Recent content by papa_legba

Cutting the NPC's back to make the player feel important is no good. The player is, well, the player, the only one that can tweak out his stats intelligently. If that means taking a cue from the NPC's, even better. My favorite way to play through fallout 2 is build up my party to be an...

Failing the 'player-centric' test is a GOOD THING. Really. Not all of us have such wild inferiority complexes that we want a decent plot thrown away for the sake of making us the Center of Everything in the Universe. The fact that Fallout 2 made the player just 'some guy who was in the...

I gotta go with JE here... No, it's not realistic. If you want realistic combat, go to Palestine, Chechnya or the Bronx. I for one want a balanced game. Giving free melee attacks without having to switch weapons in Fallout 2 combat does not make for balance (The fact that it does in Game...

no, no, no. Interplay wanted to tie this game to the Fallout name to make some extra cash, but they don't want it panned because it doesn't live up to Fallout standards. No. They can't have it both ways. They pinned the "fallout" name on it. Therefore, if it is crap by fallout...

I'll take "huge expansive game world where you can do everything" over "time limit to prevent you from noticing how small the map is," thanks. Actually, it looked more like a rehash of the Star Trek's Borg or Captain Power's Lord Dread to me. A LOT like that, in fact. So much that trying...

I've read around, and I find my self utterly at odds with the prevailing thinking. Fallout 1's attempts to be maintain an air of gravity were lackluster at best, nauseating at worst. (lackluster being MacGuyver as a Very Handsome Man named Killian Darkwater, nauseating being the preachy...

JE sez: "a Fallout 3 game would stick mainly to the "universe" of Fallout 1, with some Fallout 2 for historical continuity." Why is BIS treating Fallout 2 like some redheaded stepchild of Fallout 1? Fallout 2 is the one that commands most of the loyalty in the fan base and really won...

If I don't see Harold and his tree, count me out.

Sir, The Small Guns skill, as well as the Big Guns skill, in Fallout 1 was indeed somewhat useless. In Fallout 1. I notice Fallout 2 wasn't mentioned in the discussion, but you might have heard of it. It's the one that everyone raved over and whose sales dwarfed its predecessor's. It...

Your fault, not theirs. It's very, very simple: if you give them burst-fire weapons, you tell them to charge. They pointblank, they burst fire, the enemy is a fine red mist, no one else gets hurt. In my last two fallout games, I did not have single problem with friendly fire. My opponents...

Should Fallout 3 survive the current Interplay mealstrom, I know one thing that absolutely, positively needs to show up, which may have been suggested already: A random wasteland encounter with the Six String Samurai. (See the film of the same name for more information). Ideally it would...

I can only assume that, in classic fallout format, this first quest is just going to drag you into a larger, more intricate one. So, the question: once you heal Cassidy, can you bring him along for the rest of the quest? Or maybe he'll give you his old set of power armor that the Chosen One...

low cha in Fallout 1 Yes, there are a handful of poor reactions that a low charisma character will suffer. For example, he'll almost never get Tandi to tell him the story about the deathclaw (barring arbitrary save/reloads to make a miraculous CHA roll). However, all of those bad reactions...

It is pointless only in the sense that it's not forwarding the mindless promotion of an ill-advised title. Which is to say, in any sensible way, it's not pointless at all. It should serve as a very blatant and obvious warning. The amount, degree and insightfulness of the flame mail that...

Boy, I wish this sorta discussion was around back when Accolade crapped out Star Control 3... maybe the series wouldn't have been totally screwed if it was. Okay, it probably would have been, but maybe not