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Hm. I just mentioned something related in the chat a few days ago. Tolkien elves are just... too good? I mean, they're DESIGNED to be better at pretty much everything, better warriors, better looks, better physique, better lifespan, better morals, etc. I find kinda eerie the constant hints of their superiority over other races. Its like at every point that a human/dwarf/hobbit does something, an elf does the same thing, but better. Except walking into Mordor of course. Bethesda wen't exactly the opposite road. They made the elfish race's ancestors a bunch of crazy xenophobic bastards, and the modern elves a bunch of not so crazy but still pretty much xenophobic bastards. And I like it. I wouldn't have it other way.

Feargus Urquhart at Obsidian (the developer that made F:NV) recently said that he'd be happy to make another Fallout offshoot, and Bethesda or Zenimax, depending on who would make the choice in the end, would be crazy not letting them do it. Considering how well New Vegas sold, and that Obsidian only got payed a fixed amount (as opposed to getting a percentage of the sales) for a team that was smaller, and worked a lot faster, than Bethesda's which made F3, it would seem like a very sound financial decision. Especially when keeping in mind that NV was a more complex game than Fallout 3 (65 k lines of dialogue compared to 40 k, more player choices that mattered, deeper characters, etc). Sure it was buggy, but a few more months of development would have ironed the worst ones out. The idea of another West Coast Fallout game made by Obsidian excites me a lot more than a F4 by Bethesda set in Boston and centered around "the Institute" (but that setting may be nothing more than a rumor). It had more complexity in some areas and was made faster mainly because they got all the assets and the engine from Bethesda's FO3. Those two alone consume a LOT of time in game development. Having those sorted out leaves room for many things, which Obsidian took advantage of and did their thing with FONV. For example, that's why GSC could release 3 STALKER games on a relatively small frame of time. They have been developing Oblivion Lost for around 6 years, and after they scrapped it, they released 3 games in half that amount of time (ShoC 2007, Clear Sky 2009, Call of Prypiat 2010) out of the content they produced in those 6 years. Thanks for that link, good to know that Beth and Obsidian are in good terms and they're talking about this. I'm also more excited about a possible Obsidian's FO rather than Bethesda's. Hopefully, if they make it, they can grab a more interesting place than Vegas (which was a way less interesting environment by itself than DC). As they mentioned, LA could be nice. Anyway, talking about FO in the Skyrim forum is a bit off topic :biggrin:

i think they'll do one more big DLC than some kinda of last hurrah DLC for skyrim. but ill be surprised if FO4 is announced this year. maybe it'll get leaked but i doubt an official announcement. I was thinking about an announcement at the end of the year. Not right away. Beth releases games in 3 year cycles so far. Morrowind end of 2002. Oblivion end of 2005. Fallout 3 in 2008. Skyrim at the end of 2011 (with Obsidian's FONV in 2010). If Beth uses more or less the same technology as Skyrim for FO4 (so no big delays for tech development happen), I can see them announcing it at the end if this year and releasing it sometime in 2014. I wonder is Zenimax is going to "outsource" a TES or FO spinoff again like they did with FONV. While I don't see them going the CoD route, with releases each year, I do see them having another studio providing "offshoot" content while Bethesda Games Studios works on the next big title of their main franchises. Now, one thing that comes to mind is that next-gen consoles are coming soon. 2014 probably. And maybe Beth would want to step up their engine for that kind of hardware. Otherwise Creation Engine as it is might look very dated in comparison to other titles.

It was a meteorite shower. Not a single meteorite. There were many explosions around besides the big blast that damaged the city.

Imagine what is right wing for the rest of the world. Then divide it in two parts. The left part of the right wing is what USA considers "left", the right part of the right wing is what USA considers "right". To the rest of the world looks like its between very right wing, or a little less right wing.

One more big DLC, then FO4 announcement in a few months.

Mind = blown.

I demand juicy details. The juicier the better.

In this case, its more about the nostalgia of the thing I guess.

For me it would be enough for them to outsource the writing to Obsidian. Not just story, also NPCs and backstory (so you could actually HAVE a backstory for a change instead of "A and B happened, now you must kill C" ). Then let the artists and level designers of Beth to do their thing with the landscape. And the companion wheel. Can't understand why they didn't "import" that one from New Vegas.

Deus Ex Human Revolution is pretty nice. You could try to play Mount & Blade in first person too :P

I think that turn based RPGs were a byproduct of an age where you just couldn't simulate the complex actions that RPG systems required in real time. Thus, turn based mechanics in this day and age sounds pretty bad to me (like Cyberpunk from CDProject). That said, I liked what I saw from the Wasteland 2 video. Looks like it has a well done and interesting environment. While I probably won't enjoy the combat I could see myself enjoying everything else the game has to offer :D

Nothing. I was going to navmesh my mod but no one seems to know how to copy a navmesh from one .esp to another. Anyway, right now Im far from home, far from Skyrim and even far from a PC with Windows on it. @pickel, a recommendation (gathered from my little experience with quest design), draw a diagram of your quest stages like a flow chart, it will help to sort things out before you mess up with the editor, which isnt the nicest thing on earth so better to not to have to fiddle with it too much.

Meh. Looks pretty standard for me. I've seen more craziness from Invader Zim. Though now I know why there are so many pony memes around, they sure give a flood of material for them in the show!

OMIGOSH! Thats it! The mudcrab holds the secret of EVERYTHING!!! Maybe reading an elder scroll will turn you blind, but placing the mounted mud crab will turn you sterile, blind AND tell your girlfriend about that time on the club with your friends.