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Lets Play: Fallout New Vegas! Set 0, the choosing.
Mifio
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Wikipedia wrote:Fallout: New Vegas takes place during the year 2281, 3 years after the estimated end of Fallout 3, and 204 years after the Great War of 2077, making this installment chronologically the latest in the series thus far. The game is set in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Nevada and the Mojave Desert known as the "Mojave Wasteland" which is roughly the same size as the "Capital Wasteland" in Fallout 3. Unlike other cities in the Fallout series, Las Vegas was not struck directly by a nuclear attack. Its buildings remain intact, and mutation of its inhabitants is minimal. The city is divided between various factions, most notably the New California Republic (NCR), returning from Fallout 2, but now bloated and corrupt, the slave-driving, Roman Army-styled Caesar's Legion, and the various factions of New Vegas itself. Landmarks featured in Fallout: New Vegas include the Hoover Dam that supplies power to the city and the HELIOS One solar energy plant.
Basically, if you don't know what this game is, you run around, talk to people, and then shoot them and steal their clothes.
Our Character: Nothing as of yet.
S.P.E.C.I.A.L:
Strength:
Perception:
Endurance:
Charisma:
Intelligence:
Agility:
Luck:
Perception:
Endurance:
Charisma:
Intelligence:
Agility:
Luck:
Now, this is a very open world game, there are lots of choices to make, which should make things interesting for us. Now, we're doing a hardcore runthrough of this game. While we're going to follow the main story, if we stumble upon an interesting quest, we're probably going to finish it all the way through, even if it has no pertinence on the main storyline. You may notice that I'm speaking in plural terms, I'm going to be joined in this Lets Play with a real life friend, under the pseudonym Domovon! We'll be trading off sets. I'll be playing for one, and then he'll be playing for one.
Videos: Nada as of yet.
Now, what I want you folks to do, I want you to tell me what you want us to play as. Want us to be a smooth talking pistol wielding heroic savior? We'll play as that. Want us to play as the dumb brute who can only use a baseball bat because he's equal intellect with a radish? We'll play as that.
With your votes, mind, I don't really care if you have the S.P.E.C.I.A.L or not, but it's preferable. If you just want to generalize, and say dumb brute. We'll tally up the votes and have our first video out at the end of the weekend.
Hope you all enjoy, and here's hoping I actually finish what I start this time.
(Sorry for the quite bare OP, I'll be expanding on it once we get some stuff down.)
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I never can remember how many points you get to start with, but something like this:
S 7
P 3
E 7
C 2
I 1
A 3
L 9/10
Never steal, and try to ALWAYS be the good guy, even if you've got to be a bit bad to get one someone's good side.
This could be hilarious.
I would make strength 8. perception 2, but that is my opinion. I like the rest.
Except the good part. I want this guy to be clumsy-evil. Like he accidently goes into a murderous rage and kills off all of Novac. Instead of solving the quest, he just kills EVERYONE.
INT 1/7 "Me... science... like you!"
I wasn't aware of this. If this is true, unofficially, I am boned.
Goddamn! I hope you're not kidding, because now my next character has to be a driveling idiot!
And about the "waiting period" before doing an LP... Unless there's a PA forum rule I missed (which... I kinda doubt, though I'll re-read to be safe), then it's really just a rule as applied by snobby gamers who are a-scared of teh spoilarz. So, it shouldn't be a biggie.
EDIT: I guess Evil may be the way to go. I always play as a good guy in missions and when screwing around in the wastes, but I'm a kleptomaniac in the game which inevitably makes you mustache-twirlingly evil in the game, for whatever reason.
I'll toss in my vote. I want an incredibly smart and charismatic character who is pretty crappy with weapons. I think it'd be interesting trying to talk our way out of everything.
Oh, and note, this IS a HARDCORE run through. So, some things I will be doing is putting points in survival and medicine, that's just a heads up.
Just a mention, my smart character CAN talk his way out of everything (met my first speech check that I failed last night, 20 hours in. Speech is going to be maxed out tonight in a level). While it is fun, they don't do anything interesting yet. Kinda disappointed. At least in Mass Effect 1, you could convince the final boss to kill himself.
But it'll be easy
there's no reason to do an lp of this game
none at all
plus somebody else has already called this game's lp
You can call an LP? Then I call the LP for Rage. Sorry, but that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Also, with an RPG, multiple LPs is a good thing.
Also, the game came out ten days ago. If people don't want it spoiled, don't follow the thread or watch his videos.
It's applied because there's no reason to do it, and it's basically attention whoring to do a "race to be the first person to LP the game" thing, not from any sort of elitism or whatever nonsense
Just wait three months
It's 90 days
Plus, the waiting period will let you actually play the game through instead of blind LPing it like I assume you are, raising the quality of the work immensely
To be quite frank you're not part of the LP community on these boards so you don't really have a leg to stand on
and jumping over someone's head when they call an LP on it, unless they're cool with you doing it as well (and I know Ninja Snarl P isn't in this case), is at best incredibly rude
Ugh. You're right, I don't make LPs. Additionally, I don't care if I am a part of this 'community'. I know I have watched and read many excellent LPs both on here and other places. The entertainment value of someone's lp is not helped or hindred by your community.
I stand by my original opinion. 'Calling' to be the first to do an LP of a game is incredibly lame. Reminds me of domain-camping or Patent-sitting. If Ninja Snarl P wants to do an LP, great. I can't wait to watch/read it.
Mifio wants to do one too, and I look forward to it.
Simply put, lay off with the insular crap, you silly geese.
Mifio: There's an unofficial rule that we wait 3 months to LP a game. For many reasons, such as since it's brand new, everyone is playing it right now. It would be hard to get viewers. It's not like, an actual forum rule though. More of a suggestion.
No one can "call" an LP. That is stupid. There's nothing against having two of the same thing. People might say it's courteous not to do one if someone else has it planned, but really if you want to do it, you can do it.
The only thing we really look down upon is people coming in here just to dump their finished youtube LP.
I don't mean to, but seriously there's no reason to lp a game barely a week out from release
Seriously, the reason to do one now is exactly the same as doing one three months out. Did you jump on Helloween when he started his LP of Amnesia a week and a half after it came out?
So just because someone else did it it's okay for them to do it?
And that's my point, the reason to do one now is exactly the same as doing one three months from now
So...why don't you just respect the rules and wait three months?
I mean it's not an "offcial" rule, but it's an unofficial one and quite honestly it's rude to disregard it. I mean you can, there's nothing against NOT doing it, but why not just wait?
Why is waiting such a horrible idea? It's 90 days, less now
I don't think I'm being unreasonable here, I'm just asking them to wait
Per 2
End 9
Cha 1
Int 1
Agi 8
Luck 10
Unarmed/Melee/Medicine
A brawling, drugged up ne'er do well that always seems to stumble at just the right time to avoid that incoming body blow.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
We have no such rule.
edit: and this is not the place to discuss hypothetical rules either.
It's kind of a weird RPG stat anyway since a character's intelligence is really determined by the player, heh.
STR 10
PER 1
END 10
CHR 1
INT 1
AGL 7
LCK 10
So you can eventually take Slayer without having to get an implant or get Intensive Training.
I would myself go with this:
STR 9
PER 1
END 9
CHR 1
INT 5
AGL 6
LCK 9
Then pick up implants to get AGL to 7 for Slayer and max out the SPECIAL stats at 9. With INT at 5 you can tag science and put some skill points in that so you can unlock terminals and get ED-E (if you want) a little easier.
Either way these are perks and traits you should get:
Wild Wasteland
Heavy Handed
As your traits
Cannibal
Terrifying Presence
Ghastly Scavenger
Slayer
As some of your perks. The middle two will help you immensely while playing on Hardcore.
I'd probably tag Melee, Science and Survival.
You should be able to rake in dough at casinos so the implants shouldn't be a big deal and with the right perks you will critical all the time. With int at five you won't be exactly starving for skill points.
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I like blind LP's more because the guy playing it doesnt know what the best choices or decisions are. And in a game like this, not knowing the outcome of the decisions actually makes for a better LP...
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They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Tell me about the rabbits, George!
Oh my God, do this based on Of Mice and Men. DO IT DAMN YOU.
Um...
ST:10
PER:5
END:8
CHA:1
INT:1
AG:5
LUK:10
I think that adds up.
Stress unarmed, survival, and sneak.
Mojave. But no, this would be great. I'd prefer nuclear or winter. Just to show those god damn NCR soldiers.
EDIT: lol
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Maybe Caravan would be a better word? Im just trying to think of a word that maybe... 15% of named NPC's will say, enough that youll miss out on some quests due to hilariously random rage, but not enough where you end up killing 95% of the useful NPC's in the world. But if you wanna do that, just pick "New Vegas" :P
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of course there is. because he's not going to get many viewers is he, since most people won't have had a chance to play it being that it's not even 10 days old
it's not spite or snobbishness, it's just a good idea to LP a game at least a few people are familiar with.
just common sense
Wild Wasteland is a must. I have heard mention of some interesting stuff under that.
Either way, even if you do the same build as what I am operating under, I am sure you will have something entirely different, experience-wise. This game is just so dynamic.
I like the idea of the gunslinging cowboy, just saying.
Also. Wild Wasteland is a must, Dom and I already decided on it. We have no clue what it does, so it should be interesting.
And, one last thing. I got the preorder version of this game, meaning I have the Vault 13 armored jumpsuit, the weathered 10mm, and the canteen. Now, should we just toss those things? Or keep them and just play with them.
See, I'm not going to buy the game anytime soon, and I dearly love blind LPs (Helloween's "Dead Space" LP was hours of fun). Having a brand new LP for a brand new game really doesn't bother me all that much, and could convince people who might not have bought it otherwise that it's really so good someone just can't wait.
Positives, man. Positives.
I'm in agreement with most of the others here: I want to see an astonishingly dumb but strangely lovable brute with a "rage" trigger word; think Minsc when Boo gets threatened. And if you can get a pet in this one, I want its name to be Squish, after the brain-eating lizard seen on Lexx.
Question: can you wield the canteen as a weapon? I'd love to see you bash people to death with that which sustains life.
Nope.
Also, Cannibal is a doubleplusgood.