Snapple fact: You’re rather whack

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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • This lawsuit is so stupid. In my opinion, patenting, copyrighting, or trademarking concepts or mechanics in video games shouldn’t be allowed at all. The nemesis system in the Shadow of Mordor games was so cool, but we’re never going to see anything like it again. Warner went through the trouble to copyright (or something idk I’m not a lawyer) that system, and then let the series die out.

    I’m waiting to see the headlines that any other games with a shooty thing that goes bang is illegal, and the concept of shooting a gun in a video game is going to be owned by either Rockstar/Take Two or the collective mob of Call of Duty developers. If the world is gonna get that stupid, I got my fingers crossed that Bubsy 3D owns the rights to jumping

    Edit: Thought about it for 10 more seconds and I have questions. Is it specifically gliding using a creature that Nintendo has a problem with, or is it creature-assisted traversal in general? Can they sue Skyrim since you can ride horses? Palworld made the change so that you need to build a glider to glide around. BOTW and TOTK used gliders. Is Nintendo gonna sue them for that now too? I fucking hate all of this so God damned much




  • Here’s the truth, I’m not sure.

    I would say that most Fallout games haven’t aged well and I don’t think I would like them if I wasn’t playing them with rose tinted glasses. Fallout 1 and 2 are classic RPGs. Isometric camera, minimal voice acting, and turn based combat, but if you are into that they are definitely worth it for the insane number of ways you can deal with the situations you get into and the different endings you can get. Fallout 3 is like Fallout 4, but with worse graphics and the worst gunplay that I’ve ever seen in a FPS. It’s an action/adventure game with RPG elements, there aren’t many decisions you can make that actually make a difference. It can still be a good bit of fun and is interesting, but the writing isn’t the best and the PC port is a nightmare to get running on modern hardware. New Vegas kinda fixes the problems from 3. Better writing around factions and companion characters, more choices that actually have an affect on the world and the ending you get, and some of the best DLC I’ve ever played in a game. But it is far from perfect, it still feels awful to shoot a gun and empty locations really show off the short production cycle of the game, but NV is easier to get running than 3.

    Personally, in my extremely biased opnion, I’d recommend New Vegas. Less finagling required to get running than the others and it actually feeling like the skills you pick make more of a difference than “do you want pew-pew guns, zappy guns, or do you prefer things that go kaboom?” It’s $10 on steam and pretty regularly goes on sale for $5 (used to go on sale for $2.50, but hasn’t since the Fallout show dropped)