Amentep

^I wouldn't care about failing the waterchip quest if it wasn't for the fact that IIRC failing that quest to get the waterchip also ended the game. Why can't I let the Vault die and get on with my bidness? I thought that FO2 had a similar timer (if the village got wiped out before a certain event was reached the game ended) but If I misremember, mea culpa.

Weak. The timer in Fallout 2 was virtually nonexistent, and the one in Fallout 1 could be extended and even stopped altogether IIRC. Regardless, timers have nothing to do with railroading a story. There was no narrative choice in Fallout 3 in the main story line. And other than that, the only notable choice was blowing up a city built around a nuke for some inexplicable reason for fun. Really hard choice, huh. The game was fun, but the writing was so cringe-worthy that I couldn't bear myself to finishing it for the second time. :D I hate-hate-hated the timers in both Fallout and Fallout 2. And you could stop both timers - provided you rushed to get to the point where you could stop the timer, at which point you could lazily do the open world exploration. But a railroad is a railroad, if you didn't do what the game designers wanted you to do in the time they wanted you to do it - end of game. Been awhile since I played Fallout 3 but IIRC your choices affect Megaton, Little Lamplight and the other town connected to it and the high rise with the ghoul problem. The main story is a narrative railroad (one that they never quite justify following, IMO). New Vegas gives more main story narrative choices (even if only an idiot would ever join Ceasar).

Velociraptors were small but the other branch of the family tree was bigger - with Utahraptor or Dromaeosaurus being more right for what the movie shows. Albeit still without feathers...

No dev in their right mind would ever work for the Codex. For one, it's just an internet forum. For two, they hate everything. Not true. They like Fallout 1, MCA and Tim Cain. I think you mean "They hate Fallout 1, MCA and Tim Cain less than they hate other stuff." Likes a pretty strong word. I keed, I keed...RPG Codex likes a lot of stuff (and individual members have wide variety of tastes); there's just not a lot of games that meet the high standards they set for "good game" status.

I think that there's just a lot of people who want to dump on Bethesda because that's what the majority seem to want to do. I played Fallout and Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. The stinker of a story was not Fallout 3 in that group. Fallout & Fallout 2 have more narrative railroading (due to the timers) than either of the others. At the end of the day the biggest sin Fallout 3 did was force a narrative choice at the end rather than let the choice come about based on how the character had played. The rest of the game was - IMO - pretty fun.

I'm reading Jurassic Park and The Lost World...I'll confirm in a few months. Maybe..

My primary interest in Stick of Truth was Obsidian (having never watched a South Park episode). Not sure without that Obsidian name that the game holds much appeal (although I guess slightly more appeal because I played Stick than had it never existed).

Regarding T-Rex in the first film - there's a fan explanation that the T-Rex had a cold as to why Grant's "just stand still" strategy worked given the T-Rex's sense of smell.. I mean I guess it could have gotten better overnight, but... My theatrical cut never had wall bursting. So sad. At least I did get to see the weird 13th Warrior edit that's not the film out on DVD...I'll always have that bit of film trivia. I'm not surprised that the boat sequence was added - it felt added on in the second film. I guess I can kinda buy the Spinosaurus theory, since they were clearly at an outlet for a river...and I guess it didn't like the saltier seawater and went back to freshwater after grabbing a snack.

Watched all the Jurassic Films over the weekend. Was fun. JP was the only film I watched 3 times at the theater. I probably liked the 2nd film better this time around than any other time I've watched it, although I still find it falls flat in San Diego. JPIII is a tight film; not terribly ambitious but it does what it sets out to do. A few lingering questions Jurassic Park - How did the T-Rex get into the Visitor's Center? It was last in the savannah grasslands when the power was turned on. Nedry left the doors open, but why would the T-Rex run all around the park just to keep chasing Grant and the kids? Jurassic Park: The Lost World - Okay so what killed the people on the boat? The baby T-Rex wasn't there, the T-Rex was locked in the hold, so what killed the crew and where was it after the crash? Jurassic Park III - again with the boat deaths, what killed the two guys in the speedboat to set all of this off? The aviary wasn't opened until much, much later. A sea dinosaur? But Jurassic World is the first known appearance of InGen doing a mosasaur...? Anyhow, the main event was Jurassic World. It hooked me like the original film did; it may not be quite as strong, but it does a good job building the new world and setting it on its spin. By the time the end rolled around I knew where it was going (whether it made sense or not) and it was exciting to see. Lots of dangling plot elements to be picked up in an inevitable sequel.

She-Conan? Is Red Sonja that obscure these days?

Personally, I have no ****ing clue what you're speaking about, Frodo.

I like the basic idea of fantasy Victorian setting and magic vs tech, but IMO the thing would need a ground up overhaul.

Yes?

RIP, truly sad news.

Yes, but those use an Apple emulator. They work fine for some people, for others, not so much. Hopefully this means that whoever has those games already but doesn't buy TBT4 still gets the reworked versions as a free upgrade. Ah, that makes sense. I knew something was weird with them (but haven't really tried to play them yet).

Wasn't the original bts part of the wasteland kickstarter? I got them and wasteland already...

3878 days = 93072 hours 800 hours / 93072 hours = .009 (.9%) .9% of 24 hours = .2 hours I forgot to keep track of my units. I'm properly mortified.

But remember, that's 375+ hours over 11 years (3878 days), so even if WOT doubled with your post count, its still only about 4.5 hours a day. For 11 years. Not making it any better, am I?

That's rather...curt. Seems like there was a fallout between the owners. Well I could be wrong, I see where you're coming from, but I can't say that sentence reads that a fallout between owners is exactly a necessity. It could be unexpected and they didn't have a proper PR response crafted, or it could be that they don't feel any more detail would actually stop the conspiracy theories, so why add more fuel to them by offering a larger text for people to dissect and read things into...

I think post counts should be invisible. They offer nothing of real value as far as I can see, yet still somehow manage to be a source of several bones of contention. Or assigned arbitrarily by a random number generator at midnight every night.

I understand the concept of the convoluted timescales in Marvel (and DC) comics. I also know that Kitty Pryde celebrated her 16th Birthday twice. This would all be well and good if it wasn't for the fact that WWII is a fixed point in time. The sliding age scale does nothing to decrease the amount of time between 1939-1944 and now. If there is a problem (if there is! As stated Magneto has been de-aged AND cloned to keep him youngish) with Magento being from WWII - as stated in the article that all of this was responding to - my point still stands that moving him from being born in 1931 to 1935-1945 (as the article suggested when suggesting they make him African-American and tied to the US Civil Rights movement) doesn't really change the "problem" with his age - you are swapping an 80 year old for a 70 year old.

In my opinion, it seems a bit insulting that instead of creating an interesting character of whatever ethnicity/race(black most of the time) they insist on changing a white character into a black character. Like putting on blackface and saying that's good enough.I notice you guys have conveniently ignored my solution to this whole Magneto issue. Why can't he be a black Jewish character? You do get black Jewish people...yes I don't think any black Jews were kept in concentration camps but its a comic...we do allow artistic licence ?Because your solution doesn't fix the perceived problem (which is that Magneto, tied to WWII concentration camps is at least in his 80s) that led to the suggestion to move the character to the 50s/60s and anchored by the US Civil Rights movement. However, as I indicated, this only swaps an 80 year old Magneto for a 70 Year old Magneto, so the issue of age and being tied to a specific point in time is still at play. There are only a handful of WWII era characters around in the Marvel U, and all of them have backstory explanations for why they aren't 80 to 90 in their physicality (Captain America - frozen in ice, Spitfire - vampire, Human Torch - Android, Winter Soldier - Kept in stasis, Namor & Namora - Atlantean Physiology, GA Vision - alien from another dimension, the remainder of The Twelve - kept in stasis, Wolverine - can't age due to regeneration, Mystique - aging irrelevant due to powers, etc). There are ways to deal with this issue that doesn't require changing Magneto into a different character, though. Edit: wrote "Magento" at least once. Totally different character. Characters age in the marvel universe at a rate of 1 year every 3 years real time. Magneto is in his 50s. Doesn't terribly look like the 1980s in the Marvel U right now.I didn't say time passes at that rate, just that characters age at that rate. Then Magneto is an 80 year old with the body of a 50 year old. It doesn't alter the problem that WWII makes him 80 (if you consider it a problem.)

I hated the ball. Dread doing it again when I do a new playthrough.

Got mine yesterday.

In my opinion, it seems a bit insulting that instead of creating an interesting character of whatever ethnicity/race(black most of the time) they insist on changing a white character into a black character. Like putting on blackface and saying that's good enough. I notice you guys have conveniently ignored my solution to this whole Magneto issue. Why can't he be a black Jewish character? You do get black Jewish people...yes I don't think any black Jews were kept in concentration camps but its a comic...we do allow artistic licence ? Because your solution doesn't fix the perceived problem (which is that Magneto, tied to WWII concentration camps is at least in his 80s) that led to the suggestion to move the character to the 50s/60s and anchored by the US Civil Rights movement. However, as I indicated, this only swaps an 80 year old Magneto for a 70 Year old Magneto, so the issue of age and being tied to a specific point in time is still at play. There are only a handful of WWII era characters around in the Marvel U, and all of them have backstory explanations for why they aren't 80 to 90 in their physicality (Captain America - frozen in ice, Spitfire - vampire, Human Torch - Android, Winter Soldier - Kept in stasis, Namor & Namora - Atlantean Physiology, GA Vision - alien from another dimension, the remainder of The Twelve - kept in stasis, Wolverine - can't age due to regeneration, Mystique - aging irrelevant due to powers, etc). There are ways to deal with this issue that doesn't require changing Magneto into a different character, though. Edit: wrote "Magento" at least once. Totally different character. Characters age in the marvel universe at a rate of 1 year every 3 years real time. Magneto is in his 50s. Doesn't terribly look like the 1980s in the Marvel U right now.