There's some valid criticism to level at F3, but I always think that the two games were aiming for different feelings. F3 wanted to make a world that seemed awful, that needed saving - you come from your comfortable vault and half of the people and things you meet in the outside world are trying to kill you. The…

NO. She was sworn to carry my burdens, and my heart <3

I think part of the charm of Fallout: New Vegas is the way in which your companions become your best friends. They open up to you, share their problems, and support you of course, both mechanically and sometimes with dialogue in the right place. It's a form of romance that's platonic in appearance, but whose power…

I'm replaying it and realising there are places I never went to before.. and setting myself stupid personal challenges like collecting but never using the skill magazines, and trying to amass the largest collection of wine bottles in the Wasteland.

I'm waiting for the arrival of the final part of my new computer: the power supply. This means that everything is still in boxes, sigh.

Jigglypuff! ♪ Jigg-er-ly-puff ♪

I have seen the greatest minds of a generation destroyed by Magic the Gathering. Ok, not greatest, but pretty bright people anyway, throwing away all that money and time, forming a cult around the game and shunning those who aren't interested in taking part. They enjoy themselves though, I can't begrudge them that,…

Or you could play King of Tokyo with some friends and competitively rampage through the city without any microprocessors.

It's not always derogatory. It just means that the splashiness of the components tends to outweigh the gameplay, and there's an implied lack of strategy. I say not every game has to use the worker-placement/resource-management paradigm, and I quite like the XCOM boardgame.

I can recommend Lost Legacy as a sort of Love Letter, but with more stuff happening. Plus, you can combine decks to create interesting combinations and expand how many players the game can handle.

I finished Fallout earlier this week - what started as a slightly pacifist playthrough ended with slaughtering everyone in the Cathedral because you can't be sneaky with NPCs in tow and there was no way I was going to let Dogmeat die (and I didn't know a way to shake him off). I never even bothered talking to the…

[invests heavily in square bracket industry and earns $$$ from home]

Summer is the time for low-tech, retro games, or whatever else minimises CPU usage and thus additional heat output.

Well I never. I think that was one of, if not the first MST I watched.

Wattam looks crazy, and so it's no surprise that one of the team is down for crazy questions. I'm not sure about the sartorial combination though - is that a bleached Thriller jacket?

I bought my first console last generation as a way to play Bioshock, because I couldn't afford a decent PC at that student-finance stage of my life. My terrible second-hand TV gave up a few months later, so that prompted buying my first flatscreen TV, just as Fallout 3 came out and I remember thinking how god-damned…

It's only a matter of time before VR turns on him. I can't let you do that, Dave.

I don't think there's a problem with enjoying the things you used to enjoy as a kid. I think most people establish their passions, be they sports or arts or videogames when they are young and unless you have a personality crisis when you're a teenager, which is perhaps relatively common, you stick with them.

I picked up the expansion in the super-cheap bundle that makes me wish I hadn't bought it first time around. Not sure I'll play it for a while though - too many things going on!

That's the FBI for Cthulhu type game right? I think I played it once..