[quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="2006986"]It may be interesting to note that all of the planets in the game "universe" are already colonized by humans, and likely will be well after you leave.[/quote] This is obviously true, since every planet has a local militia you have to defeat, but it doesn't explain why your population always starts at zero when you colonize a planet anew.
[quote who="VictorTroska" reply="10" id="1983567"] If Valve is stupid how come it is so popular?[/quote] Same reason Bethesda games are popular? Popularity is hardly a measure of quality. (Half-Life 2 is awesome, though.)
According to Ironclad's early announcements, there'll be no boxed copy until all three expansions come out and are released in one box.
[quote who="General Homsar" reply="16" id="1948489"]I really don't like this trailer. The ridiculously fast "music", sparse dialogue, and flashes of combat (which didn't give me a sense of what was going on) make it seem like yet another adreneline-filled action-fest, and nothing like ST. And what's with the car in the opening shot? It looks like a 50's Cadilac. Don't get me wrong, I love those, but isn't this movie set in the future? [/quote] <
I was (and am) concerned about FO3, because I really don't like Oblivion or Bethesda. I'm not as crazy as the NMA guys - most of my qualms stem from Oblivion, not from FO3's differences from FO1 and 2. To sum up very briefly, my issues with Oblivion are the awful leveling system (which in FO3 is replaced by SPECIAL, so no problem there), the awful AI (which you say is good in FO3, so I'm hopeful, I guess), the level scaling (I've read a bit about FO3's revamped level scaling - how is
