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The EC epsidoe just delivered some rather justified criticism on New Vegas' use of amnesia. I don't think it says anywhere that Fallout 3 is superior to FNV, it just states that it has a clear Act 1, 2 and 3. Just as every other Behtesda game has a brief Act 1, ususally a prison sequence. I am...

If Bethsoft ever does decide to outsource a spinoff title again after FO4 similar to what they did for New Vegas, maybe Machinegames of Wolfenstein fame would not be a bad name? Not that they have good RPG credentials but I enjoyed their world and lore building in W:TNO. Perhaps a totally...

Sounds very plausible. I wonder for how long of the game span Beth will acknowledge that you are a pre-war survivor that is a bit bewildered before you "go native". It will be a tricky balance, because more often than not video game characters are either too bewildered or too cool when faced...

What actually happens in the Vault is cut from the E3 demo, so we can't really speculate about that. I had a thought: what if depending on gender choice you either start as a vault survivor (male) or something completely else (android) if you select female? That would be sort of cool. More...

I have been trying to process what I think about FO4 now that some time has elapsed since the E3 showcase. First of all, I am going to buy it and probably at day one at that. I am a sucker for sandbox exploration games. If this one is in fallout flavor, even better. That being said, I have very...

Hey I just thought about one thing: If the skills are perks that means you can relatively easily change around in the CS how the skills move, right? I mean there was a ton of perk mods for Skyrim. So it might be a blessing, allowing for more comprehensive gameplay overhaul mods. The skills were...

I am willing to bet that we get to increase SPECIAL stats one by one, probably once ever 5 or 10 levels but maybe through special means as in previous games.

It ofcourse depends how backward-compatible the game is. But they way the CS is set up, I find it doubtful that it could be pulled off easily. Perhaps with access to the source files and custom made batch conversion programs it could be automated, but the changes in game engine would mean it...

What RPG and role-playing is to Pete Hines (from gamespot) ""If you want to pick flowers and make potions all day, then that's what you're role-playing," he said. "If you want to go shoot everybody in the head with a laser-musket, then that's what you're role-playing." Oh god..

Yeah. World map travel is probably the best way to do this rather than making A) a bigass world that costs incredible man-hours to generate or fancy procedural generation or B) makes the player walk for hours. I have some insight into this, I have made some map mods for the ArmA series. My...

One case for optimism: The artwork in Bethesdas Fallout 3 was a lot better than in new vegas. A lot of things looked really poorly designed in NV. So I look forward to Bethesdas superior artist team at least. For example, this is what the legion should have looked like in NV (a FO4 concept art...

Considering the influx of new members here becuase of Fallout 4, of which I am one, I am sure a lot of people actually come here because they want to have a debate about it. I would guess many people feel as conflicted about it as me. And I think people have been quite civil so far, normal...

I don't think the majority of Fallout 1 / 2 fans hate Fallout 3, after all it was Beths first crack at the franchise and it was massively better than Oblivion. However, this is the second Beth fallout and the third first person Fallout, so it's not unreasonable that people want to see that Beth...

True. Choices need to have consequenses. A lot of games today make the mistake of making playing a good guy an empty choice because there is no negative blowback or risk. You become the toast of the town, fuck the mayors daughter and get a great reward. The reason why a lot of people today IRL...

Yes, that really does seem to be the way most Beth games go. In my Skyrim game, I was doing a fighter type guy and suddently I plowed through the Mage's Guild questline and become the head honcho there. Freedom is good, but if everyone can do everything the choices in character build are not...

But.. but.. it worked so well in New Vegas.. Ok yeah you are right. Last try to be hopeful: Perhaps you can actually lose some companion in special, non-combat situations? Probably not..

Very true. I feel that movies these days are even worse than the gaming scene. At least in games when some idea works well for a game type it might be just stupid to not adopt it. If your game is a lot about shooting with guns, it makes sense to be able to modify your gun. Real life users of...

I'll just say this much: If it doesn't have a branching storyline or some meaningful blowback from choices you make, it will feel incredibly weak in comparison to some other recent RPG titles. People want their choices and they want their choices to matter. No-one likes that you sometimes need...

Yeah, replayability will suffer. It will take a mammoth modding effort to create some kind of new beginnings mod. I guess you will just have to try to not care about the backstory and ignore it if you want to do a different playthrough. Haven't seen other videos by the guy, but watching this...

Yes and no. As I said: My point is that the RPG aspect for me is dialouge, meaningful choices, interesting characters and story, as well as some kind of progression and inventory managment. But anyway, it's just a label. Many of my favorite games of all time are "true" RPGs: Fallout 1 and 2...