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@Video_Game_King said:

@Vect:

Why did this arrive in my PM box?

Think it's because I originally quoted you before deleting your parts and taking the parts I actually wanted to quote. Apologies.

Never used Power Armor. I generally prefer playing a sneaky character. As such, I used the Chinese Stealth Suit in the vanilla game. Afterwards I moved onto the Assassin Suit in Dead Money, then the Stealth Armor of Old World Blues and finally the Riot Armor in Lonesome Road. Afterwards I sorta wore the Courier Duster (House) as my signature thing.

@Lost_Remnant said:

You know who I think should be heard more in games? Cam Clarke. He has a pretty awesome voice and his roles as Liquid Snake in MGS and Andrei Ulymeda in Killer 7 are memorable. I'd be fine with him in every corner of New Vegas, as long as he yells fox die at me.

Cam Clarke was in New Vegas. He voiced Dr. Mobius in the Old World Blues DLC. You get to hear him yelling "ROBO-SCORPIONS ATTACK" every so often.

@Elazul said:

Actually, so has Jennifer Hale (Naoto) and Troy Baker (Kanji), while we're on the topic. Hale's been in a ton of stuff as far back as MGS1, if I'm not mistaken.

Jennifer Hale wasn't Naoto. I forget the name of the actress, but Naoto is not Commander Shepard.

But yeah. You'll hear a lot from Yosuke, Akihiko and Rise in the game. Amazing that despite Akihiko's Persona being Caesar, Liam doesn't voice a Legion character (to my recollection) so you'll never hear him say "Kai-Sarr".

On Little Lamplight, that place seriously raises a lot fo questions with some really creepy answers. It's really unlikely that their population is simply sustained through gathering children from the outside. At least some of those kids have to come from inside the place. Also, the fact that Super Mutants haven't simply smashed down the wall and killed the kids is a question worth asking.

I personally think that the writing in Fallout 3 is quite flawed, especially compared to New Vegas. It's very linear and seems to be simply a pastiche of certain elements from both Fallout 1 and 2 with the Brotherhood (who are not supposed to be a heroic organization), the Super Mutants (who should have had a leader figure of some sort to be as big a threat as they are) and the Enclave. New Vegas' writing is far better and the speech/skill checks are certainly implemented better (you get different answers depending on whether or not you meet the Check and there are various ones that match all sorts of skills aside from Speech).

The followers of NV are interesting characters in of themselves while in 3 they're little more than glorified meat-shields/item jockeys (the same goes for Skyrim, which went for quantity vs. quality as far as followers go).

The DLCs are also much more interesting than the ones in 3 since they're at least somewhat intertwined rather than simply just random places you go to. Each had interesting stories to tell and interesting characters with good dialogue.

Overall, I enjoyed New Vegas more than 3. It was more open-ended and written better. I'm slightly concerned that if Fallout 4 were to be set in/near the Mojave that Bethesda would bastardize the setting.

@Zripwud said:

I'd like if not every character was a love interest. I was saddened that Naoto and Kanji didn't got together. I'd love to see other characters falling in love with each other and maybe that having an effect on combat.

B-but trying to play the protagonist as if he were a gigolo is a trademark of the series!

And I disagree on setting the game for the three years of Japanese High School. The games are plenty-long as is. No need to really stretch it out.

I do agree on being able to pick what you want to get out of fusion. Games like these were designed to be min-maxed the shit out of.

@jerseyscum said:

Wow. That's going to be interesting to say the least....

There's a LOT of backstory that needs to be covered. Namely, his past experience as a city police officer.

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It's implied heavy that he was transferred to Inaba as punishment for some kind of past actions. It wouldn't shock me at ALL if the department tried to get rid of his psycho ass after some serious on-the-job misconduct and to dodge scandal. To say that the guy's got some serious issues with women and people he deems lesser than himself is the understatement of the century.

I would say that in the case of Adachi, he probably simply screwed the pooch on a case. Could be that he accidentally shot someone he wasn't supposed to (Busted down a door and simply shot the first guy he saw). Could be that he pissed off his superior. Hell, could be that he tried to get in good with the Yakuza. Whatever it is, it's probably not important enough to know, but somehow I don't think it's nearly as bad as the shit he tried to pull off with Saki and Mayumi (hell, I don't think he'd be able to even keep his job if he actually did commit rape).

Thinking about Adachi in prison, can't help but think that he's spending his entire time in prison pumpin' iron and is now ridiculously buff.

Dojima: "Hey, Adachi. I brought some cabagge-Oh god! Erm... So things are working out for you OK, I guess?"

Also, Epilogue Kanji kinda looks like he's wearing a toupee. Also, he looks like he's gonna come to my door and ask if I've embraced God.

@gladspooky said:

@Incapability said:

To this day I can't understand how you could lose squad members on that mission, without missing something incredibly obvious. I feel like they make every attempt to point out what you should be doing.

"You should probably upgrade your ship with these upgrades."

"You should probably use a TECHNICAL character for this task."

"It would be a good idea to use a BIOTIC character for this task."

And furthermore, just completing the damn loyalty missions. What goes wrong for everyone else?

"You need a LEADER..."

*picks Samara, who was introduced as an important member of her race that everyone seems to have heard of*

"WHOOPS! WRONG CHOICE!"

Samara is somewhat Legendary, but kind of a lone wolf kinda character. It's pretty hard to see her as a leader. It's like picking The Punisher to lead a team.

I'm taking that Patrick lost Tali and Miranda due to the the fact that he sided with Legion and Jack during the confrontations. That might explain something. Even then I always thought of Miranda as a pretty unlikeable character and getting her killed is actually sorta tough since she has Special Plot Armor that lets her survive a few things that other characters absolutely need Loyalty for.

People mostly watch Let's Plays to at least see a game that they otherwise might not be able to experience otherwise. The problem is that at least on Youtube, there's a lack of quality control and the people doing LPs don't really have much of an idea what they're doing, either because it's their first time or because they assume that just doing the bare minimum is good enough, such as using a Camcorder to record their games or having "commentary" that is either a combination of lowbrow jokes or curses without anything really relevant to say. Notable offenders usually include anyone who plays recently-released games and end up showing that they have no idea what they're doing. As noted, SSoH tends towards blowing over stuff seemingly to get things over with, with a strong tendency towards ignorance towards anything that doesn't involve "killing guys with shotguns".

Of course, Retsupurae (and other similar spinoffs) are there to criticize the lower-quality ones.

In the case of the Endurance Run here, the guys are able to record the games with good quality and have a good enough sense of humor to actually be entertaining while (for the most part) understanding how to play a game competently and when to be quiet and let the game speak for itself. In Brad's case, he might just have a case of the "Let's Play Curse" in which his chances of goofing up are increased whenever he's playing while recording.

Don't think it's a bad thing. I remember the president noting that he was one of those waiting for Portal 2.
 
An interesting gesture though.