Malf on 9/7/2008 at 08:27
Pretty sure Zygoptera typed that second quote BR796164 ;)
mothra on 9/7/2008 at 08:45
I'm not surprised about the unkillable NPCs and children at all.
no dev/publisher has enough courage or money to withstand the inevitable backlash. it's a business. they want to make money, not gaming history. but I like that most of the quests/things you do will have to do with the overall story and not be some random "kill-a-rat" stuff. As well as no on-the-fly generated dungeons or its radioactive equivalent. saw a few screenshots on shacknews, they don't give me any goosebumps but look ok, or: competent.
N'Al on 9/7/2008 at 11:01
fwiw, it's possible to kill the kids in the Tarsus Academy in Cairo in DX: IW.
Rogue Keeper on 9/7/2008 at 11:32
Hooray for War on Software Piracy!
Matthew on 9/7/2008 at 11:36
Hooray for non sequiturs!
Rogue Keeper on 9/7/2008 at 11:51
Official ban just encourages people to DL games more. Then the governments just spend more money on anti-piracy investigation. They can be really competent.
Regarding the child killing, no big deal. It was hell in 1 and 2 if you earned ChildKiller title and frankly said, we're no longer in era of 64x64 animated sprites.
Some enthusiastic modders may eventually make it possible if somebody desires that.
Matthew on 9/7/2008 at 11:56
IIRC the kids were taken out of Fallout 2 in the UK, but only by removing their sprites from the game resources; they could still steal stuff from your inventory etc. I'm not really sure, I never played with without the kids patched back in.
Rogue Keeper on 9/7/2008 at 12:18
That's pity, because kids are more prolific in F2, more of them can have dialogue with you, funny floating messages and some are quest-related. I had to patch F1 to get the kids back, but the child models appear only in Shady Sands (as far as I could notice) and they're not important at all, just backround noise.
Matthew on 9/7/2008 at 12:49
Yes, without the patch I don't think you could even attempt the Red Ryder BB gun quest, for example. Thankfully I avoided all that nonsense!
