Still just linkblogging

BUT this fine little blog post is one of the more interesting things about Fallout 3 I've read and makes me quite sad that it won't be in my budget until March.

What I am hoping for from Bethesda's next game (Elder Scrolls 5: The Scrollening?) is actually that they'll leave out the main quest completely. It has always been the worst written and worst designed part of their games, so - why not just cut it out completely and put the zots into designated writers for the rest of the game?

Of course, the exploration aspect sounds oh so very enticing to someone who put 130+ hours into Oblivion without ever doing more than the first three steps of the main quest that one does think about finding someone to mug.

Also, the linked post contains the awesome sentence "Essentially, it's Dubliners with guns.".

 

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Demo Impressions: On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness

Since Steam now offers the official Penny Arcade game, too, I decided to try out the demo. I have to admit I find the comic itself not all that funny. Many strips seem to be all little complacent to be funny for me.

And the demo is actually a lot less funny. The humor feels forced, I had the terrible feeling that the game permanently tried to grab me by the lapels and scream "look how funny I am" into my face.

This alone wouldn't ruin a game with interesting mechanics and/or inventive puzzles for me, but the mechanics are an uninspired mess of everything that is bad about Japanese console RPGs (grinding, grinding, leveling without any decisions, semi-interactive dialogue, oh, and grinding) and the usual item hunt, combined with such interesting activities as bashing chests and trash cans to find healing items.

So I am glad I could play a demo instead of shelling out $20 for an exercise in self-indulgence without any new or at least entertaining ideas.

I'd recommend buying a Sam & Max episode instead. Those are often actually funny and go for half the price of this trainwreck, whose only advantage are really pretty graphics.

 

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