IMO New Vegas is the true sequel to Fallout 2. There’s the obvious Van Buren connection, as you pointed out, but even disregarding that it just falls so much more in-line with the tone and atmosphere of the old Fallouts than 3 ever did.

That’s still something I adored about New Vegas and Obsidian/Avellone in general.

They can still maintain that archaic aesthetic visually while still making the organization and information-access better.

I think there would be ways to stay within that retro aesthetic but convey info to the player in a clearer manner, though.

I really wish Bethesda had not Mass Effect up the dialogue system or made the main character voiced because honestly to me having the main character voiced did not really add anything to the game. That being said I do like how when you skip dialogue the player character will go uh huh and stuff like that.

Yeah, but Duran was suave and interesting, and I imagine lots of people were hoping that his boss would be just as compelling a villain. What we got was an evil giant squid.

Nostalgia isn’t affecting anyone. The original SC and its expansion told dark and gritty stories, with various shades of grey clashing against one another. Mengsk was far more interesting when he was portrayed as a man implied to have once held respectable ideals, but now having become corrupted by the brutal…

I haven’t played SC1/BW’s campaign in a very long time, but I remember absolutely loving the stories it told — Mengsk’s betrayal, Kerrigan’s revenge, Tassadar’s sacrifice, the drama between Stukov and DuGalle, etc. SC2 doesn’t hold a candle to any of that.

Right. That’s why stories about someone ending all galactic life are so boring. Mass Effect is compelling because of its character relationships, not because of the damn Reapers.

Or the math for how he figures there were 500 people on Jabba’s sail barge.

Obama, the guy that had Osama killed and his dead carcass dropped into the ocean? The guy that is willing to kill bad guys with hellfires in so-called friendly countries? The guy that authorized the Stuxnet cyber attack on Iranian centrifuges?

Sure, play right into their apocalyptic ideology and create a few hundred thousand martyrs in the process, not to mention all the other bonuses that come with a nuclear detonation, like a drifting radiation cloud in a region where the west has damned few friends as it is. Great thinking, what could possibly go…

This game is such a massive disappointment. Its way too easy and there is barely any variety in the matches I’ve played. There are barely any maps and even then they all pretty much have the same vehicles and power ups. Guess Im sticking with Halo and Rainbow Six this year

I agree with what you are saying for the most part. I just think its shit design when a game expects you to go on random internet forums to learn how to play it rather than provide you with documentation themselves. I’m purely talking about core features.

For instance, I had to attach a wire from a generator to a…

Ironically? Shenmue 1 & 2. And those games are 15+ years old.

Stockholm Syndrome much? No, but seriously do you really like glitches that much that they make the game MORE fun? I just can’t except broken games on launch anymore. No. No. No. I don’t care how complex the game is. The over complexity is the developers fault, the bugs are the developers fault, and the poor reviews…

Everyone always says “oh, it’s to be expected” and “par for the course” and “just the way these big games are”...

I’ve been avoiding spoilers for the game, but the more and more I keep reading about the game, the more and more cautious I become. It’s the first game in a long time I bought off steam before release, but i’m starting to feel that I should have waited.

I used to spend hours agonizing over stats and builds in RPGs, usually needing to start over after about 5 to 10 hours of game play.

What is the deal with all the Clara hate? She’s ten times better than Amy Frickin Pond, the jumbled up nonsense of her “girl who didn’t make sense” storyline, and the constant “Will she choose Rory or The Doctor?!” shipping.