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Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
Does 'struggling to survive' also include carrying around a Fat Man and launching mini-nukes at innocent merchants

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serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!
I tried to play Fallout II but got bored very quickly

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
in a crowded bar an rear end in a top hat with a fedora sits in earshot of everyone.

Psss.. hey you come here



"hey buddy, i know you just walked about 2 blocks to get to this ramshackle populated city... and well i know that you see the devastation of the nuclear war all around you....hell i just met you off the street not five seconds ago but you look like the kind of guy a man like me can trust. "


i am just gonna go ahead and say it, there is a nuclear bomb in the middle of this glimmer of rebuilt civilization and i want you to use this key, the only key, to blow it up for the amusement of my boss"

i will handsomely reward you for it.

*remembers when you had to do smaller quests to build up reputation before being asked to detonate nuclear bombs by strangers*


*quits game*

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Humboldt Squid posted:

I like fallout a lot but I really wish they'd get rid of the stupid "tribals" idea. Also the funnest part of the games is always in the beginning where you're struggling to survive they should make the whole game that.

I got Fallout 2 the day it came out and was immediately bummed how much the game sucked when it dropped me in a tribal maze thing. I had to force myself to boot it back up and play through it. Then I got to the first town, and the game better... then I got to The Den and the game got great. All in all I'd agree with you, but it does make the transition from the tribal poo poo -> every single person is on sci-fi drugs more jarring.

Oh yeah, almost forgot.


Myron is the best companion in the franchise.

serious norman posted:

I tried to play Fallout II but got bored very quickly

Did you make it to the second town?

The game doesn't start for real until then.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Oh thank god. I can't wait to fight the Kings.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Yeah Fallout 2 has a really really tiresome and bad intro. I almost quit the game as well but since I had heard goons rave about it I stuck with it and sure enough, it got a lot more fun a few hours in and by the end I loved the game

I never did play the original Fallout or Fallout:Tactics though

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Newest fallout to take place in Iowa. Finally we get our due.

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Fallout 2 has a bad intro, but if you build The One True Build with max agility small frame etc., you just breeze through it. Ignore all the creatures, get the bomb, blast it open, talk your way out of fighting the idiot, then start the game for real. that stupid temple takes me maybe 5 minutes. It's regrettable but it's basically a straight line to the finish and you're free to ignore basically the entire thing.

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



i recently replayed all the fallout games and i was all stoked to do the casino DLC for new vegas but then i encountered a gameberaking bug with a door and quit forever. pumped about fallout 4

Simstim
Mar 16, 2005

You just gave me a great idea buddy.
I want the new fallout game to take place in china and I want it in chinese with english subtitles

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
A fallout game taking place anywhere other than America would be cool

what even happened to asia and europe during the nuclear apocalypse

Simstim
Mar 16, 2005

You just gave me a great idea buddy.

Zzulu posted:

A fallout game taking place anywhere other than America would be cool

what even happened to asia and europe during the nuclear apocalypse

a war between china and the us is what caused the nuclear war

super macho dude
Aug 9, 2014


Jastiger posted:

Newest fallout to take place in Iowa. Finally we get our due.

Fallout: Ottumwa

(no discernible difference)

SunAndSpring
Dec 4, 2013
Fallout doesn't work without the Americana style, so I feel like placing it anywhere outside of the States would be a bad idea.

Bishop
Aug 15, 2000
New Vegas was the last computer game I played and I'll also buy this the moment it comes out

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Blazing Ownager posted:


Did you make it to the second town?

The game doesn't start for real until then.

If you have to play a game for hours to get to the real game then it's not worth playing at all

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 251 days!)

boy oh boy when will we get hypercard myst in HD?

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

super macho dude posted:

Fallout: Ottumwa

(no discernible difference)

As a big advocate of Iowa, I will unironically agree with this. I lived there for a year or so. Its pretty drat bad. Just remove the electricity and you've got some DLC for Fallout 4.

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


I hope fallout 4 manages to incorporate my love of stealth archery discovered while playing skyrim

texaholic
Sep 16, 2007

Well it's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
Seriously though Texas would be a pretty good choice for a Fallout game.

Bishop posted:

New Vegas was the last computer game I played and I'll also buy this the moment it comes out

Skyrim is worth a shot wait for it to go on sale, really good game.

hemophilia posted:

I hope fallout 4 manages to incorporate my love of stealth archery discovered while playing skyrim

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game.

I was struggling, out of stimpacks, broken leg, when I came upon a merchant in the sewer. "Sweet! A traveling merchant! I'll be able to buy some stimpacks... Oh I can only afford like one out of the twenty she's got..." Then I realized hey I'll just kill her and take her poo poo, what's gonna happen the world is hosed! And I shot her in the face and took her 20 stimpacks and went on my way.

In Skyrim all the merchants have their stocks out in the ether somewhere. My immersion.

Bishop
Aug 15, 2000
Lol if in every fallout game you haven't saved and then attempted to murder everyone.

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 251 days!)

Bishop posted:

Lol if in every fallout game you haven't saved and then attempted to murder everyone.

but enough about new california

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

anyone remember a Fallout quest where you ended up killing a bunch of children? can anyone remind me how that happened?

a messed up horse
Mar 11, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Don Tacorleone posted:

anyone remember a Fallout quest where you ended up killing a bunch of children? can anyone remind me how that happened?

why did you close your other thread

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

a messed up horse posted:

why did you close your other thread

I was triggered by the color periwinkle

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT

texaholic posted:

Seriously though Texas would be a pretty good choice for a Fallout game.

Isn't the Legion in Texas or did they get that far east yet

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Volume posted:

If you have to play a game for hours to get to the real game then it's not worth playing at all

It takes about 30 minutes or less, lmao.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

SunAndSpring posted:

Fallout doesn't work without the Americana style, so I feel like placing it anywhere outside of the States would be a bad idea.

well before The War began America annexed Canada, so *technically* in-universe any Canadian setting would be American :buddy:

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 251 days!)

JebanyPedal posted:

It takes about 30 minutes or less, lmao.

shoulda ordered moar pizzs

taco_fox
Dec 14, 2005

New Vegas is one of the best games ever made and if you disagree,

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



if it dpesnt have the freedom of movement of dying light i'll be sad

Yvershek
Nov 15, 2000

and there are no
diamonds in the
mine
Can't wait to find out if it still uses the Gamebryo engine. Even better if Bethesda spends all their money to have a celebrity give three minutes of dialogue.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

The biggest issue is that the first person FO games have had the worst imaginable combat that has ever been conceived for an RPG, I mean it was worse than the first two FO games that's how bad it was.
I could see it being fun of they miraculously make competent shooter mechanics and remove the godawful joke that is VATS but lmao who am I kidding.
NV was at least worth playing for great quests, characters and writing, but FO3 was a pointless slog, so it's obvious Bethesda won't be able to satisfy on either front.

Like at least Skyrim had halfway decent combat, and personally a fantasy setting allows for more varied environments and out there poo poo. But exploring holes in the ground and exploded buildings gets old so fast.

Wicker Man
Sep 5, 2007

Just like Columbus...


Clapping Larry
Solution: give enemies more HP and allow them to 1-shot you.

Also their attacks ignore armor as an added gently caress YOU.

Beige
Sep 13, 2004

Yvershek posted:

Can't wait to find out if it still uses the Gamebryo engine. Even better if Bethesda spends all their money to have a celebrity give three minutes of dialogue.

Gilbert Gottfried announced as the chatty permanent follower.

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 251 days!)

Beige posted:

Gilbert Gottfried announced as the chatty permanent follower.

shame we'll need to wait to 2025 for a working "patch", cuz fallout up all night would be awesome

Nefarious
Sep 26, 2000

by XyloJW
call me when obsidian makes the real fallout 4

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!
seriously hope it's not in Boston cause that town loving sucks

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Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


if it's in boston i'm going to re-enact the boston bombing on everyone in the game

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