As a Bostonian, I hope that someone from the community or Bethesda finds a way to add nor’easters to the mix. there’s probably no easy way to add accumulating snow to this engine . But that would be accurate to the local experience, and cool as heck.

dogmeat’s adorable, but when I’ve traveled with him, he is mostly useless in combat, and I end up feeling bad listening to him in pain.

Unlike the 32x, Sega CD, and Saturn, the Dreamcast wasn’t botched. It was well-designed, well-marketed, and well-run. In the US, it had possibly the best launch line-up of any console ever, and sold well initially. It also represented the biggest power-bump until the 360 came out. The difference between PSX/N64 to…

I was thinking of up-res’d low-poly games of the dreamcast era. I know that anything short of a 980x struggles with contemporary titles at 4k. Those would stick with 1080p.

Right now’s not a bad time to pump in a proper console though. Because Sony & MS both came out with kind of underpowered gear for this gen, which they were planning on riding for years and years, all Sega would have to do is wire up something a bit more contemporary spec-wise - get it out next fall. Maybe even make…

Actually it was this guy (not this exact guy, but one of his many clones).

similar to those sister-wives dealies.

Big Trak

My sister is a a 48 year old artist. She does not game and never did. A couple of months ago she was brought to a local indie game fest by a friend. She got to ride that oculus-bicycle gizmo that has you control a winged horse. She will not stop talking about it.

*You’re* not going away any time soon!

What! No “numbnuts”?!

Why do you dislike this game so?

You should be skeptical of every single word, even “a” and “the”, written on a dating profile. People are capable of bottomless depths of deception, especially self-deception.

This is the first Bethesda game I’ve actually preferred hoofing over fast travel (except for junk drops). You should get XP for walking, like a PIPBit.

Some folks brains have, like, built in Ritalin, so they always see stuff through to the bitter end. I’d like to hire them.

then why not give them the best: Skyrim (unless they already played it to death on the 360). An average GPU will play it 1080p/60fps with all sliders maxed. Plus a practically bottomless set of cool mods. Some games easily justify the cost of the game ($60) - skyrim is one of those games that justifies the cost of the…

Agreed - graphically intense PC games are often released when only a minority of gamers could actually run them well. This is something going way way back, even before proper “3d cards”. I remember having to run Doom in a smaller window because my 486sx would choke.

huh - no Skyrim? You crazy? No Fallout 4? You crazy!!

Diablo 3 on consoles is probably the best couch co-op out there.

I agree with the GTAV statement. The key gameplay is still rather dodgy (shooting, driving). You gotta be into the whole GTA vibe to enjoy the game - and it’s a highly off-putting vibe. I know that for some, it’s bliss. For me, I wish I had bought a physical copy, because I’d sell it.