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Re: You can *almost* do it in Fallout 3. by laudablepuss 10/07/2010, 4:29pm PDT
Jerry Whorebach wrote:

Mr. Kool wrote:

Jerry Whorebach wrote:


CON: Bethesda: just once, let me use my Science skill to turn on a backup generator so I can see where the fuck I'm going.


Funny you mention that. In Fallout 1 and 2, you could do that in several areas.

Mr. Kool


There's a computer in the first metro station with commands for activating the lights, escalators, and robocops, but only the robocops work - the other two return error messages. I figured that meant I was going to have to use my repair skill on something down the line; I was envisioning rolling up my sleeves and going all MacGyver with some of this 200 pounds of junk I was carrying around. Nope! It was just "flavour text", to let me "taste the flavour" of what it's like to be someone who can turn on a light. They also sprinkled a few non-functional ladders around so you got the "flavour" of a world where people once climbed over minor obstacles, instead of taking endless detours through the goddamn metro system.


You switched complaints in mid sentence, it looks like. I presume the "minor obstacles" you're referring to are the collapsed buildings blocking the route to Rivet City. In real life, climbing over loose rubble is a good way to get buried or otherwise stuck in it and die. Not sure how a ladder would help you there.

HOWEVER, I am hating the game a little bit when I queue up 50 shots in VATS only to see that my gun doesn't *quite* peak up above the thing I'm hiding behind, so all the shots go into that. That is my FAVORITE.
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Jerry which game site have you finally settled on by Mysterio 09/29/2010, 9:00am PDT NEW
    My games site of choice is and always will be caltrops.com v_v by Jerry Whorebach 09/29/2010, 5:32pm PDT NEW
        "Operation Anchorage was as bad as anything BioWare's ever made" by jeep 09/29/2010, 5:39pm PDT NEW
            I go back and forth between almost liking FO3 and absolutely despising it. by Jerry Whorebach 09/29/2010, 6:48pm PDT NEW
                Don't play the terrible word-guessing minigame! by laudablepuss 09/29/2010, 7:20pm PDT NEW
                    At least the lockpicking game has a "throw up hands in frustration" button. by (X) Force Lock 09/29/2010, 7:42pm PDT NEW
                The game got much better when I started over by jeep 09/29/2010, 9:46pm PDT NEW
                    Re: The game got much better when I started over by Entropy Stew 09/30/2010, 2:12pm PDT NEW
                        BARF! would have been a better reference NT by River City Ransom! COME ON CALTROP 09/30/2010, 3:43pm PDT NEW
                Re: I go back and forth between almost liking FO3 and absolutely despising it. by Mr. Kool 09/30/2010, 3:26pm PDT NEW
                    You can *almost* do it in Fallout 3. by Jerry Whorebach 10/07/2010, 1:36pm PDT NEW
                        Re: You can *almost* do it in Fallout 3. by laudablepuss 10/07/2010, 4:29pm PDT NEW
                            It's always a better idea to clamber over something than to clamber under it, by even before you factor in the CHUDs 10/07/2010, 9:33pm PDT NEW
                                Regardless, a ladder wouldn't help. by laudablepuss 10/08/2010, 11:48am PDT NEW
                                    Hi NT by Potomac 10/08/2010, 1:34pm PDT NEW
                                        Not even remotely comparable to the situation in Manhattan NT by laudablepuss 10/08/2010, 2:22pm PDT NEW
                                    Yeah, I don't really know. by Jerry Whorebach 10/09/2010, 10:20am PDT NEW
                        Here is who should win an award: by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/08/2010, 11:16am PDT NEW
                            Re: Here is who should win an award: by Entropy Stew 10/08/2010, 1:29pm PDT NEW
                                Re: Here is who should win an award: by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/08/2010, 3:17pm PDT NEW
                                    Jerry Whorebach: King Shit of Fuck Mountain by Mysterious Stranger 10/08/2010, 4:47pm PDT NEW
                                        DIS GUY DON GET IT by Mysterious Stranger Helper 10/08/2010, 4:51pm PDT NEW
                                        Here we have the "flavor" of a shitty poster. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/08/2010, 6:12pm PDT NEW
                                            Man I love HSM's 50 page Bioware game reviews, lets resurrect them but call the NT by reviewer Jerry Whorebach. 10/08/2010, 6:14pm PDT NEW
                                                Agreed. They barely spoke of the keys used to cast spells and attack enemies. NT by Eldjotnar 10/08/2010, 6:30pm PDT NEW
                            On behalf of the spirit of BDR and to a lesser extent FABIO, I accept this award NT by Jerry Whorebach 10/09/2010, 10:09am PDT NEW
 
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