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Action games typically don't focus on consistency. There are occasional rarities, like the Half-Life series, but most of the time the important part is that all the writing only serves to connect one objective to another. It's not about stringing a coherent mission through a living world as an...

It can! But it won't. If they bothered, they could've salvaged it, but they decided to lock mods behind Bethesda.net and now they've taken the industry-perfected model of content-filled expansions and replaced it with the very piecemeal system they introduced then ditched, as if to unlearn every...

It has been only a couple of days since I bought it, and I already have 15 hours on it. It's excellent, and I never really expected to enjoy a Paradox Grand Strategy all this much. I tried Hearts of Iron III obtained on a sale once, and while slightly entertaining, its mind-numbing depth kind of...

Is that sarcasm, or do you just have that much free time on your hands?

I'll shoot through this with my youthful, accepting, forgiving mind and see what happens. DOOM - Never had much interest in the Doom series, heard bad things about MP, heard good things about SP. Will probably grab it on sale, it looks like a decent shooter. In singleplayer games, I usually...

Let me guess - still bitter about the Valkyria sequel?

People were actually surprised when one of the gameplay videos for DOOM from pre-release had someone who actually knew how to play playing it. That's right, it's now the exception and not the norm that gamers are the ones who play games during game previews. This was kind of an obvious...

I'm not sure what point you're making here. You might be speaking to the wrong person if you think I'm defending Bethesda. Well, I already know all of the above, and I just wanted to elaborate to anyone who didn't want to understand. I didn't say anything to contradict any of the above, so if...

Huh, I just noticed the tag saying that it's game engine footage. But that's still not really representative of anything, since they could downgrade the graphics, and without taking graphics into consideration this trailer still shows only half a second of what may or may not be actual gameplay...

This is like a sneak preview of a cover for a book. Looks great and all, but it's all pre-rendered stuff and that means it tells me fuck all about the game. Trailers are for movies, demos are for games, why can't this simple concept ever be accepted? Are publishers really that afraid of the...

Nor would they do something like hire Liam Neeson, have him disappear for half the game, and die shortly after he is found. That's just crazy. I think we both know the answer to that.

Going for more recent examples of excellence with my mentions. They're not necessarily the greatest tracks but I think they're very good at setting atmosphere. To be honest, most of the ones I was going to mention as my personal favourites has already been mentioned above.

I will say that Bethesda managed some progress - you no longer become bald when you wear hats. Baby steps, perhaps we will get to the "good game" part at some point. With a different dev. And a different publisher. In a different dimension. Is... is that what arses look like where you come from?

Ah, it's one of these posts. Yes, I can already see the fun on the horizon. :grin: Though I can safely say that I have actually imagined some of you here getting bullied when you were younger for liking tabletop RPGs. Tell me if I'm wrong, but I can't guarantee I will care.

Bethesda Game Studios is the developer that had their own interpretation on what "Fallout" was supposed to be, and that interpretation didn't turn out so well. Bethesda Softworks is a medium-sized publisher with all the common attributes of modern publishers - money first, player last, all the...

It's piecemeal DLC. Common, yet it was Bethesda themselves who introduced it to mainstream gaming, popularised it, got negative responses that made them infamous for it, then rejected it in favour of reasonable expansions. But now it's back to the same old grind. I'm more worried about actual...

Opened it up, all open-minded and ready to try my hand - AGAIN - at Bethesda's new attempt. Guess you could say I never learn, since I couldn't use my mods without a Bethesda.net account. Closed it right back down again. Nexus was on fire about the whole debacle a short time back, thanks to...

Ah yes, text dump time. Please disregard immediately if an originals fan, you'll find naught of interest. No, to me it wouldn't be that bad if it wasn't a Fallout game. You're not going to find much opinions like mines here because this is a forum for cRPG fans and without the association with...

I don't think I could've taken him seriously with that name even if he was better written.

They should just add some sort of significantly weaker melee attack that uses up no energy, so that there's at least some way you can defend yourself in close quarters. Personally, I liked the takedowns, but I can see how they can be a bit of a hassle when you're in a scuffle within small...