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It's Boston. People have identified a number of landmarks like Fenway Park, a steampunkified USS Constitution, and Scollay Square. Also, the source code for both promotional sites mentions the Institute, which is Fallout's serial-numbers-filed-off version of post-apocalyptic MIT. I would imagine they're probably behind the airships and vertibirds given that they're established to be a technological powerhouse.

Uh, there is now a tear or crack of some sort at the top of the "Please Stand By" screen.

EDIT: Nah, trailer's out. INT 3.

Posted on June 2nd (6/2)
6*2 = 12
The circles around the edges all say 30
12/30 = .4
The last Fallout game was released in '10
.4 * 10 = 4
FALLOUT 4 CONFIRMED

I'll be honest, my fear about W10 isn't based on possible UI issues so much as how much Microsoft steps up the creeping on you level compared to 7. I mean, the world being what it is they'll obvious step it up some but I wanna know the degree.

Apparently Indiana University's rugby coach is named "Sopa Enari". That's a rather unfortunate name. That's like if somebody was named "Fugitiveslaveact Jones" or "Indianremovalact Smith".

Seriously, SOPA was a horrible bill and deserved to die but isn't this comparison a bit like the "nerd blackface" thing people on le Reddit trot out about Big Bang Theory?


It's also just generally a simple combination of syllables that occurs in a lot of languages meaning things like "soup", "sweep", and "it hurts".

Hokay, now I know GTA V recently made this a thing, but can we have more FPS-Open World games that aren't set in a fantasy situation please?

Not really sure what you mean, since the only fantasy first-person open-world series that comes to mind is TES, by my definitions of "fantasy" and to a lesser extent "open world".

If by "fantasy" you mean "anything unrealistic/not present in modern day", I think you're basically limited to Far Cry from 2 onwards, which isn't exactly a bad set of options save for the fact that it means supporting Ubishit.

If, unlike too many snobbish normies (reeee), you differentiate "fantasy" and "science fiction" then you have Fallout 3/NV and possibly Borderlands if you can settle for a somewhat less-open open world.

As for my problems with JRPG combat, I really don't think the random battles are it. I mean, they are annoying as fuck but an increasing number of JRPG devs have been realizing that and the once-ubiquitous feature is slowly dying in favor of "bump into enemy to fight" or other systems.

It's also not because it's almost always turn-based, because a fuckton of older CRPGs did that right. Rather, I think it's that JRPG combat is usually boring and barely interactive. Generally, the battles have no strategy involved and are just wars of attrition and praying to RNGsus while cool but repetitive animations play. In contrast, even the most primitive of turn-based CRPGs generally require and allow more varied tactics and allow movement around the battlefield.

More to the point, how can you have a Skyrim-esque JRPG? It's not just a matter of combat style; the structure of a typical JRPG is very different from CRPGs like Skyrim.