Bodybag
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Brother None said:
I'm struck by how reluctant you are to use the word "honest" here. Did they fire you or something?
PSM3 Fallout 3 hands-on preview
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Look, Ma! Two Heads!
I'm struck by how reluctant you are to use the word "honest" here. Did they fire you or something?
Bodybag said:I'm struck by how reluctant you are to use the word "honest" here. Did they fire you or something?Brother None said:
No, it's just to indicate I'm using honest as a replacement term for critical.
Glowing Ghouls
First time out of the vault
Y'all are forgetting the BEST part.
PAYING to get a robot horsey ARMOR UPGRADE OFFICAL MOD.
PAYING to get a robot horsey ARMOR UPGRADE OFFICAL MOD.
Jiggly McNerdington
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Show me this Oblivion honesty good sir! Or... I'll... Just go to gamebanshee my and root around I guess. I distantly know they do reviews as well, and presumably news on their front page, but I mostly only head there for some of the best walkthroughs/guides. Probably SHOULD read the rest of the place more since I enjoy the guides so much, but I just never got into the habit.
Glowing Ghouls
First time out of the vault
Ausir said:
Man deserves to be bought a new pair of waders for that.
I remember lurking here and DAC (and trolling the Iply forums) when POS came out, 'twas funny how they shut the POS forum down cause almost everyone thought it sucked that'd played a previous FO game.
About the 1 AP=1 action thing.
I think that's a natural transition, given that VATS is used exclusively for attacks(no inventory access, no movement) so that doesn't bother me that much.
Robotic pony...well, as long is it is just a joke, rather than an actual game mechanic, I'm fine too. Especially if it gets handled as a "look at all of the ridiculous stuff people made before war" kind of thing.
But then, I KNOW that Fallout the RPG is dead, so I'm much more forgiving now.
I think that's a natural transition, given that VATS is used exclusively for attacks(no inventory access, no movement) so that doesn't bother me that much.
Robotic pony...well, as long is it is just a joke, rather than an actual game mechanic, I'm fine too. Especially if it gets handled as a "look at all of the ridiculous stuff people made before war" kind of thing.
But then, I KNOW that Fallout the RPG is dead, so I'm much more forgiving now.
Jiggly McNerdington
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Just read their Oblivion review, and that was pretty well done. Probably the closest review to my own feelings of Oblivion. Flawed, but with more good than bad, even though the bad probably wouldn't have been there if they had followed closer to Morrowind. I GIVE THIS REVIEW NINE OUT OF TEN
Jiggly McNerdington said:
Most of GameBanshee's traffic comes from guides. I've not worked on any yet - though I will - but yeah, that's the primary source of traffic for GB.
In review/preview and posting style, we're kind of close to RPGWatch/RPGCodex. Solely interested in RPGs with a preference towards traditional RPGs, good narrative and solid gameplay than anything else. Our rating system is a bit skewed if you ask me; Oblivion got an 8.0, mostly pumped up by graphics as the gameplay got a 7.5. Fable is quite critical of it in the review. The summed-up pros and cons say it all:
Pros
Visually appealing. Attractively structured environments. Well-organized interface. Good realworld physics. Strong AI in combat. Excellent dungeons. Good writing. Attractive music. Good overall game concept and design.
Cons
Graphically intensive. Poor collision model. Poorly applied AI outside combat. Intrusive, over-controlling DM for quests. No reason to explore outside quests. Static world. Poor character and treasure leveling systems. Dumbed down puzzles, skills and gameplay.
I think Buck did the PoS walkthrough. Note he also made a character overview and weapon index and the like. Frith knows why. But heck, we're probably the only site offering such detailed information, for all 14,000 players of F:BoS out there.
zioburosky13
Vault Senior Citizen
is better than
with bigger trunk, faster mileage, huge seat to accommodate your giant mutie friend.
And the DJ part? Sounds like Walter Dangerfield, without the space shutter.
I was just reading the official fallout 3 forums, and I came across this:
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=855056
did bethesda really remove groin shots?
edit: by the way, here are the unofficial FAQ about the game:
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=852155
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=855056
did bethesda really remove groin shots?
edit: by the way, here are the unofficial FAQ about the game:
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=852155
A part of me wonders if the Robot Horses thing is actually a gag literally directed at this website and other people who shout "Oblivion with guns!" like it's a bad thing.
No proof for that, mind you. But I can't imagine Bethesda would really shit on Fallout that much, but I could see how it might be just a small gag meant to egg people over here on. I seem to recall them not-very-subtly making fun of NMA publicly before in an interview or something (though I might be remembering it wrong).
In any case, I wouldn't worry about the Robot Horse too much.
Though if they really do include it, I think I might have to convert.
No proof for that, mind you. But I can't imagine Bethesda would really shit on Fallout that much, but I could see how it might be just a small gag meant to egg people over here on. I seem to recall them not-very-subtly making fun of NMA publicly before in an interview or something (though I might be remembering it wrong).
In any case, I wouldn't worry about the Robot Horse too much.
Though if they really do include it, I think I might have to convert.
Oh my god. If people have to bitch about the robot horse, then the well for criticism is running really dry. What, no more clever wordplays like Bethsucks or Sellout 3? There is absolutely NO reason to believe the horse is ridable. Beth said there's no vehicles in the game, so why assume there is now because some previewer who hasn't religiously followed Fallout news thinks there might be a chance of it? It's just a fucking advertisement, and a funny one at that.
Actually, the humor was one of FO's selling points, and the easter eggs were a good part of that. If I was explaining how great Fallout is to someone, I'd almost certainly mention the easter eggs.
Similar to how some walkthroughs are centered around grabbing the Alien Blaster and beating the game with it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the controversy about Mass Effect more having same-sex love scenes than sex scenes period? Also inter-species sex? Not that ghoul or mutant prostitutes wouldn't be interesting, but I don't see them as likely. Probably no male prostitutes either (yet I don't envision many people calling bullshit about that).
Anyways, I'm willing to bet the Springvale school's basement secret is similar to that one house's basement in The Road. Also, I kind of hope that 3 Dawg isn't truly spelled that way, nor embodies the connotations that spelling brings to mind. And maybe not: he's a voice on the radio, that spelling might be a horrible assumption on the part of the previewer.
Edit: I doubt it, but I wonder if you can destroy the vertibirds?
Black said:
Actually, the humor was one of FO's selling points, and the easter eggs were a good part of that. If I was explaining how great Fallout is to someone, I'd almost certainly mention the easter eggs.
Glowing Ghouls said:
Similar to how some walkthroughs are centered around grabbing the Alien Blaster and beating the game with it.
aries369 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the controversy about Mass Effect more having same-sex love scenes than sex scenes period? Also inter-species sex? Not that ghoul or mutant prostitutes wouldn't be interesting, but I don't see them as likely. Probably no male prostitutes either (yet I don't envision many people calling bullshit about that).
Anyways, I'm willing to bet the Springvale school's basement secret is similar to that one house's basement in The Road. Also, I kind of hope that 3 Dawg isn't truly spelled that way, nor embodies the connotations that spelling brings to mind. And maybe not: he's a voice on the radio, that spelling might be a horrible assumption on the part of the previewer.
Edit: I doubt it, but I wonder if you can destroy the vertibirds?
Xenophile
It Wandered In From the Wastes
This whole robot horse thing got me thinking... why not have horses in the game?
I was thinking about that.. you have to figure some would survive and riding around on a horse is more sustainable than a car that eats batteries. They aren't that rare... even today.. I have 2 in my back yard (well my wife does
)
Actually it would make sense to have them in.. as much as having decendents of cows I think.
As a mental excercise if you didn't know it was being developed by bethesda and they had horses in oblivion, but this was being done by someone eslse in 3d, horses would make sense to have in.
I know we didn't see any on the west coast, but they could have survived somewhere. And with this much time passed, selling horses would be quite a lucrative profession. I do understand some of the challenges with horses w/ brahmin, but still pretty good chance you could support a small population of them. The practice of breeding horses would spread from community to community pretty fast.
I was thinking about that.. you have to figure some would survive and riding around on a horse is more sustainable than a car that eats batteries. They aren't that rare... even today.. I have 2 in my back yard (well my wife does
)Actually it would make sense to have them in.. as much as having decendents of cows I think.
As a mental excercise if you didn't know it was being developed by bethesda and they had horses in oblivion, but this was being done by someone eslse in 3d, horses would make sense to have in.
I know we didn't see any on the west coast, but they could have survived somewhere. And with this much time passed, selling horses would be quite a lucrative profession. I do understand some of the challenges with horses w/ brahmin, but still pretty good chance you could support a small population of them. The practice of breeding horses would spread from community to community pretty fast.
Small Framed
First time out of the vault
zioburosky13 said:
is better than
with bigger trunk, faster mileage, huge seat to accommodate your giant mutie friend.
Yeah but if they do that, they won't be able to introduce this after a few months:
I expect gamers to complain after a couple of days that they can't capture Enclave Vertibirds and fly them.
Actually, I would say there's nothing wrong at all with the idea of there being horses in the post-nuclear wasteland. With working vehicles being rare, and ability to manufacture energy for them non-existent, horses would be an indispensable means of transportation and labor. And some must have survived somewhere. And breeding them would be hugely lucrative.Xenophile said:
Robot horses are just... no, though.