Fallout 4: Power Armored Garbage Farmers

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goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Zzulu posted:

Yeah I agree, the prewar stuff all looks bad but I think the rest looks okay. Maybe they did the prewar scenes in a rush for the trailer

thats how people ran in the 1950s

# ¿ Jun 4, 2015 18:13

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 12:57

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Skeezy posted:

I'm playing through Fallout 3 and it's super weird. I'm enjoying it but I never finished the game and I don't remember any of it since I haven't touched it since it came out.

I'm not big on the percentages thing that they do, I much prefer passing a speech check or whatever if you have the proper points or whatever.

I really liked FO3 except for the underground areas, and I think that's because I preferred to run around with the hunting rifle until I got that kickass .44 repeater, and the metro really needed an automatic weapon of some kind.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2015 18:20

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

sout posted:

Yeah, it definitely leads to a lot of save scumming if you can be arsed to waste a few minutes to pass a 10% speech check that gets you 50 caps or whatever.
By the way, was it possible in Fallout 1 and 2 to break locks? Because I made a serious effort never to force locks in 3/NV because of it.

I don't think so, I remember spending like 15m repeatedly trying to lockpick the entrance to the Fallout 2 mercenary caves with my nonexistent lockpick skill, finally got it after who knows how many tries.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2015 18:36

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Mr. Fortitude posted:

The stupid thing is, with Broken Steel you can actually ask Fawkes, Charon or RL-3 to go into the chamber and input the code because they're immune to radiation. But the ending still calls you a coward because you... did the sensible thing and asked one of three companions immune to radiation to do something that wouldn't even harm them and in some cases would actively heal them instead of stupidly going in head first and committing suicide.

Yeah, Bethesda didn't really think the ending through at all in Fallout 3 and put less thought into Broken Steel. Oh well at least the Liberty Prime setpiece was cool.

I didn't even know about this poo poo the first time I played so I loaded an old save, went back and got a radiation proof follower, then....yeah. t :mad:

Bethesda writers.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2015 19:47

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

I don't know who Guy Fieri is, but he can't be worse than Liam Neeson.

you might want to do some googling and get back to us on that

# ¿ Jun 10, 2015 15:32

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

FutonForensic posted:

This news has me ecstatic. I am very excited to see how Guy Fieri's distinctive flair improves the world of Fallout.

Douchebag perk

+20 speech with NPCs at or under Int 4
-20 speech with NPCs above Int 4

# ¿ Jun 10, 2015 19:41

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

Todd Howard recently described Fallout 4's intended gameplay as a "pinata of micro-experiences".

"Some games are like a steak dinner, but I think [Bethesda's] flagship IPs distinguish themselves by being more like candy-filled pinata. The player hits it hard enough and they're going to be showered with a bunch of little narrative bits. It's like...'oh, a Jolly Rancher'? That would be a mini-quest to escort an NPC to a village. And then 'oh hey, here's a Dum-Dum'--you've got to find and skin five mole rats. A pack of Smarties? Probably, I don't know, something related to bottle caps."

"Ludonarrative dissonance is rendered completely irrelevant by this approach, because the player is obliged to construct their own story based on all of these bits and pieces--these snapshots--of the Fallout setting."

this post could be the dictionary definition of poes law

# ¿ Jun 10, 2015 21:05

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Flaky posted:

NV was already horribly bloated with useless crap because of the focus on crafting

Jesus loving christ this, if you're going to make a game that is loving based around crafting, please make the user interface slightly less uncomfortable than punching myself in the balls repeatedly.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2015 02:39

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

frajaq posted:

Here's hoping cooking is more useful/easier than in Skyrim

now im hoping theres an option to eat dogmeat

# ¿ Jun 18, 2015 20:15

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

hes been writing it for 7 years

this is it, his life's work

# ¿ Jun 18, 2015 21:40

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Or just hit the tab key. Hmm yes I would love to pull my phone out of my pocket to change weapons (without the game pausing).

# ¿ Jun 29, 2015 16:38

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Back Hack posted:

Problem with removing durability and relying completely on mods to keep things 'interesting', once you make that ideal weapon, that's it, you no longer have any motivation to do anything else with it until you ultimately just get bored with it. That's just makes everything static and lame.

Go full on CoD and put in a bunch of different scopes/foregrips/barrel mods/etc so there's no one true gun. If you want to go sneaky, put a silencer on, but its going to make you ADS slower and reduce range/damage. Slap a foregrip on for controllable full auto, or put on an underbarrel GL for maximum splatter effect. That sort of thing.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2015 18:35

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Rent-A-Cop posted:

I always like it better when skills in games improve "handling" rather than damage for guns. Less wobble, less recoil, quicker reloads, etc. That's more milsim than RPG style though.

Not F4, but I thought this Killing Floor 2 putting in an entirely separate 'reloading expert' animation in was kinda cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0udgqG7Uy3o&t=248s

# ¿ Jun 30, 2015 21:48

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

I want a Todd Howard companion. Mostly so I can get him stuck behind a door and hear about emergent gameplay as the raiders I'm running from skin him alive.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2015 01:04

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

If Bethesda ever put an anachronistic song in one of their Fallout games, it would undoubtedly be Pete Hines' favorite song, If You Like Pina Coladas by Jimmy Buffett, which he described as a "song for every man. [A song] you can listen to a thousand times and always find something new...one of the greatest Rock songs I've ever heard."

I would be okay with this, as long as you can craft 100+ proof pina coladas and use them as molotovs.

Bethesda: Please read this post.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2015 02:09

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Varmint Rifle fully tricked out owned until end of game. Silenced sniper rifle that shoots cheap ammo and can headshot at draw distance (if you know where to aim because the crosshairs are slightly off)? Yes please.

dangerdoom volvo posted:

Need some goonvice. Should i play fallout 4 when it comes out, or should i put my nuts up on a dresser, just the nuts, and then bang them shits with a spiked bat like POW

Just slam them in the top drawer, wouldn't want to have to repair that bat.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2015 21:07

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

its me, the goon who literally cried when i discovered that toddy howes locked me out of a gun in my game that i purchased

# ¿ Jul 4, 2015 00:56

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Mr Tastee posted:

Because I could be queer in the last game, and there is far too little media with good queer representation, especially video games.

#ClosetedDadsMatterToo

# ¿ Jul 5, 2015 05:07

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Players can create their own drat save game if they don't want to follow my vision to the letter. gently caress them anyway.
-Todd Howard

# ¿ Jul 5, 2015 06:27

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

you get to do it all over again once you reinstall it though!!!!!

hence why the (intentionally obfuscated) option to skip the tutorial was really nice in new vegas

yeah but the end of the new vegas tutorial was getting into a bigass firefight with some some guy who was a dick to you in dialogue earlier, so that makes the fnv tutorial the 2nd best ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pItOJfE_GYg&t=49s

# ¿ Jul 11, 2015 23:40

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Kurtofan posted:

If only there was a manual or something.

fallout manual: that radscorpion is probably going to kick your rear end

e: this is one of the best parts about fnv, radscorpions in 1/2 were 'meh, this guy's kind of a dick' but the first time you see a man-height scorpion in NV, it gets your loving attention

# ¿ Jul 11, 2015 23:44

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Funky Valentine posted:

After you've killed literally everyone in Elder Scrolls 6, they instantly get revived and an NPC named howard todd walks up to you and says "okay you had your laughs can you actually play the goddamn game now?"

# ¿ Jul 13, 2015 15:37

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Roobanguy posted:

?

Wasteland 2 was pretty meh. Then again, I've got high hopes for the developer's cut. Called shots are back!

E: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts/1290484 No nutshots, back to meh.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2015 17:41

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Magmarashi posted:

Fallout 2 reused more assets from Fallout 1 than 4 will from 3.

It was all worth it for right click-get the gently caress out of my way NPC. GOTY feature right there.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2015 14:45

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Nevets posted:

Same here, except I make an exception for fixing Bethesda's broken UI.

Ugh is Bethesda going to use the inventory UI from F3? If so, I might give this game a pass.

No I won't.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2015 16:53

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Crabtree posted:

Well now we have to put cars into fallout just to hear dorks like Jack whine about an already shrunken New England "feeling" too small. And if this is anything like horses in Skyrim, the mode of transportation is going to be stronger than the person riding it so I can't wait for the car to kill a supermutant behemoth by ramping up and through its skull.

And now we officially need cars in Fallout.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 21:08

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 12:57

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

JackBadass posted:

Yeah, because if there was one thing Skyrim did good, it was horses...

I was talking about doing a sick jump into a behemoth.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 21:52

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