Mr Party Hat

I just Googled Fallout, and Bethesda bought the franchise less than ten years after Fallout 1 came out. And they've been in charge of it for 17.

It felt like such an old, storied franchise when they first bought it. Isn't time weird.

Shōgun stuck the landing pretty well!

Spoiler - click to showThe framing device of Old Man In Bed seemed largely pointless, and only really served to undermine the peril of Blackthorne's would-be sacrifice. It's not the worst thing in the world, I just think it detracted more than it added.

Yeah I loved the whole thing. What a great mini-series. Although to your point:

Spoiler - click to showI'm not sure that was a flash forward. I think that was Blackthorne imagining his future in England. Surrounded by people who don't understand what he came to love about Japan ("did a savage give you that?") and trinkets that mean nothing to anyone except himself. In fact I'm almost certain that's not what actually happened in his future, because he's clutching Mariko's cross as an old man. And at the end of the episode, when he resolves to stay in Japan, he throws the cross in the water. So that future never happened. I reckon he stayed in Japan and became an important part of the new Shogunate.

That'd be fun, especially because at default difficulty it doesn't need lots of complex button presses. I've turned the landscape difficulty up to 3, just to give myself enough time to use some skills before the mobs die.

I've just entered Rohan, having escaped Isengard and the shitty Dunlending clans. My re-read of the book has just synced up with where I am in the game, which is nice.

Incidentally, why are these screenshots small, but the ones in my previous post bigger? I've used the same hosting site and format.

I know it's ancient, and it wasn't even that pretty to begin with, but if you catch Lord of the Rings Online at the right moments it's a looker.