What with Fallout: New Vegas coming next month, this seems like a good time to look back at 2008′s Fallout 3. Happy to say that Fallout 3 is a bloody brilliant game. I’m always impressed by the RPGs from Bethesda Softworks and even 2 years after release, this lives up to their high standards. Despite dropping you in the uninhabitable [...]
As a recently-self-employed gamer, the price of new games is even more a concern to me than it used to be (if such a thing is possible). Yes, I’ve heard plenty of people argue that pounds-per-hour, games are much better value than films/clubbing/sailing/blah, blah, blah. These people invariably leave out the part where the majority games aren’t very good and [...]
Infocom’s text adventures profoundly influenced my gaming style ever since my introduction to the original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game. Even now, I have trouble with limited savegames because I spent so much time playing Cruel Unwinnable Spellcasting games. It took me a long time to get used to the crazy concept of NOT stealing objects that weren’t nailed [...]
There are a couple of new previews out on Bethesda’s new RPG, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion over at GameSpy, Joystiq and MyGamer. From GameSpy: “This is truly a sandbox game, where every action will result in some sort of reaction. During the demo, our hero accidentally set an innocent villager on fire…” Looks like it’ll be another beautiful game with the [...]
Lack of choice is boring. It's obvious, but still true. Most games out there give you very little leeway to choose your path. You're shoehorned into fixed cinematic after fixed cinematic and the most complex option you have is which weapon you use to kill the next slathering blood-covered monster.
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