Inb4 people going on and on about how Star Citizen will never be finished.

Also, that’s some gorgeous art. Truly. I’ve always liked the sleek sci-fi aesthetic.

Considering he had to deal with regular contents claiming that gaining HP through leveling up was “healing,” I suspect he decided to err on the side of caution rather than deal with it. Also, yes, it was a lot more dramatic this way.

Windward should definitely be included in the pirates game list.

Quasi-Iberian, I would guess. But this is also supposedly set in their version of late antiquity Rome, so they may be intentionally changing it.

Alternately, it’s just awful voice acting. Which would be weirdly re-assuring - if at least one aspect of a Mount & Blade game’s presentation wasn’t comically bad, would it…

Sure it is. In the United States you can be fired at any time for basically any reason in most states, and companies can rewrite your job descriptions at will. In some states you don’t even have to be notified of the change.

True, but they’re also self-interested, and even a corrupt Congress still wants electricity flowing their way. The Battle for Hoover Dam was a really big deal that went far beyond just lighting up Vegas. I’d argue it was a much bigger deal than providing drinking water to the few remaining residents of the ruins of…

I don’t have my Dwellers sexually reproduce at all. That’s what my propaganda centers (some call them “Radio Stations”) are for. I also have all of the stat training rooms maxed out, so I immediately send all new recruits for processing, which entails several days of grueling, intensive training.

Then, when they have…

Presumably coming back from the dead (and brain surgery) makes your eyes rather sensitive.

The fight over Hoover Dam wasn’t about providing electricity to Vegas. The fight over Hoover Dam was about providing electricity to the better part of the Republic. Helios One was a fight to provide power to Vegas.

For me, it wasn’t the plot so much as the believable nature of the world. The Mojave felt lived-in and realistic, a logical and sound progression after Fallout 1 and 2. It felt like your actions in the previous games had a direct effect on New Vegas, and when you did quests in New Vegas, it (to me) felt more like I…

Because they don’t really have a great history of compelling narratives. They’re amazing at world-building, but not so much at story. Morrowind’s story wasn’t exceptional. Oblivion’s story wasn’t exceptional. Fallout 3’s story wasn’t exceptional. Skyrim’s story wasn’t exceptional. I see no reason why Fallout 4’s story…

It’s incredible... and also empty and underutilized. The majority of it is set dressing that you can’t enter or interact with in any meaningful fashion. I love GTA V - I play every day - but it’s one of the things that disappointed me the most. I would love to see more mods utilizing more of the world space.

They want to protect the integrity of their online mode, yet hackers run rampant (I see an average of one per time I log in) and the online mode itself works poorly. It really seems like a secondary priority to them.

Huh. Interesting. I felt the exact opposite - like I was doing these things, but there were only small settlements of disparate survivors huddling in ruin, and so it didn’t really matter. My main accomplishment was providing them drinking water. That’s humanitarian and all, but... it’s not really an earth-shaking…

Probably just that you lean more toward the Bethesda style of doing things. Which is fine - a lot of people do. Alternately, maybe you don’t really care for Westerns, which New Vegas most certainly was.

Was Fallout 3 your first Fallout game? Were you previously a Bethesda fan? If you answered “Yes” to both of those questions, that’s probably it. Fallout 3 is a magnificently designed open world sandbox with somewhat bare bones plot, because they want players to have maximum freedom. That’s what most Bethesda games are.

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Almost without exception in this case, yes.

Actually, it said the exact opposite of that:

This works nicely. Especially since in Norse mythology, everyone dies anyway. Except for two humans who re-populate the earth with incest babies, of course.

I’m guessing you never played 3, then. For the rest of us, it was just a mild disappointment that they hadn’t learned from 3 and continued to insist on a web launcher.