Lurker > random_man9119

I disagree on both fronts. The NPC saying your name is incredible and voicing dialogue doesn't hurt anything at all. Both VAs do a great job and every Fallout protag is in canon American so it's not like you can roleplay that your Sole Survivor would have had a strong Jamaican accent.

Plus there's even more dialogue than there was in NV or 3 even though it's voiced.

I never sat back playing Fallout 3 and said "This Lone Wanderer had a higher pitched voice than my last run, also he stutters!"

Maaaybe for a low INT build but they don't change the dialogue in NV, 3 or 4 for that

Nearly all quests are like that. You kill people, find a thing or pass a skill check when talking to people. Or refuse the quest.

the criticisms are valid but I just don't see why they don't "Count" for New Vegas which has worse gameplay, worse characters, a worse map, worse menus and the same criticisms are several times more valid.

Translation "I have no counter argument so I will ignore all of NV's flaws"

I didn't misunderstand anything you said, you just know full well I'm right and are just too biased against Bethesda to admit it

Hell why the fuck does the Courier being the most pigeonholed protaganist in the series or the terrible writing in NV have anything to do with you backtracking on your original complaint about factions?

You get to choose your character's name and they put in over a thousand names that will be spoken by a voiced NPC. Something to this day other RPGs haven't taken the effort to do.

This is probably the very worst point you could have raised to criticize Fallout 4.

I love me some FFX but it's cringey when Auron says "Hey New Guy" or "Star Player of the Zanarkand Abes"

The dialogue system presentation is poopy, I don't get why they give you 4 options just to say yes or no. My guess was it was to try to give the player personality like Dragon Age 2 did with Hawke.

But I don't see how that's different to New Vegas or 3.

Take Boulder City Showdown for example. They ask you to help them free a hostage. You say yes or no, then if you say yes you either kill or pass a speech check.

What's the difference between that and Fallout 4? Besides having 3 slightly different ways to say "yes" and instead of 1?

And tell me how you can do New Vegas' story without supporting a faction?

It's one of the weakest entries in the series from a role play perspective. The role the Courier is forced into is the pigeonholed in the entire franchise.

Nope. Eternatus dwarfs it in both of it's forms.

Whelp. Okay then.

Seriously, you guys wouldn't work out if you somehow knew it was a guarantee?

This is hyperbol. Nobody in the world actually holds this opinion. Its an impossible opinion to have.

I'm now rich and nothing else changes? Easy deal.

More like perpetually single.

The order of Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, 2 & 3, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring was of utmost importance to me for some weird reason.

The PS5 games are next to their existing franchises. The front row franchises I have played more recently than the back row.

I'm a mentally ill, paranoid, constantly-fearful failure who's about to turn 30 with nothing to show for it. On an objective level I have zero worth.

Team Star is awful.

Remember when we were dismantling actual criminal organizations, and eco-terrorists, and saving the whole universe from a clinically depressed man who wanted to remove emotions from humans just because his parents never hugged him?

But if you've managed to wind up older than me and have little to nothing in the way of sexual or romantic experiences, then something isn't healthy.

basically your pokemon become giants that have their stats double for about three consecutive turns).

You're missing the point like the boomers sharing this pic on facebook would. You know 7+8=15 because you were a good little student in elementary school who memorized it. But the principle of getting the equation into base 10 exponentials goes beyond single-digit numbers. So although you memorized 7+8, you never memorized what 187+179 is. So to do the mental math quickly, a great trick is to do something like "187 + 13 = 200. 179 - 13 = 166. So the answer is 200 + 166 = 366". Because it's much much more intuitive to add 166 to 200 (a multiple of 10 / 100) then it is to add 187 to 179.

You can do something similar by taking advantage of 10's in multiplication and division. If someone asks you how many times 7 goes into 217 you could draw up a division bracket and work it out as you learned to do in 3rd or 4th grade. Or you could mental math it by doing something like "7*10=70. 70*3=210. So 7 goes into 217 31 times." The point is to use 10's as much as possible without having to memorize things. And it only looks really silly here because the examples shared on facebook are always elementary problems that you memorized. When you can't memorize them then you see why they're more useful.

As an aside here's a fun fact - why do almost all humans in almost every century use base 10? The answer is simple. It's because humans have 10 fingers. So people counting on their fingers and grouping things into sets of 10 is human nature. Incidentally we also have 10 toes but people are probably counting with their fingers more than their toes. But if we had 12 fingers we'd probably have a base 12 system and this discussion would be all about how stupid Common Core is trying to teach "making a 12" to kids now. Thinking about it that way kind of helps elucidate the point behind focusing so much on 10 and why an equation having 10s makes the math much more clean and intuitive.

how would you guys do 28+14