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His only goal is a cult of self. - His scope doesn't extend beyond his limited fiefdom. - He regards the people within his borders as nothing but a workforce with no rights and no benefits. Those who question him are violently banished and those who remain must still look after themselves...

Toot your own horn much?

In other words, a Fallout game set in a different country isn't a Fallout game. That said, you can make a post-apocalyptic game set in a country also completely full of itself during the Cold War and rife with black humor - just set it in Russia.

Fine, he's a "game anecdoter." And pretty much every other columnist is a "games company shill." Better?

That seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" pickle for BioWare: If they add gay options, you blast them. If they don't add gay options, you blast them. Being that pretty much every BioWare romance sidequest is basically "talk to me three times over the course of the game," can...

Probably a lot better, by virtue of being nuked less than the major powers. Also, while we're all feeling insulted, I take umbrage at your wanton statement that we're more "civilized" than anybody else. After all, this game is about NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION - a point made especially galling by...

Leilana and Zevran are the omnisexual companions in DA:O.

House has goals? He pays a little bit of lip service to higher goals for humanity, but he never actually explains what those might be. For all I could tell, it's just keeping Vegas alive as a den of sin and iniquity (not that there's anything wrong with that, but "higher goal for humanity" it...

That Fallout should "die," I think, is the wrong term. Every setting and story has an end. They just shouldn't go beyond it. That's actually my favorite thing about a lot of anime series: They have an story arc, and then the series ends. The series can be wildly popular, but it doesn't start...

Yeah, it's amazing how a nation might want you to neutralize a rogue autocrat with his own army and an organization which costs them soldiers' lives at every turn. And even then, you don't have to kill anybody to solve it.

Return of the Jedi was the last Star Wars movie made and everything after Aliens never happened. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. But back on topic, my point still stands: If you accept FOT or FO3's depiction of the BoS having standing armies and openly going on the offensive, you...

Pfft. Garrus all the way. He was kinda like a slightly less badass Turian me.

He prints stuff on time, he has a creative style, and his reviews are normally incisive - or at least, you feel his views are sincere. That's high praise for a games reviewer.

If canon is FO1 -> FO2 -> FONV, then I don't really see any glaring errors. If canon is FO1 -> FO2 -> FOT -> FO3 -> FONV, then the BoS is one big jumble of wrong.

Autoleveling enemies. Fantastically stiff NPCs with fantastically notorious pathfinding.

Storm of Zehir also made the "Survival" skill important once more because it affected whether you could see this or that thing on the overland map.

All opinion is subjective. I, personally, couldn't bring myself to continue playing Fallout 3 after its glaring plot holes rendered the entire game universe ludicrous. That, coupled with my poor opinion of Bethesda's game mechanics as inherited from Oblivion et al, was enough for me to decree...

It's not so much that, with concerted and sustained effort, you can get in, it's why you'd bother: For the average wastelander, there's little gain for the risk of getting your ass blown up. For the NCR and larger factions, they're a non-issue - they don't have anything anybody needs and...

In game time how long does the courier's path take? Three weeks? Two months if you dawdle? Much of it wandering, talking and scavenging, as contrasted with your usual action-packed Bioware RPG, where fully-fledged brawls happen every ten minutes. I can see fostering a relationship in...

Yeah, and under Mussolini the trains in Italy ran on time. It's easy to have a safe an orderly society when quite literally everybody who couldn't fend for themselves in the harsh wasteland has already been murdered or enslaved. Who's left to target? I mean, the structural problem of "too...