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Fallout 3, changes to Fallout: New Vegas

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    A question about Fallout 3

    Am I the only person that didn't like the Dad?

    I mean at first he invites kids to my birthday party I don't even like. Then he gives me a weapon and wants me to shoot a living beeing. And the only thing I can think about is why the hell is that thing even in the Vault. Isn't that dangerous? What if they have a high birthrate? Not to mention that these things shouldn't even be in the Vault. Don't we have to warn someone? DAD!

    Then a few years later.... I wake up. Find out that most people in the vault are dead because of rats that were probably released by my Dad. Then I find out that Jonas died because of my dad. Then I'm EXILED because of this .......


    For short: As I left the vault my only thought was

    to hunt

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Yes, Liam Neeson dad is pretty shitty. He abandons his child and causes a riot and basically you are left to fend for yourself in a locked vault where everyone is out to get you.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    C2B wrote: »
    A question about Fallout 3

    Am I the only person that didn't like the Dad?

    I mean at first he invites kids to my birthday party I don't even like. Then he gives me a weapon and wants me to shoot a living beeing. And the only thing I can think about is why the hell is that thing even in the Vault. Isn't that dangerous? What if they have a high birthrate? Not to mention that these things shouldn't even be in the Vault. Don't we have to warn someone? DAD!

    Then a few years later.... I wake up. Find out that most people in the vault are dead because of rats that were probably released by my Dad. Then I find out that Jonas died because of my dad. Then I'm EXILED because of this .......


    For short: As I left the vault my only thought was

    to hunt

    Yeah, Dad's an asshole and I wish you could kill him.
    I totally don't have daddy issues, honest.

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  • L.E.O.L.E.O. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Orca wrote: »
    C2B wrote: »
    A question about Fallout 3

    Am I the only person that didn't like the Dad?

    I mean at first he invites kids to my birthday party I don't even like. Then he gives me a weapon and wants me to shoot a living beeing. And the only thing I can think about is why the hell is that thing even in the Vault. Isn't that dangerous? What if they have a high birthrate? Not to mention that these things shouldn't even be in the Vault. Don't we have to warn someone? DAD!

    Then a few years later.... I wake up. Find out that most people in the vault are dead because of rats that were probably released by my Dad. Then I find out that Jonas died because of my dad. Then I'm EXILED because of this .......


    For short: As I left the vault my only thought was

    to hunt

    Yeah, Dad's an asshole and I wish you could kill him.
    I totally don't have daddy issues, honest.
    its funny how if you choose a black character, dad is also black... but his voice doesnt change which makes it weird.

    i thought he was going to remain white and mother would be assumed as being black, or something like that.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    His voice doesn't change because it is sexy.

    Also...it costs a lot of money.

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  • L.E.O.L.E.O. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    His voice doesn't change because it is sexy.

    Also...it costs a lot of money.
    it would be funny if hes black, he would talk all gangsta like "what up dawg, my babysmama died, i got you this gat to pop a cap on that roach!"

    ...yeah...

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Why?

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  • CheeselikerCheeseliker Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Because all blacks talk like gangstas of course....

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  • KlashKlash Lost... ... in the rainRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Wow. This thread went some interesting ways.

    That G4 interview looks great. The game looks great. Loving the new wood-stock guns. The bolt action looks like it'll be my new toy. That and dynamite. I like that we're getting coyotes instead of dogs. Its a small change, but an environmentally appropriate one.

    I look forward to taking the smallest faction I can find, and somehow elevating them to lords of the wastes.

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Damnit. Looking at the new Dungeon Siege III screens I just want a Fallout with that engine. D:

    Oh yes, if anyone didn't see it already.... Feargus himself and some mini gameplay bits:

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    god what I would have given for a Dick Clark-ish character instead of Three Dog

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I want one of those sexy Ceasar's Legion capes, but without the silly leg exposure.

    I might also use explosives this time, that remote detonator is pretty hawt.

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  • SirialisSirialis of the Halite Throne. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The first outfit I would want in New Vegas is the one the NCR soldier carries in the trailer, Gasmask along with an old duster coat and a M16 Assault Rifle.

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  • KadokenKadoken Giving Ends to my Friends and it Feels Stupendous Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I want the desert combat armor, that armor looks awesome.

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  • CanadianWolverineCanadianWolverine Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I really hope someone decides to make a Let's Play of the first time they play New Vegas and set it to hardcore, I like seeing first impressions of "Oh god, its going to kill me horribly!" even if it is just dying of thirst and hunger in the desert.

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  • DuffelDuffel jacobkosh Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    All the NCR armor looks really cool.

    I spent most of Fallout 3 wishing you could get WWII-esque military fatigues, given the setting, but the closest thing you got was the Chinese Jumpsuit and that's just WRONG.

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  • finnithfinnith ... TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I'm really hoping that I'll have the money to buy this game. I have this feeling that its a bad decision to buy this game during university though.

    Controlling myself did not work with Mass Effect 2 and it probably wont work with this game.

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  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I can't believe that this didn't occur to me earlier.

    I'm going to wear a tuxedo and glasses and carry both a samurai sword and a guitar.

    I'm debating whether or not to try doing this on Hardcore.

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  • Ninja Snarl PNinja Snarl P My helmet is my burden. Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I really hope someone decides to make a Let's Play of the first time they play New Vegas and set it to hardcore, I like seeing first impressions of "Oh god, its going to kill me horribly!" even if it is just dying of thirst and hunger in the desert.

    I'll be starting an LP for Crysis shortly, but the hardcore mode of Fallout 3 has me intrigued. By the time I finish with the Crysis games, maybe enough time will have passed to put New Vegas at least near the three-month mark. But I know somebody else on the forums is doing a Fallout 3 LP right now; I wouldn't want to steal their thunder if they want to LP New Vegas as well.

    Either way, it would mean putting off playing New Vegas for a while because something like that would probably be much, much better done blind and that may be a tough wait.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    If it has half as much branching as is promised, multiple LPs should still be different enough to be worthwhile. Especially if you different archetypes

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  • ArthArth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I really hope someone decides to make a Let's Play of the first time they play New Vegas and set it to hardcore, I like seeing first impressions of "Oh god, its going to kill me horribly!" even if it is just dying of thirst and hunger in the desert.

    I doubt I'll do a Let's Play of it, but I intend for my first playthrough to be a charismatic gunslinger with minimal medical skill. Because if things go tits up, I want them to go ultra tits up.

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  • DuffelDuffel jacobkosh Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I wonder what sort of dude I should do for my first run.

    In FO3 I was a Good Speech/Medicine character, because I basically wanted to be as much like Dad as possible. The ending actually works pretty well if you've been playing it that way, at least the first time.

    The Courier seems like much more of a blank slate. I think I'll go for the Eastwood/Man with No Name archetype - near-supernatural skills with handguns, loyal only to himself (and maybe a few other people if I like them well enough, but certainly not to any greater cause), but also intelligent and looking to manipulate everything to his advantage.

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  • L.E.O.L.E.O. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i usually just make a bad guy first, then a good guy.

    they both have good speech skills, cause not having that sometimes you cant unlock a certain quest.

    the good guy uses speech to inspire, the bad guy uses it to manipulate, oh yeaah.

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    My quest?

    I have only one!

    Find the biggest badass available and wreck shit.

    (Trejo and I gonna be best buds in every game of mine)

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  • StrikerkcStrikerkc Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    My First Character?...

    It's going to be time for The Continuing Adventures of a Man Named Jayne.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    me and a certain mexican ghoul are going to run around the wasteland choppin up all da womens meats with machetes.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    My first character will be the same as all my first characters, ever - optimised to allow me to get in as many places as possible, and then steal as much as I can carry, while sniping anybody who objects in the head.

    I hate seeing a door and not being able to go through it. I don't know if that character will be hardcore, though, as I don't want to have to choose between stealing that fourth laser rifle and not starving to death in the middle of nowhere because I had to jettison my food to carry it.

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  • skaceskace Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I really hope someone decides to make a Let's Play of the first time they play New Vegas and set it to hardcore, I like seeing first impressions of "Oh god, its going to kill me horribly!" even if it is just dying of thirst and hunger in the desert.

    I've never done an LP but I was actually thinking of going straight to HC on my first play through....

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2010
    You only need Fraps for such a thing right?

    But then Id have to get a microphone and such.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited August 2010
    My first character will be the same as all my first characters, ever - optimised to allow me to get in as many places as possible, and then steal as much as I can carry, while sniping anybody who objects in the head.

    I am unable to play anything but this kind of character.

    At least I've managed to condition myself to not steal anything not nailed down, and only go for the good stuff.

    I learned my lesson after I crashed the market for dinner plates and forks.

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  • KadokenKadoken Giving Ends to my Friends and it Feels Stupendous Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I've wondered in Fallout 3, why do you need a mattress to sleep and regain your health? In Oblivion, you could wait for an hour and you would be healed up. Is the main PC too prissy to sleep under a tree, or in a corner of a building?

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  • Roland_tHTGRoland_tHTG Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    And certainly don't try to sleep in that bed that happens to be owned by... somebody.

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  • DuffelDuffel jacobkosh Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Even if said somebody is now a pile of sparkling ashes on the floor...

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  • Jay FoxfireJay Foxfire Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    My first character will look as close to Gordon Freeman as possible. I'm thinking of picking up the four eyes trait for it too.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    An option to carry around a tent might be nice - regain health anywhere, but waste encumbrance. Plus the potential to be woken up in your sleep by a roving mutant, like in Morrowind.

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    118 hours and change, 100% done. the dlc was extremely hit or miss. i probably would have been pissed to pay $10 for operation anchorage or mothership zeta. broken steel, point lookout and the pitt were solid though.

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  • KlashKlash Lost... ... in the rainRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    You mean you're 100% done the quests?

    Because there is just no way you've done everything, completey, 100% in such a short time.

    You went to Dunwich? You used the Highwater orbital code? Found all the unique items? Visited all the Enclave outposts?

    There is so much joyous face-shooting and cave-diving to be done. Surely, 118 hours simply isn't enough. :P

    I had a post in this thread somewhere about all the interesting, but easily missed, little stuff you can do. I'll try and find it later.

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  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
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    Odo! :D

    I am over the moon about this voice cast. It's either [strike]insanely good market research[/strike] or they just picked the perfect cast right out of my brain.

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Zilla360 wrote: »
    I am over the moon about this voice cast. It's either [strike]insanely good market research[/strike] or they just picked the perfect cast right out of my brain.
    I'm pretty sure Obsidian had a hand in the cast. They are nerds enough.:P

    Also notice that the guy in the photo works for Bethesda for like a year if I remember right.

    Edit: He also worked on The Darkness before. Which had at least supreme voice acting.

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  • Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Apparently I can work for Matthew Perry in New Vegas.
    Perry will be playing Benny, who's the head of the Gecko family and a criminal but "more of a ruthless pragmatist than a villain

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