Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

Which game had the Gary vault? Was that 11?

http://imgur.com/gallery/lFIxR

Figuring out the square and the rough locations from the trailer alone. This goes into amusing levels of detail.

sorry: gary vault was f3 iirc. the f3 vaults were more numerous and quicker; fnv only had 4 or 5 and they were all complicated. can actually easily see preferring the f3 approach and might myself: the vaults were more or less copypasted and shallow (like post-daggerfall elder scrolls dungeons) but they all got their what-happened-here across vividly just through tinting the air or leaving instruments lying around or naming everybody gary. they could give you the creeps pretty efficiently. (and of course they would be copypasted.) some of the fnv vaults went on and brutally on with no more exploratory payoff than "plants ate everybody". if you are into dungeons for their own sake tho (looking at the roguelike crew) i'd be p surprised if you preferred f3. the best dungeon in modern fallout might actually be the entirety of maligned fnv dlc DEAD MONEY (i had to look this up; i googled "fallout blood money"), which was No Fun except on a zen level, and then only if you went in prepared. (i enjoyed it because my fnv char at that point could vaporize any living thing at 500 yards with her eyeballs, except there.) anyway, vault 11 was the one that cribbed from "the lottery" and it ruled; it came complete w boss fight and sadistic twist.

Yeah, I don't think I have any grand insight on which is superior (F3 vs. NV), but I do know that I explored every last inch of F3 and quit NV about 2/3 of the way through. Not sure if it was because of fatigue with the system or what. NV, despite maybe having more interesting writing/quest lines (so the line goes, anyway), didn't feel as large, mysterious, and awe inspiring.

I preferred FNV due to creator links to the original as well as they got the zany 50s "Science!" Bits more.

Plus, the Googie art design was leagues beyond FO3

Also, throwing knives

killed all those Caesar's Legion assholes

Bethesda's E3 thing about to start. You can stream it on twitch, or watch along with commentary on GiantBomb. I'd recommend the latter.

http://www.giantbomb.com/chat/

this game looks brilliant

ha, they're using my favorite song from atomic platters on the sdtrk

11-10-15 damn

Wow

No shortage of ambition over there at Bethesda. This looks fucking rad.

The new DOOM looks awesome too. Exactly what the genre needs IMO.

fallout shelter now up on ios app store

I'm guess the info is on gaming sites that'll be blocked at work. Is Fallout Shelter a "Sim Vault" type of game?

Yes

I can only hope catastrophes causing mutation and weirdness occur

okay the pip boy / phone thing

ok, I am on my way to being addicted to Fallout Shelter

of course my vault is Vault 77

lol mine is of course Vault 420

if it'll let me make vault 55378008 i'm in

if i had an ios device i'd make vault 8080 but nope... no android :(

vault 69 !

pretty sure my vault's first child just set the living quarters on fire

Bethesda knows what people want to hear:

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3:30 PM - 16 Jun 2015

Loving the iphone game to death, TO DEATH.

I never played sims before, so this is all new to me. But it feels very Fallout.

So I'm on my second go-round now - my first was disastrous, mostly because I hadn't realised that if you didn't assign your dudes to jobs that tallied with their SPECIAL rating they would get miserable - and things were going GREAT and I had several generations of kids born in my vault and water and food and power were all ticking over nicely. Then I didn't touch my phone for a few hours as my daughter had woken up and we went over the park for some fun-times, and I got back in time to watch everyone die slowly from radiation poisoning or quickly from radscorpion breakouts.

If the purpose of this game was to make me want to play more Fallout then mission accomplished.

Yeah, I reinstalled FO3 & NV last night because this game has got me hyped again.

Also, a radroach breakout killed like half my vault

I have purchased a lunchbox here and there

uh I guess they deserve a few bucks for this game anyway

Yeah, I spent $4, I figured I'd blown enough time on the game to make it worthwhile

Wasteland 2 is 50% off on this last day of the Steam Sale. I finally bought in, figured it'd help bridge the gap til FO4 hits

Waiting for a post-apoc set in a forest, not a desert. The latter is far cheaper to film in, I guess.

wasteland 2 is fantastic btw. it's more of a sequal to f1 + f2 than to the original wasteland. it even has a super familiar weapon UI

I think the problem is the nukes knock the trees down.

the 100 does post-apoc in a forest. it's a decent tv show if you can stand stilted acting and some cringe-inducing teen drama b-plots.

Oh fallout shelter u r eating my life

this

i got up to about 130 population and everyone is happy and i have more people than i need to keep all the buildings i have stocked, and adding more buildings seems like it would be just more of the same, so i think i'm sort of done now?

you need to tear down all your low-end power plants and replace them with nuclear

I'm a few hours into F3 and unfortunately finding it super unengaging. I remember Skyrim being a little slow to start, too, but something just isn't clicking with this one. I'm basically only pressing on at this point because so many people have talked about it like it's one of the best games ever. But is there a point where things start to pick up? I'm currently in Megaton, and I'm thinking about setting off the bomb just to make things a little more interesting.

Go for it, that's one of the first choices you really make in the game.

you need to tear down all your low-end power plants and replace them with nuclear

― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why? just to do it? i mean its all just grind now -- nothing really left to do/discover

to make the optimal vault, the best vault

god I hope they create a cloning chamber

I've been playing New Vegas again the past few days. Apparently before I stopped playing I got to the final Hoover Dam battle but never actually did it because I wanted to wander around doing more stuff first. So since restarting it, I've just been wandering around doing more stuff. Maybe I'll never actually finish the game properly.

fuck a bunch of fallout shelter. the base game is pretty ridic easy isn't it? just keep the growth slow and give your best weapons to the guys closest to the vault door and it seems like nothing much can go wrong. the only thing that makes it interesting after a certain point seems to be gearing up--but the RNG for finding gear out in the wasteland is ridiculously stingy--and if you pay real $$$ to buy lunchboxes it is ridiculously generous. I feel like i'm playing Destiny again all of a sudden.

pretty much. if they don't add new content in phases it'll be dead in the water.

I don't even remember what happens if you try and set the bomb off, but if you read all my posts early in this thread you'll see I wasn't too shit hot at this game anyway.

I got better but still never finished it.

supposedly luck impacts the quality of wasteland drops? xxp