Along the same lines, if Bethesda really wanted to make a true Fallout experience, they should include a severed car trunk that magically follows me around the map.
Er…no, not really. I’m not going to argue that the rate of progression doesn’t slow down some at the tail end of most RPGs, but there have been plenty that still level you up regularly even towards the very end. Mass Effect would be a recent example. And I appreciate that, because mechanically, levels and attendant benefits are the primary positive reinforcement that my particular brain keys in on. Getting a shootier gun doesn’t have quite the same impact. I doubt I’d last long at raid-level in something like WoW.
Killzig
3103
I think it kind of makes sense as a Chinese prototype weapon meant to combat that power armor. It looks like they removed all those text descriptions for weapons/items though. A lot of the flavor text seems to be gone.
Zylon
3104
I guess I’m of the school of thought that some character paths bloody well should be more powerful than others. Kind of like real life, you know? Any sufficiently expressive character creation system will of necessity include the freedom to screw yourself (should you so desire or make obviously dumb choices, not to be conflated with Oblivion’s goofball unintuitive leveling system).
Kunikos
3105
Hidden joinable characters is a big one for RPG side-quests.
Like pretty much everything else in that comic above, that’s a gross exaggeration. You can’t have heads exploding like watermelons full of blood in a T-rated game.
ZekeDMS
3107
Heads exploding is fine, it’s the topless women that get an M rating!
Miramon
3108
Hey, they came out with a patch a year later that mostly fixed that problem! But you could still get blocked into a corner by a NPC who refused to move :)
If a bare breast exploded, it would probably break their rating system.
Well, it’s not that it’ll be designed with them Dan, they’ll just be locked away by code and some sneaky player will unlock that code, and suddenly it’s Hot Nuka-Cola all over the place. Nudity, in an M-rated game! Think of the children!
Oh, fuck. If there’s one thing Bethesda can take from Fallout 2, I hope it’s the shove function.
…although I can live without it if someone as great as Sulik shows up.
Uh, well, I thought you were talking in a real sense, not a game sense. You were saying it didn’t make sense that they hadn’t advanced further after 200 hundreds years. Anything is possible within a game, there’s no reason to question it if that’s what you’re basing your opinion on. I’m talking about reality and you’re talking about what the game character can do by reading/understanding tech manuals. Not much fit there.
I thought the former got M, and the latter gets you AO?
This would be the reality in your head, where two hundred years hence, and after a nuclear war, Mankind is much less advanced than in Fallout?
God of War got away with it.
As does the 360 Conan game. And Age of Conan, from what I hear. I think a little toplessness is just a guaranteed M. It’s simulated sex (or, more than likely, full nudity/male frontal nudity) that = bann…er, AO.
Okay, I was being facetious with that one guys. The timing of the topless female assets and the “re-rating due to violence” was a little too coincidental. But yes, topless women will get you an M rating, as Conan, God of War, and I’m sure several others have had.
Having nudity in Fallout 3 is as inappropriate to the setting as this advertisement:
Fallout 2 was terrible with the hookers and stuff. It pretty much detracted from the setting.
Tankero
3118
What, a post-apocalyptic world simply gets you out of the mood?
The hookers were fine, I thought. In fact, I’d say it’s a plus to the setting/atmosphere. That pornstar shit was dumb though.
The hookers felt like a nice throwback to Wasteland, so I didn’t mind. I found no three-legged hooker from which you could catch Wasteland Herpes, though.
