I hate ACTUAL kids when they're just standing around...Needless to say I wanted to unload on quite a few of them.
Poll: (Fallout 3) Little Lamplight
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Why don't the older kids have guns as well? In fact, why wouldn't the older kids get sick of living in Big Town, with the constant threat of super mutant shaped death hanging over them, and stroll right back into Lamplight armed to the teeth? Are you seriously telling me that the eleven-year-olds have such leet gun skillz that they can not only exile older, more experienced people, but in fact safeguard their overblown pillow fort against raiders or the super mutants who live right next door?Insanum said:
Actually, if the kids leave when they get old enough, why hasn't Lamplight been abandoned by now, unless they have a constant stream of children coming in regularly who are all entirely willing to accept their idiotic banishment rules? And if there was, these kids would've had to survive the wasteland alone to get there, and it is incredibly doubtful that they would've taken well to being told they could live in a safe haven UNTIL they hit puberty for some arbitrary reason. Would this system really have survived for two centuries? Even leaving all that aside, which idiot looked at the Fallout universe and thought 'needs a town made entirely of obnoxious kids?'
The more I think about it, the more my brain hurts. Can we just agree that a secret underground fortress run by obnoxious kids is a retarded idea and leave it at that?
i hate their childish guts, but i've always wondered where the hell they all come from.
Seriously, they they kick anyone out who's over 16 to go to big town, where they'll either be caught by slavers, raiders or supermutants for dinner before they can possibly push any kids out. Even if they did manage that, why the fuck would they send them back to lamplight?
and there cant be that many kids wandering the wastes to supplement the lamplight community. hell, it's hard enough for my character not to die, let alone inexperienced kids..
so why is there still a thriving community down there?
ehh...
somehow i think i put too much thought into the logistics of games instead of enjoying them...
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Seriously, they they kick anyone out who's over 16 to go to big town, where they'll either be caught by slavers, raiders or supermutants for dinner before they can possibly push any kids out. Even if they did manage that, why the fuck would they send them back to lamplight?
and there cant be that many kids wandering the wastes to supplement the lamplight community. hell, it's hard enough for my character not to die, let alone inexperienced kids..
so why is there still a thriving community down there?
ehh...
somehow i think i put too much thought into the logistics of games instead of enjoying them...
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EDIT: whoops, ninja'd..
I thought it was a cleverly designed area, it even had holotapes to describe the history of lamplight which was cool. I did find it a confusing place to navigate.
I came to LL with the best of intention but their attitud pissed me off and then one of them called me mungo one time too many so Shot some and sent some to be slaves. It felt good.
Well.. you know.. girls older than 13-14 can technically get children already.Emilie Diabolica said:
Less we know about it, the better it is, imo.
Er... how? they're all immortalLios said:
O.T
I got in with the Child at heart perk and stole EVERYTHING
they were the only charaters in game that i actually wanted to kill to death, thats mainly just because i hate kids though
Months after the poll was created and only eight people liked the kids, how can people be so heartless? Oh well, good that there are more of us now at least.LordCuthberton said:
I used my modding skills to create a cutscene of your character tieing Princess to a chair with a Leather Belt and a Medical Brace, then you equip the scalpel and you cut her face open. After some slashes she starts to beg for mercy. Then you slice her muscles open and bleed her like a pig. I have that saved to my HD, it just cheers me up.MaxTheReaper said:
Not annoyed at all. In fallout 3 everyone is some shade of crazy and unlikable. The kids are a bit proturbing that they have the excuse that no one ever raised them properly and aren't as bad as some of the idiots that live in the wasteland.
I think that they behaved appropiately for the setting, even if they were perhaps just a little too adult.
As far as the whole banishment bit - technically it seems that in the myth perpetuated in that society one should WANT to grow up and go to big town. Given how few of the little lamplighters survive out in the wild for any length of time, it's pretty easy to see how the myth could remain intact. It may even be true that the current state of Big Town is a sudden change and at at some point in the past it wasn't a terrible (relative to other options, everywhere is terrible in the wastes) place to live. It even stands to reason that the simple danger of leaving big town and trying to shoot their way into little lamplight combined with the fact that those people they would be shooting represent their extended familiy that the alternative of scratcing a desperate living out of the wastes is an acceptable alternative. Plus, anyone forced to leave lamplight at one point or another helped force others to leave as well. It seems silly because there is a culture present at lamplight that is both a bit alien and not terribly well explained in the course of the game.
As far as the whole banishment bit - technically it seems that in the myth perpetuated in that society one should WANT to grow up and go to big town. Given how few of the little lamplighters survive out in the wild for any length of time, it's pretty easy to see how the myth could remain intact. It may even be true that the current state of Big Town is a sudden change and at at some point in the past it wasn't a terrible (relative to other options, everywhere is terrible in the wastes) place to live. It even stands to reason that the simple danger of leaving big town and trying to shoot their way into little lamplight combined with the fact that those people they would be shooting represent their extended familiy that the alternative of scratcing a desperate living out of the wastes is an acceptable alternative. Plus, anyone forced to leave lamplight at one point or another helped force others to leave as well. It seems silly because there is a culture present at lamplight that is both a bit alien and not terribly well explained in the course of the game.
I liked Little Lamplight. I thought the concept was interesting and scattered bits of backstory for the town were actually very well done (especially their past meetings with the supermutants from the vault) And the only annoying characters you could just walk past without having to talk to them, so it was alright.