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Streaming Tuesday, 10/30
Oct. 29th, 2018 04:44 am Just an FYI. I will attempting to stream the Fallout 76 B.E.T.A. on my PS4 aroud 7pm EST 10/30/18. Link will be provided about a 1/2 hour beforehand.
Fallout 76 thoughts
Jun. 11th, 2018 06:00 amJust watched Bethesda's E3 presentation for Fallout 76, and I have some thoughts and concerns.
1. It's an MMO, breaking from the pattern of previous Fallout games. Supposedly there'll be plenty of solo content, which I'm interpreting as "I get sniped 30 seconds after leaving the Tutorial Area."
2. There was no mention of micro-transactions. Which means there will be micro-transactions.
3. Looks like you'll also have to defend your base. Which means I'm going to be doing a lot of repairing. A Lot.
4. Even Bethesda is admitting their Fallout games are notoriously buggy. I'm betting the B.E.T.A. will be released on July 4th just for the giggles.
5. Who's bright @#$%ing idea was it to allow players access to NUCLEAR MISSILES in the game? Supposedly finding the launch codes will be an involved group effort, which I'm guessing means it'll be done less than an hour after the game goes live. :(
6. On the plus side, at least Fallout Shelter is now out for the PS4.
Conclusion: Barring Star Wars Battlefront levels of idiocy, I'm probably going to get it. Because it's Fallout.
1. It's an MMO, breaking from the pattern of previous Fallout games. Supposedly there'll be plenty of solo content, which I'm interpreting as "I get sniped 30 seconds after leaving the Tutorial Area."
2. There was no mention of micro-transactions. Which means there will be micro-transactions.
3. Looks like you'll also have to defend your base. Which means I'm going to be doing a lot of repairing. A Lot.
4. Even Bethesda is admitting their Fallout games are notoriously buggy. I'm betting the B.E.T.A. will be released on July 4th just for the giggles.
5. Who's bright @#$%ing idea was it to allow players access to NUCLEAR MISSILES in the game? Supposedly finding the launch codes will be an involved group effort, which I'm guessing means it'll be done less than an hour after the game goes live. :(
6. On the plus side, at least Fallout Shelter is now out for the PS4.
Conclusion: Barring Star Wars Battlefront levels of idiocy, I'm probably going to get it. Because it's Fallout.
Fallout 4, Three hours in...
Nov. 11th, 2015 05:14 am...and I'm still in the Tutorial basically. Liking it so far though.
( Some thoughts and spoilers behind the cut )
( Some thoughts and spoilers behind the cut )
Fallout 4 Livestream Tonight
Nov. 10th, 2015 06:19 pmI shall be attempting (offspring willing) to do a Fallout 4 livestream around 7:30 or 8pm EST tonight. This will be my first time playing so you can see my honest reactions to the game.
Review: The Atomic Cafe (1982)
Sep. 21st, 2010 06:50 amSummary: Using un-narrated archival footage from the forties through the fifties, this 1982 film gives a look at the combination of terror and naivete that the United States approached the problem of nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Review: Oh god, we were such idiots back then.
Okay, to be perfectly honest, this movie doesn't play fair at all. It cherry picks the footage it and makes careful use of music and sound editing to give the maximum impression that the US government and Hollywood were run by a bunch of people who were either naïve morons or criminally hostile to the idea of giving America the straight truth about the chances of us surviving a nuclear war.
Still, even taking the footage at face value, it's hard to watch this and not feel a little sick to your stomach as the Navy shoves Pacific islanders off their homes for nuclear tests, or the Army gives a briefing to a bunch of enlisted men who may or may not have graduated from high school, telling them calmly that just because they were going to be at the edge of a nuclear bomb detonation and then be ordered to walk into the blast zone afterward, that they really had no reason to be concerned.
You have to wonder if anyone in the Reagan administration ever watched this, and whether they looked at the marvelous “Star Wars” defense system with less enthusiasm afterward.
Review: Oh god, we were such idiots back then.
Okay, to be perfectly honest, this movie doesn't play fair at all. It cherry picks the footage it and makes careful use of music and sound editing to give the maximum impression that the US government and Hollywood were run by a bunch of people who were either naïve morons or criminally hostile to the idea of giving America the straight truth about the chances of us surviving a nuclear war.
Still, even taking the footage at face value, it's hard to watch this and not feel a little sick to your stomach as the Navy shoves Pacific islanders off their homes for nuclear tests, or the Army gives a briefing to a bunch of enlisted men who may or may not have graduated from high school, telling them calmly that just because they were going to be at the edge of a nuclear bomb detonation and then be ordered to walk into the blast zone afterward, that they really had no reason to be concerned.
You have to wonder if anyone in the Reagan administration ever watched this, and whether they looked at the marvelous “Star Wars” defense system with less enthusiasm afterward.
Started over on the main quest of Fallout 3 just for giggles, I decided to take the long way back to GNR after completing the radio antenna quest, ducking into a townhouse in Georgetown. In one corner of the first floor was a deactivated Mr. Handy bot, with a computer terminal next to it to activate it.
Aside from the usual security and domestic modes, it also offered the option, "Read poetry to the children" That evening's selection? There Will Come Sot Rains by Sarah Teasdale. Yeah, the one featured in that Ray Bradbury story.
This being the oh so craptastic Fallout universe, there was a child's skeleton on the upper bunk bed listening too.
Aside from the usual security and domestic modes, it also offered the option, "Read poetry to the children" That evening's selection? There Will Come Sot Rains by Sarah Teasdale. Yeah, the one featured in that Ray Bradbury story.
This being the oh so craptastic Fallout universe, there was a child's skeleton on the upper bunk bed listening too.
How the frell do I get to that damned Galaxy News Radio station? Every path seems to eventually be blocked by debris, which is enevitably guarded by at least a couple of frigging Super Mutants with chain guns.
Though I may switch back to my other character anyway. I restarted playing the "Evil Sociopath" option, but 3Dog is getting tiresome. Ya nuke one town and everybody gets on your ass for it...
Though I may switch back to my other character anyway. I restarted playing the "Evil Sociopath" option, but 3Dog is getting tiresome. Ya nuke one town and everybody gets on your ass for it...
Bought this Monday night. It's technically a shooter like Half-Life,[1] but while the HL series politely but firmly railroads you along the plot, Fallout is completely open-ended, set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC and suburbs on a huge map. I'm in the middle of doing the Megaton missions, and it's slightly freaky to be doing a quest that sends me to the Seneca Metro Station. [2] Bethesda Softworks is a Maryland based company and they appear to be putting their local knowledge to good use.
[1] The original isomorphic overhead view has been abandoned, though for the best use of your weapons you should use the V.A.T.S. combat system, which replicates the hit location attack system from the original game.
[2] Which fortunately for my nerves resembles nothing like actual DC Metro stations, being set in an alternate universe where the 1950's never died.
[1] The original isomorphic overhead view has been abandoned, though for the best use of your weapons you should use the V.A.T.S. combat system, which replicates the hit location attack system from the original game.
[2] Which fortunately for my nerves resembles nothing like actual DC Metro stations, being set in an alternate universe where the 1950's never died.
