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Paracelsus posted:Is there some significance to two plasma pistols I'm not seeing, or is there some way to dual-wield pistols that I've completely missed? I was wondering that myself, but I think maybe the idea is to set them both to hotkeys so you can empty one and switch to the other which I presume is faster than reloading in this case. Or maybe there's a dual-wielding mod out there?
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Kaptain K posted:Can anyone think of a mod that involves spending a lot of caps? Roleplay as a communist and redistribute your wealth by reverse-pickpocketing several hundred caps into as many NPC inventories as you can.
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On the topic of quality, was anyone else a little disappointed that General Oliver didn't get a unique voice actor? Or at least a unique voice? The first time I played I was honestly expecting something more impressive from him, but then he turned out to be that generic NPC I met in several other places in the wasteland. Not even one of the better ones. But I guess that's just nitpicking at this point. On a side note, there are some voices that, despite recurring in different characters, I always associate with the first of those characters I met. The voice I now refer to as "the Cliff Briscoe voice," for example.
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Byzantine posted:If House gets blamed for Freeside (an area he doesn't even control), why are the Kings so super awesome for actually being in charge of that shithole and being dicks about water? Because the King himself has that incredible smile that could melt the heart of the meanest deathclaw in the Mojave. Instant world peace.
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So I just experienced a rather creepy bug. I had a fistfight with Jeannie May Crawford, then cannibalized her corpse and stole her safe key from her body. Went to the safe and took a few things out of it, but when I closed it, I heard her yell "thief!" behind me from where her body was on the floor, and I lost Novac rep. Based on that and her voice, I'm pretty sure she's some kind of demon-witch. It's canon now.
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Mortimer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwlt4FqmS0 Pretty good video. And while I agree with the points that he made, I feel like his argument could have been stronger if he had used at least one more example question in addition to "what do they eat?" Granted that would have made the video even longer and less people would watch it, but he spent ten minutes setting up the point he was trying to make, so why not add an extra five actually making the point? Like, I agree almost completely with his opinions on the two games in question, but I feel like his argument wasn't quite complete before he ended the video, because to an uninformed person it might look like he was cherry-picking his information. Just sort of a shame, I guess. As far as gaming in general, the Shandification he mentioned is definitely good for some games, but I think gaming would probably benefit from having a solid mix of Shandified stories and more cinematic stories. (What I have in mind is the Uncharted series, which played out very much like movies. They were pretty great, and while I wouldn't want all of my games to be that way, it's nice to have some variety.) But I can't imagine there are many people who would disagree.
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Speaking of haunting, I can't remember if I linked this or not... My most recent run, I decided to just play a complete psychopath, murdering and eating everyone I came across until there was no one else in the wasteland. Anyway, after a while of just killing and devouring everyone in my path, this started happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGug2oeQ54Y I'm pretty sure they were haunting me. (I love the bugs in this game) But while I'm posting, I should mention that probably one of my favorite aspects of this game is just the 'planning' portion before each playthrough where I talk up an idea with one of my friends. This one was especially fun, I think. http://pastebin.com/6LrttbLA This led to finding another one of those "the devs think of everything" moments. http://i.imgur.com/ahGuAI9.jpg I'm a "something." 
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Jul 13, 2014 08:07
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Frankly posted:Cheyenne, stay That seems to be an issue with poor Cheyenne... Must be a bug going around.  I'm also starting a new run. Not sure whether I want to focus on energy weapons or maybe automatics this time... In my last several runs I've been trying to stray away from what I normally -want- to do (high INT, max speech, be a nice person, etc.) for the sake of variety, but I think I'm going to go back to that again and just see how things play out. Also probably play as a woman because I've only done that once before.
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So I have a confession to make. This is the first time in several, several playthroughs that I will not be using the Signature Armor/Weapon mods, and I'm pretty sure those were a huge crutch for me. So now I have to get used to not having on-demand infinite stealth. Buuuuuut it should be fine since I've honestly kind of missed having any sort of challenge.
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So lately I've been thinking of getting an avatar, and since I love New Vegas so much I figured it should be related to that. I was initially considering just using the stock image of House. http://i.imgur.com/djDJISi.png But then, that's not the most creative thing, and people in this thread seem to hate the guy anyway. Aside from that, does anyone here have any suggestions?
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HappyHelmet posted:I said this earlier in the thread, but it's funny that so many of the same people who hate Dean Domino think House is the best answer to the Mojave situation. When they both have basically the same personality. I've just always found it strange that people "hate" any of the characters in this game. People mention that they "can't not kill" certain characters like Dean because of their personalities, but I've never really been affected like that. Maybe I just don't get into it enough, but I can generally suspend reasonable judgement of character when I'm playing and work with people even if they're supposed to be real jerks. I think House is a pretty cool guy. 
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moot the hopple posted:The first time I beat the game, I learned that you're transported into a room with the ending slides actually projected on a wall because one of the Remnants got teleported with me and blocked all the slides. Once when I entered Dead Money, the "camera" they used to show the intro slides seemed to have fallen on the ground, Blair Witch style. The slides were at an angle and you could see the room around it. Additionally, when I entered Honest Hearts once, the title font seemed larger than usual. I decided to reload to before entering (for some reason I don't recall anymore) and the next time the font was even larger and less of the slide content was on screen. So I kept doing that and it turns out the "camera" was just kind of zooming in closer each time. No idea why and it hasn't happened since.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Wait, people don't take ED-E literally every time? Shame on you. I must have played this game two dozen times now and I've still never bothered with ED-E's quest. But then, I also don't take companions very often unless I decide they're important for the roleplaying value of a particular playthrough.
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OldMemes posted:Fuzz1138 you used my avatar suggestion I did! Thanks for the idea! A friend of mine helped me out with the gif and we worked out the best possible loop within the limitations. I've been trying to come up with anything worth saying since then so I could show off that I am no longer a disgusting baby or a toilet lord. SolidSnakesBandana posted:A robot with no particular political views is the perfect roleplaying companion for any playthrough, in my opinion. Well, in that case it's more that I prefer not to have companions outside of their quest lines simply for gameplay reasons. I guess I just tend to feel, uh... more 'badass' working on my own.  That and I never felt right getting the experience gain when Veronica would run off and punch some enemy I didn't even notice off in the distance behind me. Or they would mess up my attempts at stealth, which is still my favorite method of taking people out. But it was way back in my first playthrough that I actually kept companions around for any extended period, so maybe I'll give it a shot again this time.
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One of my favorite lines is when Mr. New Vegas remarks about the destroyed Securitron bunker. "Dang it, I could have used one of those..." Also, quote discussion always reminds me of this video, in case anyone hasn't already seen it more times than they want to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYWi6-BcGCQ You eyeballin' me? 
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StandardVC10 posted:Also, in Honest Hearts, I've had them literally appear right behind me the minute my back was turned. I've had them spawn right in front of me before. They just phased into existence right on screen and then turned to kill me.
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The currency discussion inspired me to look up the various currencies in the series on the wiki. I hadn't actually noticed the designs on the Legion coins before. I find it interesting that this one still has Joshua Graham on it despite everyone being forbidden from even mentioning him. I mean, I guess realistically they can't recall all the coins and melt them down and re-press them with a new design, but you'd think it might spark some discussion as to who the people on the coin are. But what I find more amusing is how the image of the three people, when compared to the hand-drawn images on the rest of the coin sides, is pretty clearly a screen of three in-game models wearing generic in-game clothing, filtered over to look like embossed metal. Not that I blame them for taking the shortcut, it'd be a waste of resources to draw more than necessary for something so small (I never noticed it until now, for instance). But to me it just looks silly if you stare at it for too long.
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I honestly don't understand how people can actually let feelings and morality keep them from experiencing so many parts of the game, especially with how many times I've heard people in this thread say they've tried to side with the Legion but just couldn't condone it and switched sides. Like, I get that they're the big bad evil guys and all, but when I play a game, I generally suspend any gut reactions or moral judgement in favor of variety and exploration. I guess there's nothing wrong with acting on your instinct the first time through, but to be unable to remove yourself from those impressions in subsequent playthroughs just seems strange to me. Or maybe I just play this game too much.
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Maybe it's because I had not played Fallout 3 before this and so I was unfamiliar with what you can be capable of even at early levels, but the first time I walked into Nipton, my reaction was "poo poo, I'm really outnumbered, it would probably be pretty stupid not to play along with these guys." Not so much "this injustice shall not stand, I must kill you all now."TacticalUrbanHomo posted:I managed to sufficiently rationalise everything to get myself in the mindset to side with the legion, for a while I was actually convinced they had poo poo right and I'm not entirely convinced they don't It's the same to me with the people who say "well House is clearly a delusional totalitarian dictator so I never side with him" or "the Boomers are murderers so I always just kill them." Maybe it's just me, but the four endings are part of what makes this game so replayable. I'm sure it's natural to have a favorite faction to side with, but I generally just cycle through them each time I get inspired to play the game again. I don't really get how you can feel so strongly against a character or group in the game that you just absolutely cannot side with them. Fuzz1138 fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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You know, when I brought up my point, I was really hoping it wouldn't come back to this faction argument again. I don't know whether to blame myself or just take it as a natural cycle of the thread.
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Have you seen that guy's sideways-smirk? How could he possibly do wrong?!
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I just have a hard time believing he's of average intelligence if he designed all of these defense systems and ran all of the necessary calculations as we are meant to believe. I think the Perception thing is probably just meant to convey how he is primarily electronic/robotic now (with surveillance everywhere), much like how ED-E's sensors give you 10 Perception. The Charisma thing is beyond me. Maybe because he's smart enough to know that Charisma is a dump stat in this game.
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We really need some way to get back off of this topic for a while. ...uh.... uhhh.... What's... your favorite game location..?
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On my first playthrough of this game (I had never played Fallout 3 or any game as expansive as this before) I logged over 100 hours on that file alone. I was pretty amazed by it. But one thing that struck me was that, when I finally decided it was time for me to start moving to the actual endgame quests, the music at Hoover Dam was so different from the rest of the game. I later learned that this was because it's one of few tracks that aren't from earlier Fallout games, which are really more ambiance than music to begin with. So when I heard the Hoover Dam theme, I found myself asking "where was this the whole game?" I think that theme, combined with my ridiculous 100+ hour leadup to it made the end of the game feel that much cooler to me. It had also been that long since I had seen the introductory cutscene to the game, and since I had actually explored the whole wasteland that it spanned, I had much better context to understand where everything was taking place. It felt that much more impressive because of it, I think.
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JawKnee posted:name the faction that doesn't have people killed for their own ends
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Malpais Legate posted:At 10 Luck, always hit. Always. There's never a reason not to. You might lose. But at 10 luck, you're (eventually) going to rob the house blind. Seriously, sometimes I'll run 10 Luck, then just double down on every hand. 9 times out of 10, if you double down on a 20, they'll give you the ace. It's the greatest. The first time I played the game though, I actually sat down for a while with a reference of what the best moves were based on your hand and the dealer's. I almost started to memorize some of it. I'm tempted to "study" again and see how well it works out in (real) Vegas, but somehow I imagine it wouldn't be wise to play more than a hand or two.
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chitoryu12 posted:If it worked in the real Vegas, the casinos would either be completely broke or have to keep kicking people out. Real dealers are far, far more adept than the vast majority of wannabe card sharks and anything you looked up in a book or online has already been found by them. If you were running a business that's essentially based on scamming people into giving you money, wouldn't you want to keep up to date on all the ways your customers will try to manipulate stuff to win? I didn't mean that there's a surefire way to "beat the system" or that it would even give you a majority chance of winning. I suppose by admitting that my source is wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack#Basic_strategy) I'll be making myself look more foolish than if I had cited some card-counting book, but apparently the theory is that there is an ideal bet/fold/forfeit strategy for each hand that will "minimize" your losses, i.e. you get maybe a 49% chance of winning at best. It's better than going in betting all willy-nilly, but probably not by much. It's fun to think that I could, in a sense, maximize my odds, but you are certainly correct in that the house will always have the advantage, and I'm not deluding myself in that regard. In reality: Fake edit: what Gynovore said. Actual edit: I tried to use a fancy word and it was not the proper context. Fuzz1138 fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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So I actually started with New Vegas a few years ago and still haven't played Fallout 3. Hopefully my NV mods don't conflict with Tale of Two Wastelands, because I need to find out who these Tunnel Snakes are and what exactly it is that they do.
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Tale of Two Wastelands is a little strange. Apparently Liam Neeson and Insignificant Mother Figure were planning on naming me Courier, but they instead let their 3-minute-old decide on his own.
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Seashell Salesman posted:This happens in FO3, too. As bizarre as that bit is it wasn't created by modders. Well I figured the naming thing was part of F3, despite it being silly if you overthink it, but I can only assume the Courier part is just based on how TTW draws from New Vegas. That or it was an enormous hint towards New Vegas right at the beginning of Fallout 3.
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Seashell Salesman posted:Tunnel Runner + Travel Light, by far. Tunnel Runner by itself has a larger effect than the Stealth Suit MKII, plus medium armor has an inherent -speed whether you're sneaking or not. Or use that Legacy of X-13 mod to craft the Stealth Suit into light armor and literally run faster crouched than standing.
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MariusLecter posted:Wonder what Ulysses ends up doing with the Divide when you talk him down and stop all the nukes. I would imagine that the tunnelers would actually avoid Ulysses because their sensitive hearing is so adversely affected by his grating voice.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Maybe a high-unarmed, high-STR, ballistic fist-toting Praetorian fanboy character. The way I recommend doing it, at least once, is to not get on the NCR's bad side, so you can play the role of spy. At the very least it lets you see the other side of You Put a Spell on Me to and help out Silus. Also makes Arizona Killer a bit easier so you can experience some of the more creative solutions. I think Arizona Killer is one of my favorite things about the Legion side because, up to that point, my previous three playthroughs had all been on the other side of that quest. There was something refreshing about it. It's unfortunate that they weren't able to add more content to the Legion questline.
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It may come as a surprise to you all, but I think House is a pretty cool guy.
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I do find it interesting how different my reaction to most things in the game seems to be from the average reaction around these parts. Like, when I first played the game, I met the Boomers and I was like "man, these guys are the coolest!" Then my friend introduces me to this thread and everyone's like "the Boomers are psychopaths" and "I hate those assholes and I kill them every time."
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Bogart posted:Big iron on his hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip. I legitimately love that song. It doesn't matter how many times I hear it.
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You are a broken person.  And here I thought I could trust you because I like your avatar.
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Delsaber posted:The true "time to switch the station" song in New Vegas is Ain't That A Kick In The Head. I dunno man, that's still probably my fourth or fifth favorite. But there are very few tracks in the game that I dislike, even after how many hundred hours of play. Definitely hearing the Johnny Guitar thing though. That one got old real quick. Though I usually suffer through it anyway because I'm too lazy to change the station.
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:Fallout faction bitching is the goddamn worst. I liked it when we were temporarily on the topic of music, but that didn't last long.
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