I doubt anyone is going to get hooked on Metroid as a series thanks to this spin-off.

Even if you wanted to bother with getting DLC through the Japanese PSN store, you’d still need a separate memory card set up with your Japanese PSN account in order to access it. Unless you just happen to have spares lying around that’s probably more hassle than it’s worth.

To be fair, HP only sells the Stream in fluorescent blue and pink.

I just got a third party start menu replacement and went on with my life. I’ve never cared for the Start Screen, but the only time I see it is when I accidentally bring it up. I’ll take the performance gains 8 made over 7 rather than cling to 7 merely because I refused to look into alternatives to return the one…

Puppies! is a level 22 perk, only added by Broken Steel. And if you’re playing in a way where you’re just accepting an unending stream of replacement dogs, you’re already metaing the hell out of the game anyway. It’s hardly less realistic to just have the one be essential.

I’m not too worried that they’ll be having him take down deathclaws or anything. But I suspect I might actually want to have the dog around in 4, instead of feeling like I should just park him in a house where he won’t get blown up.

That’s not how essential works in Bethesda games. They aren’t unstoppable killing machines that just soak up bullets while continuously attacking things. They just go unconscious after taking otherwise fatal damage.

Bug fix mods are likely fine. But they generally don’t fix performance issues so much as fix broken game elements. Performance-oriented mods tend to be one of two things, either mods that reduce the quality of the game world in some way (lower rez textures, removed details like grass, smoke, particle effects, etc.) or…

You know, you don’t have to recruit the dog. A Dogmeat that can die is pretty much a Dogmeat you’ll never use because everything kills it (ie, exactly how it played out in all the previous games.)

Assuming the game’s not too demanding, it’ll probably be possible to play it via an emulator like Bluestacks.

They already did the born outside the vault but spent childhood inside one angle in Fallout 3. There’s no point in emphasizing the character predates the war if you’re just going to have to make them rely on secondhand information to know anything about it.

Playing as the child would make no sense, given the character’s familiarity with the robot butler, and whole, “it’s great to be back” angle. The child wouldn’t have been old enough to remember anything before the war. And would need to grow up in the vault, and THEN time skip 200 years later afterward. Why would they…

The existing equipment likely isn’t designed to connect with modern hardware. The interface is probably the easy step, it’s updating the old heating system to connect to whatever interface they settle on that’s a problem.

In Modern American English Mr. generally precedes a last name. We rarely use it to refer to someone by their first name.

If you watch the entire video, you’ll see this isn’t the case. You play the parent you leave character creation from. This character emerges from the vault 200 years later, and is identified by last name by the robot butler. No doubt the baby plays a role somewhere down the line, but it’s not the player character.

I don’t fault them for setting up the system the way they did (and one can hardly fault the high school age boy they got to do it.)

Check the video out again, you’ll see that you continue to play the parent you left the menu as post-leaving the vault.

I don’t know where people are getting the impression you play as the baby. Howard specifically says stuff like, “and this is where you create your character,” “and of course you can play as a female,” when switching to the wife, and “whoever you leave the menu as, is who you’ll play.”

Nothing about the name prevents that though. And if we’re talking last names, I can pretty much guarantee mine (as a white dude) won’t be on the list either.

I find it weird how often players insist on playing themselves, but to each their own. In any case, I’m curious whether you even get to pick a voiced first name. You’ll note the demo specifically calls the player character by their last name; only the baby is referred to by his first.