Blackheart

Mike Mignola also had a hand in the god awful anime they produced for Hellboy. Surprise, he likes $$$!!

wow, they're actually charging for vampire rain content? HAR. HAR.

I don't care, old hat. More Fallout 3 news, please.

I deserve the gamer pics because I already shelled out for the game's CE. :) Plus, I have a man crush on Ken Levine, it's true.

Even the guild quests were linear and nothing you did had any impact on the world. Even as a guild master you were stuck as an errand boy mostly everywhere. They definitely went quantity over quality on the quest design there. But yes, like you said, if everything they're marketing is to be believed Fallout 3 will be a completely different experience.

Yeah Miles, but Ian getting 100 from you to start and later on being open to dialog/instructions is a FarCry from Oblivion's followers. It doesn't sound like there is any kind of cover system or companion commands so with their sorry excuse for AI it's probably a good idea for us not to get attached to any of the follower NPCs.

Oblivion was a huge disappointment for me after all the hype it got. I don't know how you can laud a developer that produces such a linear experience that just about everyone you know who has played it to completion will have had a nearly identical experience. Hey you saved Martin Septim? So did I!

Part of the fun of Fallout was talking to people and finding out how they got different endings for different locations. What triggers they set off and so forth.

Anyways, positive note about these new bits: cannibalism, yay. Much needed in the post apoc environment.

Why do the companions keep being mentioned as "mercenaries" ? Does that mean the only followers you'll have in the game are meat shield hires like in Oblivion? The companions in Fallout joined you because you talked/inspired them into it, they were never hired guns.

Does this mean the games will be cheaper since they're using child labor and illegally manipulating the value of their money for favorable exchange rates?

I have a Zen Vision M. I like my Zen Vision M. It still works. I like the way it works. I have no need to go buy a Zune. Or an iPod. Sorry MS, you were just too late on my mp3/video player purchasing cycle. Next time I'm out to get one I'll give you a looksy. Promise.

RE: GameStop. Why do the Halo 3 exclusives keep going to craptacular companies? Mad Catz and now Game Stop, the kind folks who like to not ship you preorders then stiff you on your deposit or make you run through hoops to get it back. F#ck that shit.

Quality. Even less money I'll be spending on Halo this year. Good looking out MS. My bank account thanks you.