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Abhorrence
Feb 5, 2010

A love that crushes like a mace.

Podima posted:

Raul is one of my favorite companions thanks to the conversations you can have with him. He's not afraid to give you plenty of sarcasm, which is refreshing.

Yeah, like if you tell him to switch to a melee weapon.



Loooots of sarcasm.

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AradoBalanga
Jan 3, 2013

Abhorrence posted:

Yeah, like if you tell him to switch to a melee weapon.



Loooots of sarcasm.
That might also be a bit of a voice actor joke. Danny Trejo has a habit of being cast as "evil dude who uses knives/bladed weapons" a lot. Raul is one of the very few roles Trejo has done where the character's signature weapon of choice is not a knife or similar bladed weapon.

McTimmy
Feb 29, 2008
Funnily enough, if you procrastinate long enough in Rhonda's shed, Tabitha will sometimes enter and the two of them start trying to kill each other.

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
"Sure don't worry about it boss. The old man will crawl around in the dirt to stay hidden." Raul :3

gutterdaughter
Oct 21, 2010

keep yr head up, problem girl
So wait, if Rhonda was broken in pieces on the table, who was Tabitha talking to on the Black Mountain broadcasts?

overlordbunny
Feb 16, 2011


Herself, there are some broadcasts where she breaks character as well.

Abhorrence
Feb 5, 2010

A love that crushes like a mace.
There are also a few hints during the radio broadcast itself:

Abhorrence posted:


I still miss you Rhonda, after all these years...


quote:


Joining us from his cell to comment on the situation is Raul Tejada! Raul?

Hi, Ta...uh, Rhonda.

And she breaks character at about 40 seconds in on this broadcast: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/7/73/FNV_BMR_NewsThree.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20131117200331 (from the fallout wiki)

Sorry if I didn't make it clear what was going on!

Rex Deckard
Jul 15, 2004

I have a nasty habit of reuniting Rhonda and Tabitha...then killing them as they walk away.

Annabelle is a beast of a weapon. Turns some super hard encounters into easy mode.

Siegkrow
Oct 11, 2013

Arguing about Lore for 5 years and counting



Rex Deckard posted:

I have a nasty habit of reuniting Rhonda and Tabitha...then killing them as they walk away.

You Monster!

mauman
Jul 30, 2014

Whoever's got the biggest whiskers does the talking.
Honestly, I like all of the companions. It's really hard for me to decide which one I should take.

Siegkrow
Oct 11, 2013

Arguing about Lore for 5 years and counting



mauman posted:

Honestly, I like all of the companions. It's really hard for me to decide which one I should take.

There are mods for that.

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
I had a multiple companions mod on recently and Boone shot a mugger in Freeside, except he shot him with a .50 explosive round which also killed the King next to him. The whole of Freeside went hostile and my companions were laying down destruction all around. I had to reload but it was pretty epic.

GrandTheftAutism
Dec 24, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Danny Trejo has been in video games before: he played Umberto Robina in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Vice City Stories.

I didn't know you could actually talk to any of the mutants at Black Mountain besides Tabitha, I just went PEW PEW PEW KABOOM EXPLODY POW until I got to Rhonda. Also, if you have a Stealth Boy handy, you can sneak up behind the mutant wielding Annabelle and take him out before he even knows you're there.

Let me guess, you're going to hit the other casinos in Vegas now? Once you've had your fun, you should pay one of the tribes a visit. Any one, I'm not fussy. There's plenty of time to do the other DLC later.

Abhorrence
Feb 5, 2010

A love that crushes like a mace.

ScreamingLlama posted:

Let me guess, you're going to hit the other casinos in Vegas now? Once you've had your fun, you should pay one of the tribes a visit. Any one, I'm not fussy. There's plenty of time to do the other DLC later.

Well it's been so long since I had a decent meal. I hear the Gourmand in the Ultra-Luxe is to die for.

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

Abhorrence posted:

Well it's been so long since I had a decent meal. I hear the Gourmand in the Ultra-Luxe is to die for.

I'm probably in the minority here but the Ultra-Luxe is my favorite sidequest in the game :allears:

Abhorrence
Feb 5, 2010

A love that crushes like a mace.

DarklyDreaming posted:

I'm probably in the minority here but the Ultra-Luxe is my favorite sidequest in the game :allears:

Without getting into too much detail, the quest in the Ultra Luxe is, in my opinion the quintessential New Vegas quest.

Arcade Rabbit
Nov 11, 2013

Do we actually know where Rhonda and Tabitha are off to after this quest? Is it another fallback to 1 or 2, or is it just kinda left hanging?

2house2fly posted:

I had a multiple companions mod on recently and Boone shot a mugger in Freeside, except he shot him with a .50 explosive round which also killed the King next to him. The whole of Freeside went hostile and my companions were laying down destruction all around. I had to reload but it was pretty epic.

I had something similar happen in Skyrim where my somewhat large group and I walked into a castle keep and everyone went bugshit hostile on us. When these games explode, they explode marvelously.

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
There'll be a reference much later in the game to what happened with Tabitha and Rhonda

CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Abhorrence posted:

Well it's been so long since I had a decent meal. I hear the Gourmand in the Ultra-Luxe is to die for.

I'm going to like seeing how this is supposed to play out.

When I played through I had everyone go hostile on me both times and I couldn't get the mission to start proper.

The first time I tried to deal with a sidequest that takes place inside the casino and everyone went hostile there.
The second time, I just decided to sneak around everywhere, and as soon as I was spotted somewhere I didn't belong, the whole place turned on me.

I know the basic gist of what is going on there, but never bothered going back to see how it's supposed to go.

slowfreq
Dec 14, 2014

CzarChasm posted:

I'm going to like seeing how this is supposed to play out.

When I played through I had everyone go hostile on me both times and I couldn't get the mission to start proper.

The first time I tried to deal with a sidequest that takes place inside the casino and everyone went hostile there.
The second time, I just decided to sneak around everywhere, and as soon as I was spotted somewhere I didn't belong, the whole place turned on me.

I know the basic gist of what is going on there, but never bothered going back to see how it's supposed to go.

what happened with me was that i had watched the quest be done awhile before i did it myself, so i only remembered portions of what i was supposed to do

like, i remembered to go into the basement to rescue the kid, but not to actually talk to his dad first, so i had the whole ultra-luxe agro'd on me and i couldn't figure out why until i looked up a walkthrough

Abhorrence
Feb 5, 2010

A love that crushes like a mace.
So, just a quick heads- up, My computer seems to have sputtered out :smith: I should be able to get it fixed, and I'm pretty aggressive about making backups- so things should be OK eventually. Sorry if the thread takes another little hiatus.

Siegkrow
Oct 11, 2013

Arguing about Lore for 5 years and counting



I'ts okay, the updates are already a month apart from each other, a bit more time won't kill us :v:

Drakenel
Dec 2, 2008

The glow is a guide, my friend. Though it falls to you to avert catastrophe, you will never fight alone.
Don't forget to place mines with Raul around!

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CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Drakenel posted:

Don't forget to place mines with Raul around!

This seems like a spectacularly bad, but entertaining idea.

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