[Multiplatform] Fallout 3 - Guns with Oblivion

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According to the Office’s guidelines, “material promoting or encouraging proscribed drug use” is refused classification.

Refused classification? That's pretty hardcore censorship. The BBFC will give things an 18 rating for showing recreational drug use without negative consequences but they'd never ban a film or anything over it. I find the idea that a kid (Or in fact an adult, since they completely refused classification) would go out and score some morphine on the basis that it helped with bullet wounds to the leg in Fallout 3 rather laughable. If you're that fucking stupid you deserve to be a junkie. It's like people in this country complaining about the poster for the new Bond film because he's shown holding a machine gun and they're worried that in the midst of a gun-crime epidemic (Like 10 people have been shot this year or something equally pathetic) this will encourage kids to shoot each other. I mean, are the dealers and scummy kids from council estates who are shooting at each other all over east London and south Manchester really doing so because they saw a white dude with a machine gun on a movie poster? Of course they fucking aren't.

But yeah, I think GTA:IV is the only game I can think of that gives drugs their proper names anyway. It's not something that is going to negatively affect the gameplay.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I hope you all enjoy cutscenes as according to the BBFC website, they had to sit through over 11 hours of them to rate this game (And 45 hours of gameplay footage). Also:

Originally Posted by bbfc.co.uk

Set in a post -apocalyptic North America in the year 2077, FALLOUT 3 is a science fiction fantasy role playing game in which the player becomes a young man or woman on a quest to find their missing father. Playable in either a first or a third person perspective, it was passed ‘18’ for strong bloody violence.

The BBFC Guidelines at ‘15’ state that ‘violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury’. In FALLOUT 3 however, players are encouraged to use a targeting system that allows them to pause the action and direct their attacks at specific areas of their opponents' bodies. This might be their head, torso or arms and legs. When the action restarts the camera then focuses on the impact of those targeted attacks, with in slow motion, the enemy shown being bloodily killed and dismembered. The game features many weapons with which players can do this, including various rifles and machine guns, as well as a knife, a chain saw and a rocket launcher. This focus on violent bloody injury was therefore considered too strong for ‘15’ and better suited to the adult ‘18’ category where the game's fantastical elements as well as the complexity of the playing experience helped to make it acceptable. Additionally, BBFC Guidelines at ‘15’ state that ‘the strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable’ and with these same combat elements also featuring large explosive blood splats, this emphasis on strong gore was also considered better placed at ‘18’.

FALLOUT 3 also contains strong language.

Slow motion? Sounds a bit like when you did the killing shots in that John Woo game.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I imagine it's the total of non-interactive rolling footage so that'll include the intro and any pre-recorded conversations in the game. One wonders how long all the little bits of exposition before missions in GTAIV would come to if you watched them back to back.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by RAZGRIZ-4

Okay, Deni, imagine you walk into a store. And you decide, "HEY! I want a soda! You know it's number one!", except in order to get the soda, you have to go into a green terminal screen and guess a secret codeword to both obtain the soda and make the purchase. Also, you only have 4 chances to guess the proper codeword otherwise you can never purchase a soda from that store ever again for the rest of your life.

But wait, you're a strapping young lad, and you know now that if you just leave the store and come back, you get 4 more guesses! Great! Oh... wait... you just realized upon your return that by leaving the store, the codeword has changed and then you have to go through the whole process of elimination ALL OVER AGAIN.

The codeword keeps changing... there's no logic or reason to the purchase of your soda.

You are in a video game.

You cannot die, the auto save keeps reviving you into this hellish hell of hell.

But are we talking about a soda he wants to buy or one he has to buy to progress because if it's the former he could always, you know, just not buy it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

So you can save yourself the hellish hell of hell by just steering clear of terminals then.

I mean, I really like the game GRID but I'm not a big fan of the Le Mans races. Rather than force myself to play them I just skip them, making the overall gameplay experience that much better. I like GTAIV but I hate the street racing so again, I just don't do it. The chances of you liking every single facet of a game this big are pretty fucking slim so just enjoy the bits you do like and avoid the stuff you don't.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Sorry, I realised I was being a bit of an arse after I posted that.

As a matter of interest, does this work anything like KOTOR where adding skills makes you better at hacking (Obviously at the expense of other skills) or is it always the same mini-game no matter what path you're choosing for your character?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?