was my lover long lost. My second, third and forth didn't get that far into the plot.... well, my second did.. a thief and archer. I was, as they said back then, the Feces. The only thing that can get Oblivion hard on you is levelling too fast. Like, if you level up by making potions and stuff, whilst you haven't fought a lot, you'd be the grand champion potionmaker, but the n00b at fighting... which of course brings trouble into the hood when you try to figh, considering you're pretty low level at fighting but high level alchemy, whilst your enemies level with you, except they are l33t at fighting. err... sorry, I'm a tad drunk (i.e pissed like a Pratchett squirrel)... what I'm saying is, all foes are the same level as you, and if you've leved up with nothing but lockpicking, you're bound to get screwed. EDIT: Because your foes will be lvl:d with phat fighting skills, not enchanting, alchemy or smithing skills or whatever got you levelled up so fast. And don't get me started on persuation.

I've played the game more now, and I really love it. But I think I'm going to play a lot less for week or so, then play the NWN 2 OC through before going back to serious Gothic 3 playing. The crashes and stuff are a bit too many for me, so I think it's best if I don't ruin my experience with the game (and instead, wait until it's further patched). Me and Cyrus just downed 10-20 goblins with our bow/crossbows and a little bit of fencing from me. Then the game crashed while I was gathering my paht lewt (consisting mostly of cake and muffins that the goblins where carrying on them). So, I feel it's best to put the game off until I've played through NWN 2. And I'd suggest those of you who'd like to play Gothic 3 do something similar. I feel a bit like I'm breaking up with a lady, or summin-summin EDIT: Just HAVE to add that the music in the game is almost worth the money for the game alone, in my opinion.

Hmm, according to System Requirements Lab my computer is actually a fair bit over the recommended for NWN 2... which is weird, considering I've been reading dev quotes and getting a sweaty upper lip whilst fiddling with my wallet nervously. Also, the underwear look hilarious with the boots on. EDIT: Hmm, I've got a funny feeling about that Tilak guy in that thread. The same feeling I get around close relatives to horses and those guys demanding toll at bridges.

Was just cleaning up my computer when I found some old WoW screenshots... I had some real funny bugs one day. Clothes on females (only!) was missing for some reason. My alt character was invisible, and wearing seemingly all items when viewed in the inventory (+ all hair/face combos).

Yeah, check the jowood board. Other than my own experience, from what comments I've read on there it's been fixed. also: "- Combat AI for several monsters improved/simplified (e.g. boar)" from 2nd patch changelog.

Crap. I wish I had played the Broken Sword series when it started... I hate to start playing games (with continuation) with a sequel. Alas, my poor 80286 couldn't handle it! ;_;

Meh, I liked the videos... looked like it could be a good fantasy action game or something. But I didn't like the demo much at all. There were some things I liked, but over all; no. Probably due to bad performance and combat that didn't suit me much at all.

The stunlock has been fixed by the 2nd patch... fighting animals is much easier now. Or not difficult because of being weird, I should say. The game is still hard. There's been some rebalancing of weapons and such also, apparantly (read it on the Jowood forums). The performance is a tad better, I think. Even before the 2nd patch I had great FPS in the game, but a lot of stuttering due to caching and stuff. It's pretty much the same after the 2nd patch, but with less stuttering I think. Armor works now, hehe. I'm still getting occassional game lock-ups, which sucks. The bug with some terrain mesh not rendering after a while is still there... it looked like some culling problem to me. I haven't really played the game long enough to form a real opinion on it yet, but so far it's been fun. With the patch a lot of the frustrating parts of the gameplay (stunlock in particular) has been removed, so now it's more performance and game lock-ups that annoys me. One thing I like is that I'm feeling like I can't just run off in any direction, prancing like a daisy, secure in the knowledge that a kiss on the cheek is enough to make an run off with a blush like I did with my Nord in Oblivion. It's a dangerous world in Gothic 3. Also, the landscape is awesome in Gothic 3... a lot of height difference and stuff. Graphics hozing: View distance in the game is worse than in Oblivion, and it's handled worse I think (i.e LOD-border and stuff is very visible and there's distance-fog). Overall it feels technically less advanced than oblivion, but the design is tonnes better in Gothic 3 in my opinion. Plus all characters etc have real animations instead of crazy-stiff placeholder animations. It feels much more dynamic and fluid because of this. The game is also more crowded/densily populated, which is nice... wild life is actually living, with wolves attacking other animals in packs and such. (The reason I'm comparing it with Oblivion is due to the fact that they're both based on Gamebryo, btw.) SPECS: Intel P4 Hyperthreading 3.2ghz 1GB ram 7800 GS 256mb Some modifications to ge3.ini