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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    No specs yet, they say they want to release mod tools but they aren't worrying about it until they launch the game.

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I never understood how people can get so fond of a game that they don't want the sequels to change in any way.

    I've played every Final Fantasy and every Suikoden and I've never cried about the changes from title to title.
    And believe me, both series went through a lot more changes than fucking Fallout.

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Klyka wrote: »
    I never understood how people can get so fond of a game that they don't want the sequels to change in any way.

    I've played every Final Fantasy and every Suikoden and I've never cried about the changes from title to title.
    And believe me, both series went through a lot more changes than fucking Fallout.

    The attachment to Fallout is a bit distorted. 90% of the people who loved the game played it in 1998 and have maybe picked it up a few times since then out of nostalgia, but have largely moved on to other games since then.

    The people who want Fallout 3 to be exactly like Fallout 1 are the ones who played it since 1998 and barely touch other games except insofar as insulting is touching. The rest of us had newer games to play.

    Edit: Since you mention Final Fantasy, you also see some of this attachment to FF7, and there's always the old "3D maeks gaems baed" people typing words in the SNES section of GameFAQs. Doesn't mean everybody who liked FF7 is like that, just that some games attract die hard fanboys like that.

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Hevach wrote: »
    Klyka wrote: »
    I never understood how people can get so fond of a game that they don't want the sequels to change in any way.

    I've played every Final Fantasy and every Suikoden and I've never cried about the changes from title to title.
    And believe me, both series went through a lot more changes than fucking Fallout.

    The attachment to Fallout is a bit distorted. 90% of the people who loved the game played it in 1998 and have maybe picked it up a few times since then out of nostalgia, but have largely moved on to other games since then.

    The people who want Fallout 3 to be exactly like Fallout 1 are the ones who played it since 1998 and barely touch other games except insofar as insulting is touching. The rest of us had newer games to play.

    Edit: Since you mention Final Fantasy, you also see some of this attachment to FF7, and there's always the old "3D maeks gaems baed" people typing words in the SNES section of GameFAQs. Doesn't mean everybody who liked FF7 is like that, just that some games attract die hard fanboys like that.

    And when we say those people we mean NMA, of course, but it's usually the same dozen or so people who complain on the forums. I like to go there whenever there's Fallout 3 news just to see the reactions. They were bitching that the game was too brown, and full of obscenities (one guy, two swear words) ruining the atmosphere from the recent videos from PAX. I doubt anyone really gives a shit about those twelve people. Although, RPG Codex is apparently pretty bad, too, going so far as to send death threats to Bethesda.

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    At this point, those twelve people have too much hate invested. They're even starting to hate the game for being TOO MUCH like Fallout. They can't afford to like it, it would hurt their pride too much.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Quick FO2 question: Am I missing something with character creation? If you just start from scratch, all stats are at 5, and you got 5 points to distribute. If you just modify Narg, you can drop all his stats to 5, and it gives you a total of 12 to distribute. Why wouldn't someone do that?

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    So I just watched the gameplay vids and holy shit the 28th needs to hurry up.

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  • The EverymanThe Everyman Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Quick FO2 question: Am I missing something with character creation? If you just start from scratch, all stats are at 5, and you got 5 points to distribute. If you just modify Narg, you can drop all his stats to 5, and it gives you a total of 12 to distribute. Why wouldn't someone do that?

    Narg has the Gifted trait, which gives +1 to all SPECIAL stats, while lowering the started percentage of all skills by 10%.

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  • Walrus PeteWalrus Pete Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Quick FO2 question: Am I missing something with character creation? If you just start from scratch, all stats are at 5, and you got 5 points to distribute. If you just modify Narg, you can drop all his stats to 5, and it gives you a total of 12 to distribute. Why wouldn't someone do that?

    Narg probably has the Gifted trait, which adds one point to all of your stats.

    edit: Eeeeveryyyymaaaaaan!! :shakefist:

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Haha, yeah, I just realized that and was about to edit my message.

    Thanks guys

    I've never played FO2. Only dabbled some with FO1.

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  • Gorilla SaladGorilla Salad Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    You know what's fun? Wandering the wastes for a year, running into a military base, and then running away because BIG SCARY MUTANTS WITH MINIGUNS, only to be killed a few days outside of it by BIG SCARY MUTANTS WITH MINIGUNS!

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  • FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    We found the food and took it back to Moira who sent us on another quest to infect ourselves with deadly radiation so she could study it. What? B*tch, you crazy. We did it anyway, submerging ourselves in some irradiated water until we were at 200 rads, though if we would have gotten 600, there was some kind of bonus in it for us. Again, we returned to Moira and she thanked us and fixed us up. At this point, Pete Hines of Bethesda walked over and said, “you know, if your speech skill was high enough, you could have bullsh**ted her into thinking you had done it when you actually hadn’t.” Lie in a video game, Pete? I would never.
    Note to self: level speech skill.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    So did we ever find out if the Pipboy that comes with the Survival edition is an actual alarm clock or just a clock? That's the one question I need answered before I'll drop 120 bucks on it otherwise it's just the SE for me.

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  • NoneoftheaboveNoneoftheabove Just a conforming non-conformist. Twilight ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The odd thing I've noticed about Fallout fans is that we all feel terribly compelled to defend the games-1&2, as if they were a religion. Anybody who we feel sleights the game in any manner and we feel personally offended. That's surreal! I realize this in myself and hopefully take a step back from becoming a rabid fanatic of the game that I know I am.

    There must be something to this game, more than just a piece of electronic entertainment.

    Fallout 3 better deliver, or I'm taking a walk off a short pier.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Someone needs to make a gif of the powerfist knocking a raiders head off. Now.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The odd thing I've noticed about Fallout fans is that we all feel terribly compelled to defend the games-1&2, as if they were a religion. Anybody who we feel sleights the game in any manner and we feel personally offended. That's surreal! I realize this in myself and hopefully take a step back from becoming a rabid fanatic of the game that I know I am.

    There must be something to this game, more than just a piece of electronic entertainment.

    Fallout 3 better deliver, or I'm taking a walk off a short pier.
    With the Survival Edition strapped around your neck?

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Someone needs to make a gif of the powerfist knocking a raiders head off. Now.

    Already done. Check the SA forums.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Someone needs to make a gif of the powerfist knocking a raiders head off. Now.

    Already done. Check the SA forums.

    I looked but my search fu is weak.:cry:

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Someone needs to make a gif of the powerfist knocking a raiders head off. Now.

    Already done. Check the SA forums.

    I looked but my search fu is weak.:cry:

    You have much to learn, grasshopper.

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  • NoneoftheaboveNoneoftheabove Just a conforming non-conformist. Twilight ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    With the Survival Edition strapped around your neck?

    No, shackled to my ankle sending me off to the briney deep.

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  • ColtColt .45 ColoradoRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Someone needs to make a gif of the powerfist knocking a raiders head off. Now.

    Already done. Check the SA forums.

    I looked but my search fu is weak.:cry:

    You have much to learn, grasshopper.

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    No linking from this host. D:

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Just copy the URL and paste it back into the address bar. Worked fine.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Ah thanks, and I think I know what I'm tagging for my first play through. :D

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  • interceptintercept Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    First thing I'm going to do is try to beat the game without killing a single person. If I can, it is legitimately the descendant of Fallout.

    And I will use those charms to become a pornstar. I better be able to become a pornstar.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    A wasteland without blood is like water without wet.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I will be William, the smart talking detective that solves his problems with his fist, and maybe small arms too, since they said just unarmed would be hard.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Guns, Speech and something random (probably Science/Medicine/Hacking). The Classy Gentleman of the Post-Apocalyptic Nuclear Waste.

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  • interceptintercept Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Drez wrote: »
    A wasteland without blood is like water without wet.

    Not for a gentleman, good sir. Then I turn this desert into a land of milk and honey.

    intercept on
  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Colt wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Someone needs to make a gif of the powerfist knocking a raiders head off. Now.

    Already done. Check the SA forums.

    I looked but my search fu is weak.:cry:

    You have much to learn, grasshopper.

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    No linking from this host. D:

    Bad hit detection ftw!! Chestpunch = Headloss! :P

    Honk on
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  • HeirHeir Ausitn, TXRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Honk wrote: »
    Colt wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Someone needs to make a gif of the powerfist knocking a raiders head off. Now.

    Already done. Check the SA forums.

    I looked but my search fu is weak.:cry:

    You have much to learn, grasshopper.

    http://img.waffleimages.com/a271afc46254f5075163b1a17a8b4ad5ef3eb63a/supapowafisutu.gif

    No linking from this host. D:

    Bad hit detection ftw!! Chestpunch = Headloss! :P

    Yeah I was thinking the same thing.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    My reasoning for it is like, those games at the carnival where you hit a mallet on a plank and it shoots that metal disc up and the urban legend of being able to knock the bell off with enough force.

    mallet= power first
    metal disc= energy travel
    bell= raiders head.

    :P

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    intercept wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    A wasteland without blood is like water without wet.

    Not for a gentleman, good sir. Then I turn this desert into a land of milk and honey.

    And scattered intestines.

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  • SorensonSorenson Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    My reasoning for it is like, those games at the carnival where you hit a mallet on a plank and it shoots that metal disc up and the urban legend of being able to knock the bell off with enough force.

    mallet= power first
    metal disc= energy travel
    bell= raiders head.

    :P
    I was gonna' post somethin' about hyperpressurized liquified internal organs takin' the path of least resistance, myself.

    So will the Mega Power Fist make everything pop off? :D

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  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    My reasoning for it is like, those games at the carnival where you hit a mallet on a plank and it shoots that metal disc up and the urban legend of being able to knock the bell off with enough force.

    mallet= power first
    metal disc= energy travel
    bell= raiders head.

    :P

    That's actually pretty good reasoning, the force has to come out somewhere.. :P
    Another reasoning would be that the hitbox for the head is too big and we will all make headshots all the time, ever ever!!

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  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Sorenson wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    My reasoning for it is like, those games at the carnival where you hit a mallet on a plank and it shoots that metal disc up and the urban legend of being able to knock the bell off with enough force.

    mallet= power first
    metal disc= energy travel
    bell= raiders head.

    :P
    I was gonna' post somethin' about hyperpressurized liquified internal organs takin' the path of least resistance, myself.

    So will the Mega Power Fist make everything pop off? :D

    It's known to even make catholic church parties pop off!

    Honk on
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  • Demitri OmniDemitri Omni Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I keep forgetting to keep up with this game.

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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dashui wrote: »
    Although, RPG Codex is apparently pretty bad, too, going so far as to send death threats to Bethesda.

    What.

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    KiTA wrote: »
    Dashui wrote: »
    Although, RPG Codex is apparently pretty bad, too, going so far as to send death threats to Bethesda.

    What.

    the internet is serious business.

    Deaderinred on
  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I plan on becoming king of the mutants.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Heir wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    Colt wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Someone needs to make a gif of the powerfist knocking a raiders head off. Now.

    Already done. Check the SA forums.

    I looked but my search fu is weak.:cry:

    You have much to learn, grasshopper.

    http://img.waffleimages.com/a271afc46254f5075163b1a17a8b4ad5ef3eb63a/supapowafisutu.gif

    No linking from this host. D:

    Bad hit detection ftw!! Chestpunch = Headloss! :P

    Yeah I was thinking the same thing.
    It's from a VATS head targeted shot that's why his head goes flying off.

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