Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

AC2 has good crowd work

That's one thing I like about GTA4 and Red Dead Redemption - you may not really be able to interact much with the crowds, but they interact with each other by having conversations, getting into fights, etc.

yeah, definitely. also great that you can pretty much murder any one of them.

i like the elder scroll answer of sending the guards out to fuck you up if you kill people in polite society.

does any other game have as frustrating a transition from a totally unexpected, mindblowing segment to a totally irritating, boring segment as the jump from the "tranquility lane" part to the "chasing your dad as he runs across the entire map making sure he doesn't get killed by radscorpions" part of fallout 3? i got pissed off at the latter part so haven't finished it yet so maybe something amazing happens but it was really jarring after tranquility lane.

or just fast travel forward and meet him there?

oh i wasn't sure if i did that if he would just die on the way.

i don't think he can be killed tbh

i had yr anxiety for a while too n/a, but dad can look after himself

cool then fuck him

kind of want to go back and redo the tranquility lane part to see if there's a way to get through it without doing all the evil commands

though putting on the mask and stabbing everyone was pretty fun

there is

yeah i found it on my second play through too

The Project Eternity kickstarter seems relevant to post here, as its Black Isle-alumni deliberately making an isometric rpg again

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity

Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics all free on GOG today.

might take some perseverance, the site was obviously swamped earlier

I'm playing New Vegas right now. It's good but seems more overwhelming than 3? Like there are more parts where suddenly have a TON of places to go and a TON of people to talk to all at once. Which are the moments where I often decide to take a break for a while. I just got on the strip and it's almost too much.

Yeah I've got them in my cart but can't check out. Though I'm not at home anyways so I guess I'll try again this evening.

i had a few goes over the space of a couple of hours and they're now sitting pretty in my account

I've never used GOG, can I "check out" and then download the games later? Or should I wait to check out til I'm on my home computer?

site is so borked. i remembered later than I already got Fallout for free from them a while back and bought Tactics when the site opened, so I might as well grab FO2

yeah, once you "buy" the game it's tied to your account, you can download DRM-free whenever

Although apparently the reason these are being given away is that the fallout licence changes hands soon, and when it does gog will lose the right to sell them. Don't know whether that'll mean people who've bought them already won't be able to re-download, seems unlikely but not impossible, better to grab sooner rather than later though just in case.

http://kotaku.com/meet-the-guy-who-spent-seven-months-killing-everyone-in-1629588651

This is great.

Hahahahahah I had no idea there was a minor NPC in Fallout 3's Pitt expansion (based on Pittsburgh) called "Gruber." In the Kill Everything LP he just cuts him apart immediately with a weird spinning blade.

Oh wait, John Gruber is from Philadelphia. Nevermind.

f4 @ e3? http://www.avclub.com/article/skyrim-fallout-publisher-announces-it-will-probabl-215049 i hope!

i'm never upgrading to xbone or ps4. fallout4 is about the only thing that I'm really going to miss.

i plan to upgrade when it comes out

Yep. Would put money on this being F4.

got to be f4 surely, really hope so.

I'll upgrade my pc when the time comes, don't think i'll be getting ps4 or xbone anytime soon.

yep

http://i.imgur.com/GOhM9fd.jpg

also this http://fallout.bethsoft.com/

4llout

stoked 4 the radness

Oh man this might be what finally pushes me towards a next-gen console.

http://fallout.bethsoft.com

http://fallout.bethsoft.com

any word on where I can see the countdown clock?

everyone is just so excited

Bout time

is bethesda doing the writing in-house because if so let me know when the real one comes out this cycle (no i will play this)

eek

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TracyHho--/1280803769743019919.jpg

I won't have the hardware nor the hours to play this but let me just say I want to play this and I will be keenly following this thread's progress

breathlessly watched the counter click down to zero to be replaced by... exactly the same page but without a counter anymore

wtf

wait, here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4&feature=youtu.be

looks fallout-y

predictably fallout4.com has fallen over immediately

that seemed a bit self-serious for my likingq

the reveal trailers for fallout games are always total downers iirc