Lost_Remnant

Every first play-through of a Fallout game for me heavily focuses on speech, repair, and guns. So like a lot of other people I'll be a smooth talking gun wielder, so I'll be going high Charisma and Agility. May not be the most original to be sure but it makes for a fun first play-through since I like to talk my way out of most things and then draw the revolver if I can't.

I will definitely do a dumb melee focused character at some point. I remember playing through some of Fallout 3 again last year as a low intelligence and high strength character and used a sledgehammer to solve all my problems.

If nothing else, that was one hell of a pretty trailer. I didn't out and out hate Absolution but after how Blood Money got just about everything right, Absolution just did not measure up. I do remember having some fun playing through some created contracts in that game, it did a lot to get me back on it's good side after finding most of the story in Absolution pretty worthless.

I hope the game will still have plenty of accident type kills, I did that so much in Blood Money. One of my favorites was sabotaging a pyrotechnics machine so that it set one of my targets on fire and she fell into a shark tank.

I welcome our new future where any and all patch notes are read and maintained by tough British soldiers who wear skull balaclavas with sunglasses. Oh wait, you mean ghosts ghosts? Well, yeah. Ghosts are all around us. We are being touched by five ghosts at any one time. It's true.

As long as I can remember, people trapped in locations that feature heavy snow storms has been something of a favorite of mine for horror, with trapped on a super haunted space ship coming second place. I can probably thank John Carpenters The Thing remake for this, so as such there has been a couple of PS2/Xbox survival horror games that are favorites of mine and feature such a thing. So while I can't think of a ton of snow levels in games at the moment (although the Last of Us snow section Clagnaught mentioned is also REALLY good) I have a couple of games I like that that largely take place in a snowy environment. It's been a few years but I also remember loving the Himalayas section in Uncharted 2, and if we count the SSX franchise, SSX 1-3 hold a special place in my gaming heart. That new game was pretty good too!

The Thing: In what probably surprised a lot of people but the game adaption they made that served as a sequel to the John Carpenter film was actually pretty good. It was tense, atmospheric, and made you really care about ammo conversation. Since it featured a system of gun magazines making actual real world sense. If you have a MP5 with four bullets left in the magazine, when you reload it you lose those four bullets since you are effectively tossing those four bullets away when putting in a new magazine. It had good creature design and while the teammates turning into horrible abomination system wasn't as good as it could be (it was originally supposed to be random to keep up paranoia but it ended up being at certain intervals in the story since you tend to always get new dudes) It also has one of my favorite lines in games said by a very gruff soldier who makes it known that he likes to fuck shit up.

Extermination: While I can't tell you with a straight face that Extermination is a legit great game, there is just something I can't help but like. It was an early PS2 game, about a year after the launch of the console and I remember playing it a couple of years after seeing The Thing for the first time. It felt like a Japanese take on the concept, instead this time it was a bunch of soldiers crash landing on a base in Antarctica that has had all it's personal wiped out by a virus. It had the hallmarks of early survival horror of bad voice acting (as the trailer below will demonstrate) and slow paced controls of yesteryear that I still love. It also had a few things that would be seen in later Resident Evils such as being able to use the knife at any time, customizing your gun and things like that. It's been a long time but I want to say it was possible to move and shoot (but I could be wrong) but I remember you could also aim in first person for more accurate shooting. Extermination and The Thing harken back to an era of survival horror that I miss, even with all the flaws.

I tolerate the CG movies, if only to see more Leon Kennedy shenanigans, while bad they don't make me roll my eyes with all the stupid stuff you see in the typical live action RE movies. I'll watch this one how I watched the other two, when they finally show up on Netflix and I feel like subjecting myself to some Resident Evil movie dreck.

If all this is setting up for Rebecca to have a role in a future game would be perfectly fine by me. Other then Barry she is the only other cast member I've wanted to return in some fashion. I also really liked Billy Coen from Zero but don't see him returning in anyway that makes much sense for his character other then he just happened to be present when bad shit went down. Maybe Carlos could come back after years with a speech coach and finally got his slipping from one accent to another problem from 3 fixed.

@nightcrawlah: I'm with this guy.

Although, I've never felt my love for Dynasty Warriors was a guilty pleasure, I've always loved the series and always will. I like it for exactly what it is and the Internets continued efforts to step on it has never really gotten to me. I'll fight the yellow turban rebellion till I die son!

Dad works just fine for me. Although I mostly just call him Old Man to tease him and because he knows I'm not crazy about my middle name (Phillip) he sometimes calls me Phil to also mess with me.

My brother is looking forward to Syndicate, but he doesn't play nearly as many Assassin Creed games to completion as I do (read: all the major releases thus far on consoles) so he may not be as burned out on it.

As an Assassin's Creed apologist I'm very wary of this one, I've enjoyed most of the entries in the series even the one's that weren't all that great like Revelations. It was Unity that really soured me, I started playing that game in January of this year and it still played and ran pretty badly. The changes to the combat system were for the worse and they removed stealth aspects like hiding bodies, whistling to attract the attention of enemies behind walls so you could get a cover assassination and many more examples of stuff like that. The online servers for co-op were also very hit and miss. Some days they would work just fine, others not at all, or sometimes one person in our crew would constantly have trouble getting in at all.

I recently came back to Unity in the past month to finish out the story and play through that Dead Kings DLC that we got for free as an apology and my feelings felt very much the same. Just a very under-cooked and glitchy game that all it had going for it was some pretty spiffy visuals, the story was also completely forgettable. It says a lot that when your direct-to-video sequel Rogue while having problems of it own and basically being an Black Flag expansion pack was still a way better game then Unity.

@pontoon_yacht: I think you hit the nail on the head, the hype for Fallout 4 is so big that even if it turns out pretty good (which it probably will but who knows!) I think some people will be disappointed regardless. It just has that much expectation going for it. Unless the game just straight up stinks on ice, I think it'll probably be pretty good. I just want to explore a wasteland, see some cool shit, and pop some raider heads. I think Fallout 4 will deliver that at least.

I think Just Cause 3 is the other big possibility, that second game was so ridiculously good.

Fallout 4 will be my bread and butter for me that day, pretty stoked for the pip-boy collectors edition to show up at my door step.

I wish Rise of the Tomb Raider wasn't coming out on the same day though, really excited to play that since the previous title was one of my favorite releases that year. I even plan to play through the Definitive Edition on the One this month if time allows. Nothing will stop the Fallout 4 train through, way too pumped to play that as soon as it arrives.