If you’re pissing people off with your journalism, then you’re doing your job. Ruffling feathers, even if you’re entertainment reporters, is par for the course. Don’t stop doing it just because a couple publishers are a wee bit on the childish side of things.

I would guess that they wanted to avoid the player reading something and then having to hear it said out loud, which could get really repetitive. But I imagine most RPG fans would prefer some echo to the ambiguity we have now.

This is huge. Was my single biggest complaint about Fallout 4.

first you have to mod the base game so it stops crashing then you mod it until it starts crashing again!

That’s pretty sweet. FFIV will always have a special place in my heart for being the first RPG I ever played. My dad’s friend randomly got it for me for my 10th birthday, and as someone who had really only played platformers up to that point I was totally confused by why characters were standing in a line to fight.…

I couldn’t find a way to work this into the piece, but in case you’re curious...here’s MATN on Fallout 3 versus New Vegas:

This was the play that secured it!

Truly one of the greater moments in video gaming history... that first step outside the vault.

So good...

So glad you mentioned the game’s environmental stories. One of the most affecting ones I found was while following a trail of dead Mirelurks to the skeleton of a small child huddled in the corner of a Vault that had been overtaken by said Mirelurks. Another good one is the Rube Goldberg setup you can find in one of…

Atmosphere. In New Vegas, the bombs never hit the area. It’s mostly untouched, but derelict desert buildings. In New Vegas, there weren’t people panicking as the bombs fell, allowing you to discover their story and feel the sheer terror that the people must have felt. Fallout 3 let you see that terror and then some.…

This fellow (and his proximity to the edge of the balcony) kept me occupied for a concerning amount of time.

I really enjoyed 3, it was my intro into the series though I have played the rest now. I thought the companions were forgettable though. I hardly remember any except Fawkes. Unless you count Liberty Prime as a companion!

I’m exactly the same. Most people I know prefer NV but it just never gripped me the way that 3 did, not even close.