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Fintilgin posted:Todd Howard watched Blade Runner one night, and the entire writing team had to frantically work backwards from there. "Is 'Blade Runner' the one with Wesley Snipes in it?" "No, that was 'Blade', but you know what gently caress it put Wesley Snipes in the game anyway." And that's the story behind X6-88.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:"Is 'Blade Runner' the one with Wesley Snipes in it?" Hahahahhaha
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Despite being warmongering fascists, I'd actually say the Brotherhood is the best bet for the Commonwealth. With the Institute destroyed, it makes the need for the Railroad irrelevant, and it ends the problem of synth infiltrators. Plus the Super Mutants in the commonwealth are finite after Virgil shut down the FEV program, so with Synths and Mutants out of the way, the Brotherhood can go about their business while leaving the Minutemen to police the region as a Brotherhood protectorate. Really, when I played through the Railroad ending, I felt that finishing for the Railroad in charge destroyed the Railroad's need to exist. The brotherhood has an army. They have unlimited vertibirds. They have laser weaponry that is automatic and not crankshot muskets. They have liberty prime. They lack mortars but they can convince the minutemen to stand down and see reason while the Railroad thinks they can take on hundreds of power armored tanks with a dozen men in a cellar. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Jun 5, 2018 |
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Jun 5, 2018 19:27
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The best ending, as always, is to take everything over yourself No Gods No Masters
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Jun 5, 2018 19:35
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Quick question: does/did the Fallout 3 GOTY release on GOG strip out GFWL? If I'm not mistaken, that cancer is still in the Steam release.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Despite being warmongering fascists, I'd actually say the Brotherhood is the best bet for the Commonwealth. With the Institute destroyed, it makes the need for the Railroad irrelevant, and it ends the problem of synth infiltrators. Plus the Super Mutants in the commonwealth are finite after Virgil shut down the FEV program, so with Synths and Mutants out of the way, the Brotherhood can go about their business while leaving the Minutemen to police the region as a Brotherhood protectorate. That power armour didn’t seem to do much good when I stormed Cambridge Police Station to steal a vertibird, and that army didn’t do much good when I dropped an airship on it, so colour me unimpressed. I agree there’s not much need for the railroad after the institute is gone, but that strikes me as a plus, not a minus. The railroad ending effectively removes any outside interference in the affairs of the commonwealth and gives people the best chance of reestablishing an independent democratic government.
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chaosapiant posted:Quick question: does/did the Fallout 3 GOTY release on GOG strip out GFWL? If I'm not mistaken, that cancer is still in the Steam release. that's why i was asking. the comments on the gog version seem to indicate that gfwl ain't in there.
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Reveilled posted:That power armour didn’t seem to do much good when I stormed Cambridge Police Station to steal a vertibird, and that army didn’t do much good when I dropped an airship on it, so colour me unimpressed. This, but the Minutemen. The railroad gives no shits about anything except the brave little toaster. Even endgame they only bother sending you after raiders that are mean to synths. Brotherhood are only better than the raiders in that they demand protection money from the local communities instead of shooting first, and I don't believe for an instant that Proctor Teagan wouldn't murder the farms and install brotherhood people if they said no. They'd also wipe out every ghoul community. Institute would just spend the next 200 years twirling their mustaches before building a shining future city on the mass grave that was the commonwealth
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Azhais posted:This, but the Minutemen. It could be argued that without player intervention, the Minutemen are the most inept and toothless of all the factions. At least the other three were accomplishing poo poo before the player came along.
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chaosapiant posted:It could be argued that without player intervention, the Minutemen are the most inept and toothless of all the factions. At least the other three were accomplishing poo poo before the player came along. Railroad and the Minutemen were both basically the same. Railroad was doing ok til they got crushed by the institute leaving them undermanned and barely scraping by. Minutemen were doing fine until a Mirelurk Queen leveled their home base and the remnants were betrayed by one of their own. Brotherhood was the only one that was the opposite, cut off and alone until the player accidentally said "Maxsom" three times into a mirror at fort hagen thus summoning the airship.
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chaosapiant posted:We had a thread for several years dedicated to which side is better. Regardless of who you think is better/more justified, the fact that we had a thread about it as long as we did shows that Bethesda did something right.
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I want to know why bethesda decided in fallout 4 to make every gun's receiver a left handed variant, but still held right handed. makes very little sense to shoot hot lead casings into your face.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I want to know why bethesda decided in fallout 4 to make every gun's receiver a left handed variant, but still held right handed. makes very little sense to shoot hot lead casings into your face. The same reason all the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games have the guns operated and spray out brass to the left, for the  visuals
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:tbh TES6 will probably involve Azula running a scheme that ends with the Aldmeri Dominion disappearing like the Dwarves did as a joke to amuse herself with, much like the demise of Dagoth Ur. The fact that it helped mortals is merely incidental to her. It would be kind of funny if they just skipped over the Dominion and had that get resolved in the background as they move on to something completely different. They nuked Morrowind and had the Empire get owned off screen after 3 and 4, so it wouldn't be unprecedented to just move on. It does seem like it would be a waste though.
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eonwe posted:fallout 4s combat, fallout 3s environmental asthetic, new vegas' quests and characters in a new engine thats pretty This is pretty much what every Fallout fan in TYOOL 2018 wants. Though I'd argue that the environmental aesthetic needs to be more green and non-desert postapoc. Less Mad Max, more The Last of Us.
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remind me what fallout 3's environment was besides blasted wasteland and concrete with a novelty aircraft carrier
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Azhais posted:This, but the Minutemen. The way I see it, the minutemen are sort of implicit for the most part in the other endings, in that they're not really exclusive of any of the other three. You can do the other factions' endings while being the leader of the minutemen, and if the railroad at least take out the institute it means the destruction of the institute is shrouded in some level of secrecy (I mean, sort of, nobody knows who they are despite their flags all over the place), which I think would be better for the future of democracy in the region if the local militia's reputation isn't too messianic. Also, like you say, the Railroad send you after raiders which target synths, while the minutemen only send you after raiders which target the outlying human settlements, so if you work for both that's maximum raider destruction, an excellent result for the commonwealth. Also Desdemona, while insufferable, is at least less insufferable than Preston.
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You work for Desdemona, you could fire Preston  Also destroying the institute is about as subtle as nuking Boston. Oh wait...
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dragonshardz posted:This is pretty much what every Fallout fan in TYOOL 2018 wants. Though I'd argue that the environmental aesthetic needs to be more green and non-desert postapoc. Less Mad Max, more The Last of Us. I think they could come to a compromise and meet in the middle. I'd love to see huge forests full of mutated monstrosities that were home to some mutated bees or some poo poo. They could set it in New Orleans and turn the bayous into full-on lovecraftian horror shows. The huge rear end hermit crabs were one of my favorite parts of Far Harbor and that whole DLC was really cool.
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Azhais posted:remind me what fallout 3's environment was besides blasted wasteland and concrete with a novelty aircraft carrier Two rusty scrap metal shacks under a destroyed highway overpass with one person living in each of them. Somehow these living arrangements make sense 200 years after the war.
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Azhais posted:You work for Desdemona, you could fire Preston Makes it all the more galling that I can't fire Preston
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I'm about to play Fallout New Vegas for the first time and was wondering if there are any mods I should download and install before playing?
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Art direction is one of the things Fallout 3 got fairly right, in my opinion. The mix of quasi-Art Deco and neoclassical architecture with incongruous statuary everywhere did a good job separating Fallout 3's ruined city from everyone else's ruined city, the original weapon designs were generally pretty interesting, and mirelurks creeped me out way more than they should have. Of course, they squandered a lot of this goodwill by reusing the same three interior templates 500,000 times. But they did have some artistic talent behind it.
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Azhais posted:remind me what fallout 3's environment was besides blasted wasteland and concrete with a novelty aircraft carrier Subway tunnels
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Fallout 3 had some of the best concept art I've ever seen for a game.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:I'm about to play Fallout New Vegas for the first time and was wondering if there are any mods I should download and install before playing? Go to https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/ and search for: FNV4GB New Vegas Script Extender New Vegas Stutter Remover New Vegas Anti-Crash MCM CASM YUP And anything those mods require(it'll say when you go to download them). That's all you need for a pretty optimised vanilla experience. There's a bunch of mods that do other things like expand the available equipment, enhance the lighting and effects, add back cut content and such as well, check out the modding thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3376713
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They should have had deacon be shaun and have the father thing be a red herring.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:I'm about to play Fallout New Vegas for the first time and was wondering if there are any mods I should download and install before playing? I'm sure you're going to get a bunch of recommendations, but one of the ones I don't see much is Ultimate Invisible Wall Remover, which is a godsend if you're the sort of person who wants to climb every cliff you see, and is the one mod I 100% would not play New Vegas without.
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Clawtopsy posted:i just hated how retardedly scripted everything is There's actually a trick to avoiding these scripted events: Play New Vegas instead. But seriously, even though you're totally correct in what you're saying I still feel like Fallout 4 is a step in the right direction because it DOES manage to be less scripted then Fallout 3. In Fallout 4 you can at least choose a faction, as opposed to Fallout 3 in which you could either side with the brotherhood or go gently caress yourself. I really do think Bethesda listens to feedback and does try to make improvements in the areas people complain about, with mixed results. Case in point: when the game first came out lots of people were complaining that you couldn't side with the raiders because they seem like they could be an interesting faction. Lo and behold, along come a DLC pack that lets you lead a bunch a raiders. You can't get an ending with them and they don't really integrate into the main plot and the raider settlement system is set up in kind of a dumb way, but it DOES exist! Progress! At this rate Bethesda should be able to make the perfect Fallout game in a mere 60 years. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:At this rate Bethesda should be able to make the perfect Fallout game in a mere 60 years. It'll release just in time for the bombs to start falling
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:But seriously though, even though you're totally correct in what you're saying I still feel like Fallout 4 is a step in the right direction because it DOES manage to be less scripted then Fallout 3. Well it did this by having less quests. If you think of the main story every quest is a scripted mess. Oh yea the follow the dog quest is so good.
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Yeah I really liked the idea of getting to play as a raider (Powder Gang reputation in New Vegas was cool too), but adding it as an endgame thing where you'd raid the settlements you created and/or saved was too schizophrenic for me to even want to try. Plus I was just pretty burned out by the game when it came out anyway. I do think having factions was an improvement over 3, even if the implementation was a mixed bag.
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Part one of the noclip doc on BGS came out and was really good. Definitely give it a watch.
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I think Fallout 3 and 4 are both on par with each other. They both do things better and worse than the other game. And both worse than New Vegas by a wide margin.
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Sinteres posted:but adding it as an endgame thing where you'd raid the settlements you created and/or saved was too schizophrenic for me to even want to try. lmao is that seriously how it works
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Fallout 4 has more than one character I like, so it's a bit of an improvement.
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