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leave out pet-like animals... but there should be birds and rats and other various urban critters...

i just hope they put a little, "red dead redemption" into the game... i want some rural towns sprinkled around, full of horses and cattle, and various other wildlife... hell, put an ecosystem of city birds in the game that aren't collectibles... i want to see pigeons and crows and hawks flying around the city... i wanna see rats in the sewers and fucking frogs hopping across the roads when it rains... squirrels, dogs, cats... pigs?? *wishful thinking* damn, next week can't give here fast enough!!

there's still a ways to go until V comes out... are you done giving a shit about SR3 too??

good assumption there dup... and those are the two cities i am guessing as well... vegas or hollywood... i want vegas though for the minigames .... gotta have something to blow your money on...

i think 5 is a placeholder... i dont think they wanted to reveal the location with the trailer announcement, i bet a new logo hits the screen at the end of the trailer... this one is just the placeholder, dropping a couple hints but not revealing much...

ohh my god ohh my god ohh my god ohh my god ohh my god ohh my god......

abilene can be found where my current character resides, field's shack... however, with the wild wasteland perk it only appears with rex in your party when you bring him to field's shack... which reminds me, i need to recruit rex to see this lassie easter egg ...

yea, i love this commercial too ... to michael!!

don't you get 2 chances to visit "every" location?! ... i've re-entered ghost-something and the raider garage a couple times... but cool, i will just press on through... i hear talk of a subway town, which i haven't been to yet either, and now you've mentioned redstone... i am probably half-way if not just slightly past that point... i won't get much of a chance to play in the next few days so i will have to rent it again...

the last thing i did was blow up some bunker full of RC cars, about how far into the game am i?? i am thinking i might actually try to beat the game now since i am rolling thru the missions right now... i just wonder if i have to re-rent it... the authority hasnt even made it's pressence yet...

i haven't bought a game since LA noire... i've renting about a dozen, but at least i haven't bought a dozen...

i wonder if the sims 2 does this as well... there's times where it seems like it loads the wrong texture, but the only way it would do that is if it drew from the wrong part of the image, and not the wrong image file... it's actually kind of annoying the more i see it... i thought i was past it, but it keeps popping up every time i turn my head ... the world still looks amazing, and i think it's the lighting that really does it... and when the textures do load, it's great... i am now back in wellsprings for the umpteenth time... i had to turn this off, it's starting to reach that point that borderlands did... repetitive boredom of constantly channeling through this narrow path and blowing up mutants on the way... then drive here and blow up other cars until you reach your destination... rinse and repeat... we'll see how much longer i can put up with that, but tonight i started to get bored with it... i've gotten through a good chunk of the game in just one day, i am past the mutant bash TV, and actually just finished up navigating dead city for the defibrillator upgrade... now all of the missions are up to the sheriff to dish out...

made it all the way to mutant bash TV... and yes, massacre, i saw that nice little easter egg sitting on the mayors desk in wellsprings ... i don't want to sell it though, maybe someone out there collects them??? i failed the mutant bash TV game in the final challenge, and once i died i had to restart the whole game from the start of the challenge... so, i called it quits at that moment... not sure how i am going to make it passed that thing at the end... i am really really loving the look of the world, and the driving is fun... this is really what borderlands should of been... it should of been RAGE, with a bunch of guns to loot... the only thing that bugs me is how the textures pop in and out depending on where you're looking... if you look straight ahead, the textures load, look to the side and those aren't loaded, which take a second to fully load... it kind of bugged me when i first started playing but i haven't noticed it as much lately... i am getting used to it, maybe it's just a PS3 thing... the graphics and lighting on the other hand make this one of the best looking games out on the market today... i am simply in awe with the world i am driving around... the amount of detail in every location is amazing... nothing looks the same, no re-used shacks or rooms... hell, even the graffiti is different everywhere you go... fighting is still that same old tunneled FPS kind... it's about as close as you get to "on-the-rails" without actually being on the the rails... the cool thing about it though is you get to drive to those locations, which opens up the world a little... it has that borderlands feeling of navigating the world and starting quests... but it's just done much better, and with a world that feels more in tune to it's surroundings... borderlands felt empty and filled with skags... this world is filled with raiders and mutants right now, and it just feels right... for an installation that took 20 minutes to save data to the hard drive, it sure takes a long time to load ... with possibly one of the longest installation times on the PS3, right behind metal gear solid 4, i am still surprised at how long it takes to move in and out of locations separated by doors, and the amount of time it takes to load a race or load from a checkpoint... hmm.. i get the whole "arc" storyline that my character is attached to... the last of the old-world human race, which must hold a key to the world and the story i am sure... i don't know, i am surely enjoying this more that "bodycount" i rented yesterday ... the next few days should be rather enjoyable, unless it reaches that point where the enemies are just too tough for me, which does happen in FPS sometimes... i guess i could always lower the difficulty if it does...

@massacre - only SR3 is a definite buy... i haven't pre-ordered or anything like that, perhaps i should look into that soon... the rest can wait, i am renting games for the next two weeks so, we'll see if i get to RAGE or not... this game however, is going to have to wait until next year... glad to hear of all the positive reviews though... i thought arkham asylum was brilliant even though i didn't finish it... and now it's an open world?? sign me up!!

yup, i bought arkham asylum for $20 last year, but i never beat it... i got to the fight with ivy but never actually fought her... i want to beat arkham asylum before i get arkham city... so, sometime next year then?? fuck, i am finding it hard to keep up with all these games that are about to come out... arkham city, skyrim, SR3, uncharted 3, assassins creed revelations, and probably some others too... then there's the games i already haven't played like RAGE... my life is running out of room for a bunch of video games these days ...

<-- plain human soldier with a big fucking sword... that is, when i do finally get around to playing this... me and stoic both hated oblivion, i sure hope skyrim does what fallout did with the leveling and perks, because that works... i don't want to see the world level right past me again, or have to jump a thousand times to level up my jumping skills... if it does, this game goes to gamestop towards something else... maybe i will rent it first to make sure it's something i want to play... ----------- i don't think i need to tell massacre but for the rest of you looking for up to the minute bethesda news, including new information and screens on skyrim, visit http://www.bethblog.com ... they posted a few new screens and some previews just about an hour ago...

lonesome road, a dead general in the first area of the add-on has it... the hat is the suave gambler hat you get with the wild wasteland perk, he's the dead skeleton in the refrigerator just outside of goodsprings... and of course biker googles ... i like the indiana jones easter egg with the skeleton in the fridge ...

crotch shot!! found my new home, field's shack... it doesn't have the workbench/reload bench that i wanted but it's got plenty of storage and a campfire outside... plus there's these two chem addicts that are about a hundred yards south at their own campfire... i am gonna hook them up with some great gear and weapons to keep them there and alive... my guy is getting close to being a chem addict himself...

ahh... i thought perhaps i could throw you off since that destroyed building is re-used all over the mojave, i thought you might guess the gun runners... forgot that those rescued soldiers were standing back there, i thought they were the usual ones that stand there... i actually walked with the great kahns and jessup all the way to just passed the 188... it was kinda cool... circled back though for some ammo and veronica... i managed to enter the strip, and even though the soldier in the train station first mentioned the fact i could use weapons unlike him, the rest of the conversation made me feel like i was still in disquise on leave, visiting the strip to piss away my caps... i entered the strip with 800 caps and left with 7,000 after using a barter check on benny for some caps for the delivery job... he gave me 250 tops chips as well and i turned that into 2,500 after a short while at the blackjack table... plus the two snowglobes i turned in as well... once i fully repair an arc welder or 2, i will probably have enough caps to buy sleepytime ... i think i am going to use all silenced weapons... ratslayer, sleepytime, silenced 45, silenced 12.7mm MG, silenced AMR, various power fists and spiked knuckles... i might not be a silent character per say, but i want others in the distance to wonder what the commotion is all about when they only hear their own men shooting... i might bring a big gun though, i've rarely used them, perhaps i should bring a minigun with me... i had one of those "this is why i love fallout" moments in the presidential suite of the tops though... once benny tricked me and four of his goons entered the suite, i took them all out in one single VATS session... four enemies, four VATS hits with the spiked knuckles... and within seconds, they all were dead... i love this game...

this might be the sharpest photo i've taken, or i am just too drunk to notice... but i wasn't drunk when i took it yesterday so perhaps it is... if you can figure out where i am, you get a sunset sarsaparilla star bottle cap!! i just looked at my karma level and it said desert scavenger, quite possibly the best one i've heard yet... level 9 neutral.. and really just going through the motions early on, following the path, but doing it differently somehow, so i am not earning that much XP at the moment... things are just going different though, talking to different people at different points in the game, wandering here instead of there, doing this instead of that... it's amazing how each game never really feels the same... so much different that i am about to enter the strip the 4th different way on 5 files... two entered the same way, with caps... one entered with science, another entered with a passport... and the current one is about to enter through mccarren airport... that is, if there aren't any guard dogs... he stopped by mccarren shortly after discovering that he didn't have caps to enter the strip... by doing some work for the crimson caravan (as suggested by his future pardner), he realized that there's a train at mccarren to the strip while delivering a package for crimson co... let's see how this turns out ... i got a chip to get back from this dip shit benny guy... which will end in me having to go to caeser because it's the right thing to do anyways... i gotta take the long journey through the story and branch out when possible... the independent line is very very long and fruitful...

@synch... there's no issue with all my other files at harper's shack... i've traveled there numerous times just to make sure the deathclaws didn't wander and they never did... it's that fucking prospector that fucked up the spawning... there were times when a bunch of stuff would re-spawn outside of megaton on one of my files and it's just something that happens with the randomness of the open world that remembers everything... unfortunately i had this file all set up with harper's shack and it's now out of the question... ohh man, i know i could reclaim it if my skills were much better... i could lure the deathclaws out of there and kill them at the legion camp with the powder gangers.. let them deal with that, plus the "for some damn reason after OWB" glitch where nightstalkers attack the camp if you save... i could still save this place, but i am not ready for it, plus i still need a place to call home NOW... my suitcase at goodsprings source is getting too full these days... need to sort it out with multiple lockers and shit... @stoic... like i just mentioned, if you like that shack that spawns raiders outside, lure them away from the shack, then kill them... where they die is where they spawn... it's a cool little trick i learned a few months back... and it's the reason why i still think i can fix this harper's shack situation... but i can't fix it right now, and by the time i do i will of probably found a new place...

well, i guess harper's shack has been ruled out as a suitable housing situation for my latest character... after first initially scouting it, i noticed an irregularity in the discovery... a prospector was walking away down the mountainside... as i slightly approached, there were no deathclaws at all near dead wind, nor was there a blind one in primm pass... hmm... i dick around for a while and do other stuff, return to novac and advance time 3 days, then fast-travel back to the shack... "caution" appears, the blind one comes from over the hill in primm pass, and i actually expected that so i reloaded and grabbed my best gear and ammo and approached it from the west this time, drawing the blind one the opposite direction... dozen-some armor piercing shots from ratslayer and service rifle later, i drop 'em (with the help of ED-E of course)... i approach harper's shack with the dead wind deathclaws nowhere in site, not even up by the cave entrance... hmm... travel to novac and advance time another 3 days... then travel back to primm pass... there's no dead blind deathclaw... slowly approach harper's shack again, "caution" appears, the original deathclaws are back, but now they are spawning near the shack... FUCK!!! i somehow manage to get them when ED-E takes the health of two of them to nearly death before they get him... i use the last remaining 20-some armor piercing rounds, along with the spiked knuckles, and finish them off... hmm... advance time 3 more days in novac, then return to the shack... the deathclaws now spawn all around me... FUCK!!! harper's shack has been officially ruined... and it's that damn prospector that spawned up there for some reason... he was walking down the mountain, as if he were leaving dead wind cavern... and he brought hell with him... ohh well, i got ED-E's new features and he's a mobile work/reloading bench... now i gotta find a place with a bed and campfire and a couple crates and i am set , preferably indoors... too bad about that harper's shack thing though... i was really looking forward to that being my personal pad ...

bOnEs check out that write up called The Divide on the fallout Wiki. EDIT: Found it http://fallout.wikia...wiki/The_Divide Maybe you can decipher if it's actual, or someone's edit, like guessing. Seems pretty authentic, and if so, my guess is both Nash at Primm is too old to remember you, and the gunshot head wound made the memory loss. As the courier, I would have remembered all that stuff. Some pretty heavy history. I think if it's not a Bethesda author of the article, it was people making a story out of all the computer terminals, holotapes, and notes in the New Vegas series. Might answer your questions, as it's the final story that we have to live with. well, it explains the events of the divide, which i kind of gathered after my second playthrough... however, it still doesn't explain which courier dropped ED-E off in primm... maybe it was just another courier who was a nobody... i wouldn't think ulysses would just drop off ED-E considering the events of the divide and the tie-in he has to the story...

i like muggy more than the toaster... he's got that psychotic OCD problem... the toaster is just hell-bend on world destruction, but muggy's more complicated... ---------------------------------------------- also, i went through the divide at level 4, and left level 6... really, there's only one terminal you need to hack... and i wasn't able to repair that terminal which forced me to have to take out the sentry bots myself instead of having the aid of the turrets... thank god i found 6 pulse grenades in sloan because there was about 4 or 5 sentry bots to deal with... thankfully since i was low-leveled, only one pulse grenade was enough to take care of each one... but damn am i lucky i had 6 of them... but now i have a couple armors, a couple new weapons, ED-E's "repair a weapon once a day" perk, and his workbench and reloading bench abilities... plus the first conversation with ulysses was dramatically less hostile than it was with my other two characters... i wasn't flying a flag at the time, so i was treated as someone who still had a long journey ahead of himself... this new file is yet again playing out differently than all the others ... i love you fallout ...

i think they're all pretty damn well written, including dr. klein... --------------------------- got me an 'old man jenkins' -type of character named roscoe harper ... never saw this sign before, i like it ... he's been around the goodsprings area, not doing the town quest yet... went a little north hoping to pass through to new vegas but quietly escaped the attention of a deathclaw... he's now heading to the correctional facility to see what this is all about on his way south to primm...