This week,the Past Posters are looking at the art and promotional material for the first three Fallout games, all published by Interplay before that company was bought by Bethesda. This collectionincludes a few pre-fallout bits, back when the game was going to be a GURPS based adventure named Vault 13
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However, contentment brings with it complacency, and over time humanity became so dependent on Fractale that social and technological development all but ceased. One thousand years later, Fractale begins to corrode and systematically shut down. Before it is gone completely, it's keepers, the enigmatic people of The Temple, initiate a plan to reboot Fractale and restore paradise. But a rogue element, a cult of anti-system insurgents that call themselves the Lost Millennium, seize this opportunity to attempt to shut down the system for good, recognising all the hundreds of years of growth and development wasted due to mankind's en masse addiction to Fractale. nter our protagonist, a fifteen year old boy called Clain. Clain has been raised as part of the system, but has never really taken to it as much as everyone around him. He has never even bothered creating a Doppel for himself, preferring to do everything personally. One day while returning home from an errand he meets and rescues a girl called Phryne from some LM pursuers. After hiding out with Clain for a night, she vanishes by morning, leaving in his care a brooch which (after cursory examining) releases the seemingly ownerless humanoid Doppel Nessa, a perpectually upbeat ten year old girl around whom the series will primarily revolve, as both The Temple and the Lost Millennium attempt to retrieve both her and Phryne as part of their plans to restore or destroy respectively the Fractale system.
light he had never considered. And while the Temple themselves are portrayed in very traditionally villainous ways, their goals are entirely altruistic. Yet the ML are displayed in a very light-hearted, almost familial way, but have no qualms about using terrorism in the name of their cause. In both cases we are shown how their ends, from their personal perspectives, entirely justify the means. When considering what each side fights for, both are offered sympathetically. And by the end of the series' scant 11-episode duration, the question is never definitively answered. The viewer is left to think for themselves: "What was achieved? Is the world now a better place than it would have been given the opposite goal? Was mankind's dependence on Fractale really such a bad thing, just because it seems so alien to our current point of view?"
It may not be greatest series of all time, but if you like your anime to present to you ideas and leave you thinking, it's fully worth the watch. Plus the English dub stars Brina Palencia in full-on convincing young boy mode, and the always amazing Luci Christian as Nessa. And Luci is *always* worth the admission price. It's my first review of November and this month sees the release of SINS OF THE WRECKERS!
So I thought I'd do something special for this month (well part of it any way). I realised something a few days ago, in my small Florida based collection I have a small amount of Wreckers right here. So why not do a theme month? So for a good chunk of November, IT'S WRECKERS MONTH! There are bad movies out there. There are some truly awful pieces of celluloid in existence. The fact that these things keep getting produced shows that someone, somewhere, is watching them. Paul ‘Logan Blaze’ Anderson is one such person, who tends to find something ANYTHING of merit in some of the most despised pieces of film history. Except Picnic at Hanging Rock. Never bring up Picnic at Hanging Rock. Join Logan as he tries to convince you that a questionable film deserves some attention. Yes, Logan Blaze is……. The Bad Movie Apologist Throughout November, The Toy Stacks will be looking at the OMFG line from October Toys. OMFG (Outlandish Mini Figure Guys) are all based on designs contributed by members of the October Toys Forum (sadly defunct now for the time being), and is brought to life via Kickstarter.
Instead of going wave by wave, We've set up week one with the painted characters from the Oilhouse shelves. Rob Bishop has gone above and beyond this this, and thus is the winner of the new logo competition.
What did he win? Keep your eyes peeled to the facebook group The complete thoughts of Tricky as he takes on the challenge of watching two of the Unicron Trilogy have been moved to their new home in the Welcome To Kimia page, which you can find HERE:
THE ARMADA TWEETS ENERGON PART ONE ENERGON PART TWO ENERGON PART THREE ENERGON PART FOUR The man known as Tricky is a engima, wrapped in a mysterious bow of learning. He wants to find new and exciting things. This is his journey, The Tricky Tries Trilogy LOCK-IN 215 - sym-bionic titan LOCK-IN 216 - heroes of cosplay LOCK-IN 217 - gaogaigar
In the 30 odd years that the Beat 'Em Up has been around, what is the legacy it leaves behind in modern gaming?
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