Recent content by Fade

Comic fan? :lol: Run for your lives it's Planet of the Hulks.

Not lower standards just different. Looking for brush strokes in a photograph would be silly. Still a painting of a woman & a photo of the same woman can both be art and should be judged differently. The standards classical arts has gone up & down over the centuries with different styles. In...

Plenty of things to worry about if you know where to look & what to read. Some of them there is very little we can do anything about if they happen so don't spend too much time worrying. Not sure I really believe the bit about the worst storms only knocking out power grids. Given with the...

Show, don't tell especially in a First Person game. Depth. You made my point for me. Little stories each one of them tied to nothing else. To be deep they should be bigger, tied together or evoke strong emotions. I just don't see that in the quest & back stories... wish I did. Fallout 1/2...

There is a big difference between no negative points & praising the entire design. I'm fine with people loving Fallout 3 for what it is. Everyone's taste is different and I haven't been mainstream in years if I ever was to begin with. Rave about all of the C&C in the game compared to Bioware...

Which was the biggest lie about Oblivion. Being faithful to Fallout 1 was the biggest lie for Fallout 3. Fallout 4 or the next TES? Who knows what the hype is going to be... just hoping most people don't fall for it.

How can you fix something without knowing it is broken? Also do you think Modders grow on trees? I know a little programming, my ability to draw is flawed & my writing ability comes & goes. So I can do a half-assed job of fixing Fallout 3 or I can point flaws & hopefully improve other...

It sounds like what you want is Virtual Realty. Which is a nice pipe dream nothing else. RPGs be they pen & paper, live action or on the computer have rules. With Fantasy games you can perform magic... realism & player skill/knowledge don't enter into it. Science Fiction games are...

Which is a problem with the game engine and the Outdoorsman skill. Does it excuse Fallout 3 from creating the same mistake? Fallout 2 made the assumption that people would put points into the skill and when they didn't it broke part of the illusion of a desolate wasteland. You can explain...

Says something about your quality doesn't it?

Played Fallout 1/2 as they came out. I was lucky enough to have a cousin who got me in pen & paper RPGs before my teens. I was sadly disappointed at the depth in cRPGs for years as a result, but I kept buying them due to the small amount of improvement from game to game. Fallout 1 is one of a...

They can & did hang the hype on the setting. It was only as it came to release time that they switch to "Oblivion with Guns" hype. How much of the audience bought the game because of hype & how much because it fit their tastes? I don't know & I doubt anyone else does. What they do know is...

Ouch. When you were a kid did the adults take your words as the authority on anything? Seemed quite rare when/where I was growing up. So why is the gaming industry doing just nowdays? :crazy:

Everyone looks like a wiseman until they open their mouths. 8-)

Teenage gamers aren't the ones saying this. It is the reviewers who I hoped had a clue about how things work. Especially considering that they only have to change the headphones/speakers or the sound card to prove what I am saying. I wouldn't expect anyone without an into the sound industry...