Morning Discussion

by Alice O'Connor, Feb 11, 2011 5:00am PST

Surprise! It's a Friday link dump. Gobble up all these delicious links before it's too late and... I'm sorry, I've said too much. Never mind. You needn't know about that yet. When you do find out, though, know that you're in all our hearts and minds, you brave star you.

We must save this fabulous mural from being destroyed.

Everything becomes more pleasant with a burst of noise. Not that rubbish 'white' noise all the squares are listening to, no, proper noise, like pink or red/brown noise.

Why does modern literature favour the tragic over the comic? It's certainly not what the Ancient Greeks, those idolised originators of our culture, thought. Sure, you could apply this thinking to video games, if you fancy. And why not!

Lastly, you positively must read Duncan Fyfe's cripplingly wonderful Bad Dreams, a short story from the perspective of a video games PR person.

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Fallout 3 isn't very good.

I just got to the Citadel after the Enclave show up and kill dad in the Jefferson Memorial. I've spent about 16 hours with it, and I'll finish it, but I wish it weren't so bland. The combat is repetitive and clumsy; the world is ugly (it may be a wasteland, but it doesn't have to be so monotonous) ; the NPCs are worthless; there are no choices worth making; and the main quest is uninteresting. Exploring is more compulsive than compelling, and I find myself passing over new locations because I know they'll be full of the same blistered paint, leaky pipes, and empty desks.

Also, Dogmeat is more trouble than he's worth, which is a shame because I loved having him in the old games. I left him at home.

If only someone could succeed in combining Bioware's focused stories with Bethesda's sprawling worlds, then we might have something worth playing.

Feb 11, 2011 4:01pm PST

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Fallout 3 isn't very good. I just got to the Citadel after the Enclave show up and kill dad in the J... : lechuck59
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  Dogmeat was worthless in the previous games too. Also combat was pretty good, you are using VATS right? : sanchez
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    VATS is the win button in Fo3 that breaks the combat. VATS BAD. Realtime good. : SpaecKow
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      Are you joking? Manual aiming was shit in the game. It was only put in because it sorta is already there ... : sanchez
      
      Yeah it had bad mousecode. But every time I used VATS I felt like I was breaking the game, and I am a big... : SpaecKow
      
      You're both right. Manual aiming is shit and VATS is too easy. : lechuck59
- I didn't like the writing but I found the game to be a really good first person scrounger, and with FWE t... : SpaecKow
- FO3 has pretty bad combat and main story and writing and animations and etc. etc. etc., but the world is ... : veras
- agreed, I found it to be rather uninspiring. And I loved Oblivion. : Arctic Fox
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  It is, you just suck at having fun. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  - IAWTP. The side locations were great, unless you're expecting the game to hold up big signs explaining e... : Arcanum
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  16 hours? You're just scratching the surface. : not work safe
- I felt this way too but it didn't irritate me as much and I found what was there was enjoyable enough to ... : BarrowWight
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  Dogmeat was always worthless in every Fallout game, the fun is found in trying to keep him alive for as l... : The Grolar Bear
  - Yeah, I know, but in Fallout 3, he'll drag me into fights with random wasteland monsters that I don't wan... : lechuck59
- I liked Fallout 3 if only for the fact that it was Fallout and I had waited years for a Fallout game. In... : On the Brane
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  So wrong. Go buy some PS2 games and enjoy your shitty, linear, on rails games with their heavily scripted stories.
  
  Feb 11, 2011 4:29pm PST
  
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  So wrong. Go buy some PS2 games and enjoy your shitty, linear, on rails games with their heavily scripted... : Dr_Cube
  - What the fuck? I tire of Bioware's long hallways just as much. Bethesda has always written bland storie... : lechuck59

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