Comments on: Automatron

By: Aurini

Aurini — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:21:08 +0000

Television and cinema are dreams; they can dig deep down into the subconscious.

By: hans

hans — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:54:48 +0000

Actually aren´t there weapons in the game that react differently than normal guns?
I don´t have the game, but dimly remember someone complaining about it in a uTub vid.

So that defeats the generic gun mechanic argument. The devs were able to code something else and simply didn´t with the laser.
My money is on the idiots actually not understanding physics.
But I´m just a bastard like that. 😉

By: hans

hans — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:36:01 +0000

or was it beta-wave?
Meh, 2 lazy4googling .. some boy-ass-fucking-greek-alphabet state..

By: hans

hans — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:29:11 +0000

Yeah, this worries me the most about the “new” VR craze.
I´m pretty sure the monkey brains of most people are too mushy to be an adequate defense for the imprinting in these future VR games.

Most already have an almost impossible time breaking the retard TeeVee programming.
And that thing “only” puts the brain in a receptive alpha-wave state, while some news-whore keeps telling you ridiculous lies.
The fucking VR basically takes over.

Oldie but goodie,
but actually observe instead of just laughing about the crazy Russian..

(fun starts at 1:25)

By: patriarchal landmine

patriarchal landmine — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 04:49:47 +0000

on the subject of laser weapons having recoil, this is due to all weapons having fairly generic stats by default, as part of the engine. every base weapon starts off as “weapon” and from there projectiles and mods are added on.

personally, I don’t demand that video game creators know how a real laser weapon would actually work, especially in a world where everything looks art deco. the game just has to be fun and flashy, and that’s what the fallout series has always been. I will take a dozen mediocre fallout clones over any call of duty entry.

By: B

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 03:33:24 +0000

Lenin said “of all the arts, cinematography is the most important to us,” presumably because it’s the best medium for propagandizing shitfingered peasants.

Well, move over, cinematography. Video games are a lot better for propaganda.

And that’s before VR. Ever try Oculus Rift or Samsung Gear? Pretty soon PS3D will be everywhere. How about that?

By: wimminz

wimminz — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:06:52 +0000

Yes, shades of mad max and mass effect… and thanks for catching the error… 99.9% of the time I type this shit from memory so names and dates and places can often get mixed up somewhat, I always want to call the Korean war (before the yanks went in to nam) the Boer war for some reason too…

By: B

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:57:21 +0000

You’ve got the 1956 and 1967 wars mixed up. Israel didn’t take the Sinai/Judah and Samaria/the Golan until 1967.

Re: Fallout, what do you expect? The last good one was Fallout 2. Be grateful they didn’t make you gay marry a Super Mutant tranny to get the Pip Boy.

By: patriarchal landmine

patriarchal landmine — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 05:02:10 +0000

fnv was a much more convincing world, with actual towns.

but the ballistics were worse than in 4.

By: Aurini

Aurini — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:59:44 +0000

Every book’s going to have plot holes, every work of science fiction is going to have a couple of errors; but in the original Fallouts the Science! was very limited in scope, restricted to the effects of FEV and radiation, and they even included some intelligent dialogue on how drugs work; these modern Bethesda games have thrown out all logic and reason, using Science! as an excuse to build a single player MMORPG; the old Dungeons and Dragons tried to create a balanced set of rules inspired by mythology and ripe for character development, WoW just creates an interactive set of rules with a veneer of fantasy overlaid.

The old school games were chock-full of catharsis, of reflecting upon what reality is, what people are, and how we can improve our own lives. These new games are little more than glorified skinner boxes.

Have you noticed how they’re dropping dialogue in blockbuster films? The plot is cookie cutter – get the MacGuffin! Save the girl! Oh wait, she’s a kick ass girl! – so they don’t even bother explaining it since you’ve seen it 1000 times before. Games are the same way.

Also, pet peeve: there were new, clean structures in the very first Fallout game, 100 years later and everything is a rusted shack. Gay.