4381

It’s not even remotely '80s. That video is firmly in the early '90s dance hip-hop industrial club scene, stemming from the same arena as stuff like C&C Music Factory. I was actually kind of stumped as to why you called it '80s.

4382

Oh, Snap!.

“So please, get off my back, or I will attack, and you don’t want that”!

(insert stick fighting workout scene from The Perfect Weapon).

4383

Don’t… make me Google Image Search … again…

4384

So, what’s this Fallout 3 I’ve been hearing so much about?

4385

It’s like Oblivion but with guns.

4386

4387

Cellular modular interactive popular!

4388

All your chatter almost had me miss news that FO3 will have a simple DVD check for DRM, nothing else. That’s got to be news for someone somewhere, what with all the DRM talk going around.

4389

Interactivodular.

4390

4391

and for those that previously mentioned that Hines didn’t know if there was an install limit or not, they edited the interview:

Shack: I can’t recall what Oblivion did, but will there be any install limit on Fallout 3?

Pete Hines: That’s a good question. I don’t actually know. [ed- Fallout 3 has no install limit.]

4392

Hey, I just watched the video Gamespot recently put up (on 9/30) and around 2:38 into the video what is the deal with the player seeming to play with the camera zoomed really far out, almost a traditional “fallout” view? Can you explore and play from that view?

4393

Yeah, but combat will probably be wonky

4394

Movement is wonkier, due to the inability to really see where you’re going and the right stick controlling the angle of view. It’s a nice homage, but it would take a lot of work to play it from that viewpoint, IMO.

4395

This lengthy editorial by one of the designers of Fallout: Tactics might enlighten some of you.

4396

Enlighten me how? I have RPG Codex adblocked.

4397

I got to the point where he said TB is a more accurate simulation of combat than RT, then I had to stop.

4398

LOL.

Well, I suppose TB is a more accurate simulation of “tactical” combat, but if he thinks Fallout combat is more representative of combat than, say, Call of Duty 4, then he would be wrong.

Though, I do enjoy me some TB Fallout combat, and it will be missed. That’s not to say I won’t enjoy Fallout 3’s viscerally pleasing combat though, it’s just going to take a little getting used to.

GameTap recently put up Fallout for free, so I played that for a bit last weekend. That first cave, when you first get out of the vault and are bets by like 15 rats? Yeah, could DEFINATELY have used a real-time option there. ;)

4399

See, that’s why hybrid systems like in mass effect are awesome.

Majot Tom to crowd control.

4400

I was actually a big fan of the “toggle” system in Fallout Tactics, actually, that felt pretty good to me. While I loved Fallout 1 and 2, I really liked Tactics for it’s combat model. It’s too bad as an RPG Tactics wasn’t very interesting (dialog wise, etc.) but the character customization and combat were excellent, and thanksfully that’s most of what the game was all about…

…hmn… now I feel like playing some tactics. I think Gametap has this now also…