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No, you get to feel occasionally very powerful as you encounter the same bandits you would on lv 1. Most of the time they have both level and armor upgrades though. It's nowhere as annoying as in Morrowind (lv 40 rats) or Oblivion.

I'm not sure there is such a thing as a good boss fight. They are certainly very rare. It's usually trial and error and often with a new set of mechanics than what you had been using for 99% of the game, in other words an unwelcome nuisance at what was supposed to be a peak moment.

Agree on Shivering Isles. A bit small though. In a perfect world it would have been the main game.

The dialogue is quite abhorrent in Morrowind, a lot of improvements there in Oblivion and Skyrim, but NPC interaction is still a Bethesda weakness. Morrowind was about seeing what was on the other side of the hill. Once you got tired of that the main quest was more or less an afterthought. It didn't feel like every other game though, great art direction instead of the 'safe' default 1200 ct Europe fantasy setting you always get. I do agree that Skyrim would have been much better without so much hand holding of the PC. Let people figure it out themselves. The automap for instance had you zapping between locations and there was a notation for every little hovel. The fun of getting there was taken out of it way too soon. Your journal automatically got filled up with quests, you didn't even have to do anything other than kill stuff you met on the way.

Same difference. The only election where personal votes actually matter are municipal elections, and no one cares about them. Otherwise they go to the party for determining mandates.

This is why you should have at least 7 or 8 parties. The Republicans have to cater to wingnuts and it's dragging them down long term as people are starting to get fed up with them.

It's a bit annoying that you can't buy specific classes. After you get the new guy upgrade you can buy 20-30 or so squaddies, they only cost 15 a piece and have no upkeep, and just dismiss the classes you don't need.

Some people get very hard over that whole republican fembot Ann Coulter look.

I kinda think actors and musicians and the like should stay out if politics. In my opinion it's a somewhat unsavory way to use whatever goodwill and recognition they have accrued. Better spent doing charity work at least. Wheldon is a director, that's not quite the same. You would expect someone like that to be opinionated.

And motorcycles. Skyrim had horses, there is no way FO4 will not have hogs.

I'm not against it, but 2,5d isometric is probably not going to make for a good fung fu experience.

A lot of the art assets if not the engine looked quite dated when FONW came out, probably that it didn't look polished was a determining factor in failing to meet the bonus critera.

The argument could be made that western industrialized countries have the most to gain by securing a global emmissions treaty with real numbers attatched, not just lofty intentions. We already have the lead in green tech, and if developing countries have to follow suit there is money to be made. A whole lot of it. The idea being that it's basically a hoax orchestrated to create a new demand, you know like 'organic' food. I'm not personally that jaded but it's an interesting thought.

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One really annoying bug has been bothering me. Every time a mind controlled enemy dies you get the 'fallen comrade' penalty applied again. Doesn't take much for most of your squad to panic with two psy squaddies. On the other hand you get the (intact) inventory of aliens you have controlled even if they were blown to bits on the last turn of the control ability. Which can be quite profitable.

The spawning isn't very good. Initially you are often better off not moving an inch after initial contact because trying to flank would bring in extra enemy squads. This is exacerbated on small maps. Getting the ghost armor helps some, but it's quite massively overpowered particularly if you get 6 assault squaddies using it. You guys should really be playing on classic, normal gets much too easy after your squad gets beefed up.

The police aren't corrupt in The Wire. They do the job they are given by politicians who want immediate results, so they deliver and juice the stats to keep their jobs. It's more of a systemic situation. Everybody who wants to succeed has to cheat to get there. Like winning the Tour de France

Actually it's nothing like a Law and Order episode. I wouldn't say that's a very good comparison. The only similarity is it has Detectives in it some of the time. If you were going to compare it to an episodical show, Homicide: Life on the Street would be the closest, because there's way more character projection than Law and Order, which is bone dry in comparison. The character John Munch from Law and Order: SVU is actually originally from Homicide: Life on the Street, same character, same actor. However his Law and Order version is _NOTHING_ like his Homicide: Life on the Street version, he essentially becomes a paper-cut out. Definitely give it a go Cantousent, give it a few episodes before deciding if you're into it or not (minimum 4 imo), as it's a show that builds over time. Law and order, in addition to being quite boring is one of those tigthly segmented weekly shows. There's always the visit to the coroner, always the tribulations of the public prosecutor, insert random office banter etc.nothing ever changes. Like NCIS really. The wire, although it's a cop show, has much more true to life characters, even if some are a bit over the top. Homicide was better in every sense and would not be a terrible comparison.

My saves aren't sorted at all, not even by time played and some times they don't show up before I do a reload. I have to limit myself to 3 slots to avoid confusion. I kinda wish there were more than just the one base assault, not counting the endgame. It would change things up a bit as well from the alien abduction missions. Other than that, playing on Ironman after I got the crashes sorted out is extremely challenging.

My best bet would probably be ganking other survivors for their ****.

Call me naive, but I don't understand the economic of mustaches and how they generate revenue. Does it really bring in people who otherwise would not have donated.

As mentioned there is one school of though that advocate that climate change is lowering the temperature, not raising it. I don't know what to think. We have only been measuring temperatures for a few hundred years, before that all we have to go on are permafrost segments. They can only tell us so much. That doesn't mean it's not a better idea to play the odds and reduce emissions as much as possible.

Guy just called me and told me he found my wallet. Even said exactly how much cash was in there. My faith in the human race has gone up a few notches.

I must admit I get zero řƟłěƤĮāŷíńģ enjoyment out of leveling up. It does grate at me constantly if I can't have my character the way I imagined it.