I’m gonna piss you off: it’s 36F on this side of the pond today, and according to the forecast displayed by my Win10, it’s going to be warmer. 50F predicted on Thursday.

Yeah, but it’s at odds with my worldview. I’m not the type to reinvent the wheel, particularly when it’s going to turn out square.

Well, it’s pretty obvious what’s Bethesda’s problem with the franchise. Despite having more experience with the fantasy genre, they’d screw up The Witcher franchise if it was dropped onto their lap, and for the exact same reason.

That engine was crap even when Fallout 3 came out, and it went even more stale before FNV’s release.

Yeah, I await the mod that allows you to form and dispatch Minutemen squads to solve all those problems. The only thing the player should deal with is forming new settlements. The rest should be optional.

The TV station? What on earth are you talking about?

Not anymore they ain’t. In The Force Awakens, Sillied Snoke has teleconferences with his underlings in full technicolor, unless something hits the hologram, then it starts going blue and flickery.

Well, the trick is that Iran, despite being an authoritarian shithole, pretends to be a democratic country and sometimes organizes “elections”. When they “elected” that lunatic Ahmadinejad, things promptly went to shit, embarrassing even the group of ancient beardos in funny hats running the entire Iranian circus…

Or it messed with the sound recording, but that can be fixed in post anyway...

Aaaand it’s been taken down.

Really? In Fallout 4, the game starts in late October, and last time I checked the PipBoy calendar, it was March when I finally decided to seek that loony Institute guy in the Heavily Irradiated Shithole.

Make them something that was originally hospital scrubs. For extra creepy.

OK, looks like it’s storytime.

Well, that one’s quite a pissup.

Great going, Slowpoke. Also, four years later, the prices of Raspberry Pi and related hardware finally dropped enough to make building stuff like that sensible. For example, I could make a Pipboy or something like that for $100 or thereabouts nowadays.

Again? I’ve heard about those things falling from the sky a couple of years ago, and of course there were Dragon Ball references!

I bailed out before the first expansion. It was a dull affair, a soulless WOW clone that failed to entertain me more than The Secret World.

Is MacReady’s loyalty perk still glitched to high fuck and back again twice?

I wonder why they can’t come up with a charismatic, sarcastic Sith that uses his anger as a weapon... and sometimes just has to choke a bitch.

All the nope. Everything’s better than Fallout 3. And New Vegas feels like a worthy successor to Fallout 2, getting Obsidian to do it was Bethesda’s best decision ever.