Dishonored felt quite a bit more slick while doing it, though. Skyrim's combat system isn't bad by any means, but Dishonored just plays so well.

Very true, totally forgot about Dishonored!

Personally, I prefer first person melee combat (and really first person combat in general). From a storytelling perspective, third person wins hands down. But I've always found the first person perspective to win when it comes to actual combat situations. I think Deus Ex: HR was a great example of how the two can work…

You can't really compare third person combat to primarily first person combat. Melee combat in first person is hard to nail. I can't really think of any big games that have great first person swordplay. Skyrim's is pretty decent, but definitely not as good as it could be.

Eh, I tend to disagree. Fallout and Fallout 2 were great, but I found the Mojave to be a bit disappointing, I greatly preferred DC to it. Plus with all of the stuff we heard about the Commonwealth and The Institute in FO3, I can't wait to visit it.

I've never really gotten into Metroid. Call me crazy, but I guess it's just not my cup of tea.

While I do appreciate games with a visual style that isn't "OMG SUPER REALISM," I would love to see a Pokemon game like this, if only for a great change of pace. Hell, something like this might even make me buy a Wii U if it turned out to be good.

I also have no doubt it is in development (and I am ridiculously excited for it), but that lineage doesn't really exist. It went TES, TES, TES, TES, Fallout, Fallout (but by Obsidian), TES, so really, there is no pattern. But yes, it'd make sense to release Fallout 4 this generation as a sort of final farewell.

Thanks for the heads up.

It's something I remember hearing a while back on (I think) Gizmodo or here, but I could very well be wrong!

It's all about generating interest and buzz about Monopoly again. I'm guessing sales have slumped recently, as video games have been steadily replacing board games. Plus I'm sure a lot of families already have an older Monopoly set in their home, and don't have a need to buy another.

This has pretty much perfectly described the past couple of weeks for me. Obviously, it's not to the extent that Bioware developers or somebody like Pete Hines gets it (I do have a lot of respect for folks like them that put up with it), but it's similar nonetheless.

Exactly! You hear about Sly Cooper quite a bit (especially now that Thieves in Time is releasing, can't wait!), but hardly anybody ever mentions Jak. What a great series.

I feel like he wouldn't have mentioned Fallout 3 if it weren't about a continuation of the series, but who knows, stranger things have happened.

Containing my excitement is... difficult.

No problem!

Oh, totally forgot to mention Broken Steel. Great piece of content, and it was great that they decided to continue the story past the original death of the player, which definitely wasn't a great choice.

Nope, that'd be Frostfall. Wet & Cold adds a bunch of neat stuff like foggy breath on NPC's, creatures, and the player (in 3rd person) when it's cold, dripping effects after getting out of water, NPC's staying inside when it's raining, stuff like that.

That's my point, though. Whereas in New Vegas you felt you had to go to the south and around (as you really did, otherwise it was instadeath), in Fallout 3 you were free to roam wherever you wanted. That being said, you were led in a much more natural feeling way to Megaton, as they didn't surround you with Deathclaw…

Ha!