http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY

Whatever, the point is that there is DRM involved and claiming there isn't without any sort of evidence to the contrary is childish and immature. I provided one link it's not the only one out there, and if you go over to the fora, you can do your own search. It was common knowledge at the time that the roll out failed due to MS screwing up the DRM. And the knowledge came from official sources. It's not like somebody just made it up or was speculating.

You can gussy it up however you like, but you're not any more correct than you were previously. Steam allows you to take the data files out of the install folder as well for use with third party engines, by your logic there isn't any DRM there either.

Buzzkill.

If you call the DLC for Fallout 3 DRM then god help you. You don't buy any games from anywhere even from GOG as they requre a log in. Should't you be in some bunker somewhere playing Spectrum games?

Just got this. The next Fallout should be programmed and modeled by Bethesda, and written by Obsidian. :D NV is then what Fallout 3 should have been because Todd Howard wasn't involved in it!

I don't really care what gaming blogs reported when Broken Steel came out, it has no DRM. I know that for a fact because I tested it, as have thousands of other people. Do it yourself and then tell me I'm wrong.

You can move any file ever made anywhere you want. It's the DRM on Steamworks executables or DLC that prevent them from being used anywhere you want... you can move them, sure, but without activation they do not function. Fallout 3's DLC files work without activation because there is no DRM on them.

You can keep arguing about this all you want but it's not an opinion matter, there either is DRM on them or there isn't and I know for a fact there is not. You are just spitting against the wind here, as they say.

Both developers have a horrendous track record with bugs, but yes, I think this might work. Bethesda games can sometimes feel a bit unprofessional in execution (all the small glitches and "good-enoughs" everywhere), but they're far better than Obsidian at making sure the game is polished on release.
I've lost track of the number of times a dialogue tree in New Vegas has made me cringe, and it really hurts the atmosphere when you're talking to someone and half your options are stuff you don't know yet but which the developers assumed you found out when you spoke to another NPC (Hildern or wossname being Follower-trained, for instance), or you get returned to the root after every choice when cross-examining someone about something even when the context of the conversation makes it clear you're supposed to ask about everything, or you suddenly only have one option to pick from for three or four "lines" straight, or you get locked out of perfectly reasonable skill checks because you wanted to get as much information as possible from the quest giver as possible before committing to a path, or...

Argh, you get the idea. The dialogue trees are almost one and all unbelievably poorly designed. Not that I dislike the game, it's just that you can tell it's an Obsidian game through-and-through.

So, yeah. Bethesda for making the game, Obsidian for writing it. Might want to include Blizzard for polishing it up, although then it will never get released.

No way, man! Code wheels! Looking up paragraphs in manuals and quoting them... using the provided red tinted specs to see the code on screen! DRM! DRM! DRM!

Bullshit. I have had enough now. People want to hate this? Fine. Don't start making lies about it. Finding the Sheriff for Primm, Calibrating Fisto, The Kings there is no end to how this game is FAR, FAR superior to Fallout 3.

But there are 10 bugs per quest.. ;)
I disliked FO3, i really like this one, but it requires polish and mods. Oh, Beth..

Anyhoo, neat post.
I really liked throwing Marcus and Cassidy's daughter there, hell, even that Vertibird pilot from Klamath, though that was a bit too much of self ref. ;)
Can't wait to see what awesome blooms from this seed.

I had a few dialogue tree problems where I was kicked back to the root at the end of a sub-branch, I thought "oh well" and just started the branch again, clearly a small error. I also saw a few lines where the voiced dialogue was nothing like the text, only one I remember was the use of the word 'automatic' rather than 'actual', didn't make any sense but I'd read the subtitle so it didn't matter

Except for the radio. The radio is a notable step backwards I feel. I found a grand total of 4 signals including a mission related emergency distress one, there's only 2 varieties of music, shitty country and extremely light rock/pop which aren't unique to the station and the worst of all, that fucking johnny guitar song (and I think one other) being on at least 2 if not all 3 music stations! Compare that to the 3 musical styles from F3's 3 radio major stations and it seems like a clear step back.

As for the hosts, I thought Mr New Vegas was boring as hell, at least 3Dog was sometimes amusing but I have to admit to a certain fondness for 'best friend Tabitha'
AHHHHH! How did I not pick that Cass was Cassidy's daughter?? Maybe thats why I kept her around (till the legion carved her into kebab anyway)

You didn't talk to her enough to get her life story perhaps?:P

I have that OCD thing, where i don't let my companions die. Already modded the hell out of the game, i didn't like the companion limit, made Charisma pointless. Now i'm running around with everyone i can, got the mules, got the extra headshot power. ;)

Existence 2.0
CONELRAD
Enclave Radio
My personal favourite. Remember GNR More where that came from? It's back. Link

Stock 'em with better armor, or order to stay, i do this with ED-E all the time, if combat may drag [as in, more than one shot one kill]. I try to clean up before ED-E tries anything dumb.
But i have it easier, i didn't like the default weapon damage, it was a bit ridiculous. So i modded that too. Since then, the only guy dying on my team [ed-e, boone, cass, veronica] is me, due to my F3 mutant tactic [run in front of them, and waste a mag in the head point blank]. i'm still getting used to the NV combat, which is a bit different.
Rex? That's the dog right? Well, Fallout dogs deal neat damage, but always die quickly.
I'm heading to V22 for some time now, there's always something distracting on the way, last time i tried i ended up in Jacobstown.. Perhaps tomorrow..
Since Boone came on board, nobody really dies, but i level up slower, because he gets everyone faster. Just today, i was hoping for some nice exp, by sneak crit'ing some losers, and he just wasted them out of nowhere. I saw one of his shots going throgh two windows and a bush, just to hit some blokes head. Leveling is so hard..

Anyways, quickloads are quick, so why lose a dog, if he can be granted his 11th chance?;P