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I Believe the publishers are Atari.

'Toshiba says the reactor will make power available for as little as 5 cents' And the companies who invest in one will make sure consumers pay what they always have. The power industry has a long track record of cartels and underhand deals.

What they use to power nuclear subs is about the size of a stove. I guess a little, well a lot, of extra lead is needed for the home environment.

As I said, they had a plan to kill everyone in the tower.

I mean a gritty rather than harmless atmosphere. The game is a bit overrepresented in cute and cuddly. Often you are the only mean bastard in the dialogues. is one of the few examples, the rest are merely comic, or have no purpose other than to shoot at you. Too bad I Killed whatshisface who wanted me to blow up megaton. Hearing him say 'misunderstanding' gave me the giggles, and reminded me of the 'the dark brotherhood' questline in Oblivion, same voice actor, exact same delivery. I do love the voice of president Eden though, Malcom McDowell aced that one.

Yeah that was stupid, the ghouls clearly said they wanted to kill all the inhabitants. Tenpenny tower wanted to be rid of them. Lesser of two evils, since I could find no way to compromise or had too little in speech, was to kill the ghouls. Massacre avoided right, no, you get negative Karma.

I found I had to uninstall the thing, knowing just how easy it is to start the game instead of the work I'm supposed to be doing. Anyway this is a step up for Bethesda. A few things I wanted to see but didn't. 1. A More adult approach, the 'all ages' idea leaves the game too sanitized and lacking in some areas, and no I'm not talking about porn. Take the silly super villain quests as a for instance. Yes the overall design of Fallout is cartoonish, but not the Walt Disney kind. 2. I don't know if this is a limitation of the engine, as to how many actors can be in play at once, but a proper city. New Reno size. 3. Less generic content. The DC metro and sewers are the same level 30 times over, it gets very repetitive. I can think of a few things to spruce the monotony up just off the top of my head. 4. More challenging combat. I suppose the non existent enemy AI is at fault here as well, would be nice to see them try to flank you or cut you off.

I used to crawl around on the rooftops when I was little, a whole block of apartments had interconnected roofs and you could venture out there to do a full circuit. Plenty of treacherous climbs on the way. My mom never found out or I would have been in so much trouble. When vertigo hits you you it's like a terrifying mescaline trip that lasts 30 seconds. I guess high rise builders eventually just get immune.

I started another game and I plan on seeing it through to the end of the main quest. The metro areas are a real hassle, the quest markers don't seem to work. Instead of pointing you in the right direction they tend to mislead you. So far getting around has been trial and error and ignoring the quest markers.

No really, I always find it funny when presidents make a big deal out of running, while the secret service guys try very hard to look as exhausted as, whats the term, eagle one.

No one is going to know beforehand how to pronounce 'Rekoyl' and 'Recoyle', or where to put stresses, seeing as how they are made up words. Might as well have a genuine Swedish word no one can pronounce.

Doesn't he have a liver condition to worry about from when he pumped steroids as well as iron. The only muscle the president needs is the one between his shoulders.

Yes unfortunately a big bureaucracy is needed for extended welfare, unless you are just going to write checks whenever someone says they need something, you need an army of case workers.

Maybe it's so cool it doesn't even need a catchy name, the kinda thing where the insiders will just give each other knowing glances.

Why do you guys worry so much about what it's going to sound like in English, have a little pride. It's not your fault you sound like demented fairies.

Ohh, by the way they have Communists in Cuba and China. Socialism at gunpoint, not the best examples.

There are just so many things you have to own in order to have any chance of becoming president, that no socialist is ever going to get there. Death Penalty, and broad unsubstantiated statements like 'socialized healthcare doesn't work', to name a few. Yes it works dumbass, Americans just don't want it.

FO 2 didn't have any children at all for that same reason, if you patched them back, you could blow their brains out. Although with FO 3 graphics, that is heads popping left and right like mellons, it would have been several miles over the top. People complain of the lack of sex with hookers. I agree that the game as a whole looks way too sanitized, the griminess of New Reno is nowhere to be found. Now personally I would have been satisfied with nudity, in game preferably. I mean what else are you going to do, a 'minigame'. Move the mouse for vector, CTRL for throttle... Don't think so.

I can't get myself to care when a celebrity dies, unless it's Gandhi or Nelson Mandela or something. Well, I was kinda nonplussed when Mother Theresa bought it as well. This is normal guys, people die all the time. 66 is only 5 years short of the male median living age.

The game benefits from a proper sound card. These days many people make do with on board sound chips, but they usually don't handle directional audio on multiple channels that well. First thing to do is to run directx setup and update sound drivers. Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, I honestly don't know how to do that. Anyway, I'm not the only person having this problem. Over on the Bethesda boards, several others are too. It's really a game breaker since the music is blasting constantly and I cannot hear anything else. Someone said they got relief by setting the wave output on Vista to direct sound. Unfortunately, I have XP and yep, I don't know how to do that either. I'm kind of hopeless... Well, first step is to find out what you have, that should be listed in the control panel under System > Hardware > Control Panel. Navigate to audio devices, that should tell you the name of the device. Then it's off to do a driver search. With any luck there will be something available to download. After installing that launch Directx setup, that can be found on the game disk itself, or on microsoft.com. ... and after all that it's entirely possible that it won't solve the audio issue after all. Worth a shot though.

If you cripple a limb that is already crippled it ought to kill the target.

Mission based doesn't count.

What a pathetic mythos, and they seem to have spent time and effort on it as well. I suppose it might be appealing if you are like, 13 years old and confused.

Let me just say this straight up, I like FO3... right. The Animations in FO3 are down right bloody ****! They're absolutely CACK! That's not just a matter of opinion, it's all really poor animation, the only time anything begins to look good is when the physics takes over for a corpse... Walk cycles, reloads, the whole lot, absolute amatur tripe. I still think the game is awesome mind, but the idea anyone could actually comment on the animation scares me... And don't get me started on the rendering, and artwork. Basically the game is "Technically" an absolute turd. I don't think it has head tracking, and you do look very mannequin-ish when you observe you character doing something from head on. Same as every Bethesta Game though, it's certainly not worse than Oblivion, and it looks quite fine in the usual over the shoulder mode. You don't notice the lack of variety so much. There are no idle animations either, well some of the NPCs smoke cigarettes or hold cups, but that's about it.

The game benefits from a proper sound card. These days many people make do with on board sound chips, but they usually don't handle directional audio on multiple channels that well. First thing to do is to run directx setup and update sound drivers.