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I'm just used to it with the Fallout games. I love these games more than just about any other, but frankly they have been busted pieces of shit since the first one. In Fallout 1 you had to fucking pickpocket equipment onto your companions to get them to equip things because there wasn't a real companion interface. The cornerstone of the gameplay in F1 and F2 for me was save scumming midcombat to get out of tough fights with e.g. my companions alive.

I'm slogging my way through it now on a laptop with integrated video that can barely run it on minimum settings, and I'm used to that because I've never had a good PC in my life, but the technical problems are still really irritating. Like when I (usually) have a transparent pip boy while I'm using stealth armor. That might even be intentional, but it's impossible to tell.

I think that's the main thing that lets me enjoy this game. I have no idea if any given thing I'm experiencing is intentional or not. I have no expectations that anything will work properly so I'm like, whatever, I'll just learn how to noclip and give up on my usual obsession with playing games "the right way." The games themselves feel as cobbled together as the world they depict, maybe I like the meta-roleplaying of trying to keep the game running while my character tries to keep himself alive. But a last night a Mister Gutsy attacked me while grunting "MADE IN THE YOU. ESS. AY!" and that was great, so whatever.

I'm so out-of-my-mind horny for this game that I can't stand it. PC SOON, PLEASE.

I love the review. I really don't care about a game review much, once I know if the game is decent or not then it's served its purpose for me. I'd much rather have interesting things to read about games and culture, and that's why I really appreciate Austin's presence on the site and all of the cultural discussions on the Beastcast. I think the review could stand to be a bit trimmed down, but that's probably because I've already heard a lot of these thoughts from the author. The length itself doesn't bother me. Great use of images in the post, especially the last one. Austin rules.

Hi, can I get an invite? I played a SHITLOAD of this a few months ago, quit right before Archwing hit. My in-game name is Aggressor.

I'll never call myself a gamer or hang out with anyone who does.

Thanks for posting this, Patrick.

@patrickklepek Thank you for outlining the basics and benefits of healthy communication. I am not being sarcastic, I really appreciate the frank and unpatronizing way in which you talk to people about talking to people. You're also showing all of us that open and honest communication is functional, instead of just promoting the idea that it should, which in my experience is much better.

I like this article a lot, Patrick! Thank you.

I would definitely like to see more of your "scraps" like this. I loved seeing the questionnaires, full direct quotes, and other raw data for myself. I just love inside baseball.

Man, those comments on the Ellison article are real fuckin garbage.

"I came to read about a video game!!!"

Fuck you!

Yo fuck notch

(Great article, thank you Patrick.)

Brad, I love your Dota writeup. "you could play it for years and never come close to absorbing it all." This is funny to me because I HAVE been playing it for years, and I still don't know shit!

Look at the arcane bullshit everywhere in this game like, for example, how Juggernaut's autoattacks behave during Blade Fury. What the hell? But knowing how to use that stuff in a game gives a player an edge, and it gives them the edge because they put the effort into getting it. If it was easy it wouldn't be rewarding.