Your hopes for Fallout: New Vegas

[Jupsto]

And by more like F1/2 I think it means the style will be more like the previous games (i.e. writing, humour, etc; not gameplay)

Ah that makes alot more sense. be nice if they improved gameplay even slightly, ie made mele more viable and interesting (proper mele vats, abilities etc).

 

[Jupsto]

Porn studio, child killer perk, isometric turn based gameplay.

In a perfect world...

Is it wrong that I wanted to be able to kill kids in fallout 3? mainly just the little girl in that simulation, who was an evil so I feel slightly better.

 

[johnman]

Thats its much more enjoyable than Fallout 3

 

[Adoptedbarrel]

Making the Karma system matter. It doesn't really matter if you're good or evil other than allowing certain dialouge paths and for achievements. I would have liked to see Karma that can allow certain quests , and maybe a main storyline that can branch out depending on my own personal choices and Karma. Maybe I don't want to work for the Brotherhood of steel , maybe I'd prefer to do the Enclaves bidding , and who the fuck wouldn't? They carry around Plasma rifles , arguably the best weapon in the game , wear Stormtrooper-esk armour and hold open contempt for Wastelands , which I felt too for most of them , especially the Ghouls and children who frequently give you shit in game.

There were several instances in Fallout 3 and the downloadable content for it that would allow for a branching storyline , where instead they go nowhere and don't really affect the games outcome.

An unlimited Level cap.

A party with more followers , that have a more indepth effect on the game , rather than just a friendly NPC I can give armour that follows me around.

Multiplayer. An open world with guilds and gangs of people. Enough said.

Motorbikes. Motorbike parts were scattered all throughout the game , as well as actual motorbikes. When I first found the Motorbike handbrake I thought it would be part of some ambitious project using the workbenches to build my own bike to tear around the wasteland in. I was dissapointed that I couldn't.

Guns that sound like they're actually doing damage. Better sound effects I guess.

Bosses. There were minibosses IE : Giant ant queen , Behemoths. But I would have liked more. Especially if you just let them roam around and make them rare encounters so you retain some fear of encountering them. The game doesn't end with a boss either. I don't count a speech challenge with robot Malcolm McDowell and General Autumn as a boss fight , and it felt anticlimatic , and insulting after the original bullshit ending.

Also more skills , but not useless ones like Outdoorsman. However I can see the gambling skill getting a revival for this.

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

Didn't say I read F3 threads, I clearly don't since I dislike the game. It's just really annoying seeing game forums totally full of fallout threads.
There comes a point where it's just like F3overload and I asplode.

I dislike Fallout 3 too. However, I dislike it b/c of the bad story and terrible ending. I was wandering why you dislike it. Same reason? Or perhaps you just dislike the type of game it is? Or the setting? Or another reason?

 

[rickthetrick]

I just hope it makes everyone happy, so I don't have to see all these This fallout vs the old fallouts posts all over the place.

 

[GDW]

I liked the story and I don't know where you see a lack of originality but the character is only boring if you make him that way and going into details the NPC's did need an improvement from a zombie that kept the ability to talk but not the ability to see, hear think or show emotion but I notice diffrences in my choices I slaughtered megaton and guess what now I never go there because it is empty, the Outcasts will hate you forever if you kill even one member and I think some people make the mistake of trying to think of FO3 as a hardcore game that had shit blowing up every ten seconds or that it would be very similar to the old fallouts, when the game was not designed that way it is a game purely there to just have fun and do whatever you want and it does that part right, you seem to be looking at the game through a perspective that it was not meant to be seen from and it is alot like trying to find a horror game inside Super Mario Galaxy. You are going to be disapointed the game you want is in another castle.
I was able to get immersed in the story by making one up for my charcter beyond trying to find dad. The game was meant for you to do that so that is what I did, and maybe if you tried that you would be able at least seem to find a diffrece in the choices that you made. I also appear to be the only one who uses VATS correctly. You don't go in and use it on every single thing that moves. I only use it when I want to do something funny or cool, and even if you did use all VATS all the time it is still not even similar to being turn based.
You tried to stack Fallout 3 as the third game in a series that has shown great promise, when in reality Fallout 3 does not have anything to stack up to it was made completly diffrent than the first two. this was an experiment more than anything and you have an attitude like "halo 1, 2 and 3 were all good and so halo wars should be just like them." Fallout 3 was a prototype of sorts and so unlike you I was not expecting the perfect game created as the offspring of god and Fallout 1 and 2. Now just be quiet and hope for Fallout 4 to show an expanse of improvement because Bethesda will now how to use the right techniques to its full advantage.

Alright, I repeat, I was trying to find "Fallout" in "Fallout 3". A hint of it, maybe. And if I'm wrong in expecting a sequel to a game to, in some way, resemble the game in something other than name and setting, then, by fuck, crucify me.

The only things that the "Fallout" series was known for were completely ignored, so, no, I highly doubt I'm wrong in disliking that. In fact, I think I was in the right to expect a sequel with a name like "Fallout 3". I don't think I was wrong in wanting the things that were important (i.e., stats affecting how your character handles situations, moral choices having consequences OTHER than "You kill slavers, slavers don't like you. You kill Brotherhood, the Brotherhood don't like you. You slaughter innocents and innocents fear you.")

I wasn't expecting perfection, but something that atleast resembled "Fallout", something that reminded me that I was playing a "Fallout" game and NOT FUCKING "OBLIVION" (a point I will keep going back to). So, I'm sorry, but this was hardly and experiment. Bethesda merely took a popular concept of theirs and put the "Fallout" licensing over it.

Hard to call something a prototype when it's been done before. It's not like this game was groundbreaking or even that different from several projects before it. It's premise in story and execution has been done many, many times before, this is just the most recent example, and a fairly good one at that.

Long and short, all I'm getting from your argument is that I was wrong for expecting this game to be a "Fallout" game. I'm not sure what your logic is, but that's the gist of it; for having that expectation I was in the wrong to begin with. God forbid.

I say, for the last fucking time, I was not dissatisfied with the game. I still play it. Regularly. But I want the next one to be more like... "Fallout"... or atleast resemble "Fallout" in something other than aesthetics and the VATS system.

I just hope it makes everyone happy, so I don't have to see all these This fallout vs the old fallouts posts all over the place.

That's the boat I want everyone in. I loved the new gameplay (sloppy in execution, but so was "Elder Scrolls"), and the game is gorgeous, but it dropped nearly all the elements that made the series great. A better emphasis on writing and some way to make your moral choices mean something would make it the best game in the "Fallout" series, hands down.

All I wish to see with "Fallout: New Vegas" is a bridge between the two visions of the saga. An action/exploration focused game that would rely on writing and player choices to affect how the game is played.

Fuck yeah.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

I can't be assed with Fallout 3 DLC. Call me old fashioned but when I buy a game I expect it to be that, not basically hearing every few months 'Actually, we want to squeeze this in as well, but it'll cost ya'.

How about "No, fuck off".
Cue a valiant defender of the Fallout series to tell me why I'm so terribly wrong.