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Yeah, I guess you can't expect them all to catch a Dostoevsky reference. ;)

After that nuclear war? Even in that amount of time? Quite likely not. I agree with the much more likely possibility of anyone trying that being tracked down and having their stuff taken to be used for more immediate purposes rather than providing background music for the wasteland which most...

Yep, it's suddenly impossible to do all that for their games even though it was possible for at least the last 3. Sure. Gosh, I wonder what changed. Heh. Good catch. I guess the person who wrote that didn't read this. Particularly this part...

Even that's not necessarily 100% true either in terms of 'immersion'. I've felt 'in the shoes' of plenty of characters in non-first-person games as much I have any first-person game. It could just be that mental difference between 'pretending you are that character' and 'pretending that...

Absolutely true of the 'new Bethesda'. Now they just throw in stupid nonsensical shit to cover for stupid and lazy game design. Well, the Great War was in 2077. The Master began producing supermutants around 2137. There are still supermutants when Fallout 2 begins (2241) and when it ends (as...

Even in terms of perspective, it just seems silly to restrict the argument to combat as if it will prove the whole argument concerning 'immersion'. I guess RTS players who clearly get immersed by combat in Starcraft more than they would in Call of Duty 4 are just lying, though.

But it must always be written in first-person narrative. :wink:

I wish I could see the name of this game or any of the description on the back of the box, but all the goddamn stickers are covering it. Gosh, they must have done well on their spelling and been well-behaved during potty break to get so many stickers. :P

I think that's just from the tendency of games with levels and stats to be labeled RPG.

Freedom = crap? You were just as free to NOT metagame and to NOT speedrun. It's your choice to 'ruin' the game by exploiting it. If you don't have the self control to refrain from it, that's your problem. The point is that you could if you wanted to do that (while in Oblivion there wasn't...

So, combat is the only aspect of the games you can come up with to try to prove this point?

I'm sure the next attempt at a justification for it will be something like those houses are made of FUTURE WOOD! that lasts forever, performs maintenance on itself, can only be damaged by a nuclear blast and always sustains damage in the exact same way no matter what. Oh, and only the east coast...

Well, just the majority of Cyrodiil and parts of Black Marsh really. But I take your meaning about their lack of adherence to their own established lore. Cyrodiil being mostly jungle goes back as far as the first TES game (Arena) even. Jungle could have been much more interesting than generic...

Yeah, that was me. I do have to extend an apology to Piers Anthony for that, though. He created his own world where puns belong. Bethesda, on the other hand, bought a world and are shoehorning this crap in where it doesn't really fit and just sounds stupid. I guess the truly creative people who...

OK, I'll admit it. It is particularly fun to watch a bullshitter say something that makes them look stupid. :P But it could have reasonably been the journalist's fault. The world may never know.

Radscorpions that have some kind of radiation magic power like FO3's glowing ghouls apparently do? How about mutated lightning bugs that actually shoot electricity out of their asses? Cockroaches that attack you with their... um, nevermind that. Fire ants that actually shoot fire. Gee...

That would be a good question to ask the folks at Bethesda. Hooray argument deflection. Semantics isn't really as horrible a thing as people want to make it out to be when it comes to situations like this. Call a spade a flashlight if you like, but don't expect people to behave like you're...

Fallout isn't based on 'right now'. Even if it was, there aren't a lot of actual katanas in America right now. Certainly not enough for them to just be floating around in any common capacity after the apocalypse. Plenty of replicas that would likely break if you used them for combat, though...

He should be voiced by this man.

He wasn't really using it as a true compliment. You neglected to mention that he goes on to point out that there is nothing special about a game 'looking nice' these days because they ALL 'look nice'.