Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

animal crossing is prob the right answer here

I own Shenmue and never really delved into it deeply, I did watch a friend play my copy and he was mystified

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/00/d3/38/00d3387814cfad6e8fd9fe2245d10238.gif

L-R: Nick Valentine, kingfish's player character

I thought about that, but there's no yellow tie and the hat is wrong. And the gender.

bully is the best gta game

like all the ambition in the main series is cool but when they constrain themselves to working on small-town scale you realize they were kind of on small-town scale all along

Have you found Cheers yet?

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, November 30, 2015 4:51 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not yet. There's plenty of the city I haven't been thru yet.

― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Monday, November 30, 2015 8:18 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cheers doesn't pop up as a location, you kinda have to know where to look. plus you have to go down the stairs so you can't even see that it's a door from ground level

― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, November 30, 2015 8:20 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

came across this today! it kind of made me sad inside.

inside cheers, i mean.

Hey guys I've heard there's a ghoul problem at Abernathy Farm. For the nth time.

have you heard about that farm run by ghouls?

isn't that somethin?

does ignoring those missions until they fail actually have much of an effect? i've failed a few but it's not made much of a difference afaict

preston garvey is definitely the roman bellic of this game - an annoying prick who keeps bugging you with the same lines of dialogue over and over and over

bully is the best gta game

truthbomb

i need to play bully again bc in my memory i 100% agree w/ that truthbomb

i really haven't played f4 for a few days. the sick need ot keep going is kinda fading. i might be able to jump on the main quest and actually beat the game and get it out of my BRAIN soon enough.

i bought bully's "championship edition" on sale on steam the other day but the pc version seems to be really ugly? maybe this is improvable; i didn't try very hard. the soft edges of the ps2 version's cartoon town--changing w the seasons!--make for my favorite ps2 environment, i think it is prettier than shadow of the colossus. (nb i also think the big shell is really pretty.) i have heard though that the wii version is the ideal. anyway yes that game is just right.

i really haven't played f4 for a few days. the sick need ot keep going is kinda fading.

it's weirdly hard for me to click on f4. i bring up the launcher and then i check ilx a while, and then half the time i go to bed. but i play nothing else. "followed the freedom trail" last night; that was very cool actually. a puzzle! the solution was not "shoot it"!

Found the guy who's effectively Bruce Banner(glasses & all) in the game. Really digging the writing of him, which makes me feel that some Bethesda writing has certainly incremented since FO3/Skyrim.

The name they gave him, however, seems a bit on-the-nose given what you have to do to reach the dude.

"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