HDTP affects characters and objects, while New Vision affects terrain. They do not overlap.

Both can be installed at the same time (though IIRC the New Vision release has visible bugs such as an ugly black square around the UNATCO logo). I don't think the install order matters.

You clearly didn't rename the copy correctly. Make sure you have file extensions visible and didn't accidentally name it HDTP.exe.exe

Mass Effect style. Where you get to pick the mood of your response without actually getting to choose what you say.

Someone who's actually played the game can probably explain better than me, though.

That still sounds like the dialogue is just based on picking the right options and disregards what type of character you're playing. Meaning that even a anti-social psychopath, completely optimised towards killing, can still make the same perfect dialogue choices as a more peaceful and less combat-o...

I approve of being able to talk characters into doing what you want if you've invested in making your character good at speech (e.g. spending XP in social-related skills, ala Vampire: Bloodlines), but without skills... seems too easy, somehow. There's no "cost" to this approach.

They do constantly du--- er, "simplify" the game systems with each instalment. Daggerfall had more skills and options* than Morrowind, which again had more than Oblivion. Fallout 3 is kind of outside that scope because it's not in the same vein. * Of course, a lot of the skills in Daggerfall were to...

In a way, I think Bethesda should consider games like The Settlers or Knights and Merchants to get an idea of a world economy - it would make their worlds feel that much more real if you could watch the residents planting and harvesting crops, milling grain, making food, mining ore, making weapons, ...

Overpopulated wasteland? Depends on if you're talking about enemies or NPCs. Bethesda always have far too few NPCs in towns and cities, and Fallout 3 is no different. But Bethesda games always make up for it by having an over-abundance of hostile NPCs in the wilderness. Oblivion, Fallout 3, they alw...

Fallout 3's biggest problem is that it shares all the flaws of Oblivion, and then adds its own in the form of Vats- ie. their I-Win button that essentially gives the player god mode and is a pretty major game breaking mechanic. It doesn't have all of Oblivion's flaws - some things are much improved...

Good game? That is up to you, and I wont lose any respect for you if you think its good. Good sequel? hell no, its the same setting in name only, the gameplay bears no real similarities, and the RPG elements are so incredibly streamlined they may as well not be there. So what's so incredibly differ...

I think the problem is that people, by their very nature, are nostalgic and love complaining. Plus, it's very hard to make a sequel that will live up to all the fan's expectations - especially when what made the same game so great was its originality. Just copying the first game will lose that origi...

All this talk of "quality of work" implies that you think there are still models and textures that need to be made for HDTP to be finished. That's not the case. As far as I understand it, the work DDL is doing is to import the models (complete with animations) correctly into the game, and it is a te...

Why Ask? wrote:Surely there is someone else out there with the skill set to finish the remaining work.

That's the problem - they've already stated on numerous occasions that there isn't.

I noticed that this forum software doesn't seem to have an option for reporting private messages. I was actually going to do that before I saw this thread and posted here.

I got 10, too.

I still don't get why that guy keeps trolling here.