Redwolf's Journal (continued)

So, yeah, it's more Fallout. Honestly, I find the sense of (perhaps somewhat grisly) humor that seemed to be woven into the earlier games to be weaker. Otherwise, it's Fallout 3 + 10 years of in-world time, in a slightly different location. There are a lot of references to the previous (number-wise) game. In fact, a one-off little quest in 3 where a person from the mysterious "Institute" sends you off to find a synthetic person has become a core conceit of 4. The combat mechanics are a little better than before. VATS only slows action greatly rather than totally pausing it - which has ups and downs. The non-VATS shooting, though, is much more precise and player-skill-based. I understand they consulted with another studio to help with that. Exploration is about the same as before. There's the additional aspect of being able to set up and maintain settlements (Farmville Fallout?), which is... a bit clunky, but does add something. I'm still not sure if the grea...

Okay, time to take a step back from stressing about deleted email accounts and breathe. What I can do directly about that is done anyway... So, there appear to be some neat little cosmetic toys out for the 11th anniversary of WoW in-game, but I don't see anything that makes me want to log in to get it. I'm also waiting on checking out the new content in FFXIV. GW2 has... settled some. I'm less grumpy about it, but it's also losing a little of the HoT luster. Mostly, I'm just not spending much time with it on a daily basis right now. I still did guild missions on Sunday, though some of them are a bit buggy right now. The first raid comes out this week, and it's appearing that I'll miss out on that for the foreseeable future. I'm interested enough that I would try to do it, but my schedule doesn't line up well with others'. ARIN picked up a guild hall Saturday (and let me say that's so ridiculously-much easier with one maw spawn per wave th...