The next segment of my Games of 2011 list begins with a PSP game: Dungeons & Dragons Tactics. This is one of the few 2011 games that I haven’t yet finished, and will likely continue playing well into 2012. I really like tactical battle RPGs, and this game does it fairly well. Since […]

Read the rest of The Games of 2011: Part V

Now that the end is in sight in terms of 2009’s video games, I thought I’d look back at all the games I played this year. I’ll definitely be playing Scribblenauts, Dragon Age: Origins, and Borderlands before the year’s over, and I may also be playing Uncharted 2 or Brutal Legend. But they’re all games that I’ll […]

Read the rest of 2009 – The Year in Review

The other night I finished Fallout 3, and when I say finished, I mean finished.  Every achievement point gained, all five DLC packs completed.  Are there still a few unnamed quests and places to visit in the Wastelands?  Oh sure, it wouldn’t be a Bethesda game if there weren’t, but for me, Fallout 3 is […]

Read the rest of Final Final Thoughts on Fallout 3

A couple things I felt obligated to post about on this Monday afternoon. Firstly, in London today, at “Bethesda Gamer Day”, Bethesda announced a new Fallout game. This isn’t downloadable content for Fallout 3, or even a sequel. This is a different game. Part of me is hoping madly for a non-FPS title, but nothing […]

Read the rest of Monday News: A New Fallout, and a the DSi

I’ve mentioned previously that I thought Oblivion was a better game than Fallout 3, despite the fact that both were created by Bethesda on the same engine, and despite the fact that Fallout 3 is a more recent game. Now I’d like to give you some concrete reasons as to why. I’ll totally agree that […]

Read the rest of Five Reasons Why Oblivion is Better than Fallout 3

Despite my overall disappointment in Fallout 3, I’ve been playing a whole lot of it recently. But trying to figure out which weapons I liked best took a while. I’ve done a bunch of hunting around in an attempt to find the “best weapon” in Fallout 3, and while some are better than others, I’ve […]

Read the rest of Fallout 3: My Favorite Weapons

I’ve got to say, overall I’m a bit disappointed in Fallout 3. What I’d wanted was a game much closer to Fallout 1 and 2. That is to say, a role playing game with turn-based strategy elements. What I got instead was something much closer to Oblivion, which is of course not a bit surprising […]

Read the rest of Thoughts on Fallout 3

This is something that had driven me absolutely nuts. When I started playing Fallout 3 on Tuesday, I decided that it would make sense to map the V.A.T.S. key, which defaults to “V”, to my mouse 4 button instead. After all, I bought this nice fancy mouse specifically so I could do stuff like that. […]

Read the rest of Mapping Controls to Mouse Buttons in Fallout 3

I’ve been looking forward to Fallout 3. A lot. I’d be happy skipping Spore, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and the new Ghostbusters game, so long as I get to play Fallout 3. At PAX, Bethesda released the Fallout 3 survival guide in pdf format. What can I say? It’s made of win. You can […]

Read the rest of Vault Dweller’s Survival Guide