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  1. mithrap

    Diversity in video games and whatnot

    Annnd then there's this: Sacrilege!
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    Beautiful Game / best RPG of all time

    Textures look... decent. Miles behind what Renthal's retextures though, but I guess they'd be too much for the consoles to handle so it's understandable. I'm a bit disappointed by the sort of ENB they did though. It seemed way more pronounced in the trailer, with a lot of godrays, bloom and an...
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    The Roleplaying Thread - What Fallout 4 lacked in opportunities

    It is presented as the protagonist's comfort zone : peaceful home, access to resources, family, baby, free time, smooth jazz and a future... Whereas the pre war America is supposed to be on the brink of social explosion, filled with riots and warmongers, as the US would advance and seize foreign...
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    My review of Fallout 3

    That would have been okay if they took the path of Killzone. The extermination of the "bad guys" is acknowledged as a horrible genocide in this title, which is supposed to be a mindless fun kind of game. Yet, it beats Fallout 3 and 4 on its own ground, by showing directly to the player the...
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    My review of Fallout 3

    To offer a contrast and a radical third option, compared to the Empire and the horde. Which would make sense in the context of a RPG. Also, I can't help but thinking that Lucius was written as a modern Brutus, whose opinions on Caesar would have been expanded during the "Et tumor" quest. It's...
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    My review of Fallout 3

    Probably won't collapse, but it will change. The way I see it, Lucius, Lanius and Vulpes are post-apocalyptic adaptations of the three most famous figures after Caesar's death : Brutus, Marc Antonius and Octavian. A logical sequel would see the Legion in civil war, led by the three generals. If...
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    My review of Fallout 3

    Dominance by a foreign invader is not, de facto, always a bad thing. Considering how uncivilized, undevelopped and how brutal the wastelanders are, the presence of a militaristic, technological faction could improve everyone's life, in time. There are countless examples in history of tribal...
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    The Roleplaying Thread - What Fallout 4 lacked in opportunities

    Well, it asks it machines have souls. If people "made" instead of "born" can also have souls, basically like in Blade Runner. The whole thing, with a few liberal messages here and there, strangely mixed with a background of "America fuck yeah", which is weird for a game which is supposed to set...
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    Most hated cliché/trope in fiction

    That's actually something I like about Mad Max Fury Road. Even the most regular, nameless grunts, show good skills at what they do and are a decent match to the actual heroes.
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    Most hated cliché/trope in fiction

    Chainmail and a helmet whenever you got out for a snack. No need to fear the zombies' bites anymore. The mediocre rec 3 is actually the only title I can think of, where people actually have the idea of taking medieval body armors to move around safely. About the "evil government" thing, that's...
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    The Roleplaying Thread - What Fallout 4 lacked in opportunities

    For the internet is dark, and full of boners. Have you already seen what the loverslab did to Skyrim ?
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    Most hated cliché/trope in fiction

    Oh, looks like one of "these" movies :) there's Robert Englund in the casting though, that's nice. The idea of zombified bees may seem silly, but it would actually be a solid reason why the world goes to shit. Because realistically, a zombie invasion wouldn't last more than a year before nature...
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    Most hated cliché/trope in fiction

    I kept watching until the end of the governor's storyline, which was the only half-redeeming quality I could find in this show. I'm okay with a bit of overdramatic characters, but with TWD, it's too much. Every single problem leads to looong series of debates, stares, dramatic silences etc that...
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    Most hated cliché/trope in fiction

    Some of the tropes I hate the most: -Tough girl gotta team up with her father ? She will have daddy issues because the script demands cheap conflicts. No girl can be mentally/emotionally stable, ever. -Bullets in the shoulder heal instantly and have no consequences whatsoever. -Car doors and...
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    Well, I'm replaying Fallout 1 now thanks to you

    Same for me, here. But my home is not the capital of my country, a central place of business etc. As for the poisonous radioactive wasteland, as opposed to the NCR, which established itself around the glow ? The whole world's ecosystem is fucked anyway, in Fallout's lore. Which is why Shis and...
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    Well, I'm replaying Fallout 1 now thanks to you

    Which isn't hard, considering that the Capital Wasteland has been a war battlefield for decades, and the main target for the nuclear warheads. Managing to do just a little better than them is not an achievement, in my mind. If 1 settler = 10 people, then Diamond City would have about, let's say...
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    Well, I'm replaying Fallout 1 now thanks to you

    If we were naturally uncooperative, then we would be the only single "ape" species being so. Yet, we are the only one species which actually managed to form a modern society. Even the most retarded monkeys understand their own rule of law, form clearly defined groups (based on actual...
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    Well, I'm replaying Fallout 1 now thanks to you

    All the examples you give have a common point : they are all nations which got defeated by another, and the victorious had time and resources to insure that the loser couldn't rebuild its former identity. In which case, sure, rebuilding can be difficult. I mean, look at Constantinople. But this...
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    My review of Fallout 3

    Correction : why did people ever decide to settle there in the first place ? According to Fallout 3's lore, Super Mutants have been there since two centuries. Why would anybody decide to create a settlement in view of a super mutant owned "city" ? I mean, if I'm the survival/entrepreneur/settler...
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    Fallout 5 Predictions Thread (with EXPLOSIONS!)

    You know, it hurts to say that, but I'd rather have a well written game without dialog options than a clumsy, badly written RPG with bad dialogs. Look at Dishonored for example. You still make choices, but they are integrated within the gameplay, there's no dialog option, and it's still a...
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