Preview Fallout: New Vegas – Digging "iteslf" a desert grave

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: Fallout: New Vegas; Obsidian Entertainment

<p>A guy going by the name Curtis Takaichi, proud owner of an IQ of approximately 2.75 potatoe units and capable of turning any woman into a feeble sheep, <a href="http://gamerlimit.com/2010/06/e310-fallout-new-vegas-digging-iteslf-a-desert-grave/" target="_blank">can has gaeming journalisms</a>.</p>
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<p>After I killed the guy, my character was permanently banned from the hotel and I was forced to restart the demonstration because I broke it.&nbsp; Someone whispering in my area that I need to be nice to the lobbyist, so that I can see all the casino games and witness how luck plays a larger role would have piqued my interest.&nbsp; Instead, I felt like a wandering child walking into the middle of the street.</p>
<p>To no surprise, I broke the demo a few more times, and eventually I just gave up to go play <em>Brink</em>.&nbsp; With no direction and a limited time to play, it&rsquo;s impossible to get the full spectrum of <em>New Vegas</em>.&nbsp; In all honesty, this is a game that would have greatly benefited from a hands-off demonstration &ndash; showcasing all the new and improved characteristics.</p>
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<p>thx BN!</p>

 

[Roguey]

If Curtis Takaichi (24) was an advertisement in a newspaper, it would read... University of California Santa Barbara graduate with a degree in English. Currently, he focuses his talents toward PC reviews and assists with editing for Gamer Limit. Among other things, he grew up with the neon lights of Las Vegas, NV, taught children how to swim for several years, and will be moving to Japan in July to teach English.

We live in such an amazing world.

 

[Luzur]

so it was too hard for him?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Reading that preview made me uncomfortable.

 

[DraQ]

As much as I find merely admitting something like this revulsive, Hitler might have had a point when it came to terminating the retards.

 

[Jaesun]

If you read the entire article, he was basically mad that a unknown Professional Journalist for a unknown website wasn't given the full hands-on presentation like the other well known Professional Gaming Journalists.

 

[Antihero]

The article sucks, but I think his whining point was that the demo was incomplete (or buggy) and so could have used a tour guide for what there was to do.

I think he didn't know about any of the gambling in the casino (yeah, I know it's a casino) until writing the article afterwards. But still, what did he expect anyway after opening fire? Drinks on the house?

For example, upon meeting a hotel lobbyist, all I wanted to do was fight him, so I picked all the confrontational dialogue boxes.

Edited for clarity.

 

[dr. one]

the guy may be dumb, but at least he doesn´t seem to be evil.

 

[DraQ]

the guy may be dumb, but at least he doesn´t seem to be evil.

The guy shouldn't have graduated university, or primary school for that matter, in the first place.

The most he should ever hope for should be some simple menial work.

 

[Drakron]

Well all these years of hand helding gameplay in linear corridors given us and web 2.0 given us ... this.

Its funny as games usually disallow "breaking" what developers want us to do, we got "essential" NPCs that are impervious to death or even attacks, I understand wanting to see what happens by deliberate attempt to break the game but bitching about how the game allows the player to do it and THEN penalizes the player for it on a very logical standpoint is either moronic or missing the point.

 

[Mortmal]

the guy may be dumb, but at least he doesn´t seem to be evil.

The guy shouldn't have graduated university, or primary school for that matter, in the first place.

The most he should ever hope for should be some simple menial work.

You know of school and university decline, they give the diplomas to everyone , you laugh until you realize one of those guys could be the doctor who's taking care of your balls...At least as game reviewer he do the less harm.

 

[deuxhero]

"Why do people hate me? I only shot someone with no provocation."

What a dumbfuck.

 

[Cassidy]

Our Post-human Future

 

[Jaesun]

FYI you don't need to register to post comments.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Whispering? I don't think a great big neon sign and a character screaming at the top of their lungs "YO BRO, DON'T SHOOT PEOPLE IT MAKES THEM TOTALLY UNCOOL TOWARDS YOU" would've helped your retardation in this instance.

You had a chance to talk about how the game responded to your choices and how FUCKING KILLING SOMEONE affected how you were treated, instead you showed the kind of retardation that sees so many FPS' with health-regen and universal ammo getting dumped on the market these days.

As for "breaking the demo a few more times", what did you do? Pick the "Quit Game" option and wonder why no-one whispered in your ear "quitting takes you out of the game, honey".

I contributed.

 

[Antihero]

It got stealth edited to say he fought the lobbyist to test out VATS, which isn't necessarily any less eyebrow raising if he's going to complain about the outcome of it - having 15 minutes to try the game isn't really an excuse for bad journalism.

Although, the weird thing to me is if he would only get banned from the casino instead of getting shot on sight. Are we talking magically locked doors or getting automatically forced out after some goon talks to you? Not that I especially care, but will this mean I can't toss severed heads onto the roulette wheel and have to play it for its RPG elements instead?

 

[Brother None]

You guys obviously don't understand real journalism.

(PS: thing is, I think his angle about testing out the demo's capabilities rather than just following it's set-out route is great, and his thoughts about the NV presentation being Bethesda's lesser might be interesting, if not for the idiotic whining about how the game dares cut him off when he shoots someone in the face)

 

[GarfunkeL]

thing is, I think his angle about testing out the demo's capabilities rather than just following it's set-out route is great

I wish more journos would actually do that, so that every preview wouldn't just be repeating the same gushing shit. But it won't work, since:

the idiotic whining about how the game dares cut him off

from a University of California Santa Barbara graduate with a degree in English which I guess is the bottom of the barrel in degrees, already. Not even literature, just English grammar. Unless they have already combined those two in Kwa.

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

American schools don't teach grammar anymore under the retarded assumption that you pick it by osmosis. An English degree traditionally meant an intensive study in English literature, from Beowulf to the present, with a heavy emphasis on composition. These days the English literary canon is perceived as being parochial and patriarchal, so the PC thing to do is teach literature by minority authors who toe the political line, and literary theory. Unless this guy went out of his way to specialize in actual literature, he probably spent his time bullshitting about Foucault and Derrida, and reading mediocre novels by Gay Asians and Latinas, and dreadful plays by authors from post-Colonial countries.

 

[Gragt]

Sounds as useless as psychology.

 

[sportforredneck]

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Meh, it's a degree in the Humanities. English departments are particularly bad when it comes to having lost track of their purpose, something which has affected all departments in the Humanities to one degree or another. Most English departments are more interested in politics and sociology than they are in literature. Classics ends up being a bit of a refuge for students who would otherwise be inclined to major in English but have found that unappealing in the face of multicultural education, the pedagogy of the oppressed, and all the other trendy stuff that has oh so little to do with producing educated, well-rounded people.

edit: This is the best designed English major program that I've ever seen if you're interested. Surely beats the hell out of my University's English major, which allowed for its students to graduate without once having read a word of Shakespeare, nor having had even the slightest amount of linguistic training.

 

[Antihero]

You guys obviously don't understand real journalism.

Not sure how much if any sarcasm that's laden with, but the revised article makes it a little easier to understand where he's coming from - but it seems like it could have been condensed to "Was there much to do in the demo but go and gamble? Other stuff seemed incomplete or broken, and nobody mentioned what to check out that might actually work."

But maybe that's a stretch when my first impression was he was bitter that his demo experience didn't turn into a scene from Swordfish.

 

[Ruprekt]

SMA I think the root issue with the way English is taught in the united states is the moralistic nature of american education in general.

The agenda you see (and despise) is just a reaction to another agenda.

From my perspective the issue with american undergraduate education isn't that it's failing to produce a certain type of individual, but that it's even attempting it. That's a project for 12 year olds, not 22 year olds.

Literature is taken much too seriously. In high-school it's taught as if it has moral lessons and can deliniate roles and expectations in the present day. The same goes for the teaching of history; that again is political and moralistic in a way which looks very peculiar from outside the US.

 

[Malachi]

SMA speaks truth. English departments are run by the trendy ethnic studies programs at this point. I was a throwback as an English major, taking mostly Medieval and Renaissance Literature and spending most of my time in the rare books library.

With this in mind, it's no wonder that the game journalist with a degree in English could not compose a proper sentence.