Fuck sakes. I still have to wait two days before I even get to play it.
Leric, you must update your post with more thoughts on the game when you are less tipsy/tired.
Basically this game is freak'n awesome and unless something else sneaks up and wows me this is definately my GOTY choice this year. Yeah it's ALOT like Oblivion but there are some things that make it better. For one thing this game probably has the best dialog Bethesda has ever written and there's way more choices during conversations than you probably would have expected from them. V.A.T.S. is way more useful than I would have originally expected it to be (I find myself using it whenever I can) although I have to wonder if it won't get kinda annoying having to watch the slow-mo scenes over again and over after I hit like the 30 hour mark. So far they're quite entertaining though. In some ways it does feel like a Fallout game (maybe it would feel even more like one if you haven't played Oblivion before eh?) but just don't go into this game expecting it to be like a Fallout 2 Washington D.C. expansion pack and you'll enjoy it alot more.
I'm curious, since this is coming from Bethesda.. What is the character creation like?
Long story short it sucks. There's basically no choices and if you want to make an original character prepare for atleast an hour of manual face shaping. I swear Bethy should really realise by now that in these games they keep making that last for hundreds of hours the way your character looks is gonna be important to people. The hair choices suck too btw.
I wonder how tedious it'll become if you replay the game too much though.
It's pretty annoyingly long the 2nd or 3rd time around to have to go through it all again, atleast until I took Marcus' advice and made a save right before you leave the vault that is.
Hahaha.....
I read that on GameFAQs. Is it for real!?
I'm not sure, I don't think so. Well it would give the different races more purpose I s'pose but yeah that's kinda... yeah I hope not.
Ironically enough I AM black and latino in real life and I usually do use alot of heavier combat skills while sneaking and stealing shit in these kinds of games, heck that's how I played pretty much all of Oblivion.
EDIT: Also I just wanna add that the 3rd-person camera actually would have worked (atleast it would have been playable from that mode I mean) if they had just fixed one small problem, the target reticle in 3rd person is off a little to the right from where you're aiming so this makes you crazy inaccurate in combat or when just picking up stuff. I hope they release a patch to fix this sooner or later since it doesn't seem like to me it would be that hard to fit.
