Fallout 3 is amazing. I've spent close to 40 hours on it so far and basically gotten nowhere in the main quest. The only thing that's disappointing me is the level cap. Seriously, I'm on 16 now, I'll have maxed before I even pick up the main quest again, and I don't like when I'm not able to develop my character any further. I hear there's a mod that slows down the rate at which you level.. I think I'll pick that up before my next playthrough.

Because that's the positive side of such a low cap. You're forced to play it over and over again to try out different things. Not like Oblivion where you eventually end up with practically all your stats maxed.

I feel a lot like I'm playing Oblivion when I'm playing F3. But it's just better in every way. The gameplay mechanics, aside from VATS and shooting, feel a lot like Oblivion, but the gameplay itself feels much more streamlined, the setting is more interesting and better designed, skills are more unique and useful, enemies actually have some variety to them, and the quests and dialogs are infinitely more intricate. There are so many dialog options everywhere, I love it! It's also neat that the main quest is slightly open, also. I've been trying to stay away from it, like I did with Oblivion, especially since the game ends when the main quest is over. I thought I could just keep away from the dude in Megaton and I'd be fine. But many hours later, I stumble upon some tapes that reveal the name of the place my dad went off to. And later, I just stumble upon that location, completely involuntarily. I think I've skipped several parts of the main quest. And it's nice that you can do that! Especially since I can do it the long way with my next character and experience something completely different.

Eh. Maya's UV tools aren't amazing, really, but for inorganic shapes and lower-poly stuff, it doesn't really matter. And this is low poly stuff, so anything should be okay. You really only need some planar projection and a bit of splitting, moving, rotating and sewing back together. Maya's pretty good at that.

I actually had an idea regarding C64izing stuff back a few years ago. Well, more of a question than an idea. How would it look if you were to grab a relatively new game, say, Soldier of Fortune, and run it through some kind of filter that forced it into C64 resolution with doublewide pixels and using a highly restricted palette? How would it look still animated at 60+ frames per second? Would you be able to make anything out or would it be a garbled mess of horrible color combinations? I'd like to see it.

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