Comments on: Dead Space is Dead; Long Live Fallout 3

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By: T-Rex

T-Rex — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:40:33 +0000

I remember RPG’s. I used to play those before I met girls. Of course, when I found out about girls I didn’t realize that they would lead to kids. Now I barely have time for my wife, let alone RPG’s.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:50:58 +0000

See? Alekshy knows what’s up.

By: Tom Shaw

Tom Shaw — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:57:08 +0000

I managed to pull myself away after only 30 mins or so, and while TV Tropes is mildly entertaining, much of it is really just the logical consequences of moving to short-form entertainment. When you only have two hours for a movie, or one hour for a TV show, or even 30 minutes for an anime (minus advertising time, after all), you have to have some pre-understood outline to hang your story on, and the sheer number of subverted examples shows just how ingrained said outlines are nowadays.

(One could argue that the recent rash of persistent or semi-persistent shows (e.g. Lost) are the counter-phenomenon, essentially arguing that two hours is not enough, but that is for another day.)

As far as Fallout 3 goes: while I am no Fallout purist (Tactics inarguably had better combat), the game just strikes me as too much of a very high quality Oblivion mod (which itself was a little too close to Morrowind). It is definitely worth your time, but aside from the VATS stapled on, don’t expect to do much new.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:43:36 +0000

ahhhh…. can’t resist… must click time wasting link…. ahhhhhhhhhh

By: alekshy

alekshy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:03:31 +0000

You have to finish Dead Space…it all comes together in the end and makes you want to play it all the way through again while punching aliens, er, necromorphs in the face.

By: churchhtucker

churchhtucker — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:08:03 +0000

Do not, repeat, do NOT visit TV Tropes unless you have cleared out the rest of your day or, preferably, your weekend. You have been warned.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:46:56 +0000

Lately I just haven’t been able to deal with role-playing games
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I hear you there. I was all about them in college. But now I think of sitting down for a single-player CRPG, and immediately think of all the other things I could do with that time.
Every so often, though, the urge hits me, and I go boot up Fallout 2 so I can punch some aliens in the face.
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I punch them in the face until they die.