I would, but I generally don't get the hang of the game until later on and I already have a kinda generic/messed up character. The second play through I always RP pretty heavily though.
Fallout 3 and New Vegas, how deep do you roleplay?
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My Vegas character is a girl called Billy I pretty much played her as myself. Mostly involved stealthing everywhere going 'please don't see me please don't see me.' etc and using a sniper rifle becuase I find long distance headshots cathartic.
I really liked Veronica NOT THAT WAY and I liked to think she was my characters best bud. She mostly rolled with Boone though because...well...yeah. I played on very hard on hardcore so it was kind of scary somtimes and there was alot of ''strategic retreats''
. I tend to be a good two shoes so I was very NCR.
I really liked Veronica NOT THAT WAY and I liked to think she was my characters best bud. She mostly rolled with Boone though because...well...yeah. I played on very hard on hardcore so it was kind of scary somtimes and there was alot of ''strategic retreats''
. I tend to be a good two shoes so I was very NCR.
For first-times, I usually go for the "me"-way of playing. That is, trying to solve the problems the way I personally would. Usually ends up being good, but also sometimes killing the person in front of me.
After that, it's real-asshole-time. Blowing up Megaton is a must-must (and really spectacular), then laughing my ass off when I meet "Megaton refugees" while roaming the wastes.
My absolute favourite asshole-moment in F3 was in Big Town, though. There is this guy in the "hostpital", nearing death from injuries. Given the medical skills, you can either save the guy or cut an artery in a way it looks like he fell victim to his injuries. This may be bad enough, but the best way to kill him is to actually save him, and when he asks what happened you answer "I fixed you up because I wanted you to be conscious when I kill you". Did I laugh at his death.
After that, it's real-asshole-time. Blowing up Megaton is a must-must (and really spectacular), then laughing my ass off when I meet "Megaton refugees" while roaming the wastes.
My absolute favourite asshole-moment in F3 was in Big Town, though. There is this guy in the "hostpital", nearing death from injuries. Given the medical skills, you can either save the guy or cut an artery in a way it looks like he fell victim to his injuries. This may be bad enough, but the best way to kill him is to actually save him, and when he asks what happened you answer "I fixed you up because I wanted you to be conscious when I kill you". Did I laugh at his death.
My current character, Marc Kowalski, decided to restart his life surviving that shot in the head. He has joined the NCR and is planing on opening small hospitals across the Mojave Wasteland, but to get the funding he has to work some moraly grey jobs like bounty hunting for Randall & Associates. On one such jobs he runs into someone from his previous life, let's just say it is quite different from the one he is currently living in.
I keep all of this info in a small diary that I update every time iI play.
I keep all of this info in a small diary that I update every time iI play.
I roleplay fairly deep, I suppose. It's not tabletop, but... In Fallout 3 I made 3 distinct characters and role-played 'em all the way through.
I did a similar number in New Vegas, essentially re-creating my good and neutral characters with new names...
Still haven't gotten around to creating my morally bankrupt scientist, but he's going for the anarchy ending. I don't have a character concept for a Caesar's Legion believer yet.
I actually played her as a dupe in the beginning. She nukes Megaton, kills Roy and his ghouls, and then goes about trying to make up for it when she realizes how wrong she was (the game is sorely lacking the option to break down and cry when Dad asks you about Megaton, though. I was going for the "horribly guilt-ridden" angle with this one), confronting Tenpenny and Burke over the atrocities... and eventually sacrificing herself at the Purifier for the good of all.
(Big guns/energy weapons/unarmed straight up fighter in combat armor. Non-combat skills took a back seat)
(Big guns/energy weapons/unarmed straight up fighter in combat armor. Non-combat skills took a back seat)
Played straight all the way through as a man who finds killing distasteful and inelegant, living by the old adage "live and let live"... but he has no qualms about robbing anyone of any means blind. Ever the well-prepared pragmatist, in the end he sends in Sergeant RL-3 to punch in the code that saves the Purifier.
(unarmored stealth specialist with maxed non-combat skills and guns/melee weapons for the times when things get messy)
(unarmored stealth specialist with maxed non-combat skills and guns/melee weapons for the times when things get messy)
What can I say? He's a scientist who sees ghouls and mutants as carriers of a plague. He agrees with President Eden on damn near everything all the way through, throws the modified FEV in the Purifier and dupes Sentinel Lyons into sacrificing herself to make his genocidal dream come to fruition.
(exclusively Energy weapons for combat, maxed non-combat, 9 intelligence from the start. Doesn't wear armor)
(exclusively Energy weapons for combat, maxed non-combat, 9 intelligence from the start. Doesn't wear armor)
I did a similar number in New Vegas, essentially re-creating my good and neutral characters with new names...
Only this time she stayed duped all the way through... by the NCR. She never considers the wider ramifications of an NCR takeover... at least not until it's too late.
Well that and the tech she gets to use is more awesome this time around.
Well that and the tech she gets to use is more awesome this time around.
This time around he's much more violent, though. He won't kill you without cause, but it doesn't have to be a good cause anymore. Ruthless enough to agree with Mr. House on every mission. Also, four-eyes.
Well, I find rather hard to roleplay with Fallout 3, as much as I live the game, the Lone Wanderer already has a past and a family, which is pretty hard to roleplay with, the only real blanks to the Lone Wanderer are personality and name, and that makes the roleplay, though existent, abit shallow.
The Courier in Fallout New Vegas, on the other hand, if you just remove his apparent relation with Ulysisis (I don't really get why Obsidian put that there), Courier has mainly a blank backgorund, which gives a better freedom of roleplaying that I enjoyed alot from playing that game.
I threw in some original characters of my own to go as my Courier 6's in the past, but lately I've somewhat modeled my Couriers after Sector V from Codename: Kids Next Door, filling in blanks by portraying who they might have been and what their backgrounds would be if they lived in a post-apocolyptic senario at the age of.. whatever the minimum age you can give the Courier is.
The latest of the Sector V Operative I've been doing this with is Wallabee Beatles.
Who I portrayed as a former tribal whose parents and little brother had their tribe attacked by Caesar's Legion, He and his family managed to escape and while on the move managed to make it to NCR territory.
His family easily adjusted to living life as NCR citizens, but Wally missed his life as a Tribal, and it was only because his parents wouldn't let him that he was unable to seek out the Great Khans, who he thought of as a badass tribe he could join, and back then he was slightly too young to join the NCR military just afew years ago when the NCR just recent faced conflict with the Legion, as Wally was hoping to kick their butts.
when he was old enough to move out, he took a brief job working in some mines in California which taught him quite abit about using explosives, and it has skill at unarmed and Melee weapons from his earlier childhood years of practicing tribal warrior combat with his tirbal friend before Caesar's Legion attacked.
When the California mines closest to his home became too exhausted, he decided to head to the frontier of the Mojave Wasteland, the trip alone costed him a considerable amount of caps and he figured he had to either find a place to scavenge or get a job however he can, he quickly found a job in the Mojave Express where he was given the Platnium Chip.
Well, I think you already know how that turned out.
After the Doc at Goodsprings patched him up, he immediately decided he will go after Benny for revenge, and after meeting (and killing) the Legionaries at Nelson, he decided to add taking out Caesar's Legion as his goal for revenge to what happened to his tribe.
Wally in this game mainly is siding with NCR out of spite for the Legion for attacking his tribe back East years ago, but also because his family are living in California and he doesn't want the Legion to get to them, and he wouldn't side with Mr. House because he doesn't see any point in betraying the NCR just so a guy who talks through robots and a computer screen can keep 1 measly city and doesn't actually do anything for the people of the Wastel and while the NCR at least wants to help the Wasteland, even if they're mostly helping themselves. And He kills Yes Man after finding out it was because of him that Benny was able to track him down and shhot him in the head.
How's that for a roleplaying Courier?
The Courier in Fallout New Vegas, on the other hand, if you just remove his apparent relation with Ulysisis (I don't really get why Obsidian put that there), Courier has mainly a blank backgorund, which gives a better freedom of roleplaying that I enjoyed alot from playing that game.
I threw in some original characters of my own to go as my Courier 6's in the past, but lately I've somewhat modeled my Couriers after Sector V from Codename: Kids Next Door, filling in blanks by portraying who they might have been and what their backgrounds would be if they lived in a post-apocolyptic senario at the age of.. whatever the minimum age you can give the Courier is.
The latest of the Sector V Operative I've been doing this with is Wallabee Beatles.
Who I portrayed as a former tribal whose parents and little brother had their tribe attacked by Caesar's Legion, He and his family managed to escape and while on the move managed to make it to NCR territory.
His family easily adjusted to living life as NCR citizens, but Wally missed his life as a Tribal, and it was only because his parents wouldn't let him that he was unable to seek out the Great Khans, who he thought of as a badass tribe he could join, and back then he was slightly too young to join the NCR military just afew years ago when the NCR just recent faced conflict with the Legion, as Wally was hoping to kick their butts.
when he was old enough to move out, he took a brief job working in some mines in California which taught him quite abit about using explosives, and it has skill at unarmed and Melee weapons from his earlier childhood years of practicing tribal warrior combat with his tirbal friend before Caesar's Legion attacked.
When the California mines closest to his home became too exhausted, he decided to head to the frontier of the Mojave Wasteland, the trip alone costed him a considerable amount of caps and he figured he had to either find a place to scavenge or get a job however he can, he quickly found a job in the Mojave Express where he was given the Platnium Chip.
Well, I think you already know how that turned out.
After the Doc at Goodsprings patched him up, he immediately decided he will go after Benny for revenge, and after meeting (and killing) the Legionaries at Nelson, he decided to add taking out Caesar's Legion as his goal for revenge to what happened to his tribe.
Wally in this game mainly is siding with NCR out of spite for the Legion for attacking his tribe back East years ago, but also because his family are living in California and he doesn't want the Legion to get to them, and he wouldn't side with Mr. House because he doesn't see any point in betraying the NCR just so a guy who talks through robots and a computer screen can keep 1 measly city and doesn't actually do anything for the people of the Wastel and while the NCR at least wants to help the Wasteland, even if they're mostly helping themselves. And He kills Yes Man after finding out it was because of him that Benny was able to track him down and shhot him in the head.
How's that for a roleplaying Courier?
I play dressed up like a courier, with a hornets nest above my head (i wear thick, shitty glasses, and they look like cazadors that way) whilst johnny guitar weeps in the corner.
I suppose I technically roleplay as myself, in that I'm a generally nice person who would lift just about anything of value from anyone and have no patience for bullshit, but I also min-max like nobody's business. But if I could level up in real life, I'd probably min-max anyway. So games like Mass Effect that require me to be a saint or a bastard polarize me, as I'd rather have all of the opportunities of the universe than stick to my morals.
Amidoinitrite?
Amidoinitrite?
Well I couldn't get into Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas... I found it hard to play for more than an hour or so at a time without remembering that I had to do my homework or wash the gimp or whatever else I usually don't give a shit about...
But when I played other RPG's I tend to get into them... most recently Persona 4 drug me into 120 hour+ of straight roleplaying...<.<
and whenever I do a playthrough of Deus Ex I always change up my combat tactics to really hammer home just what my character is about...
But when I played other RPG's I tend to get into them... most recently Persona 4 drug me into 120 hour+ of straight roleplaying...<.<
and whenever I do a playthrough of Deus Ex I always change up my combat tactics to really hammer home just what my character is about...
I roleplay my characters fairly well, I think. I come up with a bit of an idea of what they'd be like before I start playing, and make choices based on what I think they'd do.
In NV, which was the most recent playthrough, I played a hardass sniper/rifleman that joined Caesar's Legion because he hated bereaucracy. He didn't much care for the whole slave thing, but overall, he didn't mind Caesar's policies.
He went into the Quarry around level 5-6 to take out the deathclaws there with his handy stealth boys and scoped hunting rifle along with 250 rounds of ammo and several pounds of food and water. It took almost 24 hours (time in game, not play time) to kill those deathclaws, but he did it and came out without a scratch (there's a ledge you can use and make sneak attack crits from) and only about 25 rounds left to his name.
He finished the Dam wearing nothing but his underwear, aviator sunglases, and a first recom beret he took from the guy in charge of first recon. He one shotted all of the black armored rangers with his silenced, lightened sniper rifle. His armor was quickly shredded by enemy fire, but that didn't stop him from using cover to do what he could to survive and eleminate the threat to Caesar's cause.
That was in hardcore mode.
I also played a guy that focused on energy weapons and computers. I went NCR with this guy and didn't have near the fun that I did with the character from above. Basically, close range fighter for the most part, with the occasional sniping with the scoped laser rifle to thin out numbers when it looked too hairy to go charging in.
In NV, which was the most recent playthrough, I played a hardass sniper/rifleman that joined Caesar's Legion because he hated bereaucracy. He didn't much care for the whole slave thing, but overall, he didn't mind Caesar's policies.
He went into the Quarry around level 5-6 to take out the deathclaws there with his handy stealth boys and scoped hunting rifle along with 250 rounds of ammo and several pounds of food and water. It took almost 24 hours (time in game, not play time) to kill those deathclaws, but he did it and came out without a scratch (there's a ledge you can use and make sneak attack crits from) and only about 25 rounds left to his name.
He finished the Dam wearing nothing but his underwear, aviator sunglases, and a first recom beret he took from the guy in charge of first recon. He one shotted all of the black armored rangers with his silenced, lightened sniper rifle. His armor was quickly shredded by enemy fire, but that didn't stop him from using cover to do what he could to survive and eleminate the threat to Caesar's cause.
That was in hardcore mode.
I also played a guy that focused on energy weapons and computers. I went NCR with this guy and didn't have near the fun that I did with the character from above. Basically, close range fighter for the most part, with the occasional sniping with the scoped laser rifle to thin out numbers when it looked too hairy to go charging in.
my main fallout 3 character was a Sociopathic Female who focused mostly on energy weapons. She was ruthlessly evil.
I haven't latched on to a New Vegas character quite yet. I've played many many characters but none have lasted more then about 10 hours.
I haven't latched on to a New Vegas character quite yet. I've played many many characters but none have lasted more then about 10 hours.
In Fallout I wanted the most self-sufficient character possible. Shops, who needs 'em. Beyond that I decided I'd be generally helpful. Didn't have a plan for the character really.
you know for some reason I felt that fallout 3 worked better with the main charachter being a girl, theres this whole "daddys girl" dynamic I found quite...cool, anyway the way I played suggested:Azaraxzealot said:
for me she was smart..very very smart, took after her parents (she also wore glasses) she might not have been the strongest or fastest person but there was no situation she couldnt handle with her brains or talk her way out of
she was also whiter than white good person, not only because of the example of her father but mabye it was the only way she could cope with the horribleness of the situation and keep her sanity, by sticking to her Ideals, mabye she was a little niave
I also Imagined story wise that when her father died she became depressed and turned to drugs I mean really I dont see how anyone could not be fucked up by that, she also desperatley wanted to go home after that..but it didnt work out, even though she was angry she still cared for Amata and everyone in the Vault, and she would always be there should they need her help again
but then she found dogmeat and realised her fathers work needed to be completled
also she HATED the enclave (I hate the encave as well)
anyway after securing project purity (and NOT dying) and defeating the enclave she went wandering again, went to point lookout, the Pitt and such she also claims to be abducted by aliens but everyone just assums shes a little crazy
anyway after all that she settled with the brotherhood using her brains for good just like her dad
and mabye one she will return to the vault again
the Courier on the other hand...I had less to work with..
I imagine she was very abitious, grew up in a small town out in the middle of nowhere, always wanting to get away and see what was out there......and she never ever ever ever gives up she could also talk her way in or out of any situation
her motivations at first were not too idealistic, she just wanted to take revenge on the check-coated bastard, but she soon realised she was involved in somthing huge..she didnt know what but there was no way she was going to sit around and let it go by
forgot to mention the gunshot wound did a little brain damage which resulted in her not having nay fear and doing risk-taking behaviour, she was also a little crazy
anyway I always imagined she had some kind of relationship with boone, and that she remided boone of his wife
anyway after seeing the legion at Nipton and eventually going to see caesar himself she realised that the legion were the real threat in all of this
she also solved problems by being freindly with everyone excpet the legion
anway she finally decided to go independant, deciding it was the best way to go even though she was a suporter of NCR, the decision however was not an easy one which she spent alot of time thinking over in the lucky 38, she then killed mr house and set into motion the events for an independant vegas
her and boone managed to take down Lanuis with great difficulty
even after it all she still wondered if it was the right thing to do, and if she really was a good person , while Boone at first had not approved of going against NCR he did suport her decision in the end
and there she helped keep vegas safe and would often visit arcade in freeside and Veronica in hidden valley
wow...yeah I guess I do kind of get into it
Ive said this a million times before but I think the "blank slate" charachter in Fallout 3 works so well is because you actually have an emotional connection with whats going on AND with the game world itself, its like your given the basics of an identity but without it affecting your charachter too much (that said however to me it doesnt make much sense for the lone wanderer to be evil for the sake of being evil)badgersprite said:
this was somthing I felt seriously lacking in Oblivion (that said it is an older game)
anyway while you dont have as much to work with in NV you still have some connection with events and somthing of an identity
I have F:NV and no it doesn't. The trigger event that causes you to become an 'Asshole, but a paragon asshole' seems random and more often than not makes everyone become hostile to you, resulting in: 1 decimated town and one more vilified character flag.Trolldor said:
I hate to throw a wrench in this, but New Vegas takes place only 3 years after Fallout 3 does. It might as well be the same bloody character.Azaraxzealot said:
Funnily enough... I had this exact idea of roleplaying a character in Fallout 3, and then carrying them over into New Vegas. But... the idea ended up becoming way too large for me to really follow through with. Too many other things got in the way. :s