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@Naossao: Really, that IS the history of Copyright / Intellectual Property rights. Did quite an in depth course on it, that's kind of the gist of it. Also, I made a mistake, the Anglo-Saxon system allowed for author rights (or at least more protection for authors than it originally had) by...

^ even if there's some extra profit in Crimea, it still changes nothing.

And there you go. Crimea annexed, gunboat base secured. Anything happens beyond this point except a few more eastern regions actually voluntarily voting to join Russia, I'd be amazed. Also, cue massive unrest in Ukraine in a few years tops without anyone having to organize them for about the...

^ There were numerous attempts to change stuff, since the debate has been going on since the rennaisance (with books). The current laws for books are actually miles ahead than what they were for a long, long time (in both continental law and anglo-saxon one). The problem with games is the same...

^ Yeah, Redding is kinda weird in terms of when to go there. You can reach it right after the den, but it's kind of not really built to support that approach both in terms of challenge or rewards. Not to mention that if you do the final sheriff quest, you set yourself up for reeeealy tough...

^ I kinda do the same, and one of the things about New Reno is that I always whished finally fighting all the mobsters was challenging by the point I do it. It's not built to be the last thing to do, but I somehow always end up doing it rather late. But as for messing up the story by playing...

^ Well that's the difference between Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the continental one. The continental one came to be because the authors, waaaaay back in the day, petitioned kings for recognition as actual originators of various stuff, while the anglo-saxon tradition was actually started by...

Eh, I get what you guys are saying, but you seem to misunderstand me (which may be my fault). FO3 has bad writing, which makes playing it in a "screw the main quest, let's just wander around" fall flat. You can visit stuff, but what's the point if most of it is dull and uninspiring. That's a...

A friend of mine said, 2 years ago, that we were in the "Cleopatra" stage. He compared it to the time when Hollywood, way back in the day, kept making grandiose but shallow sword-and-sandal spectacles because they thought that was the way to go. Untill they started flopping, like the...

^ As if Ukraine wouldn't become a member of NATO in a heartbeat if it went it's way. Putin's interest in Ukraine is about whether he gets to park his gunboats in Sevastopolj or if someone else has that right. He'll probably grab what else he can get to have a bit of land for connection, defense...

Oh yes - it's not just about wheter the roaming monsters scale to your level or not (that's actually less of a problem), it's also about how visiting a place "out of sequence" affects the rest of the game. Fallout 2, for example, fails really hard here because the fixed loot/quest rewards are...

Ok, so, a lot of that sounds great and would be much appreciated in Fallout 2 and if well implemented would actually bring out the potential of the world and the quality of writing. At least I'm kinda sure noone would seriously mind... But - what about linearity the non linearity bussiness in...

No, no, you missunderstand - I was wondering what lessons or solutions could a modder of Fallout 2 apply from NV. What did NV advance in a good way? Is it still suffering from some of the problems Fallout 2 had with the whole "yes, it's non-linear, but it's not as much as it could be"? Because...

Oh, all that makes sense, but I started all the rambling because some of OP's complaints about NV compared to FO3. And I've herd some of it before, from other folks, but it kind usually weers off into a misfire of a discussion. FO3 fans praise it's non-linearity compared to the rest, people who...

Angela's safe is in the middle room, her mom's is in the southernmost room, and Bishops safe is in the NW room.

It's np - what you describe is the worldbuilding setup, and Fallout 2 has a rather good one. But even after playing the game many, many times (3 full, turn-every-rock-over playthroughs in the last month alone, had a lot of free time) a lot of what you describe is rather underused or even rather...

Well, I'd disagree with that quite a bit. That is, I'm not saying Fallout 2 has a terrible disconnected world, but the superirority of that particular world and especially the design aspect of the story are highly suspect. What Fallout 2 does have is a story with a lot more moral ambiguity, and...

Oh, it'd be impossible to use the radio the same way in the originals as it was used in FO3 because of real-time vs. turn based differences. But if radio would open up dialogue when used, you could give the various radios you found to different people and be able to communicate with them from...

Well, seing the immages from the Ukraine maidan riots and how eerily they looked like the world after the end I immagine the next one could take place in either Detroit or Chicago or somewhere around the great lakes. You've got enough Fallout faded americana in there (and early 20th century...

The perfect time for me to find this thread and say the same things I love saying over and over again XD I hope noone minds :oops: What the OP expressed was my reaction to Fallout 2 coming from Fallout 1 years ago (and not just mine I suppose). Whatever NMA reputation may be, there's actually...