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Fallout 3, changes to Fallout: New Vegas
Cheese of Borg
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With New Vegas coming to e3 I am wondering what people want to change and what to stay from Fallout 3, other then what has been announced. Personally I hope to see skill books stay. However I hope to see a HUGE improvement to animations, the walking one only is JUST believable.
On a side note:
Here's a link to a montage of fallout 3 I made to get you in the mood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnkQ2Gc97Kk
On a side note:
Here's a link to a montage of fallout 3 I made to get you in the mood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnkQ2Gc97Kk
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Also deeper dialogue and stuff but that won't happen because then they couldn't sell it to the 10 second attention span crowd.
Oh, and ffs, how about improving animation quality for the first time since Morrowind.
I'd like the karma system to not suck, mostly. I refuse to understand the perk cannibalism being a negative attribute when used on a raider that just tried to eat me. Some situational karma would be a vast improvement over Bethesda's almighty [booming voice]UNIVERSAL KARMA OF SAINTY MCSAINTY THE SAINT![/booming voice]. Being evil just lacks appeal in F3, especially in terms of rewards, that is to say, evil just results you get getting nothing, almost always, and what little you do get is incredibly worse than the good choices.
I'd like an unlimited space inventory, but thats a pipe dream and I know people for some reason like being encumbered.
I'd like to see some things return from the old Fallouts. More VATS points, including eyes, knees, elbows, the works. Hell, let me at their feet. Hard points for all!
More animations than "blammo!" for kills. Plasma puddles are nice, but the aren't satisfying to make, same with laser and electrical deaths.
0 INT speech options would be nice. It'd be even better if INT, speech, CHA and the like didn't all feel totally useless. You get the occasional [_] option, but its always meaningless. Oh boy, you got a lab coat! The one time I can think of it getting me out of a jam was Andale, and that wasn't even a jam, since they were pissweak inbreds. The one time it sped up a quest, was the Wasteland Survival Guide and then it prevented me from getting a perk, so it wasn't worth doing. Options, choices and dialogue. The key thing I expect Obsidian to be working on.
More perks focused on resilience and specific creatures. I really liked the Robotics Expert and Entomologist type perks. I'd like to build a character focused entirely on perks like that, a jack of all trades but a master of none combatant.
More radio stations, with more comments, more accuracy in the reporting, more to say, less repeating of events on it, more songs, more, more, more.
Then again, I have nothing but love for Fallout 3 and would pay just for more of it. Lay it on me, Obsidian. I'm ready for awesome dialogue, fun choices and morality that goes round and round and back again.
Edit: Oh, and please let Obsidian be half as good at amtosphere as Bethesda were. Fallout 3 was a thrill to explore, even when it was station after station.
Nice montage by the way. The song sounds different than the in-game version, though. Is that a cover?
Wait...
but don't know what happens after that... loved this game, though, I'd really need some substantial new features to get back into it
Hey, you asked.
Oh yeah, and a hex grid. Thanks.
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Like in Broken Steel when you get to start up the water purifier and the whole bay becomes drinkable. Or Megaton where you can nuke the shit out of the city. More stuff like that. A noticeable change for the better or worse.
Also better and more in-depth conversation options with NPCs such that they might become characters that I give even the slightest shit about.
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This. When you start a new game (Fallout 3, at least) for the first time armed with only the pistol and barely any ammo, not knowing what you'll come across - that's the feeling that doesn't come up nearly enough. Playing with the radio off and only having the (extremely) faint background music helps set the mood as well.
New Vegas is sexy, however
Faces which don't scream "clicked the random button in Facegen a few times".
Fewer random encounters.
No outright morally good faction (F3 BoS god damn you Bethesda).
A decent ending that isn't fucking DLC.
Stats to mean something.
Power armor to be markedly better than lesser armors.
No level scaling.
No weapon/armor degredation mechanic (or at least a better way to handle repairs).
Ammo, food and water meaning something.
The best gun in the game not being given to you within the first hour.
Less focus on radio tracks and more on background music.
A UI that's not egrariously consoleriffic.
Less "we learnded the f word today isn't it funny guyz".
Better thought out and cohesive societies within settlements.
Less wildlife.
Bandits shit themselves and run rather than attacking on sight when they see your power armor and minigun.
Textures which aren't a fuzzy mess.
Despite all this I really liked F3.
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I must've missed this one. Details?
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Chinese assault rifle.
It's a bit of an exaggeration I guess, given that Lincoln's Repeater is better along with a couple of the DLC weapons, but it's still a gun that's easily usable throughout the entire game if you're a small guns user.
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- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
My favorite gun of that type is the Bastard from Metro 2033. A bullshit makeshift submachine gun crafted from leftover parts.
I never played a Fallout game until Falout 3. I have it for ps3. I still haven't finished the main storyline, but I would like to see the player's actions affect the environment. I know there are at least two quests which give the player a chance to improve the world, but I understand nothing actually changes.
On an unrelated note, Sollah I like your avatar and sig. Who is the girl in the avatar?
I want people to fear me while I'm wearing fucking power armor. People didn't talk shit about my "goody-two shoes" character while he was sporting power armor and a mini-gun as he walked around New Reno. Bitches kissed my ass.
This would be a good idea, kinda a morality 2 way slider.
Good -> Evil
Wimp -> Hard Bastard
So good people can get respect too.
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I remember speaking to a lady in Megaton, who explained to me that the town built from pieces old "flying machines" that were used before the war.
But then in the next dialogue tree, told me that it was made out of "Old Aeroplanes" in a totally different voice. I found the inconsistancies quite jarring.
And yeah - Animations. Good animations. Please. For god's sake.
The Phantom Stranger has always been more than enough of a companion for me.
i always take a follower to use as a mule to carry those 50 extra power armors I just salvaged.
Why I made the comment.
http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14341976/fallout-new-vegas/videos/falloutnv_vdp_060310_v3.html?show=hi
Nope, looks like Fallout 3 which is, imo, a good thing.
Man, I kinda forgot how bad the textures and animations were then. I mean, people are complaining about Alpha Protocol?
radiation with all its wonderful effects, so mutations, in fact have an entire set of common mutations, extra digits, eyes, a more defined set of radiation sickness, I never felt that radiation was ever even close to being a problem in the first game, even in highly radioactive areas.
The wasteland seems to have waaaay too much equipment, a little more survival horror should come into consideration at times.
An updated and improved housing system. I want trophy cases and stands, if i defeat the deathclaw brood mother, i want a deathclaw brood mother head nailed to a board in my trophy room.
I want constructable towns, look at player mods like settlers and say damn, if the guardian of the wastelands tells a random wanderer he can build a better life in town x, have him show up in town x and take a job (guard, prostitute, miner, miller, etc) if a gunsmith position doesnt exist find one in the wastes, recruit from bandits or other towns, have him show up, suck at first but as you trade with them they get better and getter skill and warez.
More gear slots, bandaleros, backpacks, belts, boots, tattoos piercings, bandanas, bracers, they dont even have to be stat driven but just allow the player to customize his avatar. In fact if i want to be a fat bastard i should be allowed to play that body type, fuck these thin or fit bastards.
My problem is this is obsidian, they dont do "new" things, they write dialog, they write dialog well, but they dont seem to be able to code for shit. I expect a bloated version of FO3 with good ideas poorly implemented, and then several of the cool ideas cut down or out, and rushed out the door to meet a deadline. (kotor2, nwn2 style). I expect to some cool stuff I wish worked right, I expect my frame rate to drop to single digits at times for no good reason, and I expect the game to only be playable after fans of the franchise patch and streamline obsidians attempt to make a good sequel to a cool game.
Prove me wrong Obsidian.
Holy shit. That looked great. I didn't think that they'd get that much rocky-ness into NV. I mean, on the one hand, I'd love a flat open map, but if that were the only terrain, I'd go bonkers. Seeing super mutants in all sorts of clothing and a grenade machine gun was also great.
Please, please tell me that they intend to do some DLC, with a GOTY edition.
I also think I might very well be the only player not interested in some "survival" style game. Hardcore mode sounds cool, but I don't care. I want actually enjoyed being a power house in F3, because it felt like progress. I was avoiding fights until around level 15. Then I started picking up worth while items and my perks started become more efficient, my skills also increased. I felt like I'd worked my way up to Ass-kicker of the Wasteland. Then marching around slaughtering raiders felt completely appropriate to my character.
I don't think they're going to. I'm not even sure they want to, given what Alpha Protocol looks like (lots of effort going to story/dialog, coded by monkeys without arms).
Yah, but you know what they say about monkeys with type writers!