Recent content by NMLevesque

This thread isn't even current to what was known in July. Pathetic.

The player cannot make the character do anything that the character cannot do, logically. Characters have to be able to do the things that they are able to do. If there's a mismatch between the narrative of the game and the gameplay, say the cutscenes of Mass Effect vs its gameplay, then that's...

Tactics had an almost western branch going to war against hostile 'synths'. The only indication beyond that is their stated intention of preserving (military) technology. In practice this means no one else has it. So a true to source material BoS would kidnap synths if they have the firepower to...

You, again. A specific notion was being discussed, and you generalized it into something so ambiguous that it has lost all context. I said it's not necessary to be detached from your character. If you aren't detached from your character, then you're in character. If you're in character then...

You monster! lol

Among other reasons, they needed an excuse to cement the notion that Fallout = the 1950s, instead of being about a hundred years after a roughly 1950s vision of the future was laid waste to by an apocalypse. They wanted to show another nuke going off. For some reason it's a fetish of theirs...

You're quite vague about this, leading me to wonder if you have a coherent point to make. When people roleplay IRL, they carry out the character's actions. Ditto for LARPING. There's nothing about roleplaying that requires detachment from the character one plays. In fact roleplaying is...

Having a hub with a player home Being able to just explore aimlessly. They kept the amount of backtracking fairly low, rewarded wandering, and didn't bog the player down with zigzagging errands to do in a particular sequence. Gimmicky crafteable weapons that provide unique gameplay Patchwork DC...

I'll wait until they indicate whether the convoluted build system will still punish players for trying to start the game before spending a few hours researching it. Making characters should be fun especially in an rpg. Starting Wasteland 2 just felt like homework.

I can picture it now. He's chasing that other kid, pretending to blast Stacey, and suddenly a beam of light pierces the sky...moments later, Mick and Ralph's is no more. A tragedy to be sure. The Pimp-Boy 3 Billion is lost forever.

Never heard of em.

There's a mix of stuff going on here at all times. Sure, there is always the latest rehash of 'I hate [insert title here]', and yeah people don't have half as much to say when people bring up lore questions a lot of the time, but anything short of PnP doesn't equal whinging whilst stuck in the past.

Politics is a broad subject. It isn't just governments, i.e office politics. Any faction that has leadership has politics, including tribals. Any conflict between groups that involves diplomacy is political, even if the dialogue is crude.

Your attributing all that to Lanius even though Vulpes is head Frumentarii. Interesting gambit, or at least a humorous one. 2 is your headcanon 3 does not indicate what it's a response to 4) "Why doesn't any soldier change a strategy they don't agree with?" I suppose I didn't overtly state...

That depends on whether we can count 'starting the series' in Fo's favor. If so then it goes to Fo. If not then it goes to NV. it's kind of hard for a tiny game to compete. Which admittedly is a little unfair, albeit not inaccurate, as NV benefits from not being made in the 90s. So really, it...