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Just to clear things up for ya, Ioric.

Alternate Universe: An imaginary  realm, often a variant  form of the real world, depicting a different way events could have unfolded  or the universe could have functioned.

In other words, the guys who write these things can just make stuff up.

Even with a poorly done gender-swap thing where roles are reversed and so on.

Your only solution is to deal with it.

NOW BACK TO THE TOPIC AT HAND

I'd code one of these things but I don't really feel like it. So, bah.

EDITED WITH A BETTER DEFINITION

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I'm just leaping to the defense of Valkyria here. The cutscenes ARE skippable (as best I can remember) and you CAN save in the middle of a battle, although I only discovered you could do so near the end-game. It's in the system menu when in battle, which is kind of infuriating and unintuitive.

Tried it out.

Needs better optimization.

WOW

THIS THREAD IS COMPLETELY WORTHLESS

GREAT JOB GUYS

I think I found a bug.

So I'm going along in my awesome Merchantman making bucketloads of cash, and then pirates attack. So far, no big deal. I shoot down two in as many shots, and then I press capital A to check my gunner's stats. The encounter suddenly ends. And, yes, there were more pirates around.

All this new stuff is great, by the way.

In gearhead I have a guy that can kill any mech with his bear hands.

BEAR HANDS YOU SAY

Those claws must be excellent for shredding the mechs.

yes sarcasm

Well I loaded it up, made a dorf fighter, got some other dorfs from the tavern, and then went dungeon crawling.

Four dwarfs enter a room.

SUDDENLY

KOBOLDS EVERYWHERE

SERIOUSLY THERE WERE LIKE SIXTY OF THEM

The only survivor was the Paladin because he was awesome enough to take around ten of them by himself when the rest of the party was down.

Gee, sure is Bethesda/Big Corporate Hate in here. I honestly don't see what the problem is. Either it'll be moderately successful or it'll flop.

Oh, and yes, I think Oblivion was actually fun. Same with Fallout 3. Now, I'm not going to say that they're objectively good, because they are quite flawed in certain respects. but I had lots of entertainment with them. I mean, I load up Fallout, shoot a guy in the back of the face, watch his head fly fifty feet away into a bathtub and I'm content. Oblivion, I just go and sneak through the places before applying a liberal application of facestab. They're both quite entertaining.

And yes, I've played every mainline Elder Scrolls game, and Fallouts 1 and 2, and I had fun with them. The new games are different, but that doesn't mean they're worse off for it.