Sweet reviews Spoony. Nice to see you again!

Great reviews and I completely agree with everything. Modern Rock is not Rock.... GH and RB need more of Eric Burden, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds (Old Eric Clapton), The Who, The Guess Who, Yes, The Police, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Def Leopard, and etc...

And as for the comments about Fallout 3, yes V.A.T.S. does take the edge off, but I just simply don't use it unless I want to show off the cool dismemberment cinematics to my friends. And there are WAY TOO MANY useless items. I was over encumbered once and it turned out I had 158 Frag Mines.... I never use them, so I just randomly throw them down. Maybe a wastelander will stumble upon one. hahaha

Far Cry 2 was good, but it shouldn't have been called Far Cry. It had nothing to do with the first game. Good game, wrong title.

How long do you guys give it before the flaming/death threats from No Mutants Allowed come in?

You aren't the only one who doesn't find her annoying, Spoony; I think Moira's chipper personality is kind of endearing; she's one of those memorable characters.

Looks like you might have gotten cut off at the end, Spoony.

Totally agree on the RB/GH soundtracks, we need more classics rather than modern trash. Or maybe we should get into the real heavy metals, the ones with the lyrics so painfully high and satanic that your vocal cords explode as you are forever doomed to hell for singing it.

Been playing Fallout 1 and 2 recently, and I concur with your soundtrack assessment too, but then again for those quibbles I just put on a tracklist of my more ambient songs from iTunes as I play...

I madethat crazy bitch into a gould

I agree Moria was awesome.

Because she sounds like the mom from that old cartoon "Bobby's World".

Since I'm quite the fanboy of Rock Band, I have to sign up and write this comment.

Rock Band 2's setlist is really crappy, to much new music (which is shite) and not enough old school rock. I love that you can transfer all songs (or pretty much) from Rock Band to Rock Band 2 which gives it alot more better music.

And the AC/DC disc is going to be awesome!

addd some music, and you got yourself a ONE MAN VIDEO PODCAST !

It was kinda ok review.

Its shame that Farcry 2 dosen't have working stealth as it would had add option how to complite game and add some replay value. Also Fallout 3 is actually 3D-RPG instead of FPS that you tend to play it as.

Wow.. There's some strange part of me that wants to go all No Mutants Allowed over you, even though I hate that kind of behaviour.
It's almost as if you hate everything I enjoy about FO3 and enjoy the stuff I hate.. and then you complain about the FO1/2 soundtracks? BLASPHEMY!

Huh.. why doesn't all of my comment show? o_O
Here's the rest of it:

Seriously, though.. I love those soundtracks, especially compared to the one in FO3 which just lacks any kind of originality. There's like an epic orchestra playing whenever you level up and I just couldn't come up with a less fitting track to play there if I tried.

Overall I'd say Fallout 3 is a fun game for a few hours, but it's far too repetitive, lacks interesting roleplay elements, has terrible dialogs and is not in any way a good representation of the Fallout universe.

i like the universe of fallout, always have. the whole "hey guys, worlds fucked" kind of thing always made me happy. granted im twisted, but hey, it happens. what i didnt like is, in the first two fallouts you had the main mission which was usually short as hell, and then the side quests which were usually more fun and where you could actually get experience anyways.

in fallout three, i went about it on the same premise, and found that theres a level cap at 20 that i got to well before even scratching the surface of the main mission. so now its like playing without reward. "oh, sweet, now i can use power armor. umm... thanks?" its not like someone would just stop learning after a battle or something. aggravated me to no end.

not sure if you've reached the cap yet, but its annoying as hell when you finally do.

Nice review(s), but I think alot of ppl have to rethink theyr opinion on the VATS system, its realy a very needed implant.. Fallout 1, 2 and Tacticts used a action point system, witch only tactical games had at the time, no Fallout 3 is still no first person shooter, its a tactical rpg, yes to this date. So then the develepors most prolly had a few options I could think of.. Have the game pause when you enter combat and have a turned based system, witch would be stupid, then the system Tactics used, a real time system but having the guns use action points, not a smart idea.. And bringing back the preseption skill thru the VATS was brilliant. ''Takes you out of the game''? Well some might say that, but this aint Half-Life, Halo or what ever spray and pray game you can find, ofc I enjoy blasting a whole gang off muties with my assault rifle time to time, but im still playing a tactical roleplaying game, and to pause the game to plan my movies in vital situations is a good ting and a good overall feel for the game not changing to a first person or fucking it totaly up with other stupid ways to use actino points, couse no action points = no fallout, this is ofc my opinion, but I want Fallout not some brainless FPS. And if ppl got this game thinking it just was a run and gun game and got disapointed couse of the VATS, well.. Then just dont use it, and stop bitching about it, no offance to you but some ppl go all out on the system, even if they ''claim'' to be Fallout fans.. Ignorant.

Nice reviews as usual.
I am a Fallout fan and played though all parts, tactics evenand I say that F3 isn't bad. Maybe because I love TES Oblivion...

I'm not a gamer and certainly not a guitar hero player. I would like to point out one thing. Certainly classic songs would awesome for gamers of this game. But I think that companies that release games/products like these have grown careful in using old classic songs after the tragedy with DVD releases in recent years.

DVD boxes of Knight Rider and Miami Vice, where all the music was KEY to the format of the show, were forced to replace songs in the series with other songs or (god aweful) covers of the original songs. Simply because (although the artists themselves were cool with it) the record companies refused to give permission to use the songs in the dvd releases. The biggest tragedy was of course Married...with Children... Not hearing old blue eyes sing Love And Marriage in the opening credit swats your fun down at least a notch. But that piece of cr@p they replaced it with really made you crinch. :'(

So you can't really blame the companies for not wanting to step into that goo...

Oblivion with guns sounds awesome to me. Man I played the crap out of Oblivion, knights of the nine and Shivering isles. The leveling systemis annoying, ecspecially since reward items level... and that enemy units level and friendlies don't. But man I'm amazed at how many hours I logged as a vampiric argonian god of madness. Used telekinesis to decorate all my houses.

I'm trying morrowind when my hands heal up.

You know the points to V.A.T.S. in Fallout 3, is that it's not a shooter... Even your combat skills count in real time combats, even if you dont use VATS... and by the way i really liked V.A.T.S. in fallout 3, cause the real time combat was really poorly done

no band's worse than nickleback! except my chemical romance... whoops!

but other than that: great video. i love your stuff!

I liked you're honest words! But what about the map editor? Or did I miss something from your review? :)

... I liked Moira...

I agree that the first few tiers in RB2 are really shitty. There were only, like, five songs that I liked. However, it's near the end of the game where all of the best songs show up. Pinball Wizard, Let There Be Rock, Any Way You Want It, Carry On Wayward Son, The Trees, Everlong, and Master Exploder are some of my favorite songs on the game, and they're almost all in the last few tiers.
Also, I agree with your reviews on Farcry 2 and Fallout 3. I didn't use VATS until I got the Bloody Mess perk, so now I use it every chance I get.

Oh Spoony darling, you see, they offer you a multitude of songs you and I would rather hear over another Lincoln Park baled... You see you just have to DOWNLOAD THEM. Now, I'm not completely opposed to the idea of downloading but it is a bit of a blasphemy that you even have to download Guns N' Roses songs... but at least there's that option. When I play with my friends 90% of the songs we play are downloadable content or songs from the first Rockband (which you can conveniently combine into your RB2 setlist) Ultimately though I'd rather play RockBand 2 simply because they are not COPYCATS!! D:< I'm BITTER!

Also... I forgot to mention that if you play RB2 long enough all the good stuff comes into play... it's also really difficult. Till this day we all can't get through that damn Metalica song on hard/expert, it's impossible! D:

Also... I forgot to mention nice to see something from you :P

I've yet to hear a single whisper from EA or Activision about Stairway to Heaven...

I do agree with having the old rock songs, but I for one would also want some good country songs added. Rascal Flatts, Brooks and Dunn, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, and more Lynard...

Fuck yes! Rock Band needs the old school classics! ...and not just the top 40 hits, real music, commercially famous or not.

Bring on some Zeppelin (from I to IV), Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Nirvana for Christ' sake! Even better, how about some King Crimson - the most under acknowledged band in history - like songs from "Red", "Discipline", "Lark's-freaking-Tongues in Aspic"! "Power to-fucking-Believe!". etc.

God, when will the big cheeses accept that emo music is NOT cool. It's like every year musical culture tries to (finally) escape the plastic-fantastic clutches of 2000's pop and pretty boy rock that the big world of commerce and entertainment shoves it back down our throats and tells us to shut up and savour the shit. Let this decade die in peace.

Man, RE: the music in Rock Band 2, I guess I've gotta be the sole dissenting opinion on this one.

Yes, there's a lot of shitty modern music- bands like Nickelback and their ilk that offer absolutely nothing in the way of any sort of enjoyment.

There are also tons of really bad old bands, bands like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, that focus way more on wankery than they do at creating good songs.

I feel like too many people carry biases against newer music, when there are so many awesome newer bands- hell, the 90s were probably the very best time for music because so many genres reached their apex during that time (it was the peak of Death and Black Metal, the East AND West Coast Rap scenes, Shoegaze, Grunge, etc.)

And I really like a lot of the DLC for RB2 as well, especially awesome albums like Doolittle.

For some reason, it doesn't even register as a video at all. If this could get fixed, that would be awesome. I'd love to here what you have to say on these games.