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Walking through empty miles and miles in a videogame will get tedious very quickly. Shocker here, I know, but Fallout 3 is a game not a simulator. Verisimilitude take's a backseat to functional gameplay just like in every video game, like, ever made.

Have you seen any of his other reviews? This is definitely a 'positive' review for Yahtzee. edit: Also a healthy GUFFAW directed at all of the folks that were looking forward to this review and the supposed thrashing Fallout 3 would get. The sour grapes "Well, Yahtzee hates RPGs anyway, the...

I have a feeling the character models and animations are for the most part the fault of the game engine rather than the artists. I say this because I, uh, "know someone" whose 3D character modeling reel was more impressive than anything seen in the Bethesda games (Fallout 3 included) and he was...

Well I'm not your buddy, friend. The violence here is not about the level of gore, it's about who you you inflict it on and the circumstances involved. You can walk up to a desperate, homeless guy pleading for help and tell him to basically go fuck himself and then fire a shotgun into his...

Oh, sorry these themes aren't hardcore enough for you. You're talking out of your ass though friend, I don't think any reasonable person is going to buy your spin that this is practically a "kid friendly" game. "Yeah, it's not really mass murder because you can't make out pieces of intestine...

Yeah, because prostitution, slavery (+ child slavery), cannibalism, drug addiction, mass murder, nuclear war, etc... all light kid's stuff.

*scratches head* As a small guns character that lives and dies by VATS, AGI is far and away the most important stat in the game. If you can play through Fallout 3 without really having to rely on VATS, that's pretty impressive. More power to you.

Really scraping the barrel with some of these.

The game is more engaging than Fallout 2. It's more atmospheric (oh gasp, EXPLODING CARS vs. cough, excessive lame self-referential humor, cough). I don't think either of the games are Oscar Caliber Screenplay material here, but I find myself infinitely more engrossed in the world of F3...

20 hours in, I feel confident in saying this is a better game than Fallout 2. All of the weird, niggling animation problems, occasional strange NPC behavior, etc. that are distracting at the outset seem really minor once you grasp the scope of the game and become properly engrossed in it. I can...

Yes, that one red notch on your compass is totally "holding your hand" and dumbing the game down. The original Fallouts had areas of interest appear on your map that you could fast travel to as soon as you learned about them in a dialogue or whatever. In F3 you have to physically walk to these...

Ugh, hurray more misinformation. Outside of the initial "tutorial" segment in the vault, the game doesn't coddle you or lead you around. You're thrown out into the wilderness to fend for yourself and you can do whatever the hell you want. Also, nobody forces you to read or watch these...

Ugh. Haven't played Mass Effect, but Bioshock is such a massively overrated game. Fallout 3 >>> Bioshock.

The reason a lot of people play games on consoles isn't because they're too stupid to play it on a PC (because that's soooo difficult), it's because it's more viable economically. I don't have the money to upgrade my PC every two or three years to play the newest games.

I've been rolling around here for a while and this "Bethesda paid for their positive reviews" meme has taken hold of a lot of people. I had no reason to believe you were being sarcastic, especially considering your tendency to err on the side of Bethesda = Monolithic Evil.

Oh give me a fucking break. Yes, in fact every one of those 31 reviews averaging out to 93% on metacritic.com has been purchased by Bethesda. Give the conspiracy nonsense a break guys, it makes you look stupid.

No, unfortunately. The big guys didn't really have any time to answer in-depth questions as there were tons of people in line for autographs. I didn't want to be "that guy". Good, friendly people though. The random employees (artists, programmers, etc.) talking with the crowd I really should've...

I was at the Rockville event with the Bethesda guys. Got my copy signed by Todd and Emil as well as the Lead Artist and Producer, whose names escape me at the moment. Everyone was really nice. Some other random employes were walking around the line chatting with people about the game and...

Well, it's one thing to say "I'm looking forward to Yahtzee's review" for the laughs or whatever, it's another to actually say/imply his reviews are more legitimate (Kronkite?). Zero Punctuation is comedy first, balanced criticism third. Making fun of games is his shtick.

So... what is the right word? Hatred? Whether you like the game or not, to say the Devs somehow don't care about a project they've poured 4 years of their lives into is ridiculous.