Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

"Masturbate-Into-A-Cup Johnson"

This is the Commonwealth, dude; why use a cup when all these mannequins are about

Man, I play this game too much. The per-location interest factor is higher than previous Bethesda outings, but I find myself checking the wikia for any notable loot. if there's nothing there, I move on.

Also, Dogmeat's getting his own Funko Pop figure:

http://funko.com/collections/fallout/products/copy-of-pop-games-fallout-4-vault-dweller

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0552/1401/products/7788_FALLOUT4_DOGMEAT_GLAM_GS_1024x1024.jpg?v=1447176255

haha, i bought a funko vault boy to be my gaming rig's mascot. gonna just not look at that dogmeat cuz this is a dangerous path.

has anyone else found the unbelievably creepy unmarked trap-choked maze? first thing in the game to fill me with real dread. didn't finish exploring it-- took a wrong turn somewhere and wound up in a different (marked) dungeon. will dream tonight of a little room with three numbered doors, two of them still closed.

Not yet. What's it near?

it's in a multilevel parking garage in the southern part of the city, near a department store full of mutants. ("why do these places never have statues of naked blokes?" asked irish cage fighter companion cait, in a tone of earnest wonder that made me lol.)

the other doors were just traps, haha.

i think i cleared the place out but i didn't get closure on wtf it was or what batman villain had designed it. enjoying that loose end.

I kinda dig Hancock as companion. "We help who needs helpin', hurt who needs hurtin'."

Also, I finally made it into the Tyrell Corporation, and yeah, just like in Blade Runner, everybody still smokes like chimneys. I'm raiding packs of smokes from everywhere. Disappointed I can't bring a companion with me, as the place seemed well-suited for various contraction reactions from them.

Also, I dig how the music changes from the discordant orchestral soundscapes and cinematic varieties of the wasteland to austere muted electronic shit that screams "Mass Effect"

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/11-18-2015/Pg2ym4.gif

^^^ lol

tried to generic the spoilers out of this: i needed coffee cups for a recruitment beacon, so i went to the nearest dungeon on the radar, which turned out to be much better-defended than i'd expected, but which i pushed through because i wanted to get some coffee cups and go to bed, and while down there i stumbled across, at dungeon's center, what i had a pretty confident hunch would be the endpoint of cait's companion quest, but which cait, traveling with me, did not recognize as such, because i hadn't yet impressed her enough to trigger the quest at all, so after spending a frustrating thirty seconds trying to get her to notice it, i turned around and climbed most of the way out of the dungeon, past all its dead bodies (and, happily, a room containing like thirty coffee cups), to the surface elevator, and got inside, and cait got inside, and i pressed the button, and the doors closed, and cait said, "can i talk to you?"

so i was like sure, what's the problem, do you maybe want to go back down there real quick and achieve what i am pretty sure you are about to tell me is your heart's desire, and she told me a long and almost exploitatively horrifying story about her life, but at the end only said something like, well, it's good to talk. so i was like, okay.

then we went back to the nearby settlement and i built the radio beacon, and then we walked most of the way across the world back to diamond city. (again, i don't fast travel.) we walked through the gate and up the ramp and i sat through the loading screen, and the instant it was over and i was in the city, cait turned to me in great distress and said I NEED YOUR HELP. and then when i said, what's the problem, she told me what the problem was, and when i said, is there anything that could help you, she said, i've heard there's this place. but getting inside there--it won't be easy.

and one of my conversation options--thank god the mod made it visible and it wasn't hiding behind "no"--was "i can't deal with this right now."

Yup, been thru that one.

Getting the Pray & Spray Tommy gun from Cricket is awesome and finally takes care of any bully sponge issues one would have.

I made the power armor jetpack and was in downtown boston last night.. climbed to the top of one building to do a railroad mission and decided to say fuck it and jump off the top onto the closest highrise where I walk in and gingerly scoop up the strenth bobblehead and peace out.. turns out it was the mass fusion building. XD

power armor jetpack ?!?!?!

Yeah, boost your crafting and you add jump jets

my armorer skill is at 0 (science at 3 tho) so it'll be a big investment to shoot for it. tho it looks awesome and maybe worth it?

it changes your perspective alot.. like I explored a shipwreck last night and instead of running up the gut and having to kill a bunch of mirelurks at the bottom then raiders at the top I just jetpacked up to the back of the boat, turned off the turrets and spotlights and rekt some fools from a better vantage point. it does use fusion cell/core/whatever power as fuel and not like flamer fuel or something less valuable so thats a caveat.

crpg addict finds it really bleak
http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-bleak-world-of-fallout.html

but i love that urban decay aesthetic. not sure if i love fallout bc i love bleak ruins porn or i love bleak ruins porn bc i started playing fallout when i was 13yo.

Has he covered any of the other games yet?

no i don't think he's anywhere near 1997 yet

I got it confused w Wasteland.

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2011/10/game-65-wasteland-1988.html

Finally made it to the faction branching point

My drive to play this gets less and less. So lonely out there

Beat this today.... dumb ending, isn't it?

Somebody else mentioned that Bethesda didn't exactly know how to handle the faction system like Obsidian did, and the ending sorta bears that out. Oh well. Steam says I've played 200 hours of this game(probably about 80-85% accurate since I would leave the game paused once in a while), and I'm burned out for a while. Let's see what the DLC will bring.

....oh and I got a Vault 111 fleece jumpsuit(read: Fallout-y pajamas) for Xmas, and damn if it ain't comfy.

http://www.pcgamer.com/see-the-old-pulp-sci-fi-magazine-that-inspired-fallout-4/

Lord help me I was actually amused by this

https://www.facebook.com/00vaultboy00/photos/a.424305227587307.99199.423832787634551/1126200187397804/?type=1&theater

http://i.imgur.com/xRQXrYj.jpg

back to the past, here:

if playing new vegas from the beginning again, and i have all the dlc packs, which should i do and when? are there any i should go through before finishing the main game, and what order after completion?

You can't continue anything after finishing the main game iirc, so all of them. They're all for high-ish levels but you get a warning and told the recommended level before you start them. I don't think the order mattered much, but I remember being driven half crazy by Dead Money.

Dead Money I didn't like, yeah

Dead Money, the only Fallout thing I have now actually cheated in because FUCK THOSE GHOST DUDES

http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10267

The codex people are v. well informed about rpg history and design, but that site is such a reactionary cesspool politically.

That review is spot on

it really is

i probably put more time into F4 than any other AAA game in the last year and i wish i could have all the hours back

I'm torn; one the one hand, I had fun with my two months of FO4. On the other, there was a lot of bullshit and Bethesda seems to learn all the wrong things from what Obsidian was able to advance

Yeah I like being the world but not necessarily playing the game, if that makes sense.. its a hoarding and shooting simulator

been playing a lot of underrail, the retro indie rpg fans on the codex call "fallout 3" (one way street otm btw that place is like a fascist cell, depressing). conventional wisdom is that it has great skills/combat/crafting but the writing is lacking (compared to recent story-heavy stuff like age of decadence, the demo of which bored me stiff, and pillars of eternity, thirty hours of which bored me stiff) but i actually enjoy the writing a lot: there isn't very much of it (aha) and it's cliches, but characters (read: shopkeepers) are vivid enough for you to feel that you live in the place even if it doesn't have fallout 1 (let alone 2's) variety and scope. really the setting is closer to ultima underworld: one big dungeon peppered with communities of shopkeepers. (sneaking around facilities on the other hand recalls deus ex of all things: lockpicks, computer terminals, ventilation shafts.)

combat meanwhile is great, lots to do, lots to build to do it. much better, without hesitation, than fallout's, which was always either numbingly, prolongedly easy or impossible. audience is definitely hardcore 90s rpg fans (who are apparently also all fascists) so difficulty is v unforgiving -- not just the combat but the ease w which you can build an unworkable character (i didn't get anywhere until my third guy) -- though the experience system is terrific, and sneak-friendly: you only get it for picking up "oddities", sometimes carried by enemies but also hidden in locked containers and obscure trash piles and etc., so it's less slanted towards guns-blazing grinders than you'd think considering it's one giant dungeon crawl.

as for fallout 4 btw i haven't played it since the survival-mode patch or tried any of the dlc but about the release game at least the detractors were ultimately otm; codex piece linked upthread for instance is unchallengably damning. fun place to hang out for a while tho.

Now I have a good enough pc I want to play 4, having loved 3 and Vegas. Is anyone still playing? Recommend?

my recommendation is that you definitely play 4, especially if you like 3/NV. it is terrific.

it's worth at least skimming the rpgcodex review a little upthread, which is pretty much otm

i played all the main quest missions and a good chunk of the side missions and it was diverting but never particularly surprising. not nearly as good as new vegas imo, which remains my favourite of the newer fallouts

yes definitely read the depressing 80,000 word diatribe before starting, I personally never start a game without convincing myself it's a abomination to man and god first

there are a lot of games out there which are really fun in the beginning but the longer you play them the more glaring their faults become. this probably describes most games. u see this a lot in steam reviews - someone will have 80+ hours played in a game but the review is terribly negative.

Yes the general opinion of most just seems to be that it's a crap RPG but a great open world game.

It's 50% as well, so it's in the bag.

50% off I meant

I mostly regret the time I spent in F4. I agree with whoever said that it's a very lonely experience.

With some interminable tasks like structure / town building

Game is worth playing, but a step down story wise and construction from New Vegas.

It's a fun place to visit. Definitely worth playing if you can get it on sale? I dunno I played a fuckton and then all of a sudden hit a wall and got bored with it - unfortunately after I sprung for the season pass. I keep telling myself I'm gonna dip back in but haven't yet..

i've been playing fallout 4 for a few months now and i'm starting to get tired of it and there's still a ton of the world i haven't even seen yet. it's funny how none of the new stuff is really mandatory so it ends up feeling exactly like fallout 3/new vegas unless you opt into that stuff. i've only done the structure/town building a couple of times when it was required for a mission and i almost never use power armor. i've got like five sets of power armor stashed around the map but i never really feel like i need to use it.