Fallout talk

[surg3n]

Don't you just hate the homes in New Vegas, I mean there wasn't exactly a lot of options in Fallout3, but at least the megaton house was pretty decent. In New Vegas, you end up with that apartment in the casino, but it's just pointless. I like to customise my house with stuff I find on my travels. In Oblivion, I had mothers head on the mantlepiece, lots of those glowy crystals, just lots of cool bits and bobs. In Fallout 3 I have a piece of my own brain in a jar beside my bed. In Fallout:NV, I just don't see the point. Your house should be your base in sandbox games, where you can go heal, sleep, fix up your inventory, repair weapons and stuff.

I hope Skyrim has some better customisation options than New Vegas.

One thing that always annoys me though, is the mess in New Vegas, like there was this nuclear war, so everything is untidy - Personally, I wouldn't let a nuclear war de-evolute me to the point where I couldn't put empty cans in the trash. People in that situation would look for some semblence of normality, they'd make their makeshift homes as homely as they could.

And another thing... if they're gonna have a cute alcoholic chick (Cass) constantly ask for booze, she should do something when you fill her inventory with whiskey. Maybe she should dance naked. Just saying.

 

[ChupathingyX]

In Fallout:NV, I just don't see the point. Your house should be your base in sandbox games, where you can go heal, sleep, fix up your inventory, repair weapons and stuff.

Uhhhhhh, you can do all of those things in the Lucky 38 suite.

Even better than the F3 houses is that you can tell your companions to wait there.

Plus there's the Sink in Old World Blues which is one of the most awesome player houses ever.

 

[Zeema]

Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

...

Heard some more people got attacked last night.

You Eye, Ballin me?
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I loved that if you have less 3 intelligence you character is depicted as Retarded

my fave scene

Some Guy: What allegiance's do you have?

i had 3- intelligence here were my options

Pizza
Warm
Me

and another scene 'How come the Flowers of Pop laps don't like the NCR bear????'

 

[surg3n]

Yeah, but I tend not to bother with Lucky 38 - it annoys me how long it takes to get in there, plus companions don't follow you up. I much prefer the old megaton house.

I must have missed the Sink completely - where is that?

I have the Lucky38 house, and the apartment where you find Boon, but that's all I've found.

 

[StealthyNinja]

"Aroo!"
"What is it boy? Did someone fall down a well?"
"Bark! Bark!"
"Let's go check it out then"
*Map Marker Added

New vegas is comedic genius.

NUMBNESS WILL SUBSIDE IN SEVERAL MINUTES.

*Shudders*

Please assume the position.

 

[Biodeamon]

shouldn't this be posted in the fallout group?

also, nom nom nom nom humans. thank you dine and dash perk.
selling fiend flesh is now becoming a good source of revenue

 

[Deadyawn]

A Fallout topic about anything Fallout, eh? Nice.

So...in whichever Fallout game, old or new, what was your favorite fight and/or kill?

One of my favorite fights in would have to have been me vs an entire nest of deathclaws. There's something extremely cathartic about going all-out on a bunch of really strong enemies at lv 10 with a missile launcher. Sure I might have hit quick load more times than fire but I did it!

 

[ChupathingyX]

Yeah, but I tend not to bother with Lucky 38 - it annoys me how long it takes to get in there, plus companions don't follow you up. I much prefer the old megaton house.

I must have missed the Sink completely - where is that?

I have the Lucky38 house, and the apartment where you find Boon, but that's all I've found.

Yes they do, they just won't follow you to the penthouse so that they cannot kill the Securitrons and House. However, they will follow you to your suite unless you go to the penthouse. To prevent this you can just very easily tell them to go to the Lucky 38 and you can find them there.

The Sink is in the Old World Blues DLC, you need that to visit it.

 

[Calico93]

So we all love Fallout ? Pretty much ?
I wanna know what Fallout 4 will be like. Paris ? Rome ? London ? NYC ?

 

[ChupathingyX]

So we all love Fallout ? Pretty much ?
I wanna know what Fallout 4 will be like. Paris ? Rome ? London ? NYC ?

Hopefully it's made by Obsidian and I wouldn't mind a Florida setting, that area hasn't been explored yet or barely mentioned or explained much.

 

[Suijen]

I've only played Fallout 3 and New Vegas (plus all the DLC for both), and I have to say... Fallout 3 is my favorite.

F3 is one of few games that absolutely blew my mind, or left me standing still (in game that is), with my jaw just hanging open, marveling at the sights I was seeing.

The art direction is just absolutely incredible. Every fine detail... they created a world, they created every object in the world.. infrastructure, advertisements, companies.... then burned it all and knocked it all down.

Fallout 3 is hands down the MOST immersive game I've ever played. That says a lot given the fairly silly nature of the lore created... Robots? Giant mutated bugs? VATS? All majorly science-fiction, but that didn't stop me from being completely stunned every time I stumbled across a holo-tape depicting the last moments of a family trying to find shelter before the bombs were dropped, or read computer logs between employee computers sent over 200 years ago.

New Vegas did this to me a couple times, but it didn't work nearly as well because, well, it's already a desert wasteland, many of the buildings simply look like something you could find in real life if you drove out west.

Fallout 3 showed the devastation of a nuclear attack on a highly populated area.

Big difference.

I agree with your description of Fallout 3. Fallout 2 is great also, though it's really, really slow to begin with. What kind of a game starts you off with a spear? They also need to change base statistics. Hitting a giant radscorpion with a spear should not only hit 33% of the time.

 

[Pandabearparade]

I think he means he's thanking Bethesda for reviving the series altogether. New Vegas wouldn't exist if Bethesda didn't revive the series in the first place.

That just isn't true. Other companies were in the bidding for the Fallout IP, not just Bethesda. Bioware, for example.

Not saying Bethesda did an altogether horrible job with the IP, but this common notion that Bethesda saved Fallout from oblivion is false.

As an aside, I hope Bethesda lets Obsidian handle the writing for Fallout 4. Bethesda just can't write a good story or believable characters to save their lives.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

A Fallout topic about anything Fallout, eh? Nice.

So...in whichever Fallout game, old or new, what was your favorite fight and/or kill?

Bloody Mess + Fallout's ending = enjoyment. If that really counts as a 'kill'.

 

[Llil]

Hitting a giant radscorpion with a spear should not only hit 33% of the time.

Try putting some points in melee perhaps?

Anyway, I really liked playing an itelligent speech/science oriented character, who's absolutely shit at anything combat related, but has a high agility, so he can run away more easily. In fact, my first ever Fallout 2 character was like this. I spoke my way through the game, never killing a single enemy myself, I just ran whenever enemies appeared.

If you also take the Jinxed perk (the one that makes everyone, including you, get a lot more critical failures), and then enter the boxing tournament in New Reno, you can just stand in the corner dodging the opponent's attacks, until he knocks himself out. Or just keep aiming in his groin until you get a lucky critical hit. Fun times.

It's a shame that in Fallout 3, playing a "no combat, speech only" -character was impossible.

 

[chuckman1]

If you know what's good for you, the only things you'll say when talking about Fallout will be words of praise for the vanguard of your dooooom

Thanks that was hillarious!
I haven't played ALL THE WAY thru any fallout I really need to

 

[hoboman29]

Never thought this thread would end up this hilarious

 

[The Shade]

Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

When I got this assignment, I was hoping there would be more gambling.

 

[bluepotatosack]

You know, I never got the car from Fallout 2 working.

 

[ks1234]

So we all love Fallout ? Pretty much ?
I wanna know what Fallout 4 will be like. Paris ? Rome ? London ? NYC ?

NYC would be freaking EPIC!

 

[The Shade]

Exploring the interior DC Ruins for the first time is my favourite gaming memory.

Same. I've never been able to recapture that sense of awe and wonder the first time I played Fallout 3.

Also, when Charon and I stormed the gates of Paradise Falls together... the most epic gaming moment I've had. Spontaneous, impulsive, with complete disregard for our safety or the effect it would have on the overall gameplay.

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Walk up to the man behind the desk. Paradise Falls, he calls it. Sounds nice. I take a moment to appreciate the giant Donut statue or whatever that is, towering over the village.

Turn to the doorman and ask for passage. He poses an ultimatum. Claims to need more slaves to appease his employer. Tells me to collect them or I will be refused entrance. I understand, now.

In a flash, my combat shotgun introduces itself to his face. Point blank. Instant kill. His buddies start to move. Charon's Terrible Shotgun rings out. Once. Twice. All is quiet, for a moment. Our T45-d power armour gleams in the harsh midday sunlight, now flecked with slaver blood.
As we approach the inner gate, I throw the mini gun to Charon, and heft Vengeance, the most apt gatling laser for this job. On the count of three, we kick down the door.
Slavers. Raiders. Scum of the Wasteland. All turn to see where the commotion is coming from. I breathe in. Charon winks.
A flash of lead and lasers plays out across the camp. I feel the tiny burns of hot 5mm casings bounce against my shoulder as Charon walks forward. A slaver with a large hammer is reduced to a fine red mist under his hail of gunfire. I turn in time to see a sniper atop a wooden platform taking aim at my ghoulish companion. A twinge of adrenaline and my aim becomes fast and true. The raider burns away to ash, but I don't stop to watch. Others need my attention. I hear Charon snarling as a slaver topples from the balcony above with a sickening screech. A man in a red robe, two amazonian women at his flank, storms out of the main building. He points. His warrior women rush at me with swords drawn. Charon sees that they don't get three steps. Eulogy stares at me. Defiance. Horror. That look a man gets when he realizes his folly in wearing expensive underpants that day. All is silent, save for the gentle click of Vengeance's trigger. The lord of Paradise Falls releases his title to us.
We stand, back to back, cutting down the stragglers as they topple out of door and window, like rats fleeing from a sinking ship. Our spartan war cries echo across the Capital Wasteland. This is our town. This is our Wasteland.