Fallout | The reason why New Vegas is soo memorable to me is simple: everything you do affects the main quest and thus, feels more impactfull. |
- The reason why New Vegas is soo memorable to me is simple: everything you do affects the main quest and thus, feels more impactfull.
- What are some lesser known reactions to the player’s actions in the series?
- Public Service Announcement in Defense of Enclave
- It took me like 5 years to finally realize what the Great Khans are based off of. I knew the Legion was based off of Rome but I was like “Where have I heard Khan before?” Oh yeah… Genghis Khan…
- New Vegas: Brain-Damage Playthrough
- I fucked up in Fallout 1. Now, Idk if it's worth restarting.
- Far Harbor Is Outstanding
- i cant play fallout 3 GOTY (steam version) on windows 10. (more specifically I apparently need thexlive.dll)
- Is there another time limit in Fallout 1?
- what are your feelings on fallout new vegas, fallout 4, fallout 76, and fallout 3?
- What is your opinion on Mr. House?
- Fallout 4 - Game of the year - Key for Steam PC
- Anybody want to play 76 on ps4
- So the legion is invading the sub?
- What are the Fallout 3 dlcs like?
- Please help with Fallout 2
- Fallout New Vegas 1st play through (i actually made it too the end to) thoughts.
- Poor performance on Fallout 76 -- 5700 XT/3700 X.
- Can you use mods with tale of 2 wastelands installed?
- Is it normal for New Vegas to crash a lot on an XBOX One?
- Is it hard to come across fellow Vault Dwellers IRL? Like we're out there but hidden in plain sight
- Is fallout 3 worth playing?
- What is the best ballistic and energy gun in the entire series (all games, best guns ever)?
| Posted: 29 Jun 2021 03:45 AM PDT SPOILERS FOR F3, 4, Skyrim and New Vegas AHEAD tl;dr: You are NOT important. Your actions are. That is the difference. Obligatory "English is not my native lenguage, sorry for bad grammar" You know the criticism, ironically it applies to Fallout 3, 4 and Skyrim. You have this super urgent main quest "Find my X" or "Save the fucking world from dragons" but you never feel the urgency, you need just go do that. You divert from the path, you go do side quests and you just forget about it the main quest. This never happened to me in New Vegas and the reason I came to this conclusion is simple. Everything matters. Well, not everything everything, but most sidequests have a representing slide on the ending slideshow: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_endings. Even the ones who dont still feel impactfull to the main world because much like real life politics, everything is connected. Here´s a few case studies separated into two categories. A: Major changes that have NO impact on the story. B: Minor changes that have no impact on the overall world. A: Everyone remenbers Megatown right? Well, it has a nuke and you can literally blow it up destroying one of the largest (and definitevly the most memorable) settlement of that game. It doesnt matter. It doesnt affect the plot. An entire city was wipped from the map, a major caravan and trading hub just completly gone. Other than a one liner of disapointment from father. A: Remenber when we kill the fucking Emperor in Skyrim for the Dark Brotherhood? During a Civil War nonetheless. IN THE TERRITORY WHERE THE CIVIL WAR IS BEING FOUGHT. Imagine the morale hit it would have happened in the troops, the nobles. Not to mention, imagine the harsh retaliations any normal empire would have levied upon the rebeling peoples. Its the fucking emperor and it means nothing. Prince Frans Ferdinand was assassinated on a rebelious province of his Empire and they started a World War because of it while there´s no reaction from the Empire. Its even worse if you side with the rebels and win the war. Why the fuck would the Emperor visit an enemy city?! A: Fallout 4 is even worse offender. While at least F3 and Skyrim have sidequests involving Major events, like wipping an entire city of the map or killing the fucking emperor, not a single side quest in Fallout 4 feels major in any way. Maybe its for the best, going back to my criticism, what is the point of doing big acts like in F3 or Skyrim if the consequences are soo small. B: All sidequests in Fallout 3 feel insular. Trapped inside themselves. Now, I must give it to them, all those quests really feel impactfull to the people you are helping but the problem persists that none of them impact the main plot. You can see Arefu getting more guards after dealing with the Vampires. You can see Big Town repealing attacks from Super Mutants after you help them. You can feel for the slaves in Paradise falls after you release them. Hell, you literally help the Tree God from Oasis sprout new life. The thing is, all of those quests are distractions from the main plot. Disconected from it in every way. B: Skyrim has a similar problem, the only side quest that I remenber impacting the story is the Civil War Plot. And that is a Major Side Quest. If you ignore the civil war, both sides will agree to a truce and even exchange cities to save manpower for the fight against the dragons. This is really cool and its the one moment I felt the world was alive. The problem is that this is the exception. Now, back to the star of the show. Lets see how New Vegas handle Major Events (A) and Minor Side Events (B): A: This should be obvious if you look at the link in the second paragraph. A lot of RPGs have this big "Choices Matter" as a selling point but New Vegas actually delivers. In this game you can affect the world in soo many different ways and see how the world reacts to it. If you dont supply camp forlon hope, the morale will be low, the troops will be underequpiped and they all die in the last mission if you listen to the radio broadcast; you can instead help them and even wipe out the legion garrison that is giving them soo much trouble. Or do the other way around and help the legion take them out. On this point, if you kill all the 3 fiend leaders with bounties on them, the Snipers of 1st Recon will move out to Forlorn Hope and this also affects the morale and fighting capabilities of the place. You can either help the NCR find spies in Camp Maccaran or help the Legion Sabotage the Monorail, their only direct route into the Strip. This also has major consequences in the overall war, the desctrution of their main supply line into Vegas means that it is harder to reinforce the city and harder yet to evacuate NCR personal in case it falls. If you ally the Followers to the NCR, they will give you medical supplies in 3 of 4 possible endings to the game during the battle. If you help the Enclave Remnants they will show up in a vertibird and escort you to the final boss. Depending on what you do with the Great Khans, they will help either faction or just not show up at all. If you kill Caesar everyone reacts to it in the world. From major characters like House to lowly NCR Troopers. It even change quest outcomes like preventing Chief Harlon suicide or making Joshua hopefull, or you know making Boone open up. Speaking of Caesar, you are forced into meeting with him at some point but depending on your actions on the side quests his reaction will change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlhIPThAoQ This video perfectly represents what I mean, specially at the 6 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqrV0tyOVKU B: Even the minor stuff makes sense. Helping bringing water back to the NCR Sharecroppers can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. It means trapping survivors in a bunker, it means destroying the crops in West Side, it means covering up a murder and dooming NCR Farmers if you dont want to help them. A small quest that starts with "We arent getting enough water to irrigate our crops" ends with you choosing to kill a family trough a computer terminal and destroying the agriculture of the poorest people in Vegas. I already mentioned this, but the hole 1st Recon thing being sent to a major location. 3 Card Bounty is a minor side quest with the very simple premisse of killing 3 bounties. The repercussions are massive tho and they are represented in the ending slides. Even minor places like Novac, Primm, Goodsprings and Jacobstown and their actions are also all well represented in the slideshow, with different reactions to the players actions. The Talent Show sidequest actively quickstarts the Tops Theater, adds two new songs to the radio and changes the sign at the entrance. Depending on how you complete beyond the beef, you can cause a food embargo to the city. Etc etc. Ok, but what is my point? My point is that the problem with Bethesda RPGs plots are not on the stories themselves that they are trying to tell. The problem is in the complete lack of world building. Everything is disconected. Nothing impacts nothing. We have countless real life happenings showing the exact opposite; hell, the US is currently pulling out of Afeganistan and this will cause major changes to the region like the return of the Taliban and the internal politics of the US seeing that they just ended a 2 decade long intervention. Imagine how weird our real world would be, if say Kabul were to be nuked like Megatown and no one had a reaction to it, the Taliban Soldiers acted like it was nothing, the US ignored this fact entirely and no News Organizations even spoke about it. This is why the world of Fallout 3 and 4 feel soo fake, its a consequence free world being played by people that live in a opposit envirioment. I can also point to criticisms relating to overall RPG mechanics, dialogue systems and whatnot. And those are all valid criticisms. But the main problem for me is how Bethesda build their worlds, it feels like the create the story first and them try to find the world around it, while in the real world stuff happens because of what is happening around it. Another video that helps explain my point is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7lBYg-9MGU&t=4s ^ It raises a really good point that cannot be raised in other bethesda RPGs. What would have happened if the courier died in the grave. If the main character is removed from the plot, there is no plot in Fallout 3, 4 and Skyrim because the player is the plot. We are the Chosen Ones, we are the Sons and Fathers, we are the Dragonborn. In Vegas we are a mailman. Your name would have been forgotten to history and the world would live on. You are NOT important. Your actions are. That is the difference. [link] [comments] |
| What are some lesser known reactions to the player’s actions in the series? Posted: 29 Jun 2021 02:49 AM PDT For example: shooting the memorial in boulder city in NV results in the NCR trooper getting mad at the player. Or Cheyenne dying during the tutorial causes unique dialogue with Sunny Smiles where she is distressed as a result. What are some examples similar to this? [link] [comments] |
| Public Service Announcement in Defense of Enclave Posted: 29 Jun 2021 04:44 AM PDT I'm seeing alot of unpatriotic hatred directed against the enclave so I thought I'd clear it up best I can (pun intended because we're also your ONLY hope of clearing up wasteland). Some of the Brotherhood propaganda talking points are listed below. Please come in with an open mind.
KEEP AMERICA ALIVE JOIN THE ENCLAVE! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2021 02:01 PM PDT |
| New Vegas: Brain-Damage Playthrough Posted: 28 Jun 2021 11:58 PM PDT I've always played as everyone's friend, trying to maintain good karma and complete quests for all of the factions. This time I'm playing as a ruthless, selfish, alcohol and chem-addicted survivor. Part of the roleplay is that the bullet to the brain left my character mostly emotionless and unstable. I sided with the Powder Gangers vs Goodsprings because I saw the opportunity to befriend a large non-NCR power in the area. I commended the Legion at Nipton because I didn't want to be on their bad side. I killed the Boomers for the first time and holy sh*t do they have a lot of good loot (12+ Combat Armor Sets, 24+ Explosive Weapons/Ammo, over 10K caps worth). I kill anyone who insults me if it rubs me the wrong way and burn a lot of bridges (cancel a lot of quests.) Have to say it's pretty fun. [link] [comments] |
| I fucked up in Fallout 1. Now, Idk if it's worth restarting. Posted: 29 Jun 2021 04:11 AM PDT So I went to "The Glow" to get the holotape for the Brotherhood of Steel. What happened was I arrived there at 22:00 so I thought to myself "I don't like dark, imma rest until 0800." I did rest but I got radiated a lot. I took two radx and cleared The Glow and when I was about to go to BOS, I died, and I kept dying. The thing is I have a habit of overwriting the save file instead of using the 10 slots. Now Im fucked. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2021 06:45 AM PDT Replayed this for the first time in about 3 years (3rd time total), and it is remarkable storytelling. The three way standoff between the different groups, each with outright and hidden motives brings out the best in the different personalities that Bethesda has to offer. The DiMA puzzle missions have become a pleasant aside during the main quest line. The detective story that is laid out on the island is gripping, made only more enchanting by having a trusty synth P.I. by your side. All this culminating in one of the toughest decisions that I've ever had to make in gaming when it comes to lightbulb brain. Definitely recommend playing or replaying if it's been 18 months or more since your last go. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2021 09:52 PM PDT so ive gone through every troubleshooting thing I've: set the game's compatibility mode to windows 7, set the game's compatibility mode to windows xp (service pack 2), tried to install games for windows live tried removing gfwl marketplace I've even tried running xliverdist.msi none of it worked but it seemed like the only issue was that I couldn't install games for windows live because of this: (I cant post images so ill recreate it) Install failed A network error occurred while attempting to get information from the server. Check your network connection and retry. Please visit our support homepage for possible solutions: [Support] For more details about why this error occurred, please see the log files: [Log Folder] and I looked up this issue and there were loads of people claiming they had this issue and no one helped anyone, they just said that it worked perfectly fine for them. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA pls help [link] [comments] |
| Is there another time limit in Fallout 1? Posted: 29 Jun 2021 02:27 AM PDT I know there's the water chip time limit, but is there another one after that? [link] [comments] |
| what are your feelings on fallout new vegas, fallout 4, fallout 76, and fallout 3? Posted: 28 Jun 2021 07:15 PM PDT |
| What is your opinion on Mr. House? Posted: 29 Jun 2021 06:15 AM PDT |
| Fallout 4 - Game of the year - Key for Steam PC Posted: 28 Jun 2021 10:13 PM PDT I got an extra key that I don't need, have fun. RLMZR-K8Z9B-AAQZY [link] [comments] |
| Anybody want to play 76 on ps4 Posted: 29 Jun 2021 04:30 AM PDT I need help fighting the moth man. My psn is supremeblah [link] [comments] |
| So the legion is invading the sub? Posted: 28 Jun 2021 11:27 AM PDT |
| What are the Fallout 3 dlcs like? Posted: 28 Jun 2021 09:27 PM PDT I am an expert at the base game of Fallout 3, but never got the chance to play the dlcs... what are they like? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2021 05:50 AM PDT Humongous fan of 4 and New Vegas. I just bought 2 on steam. I can't seem to figure out the UI or the general flow of the game. Combat is stupid hard and I can't figure out what the most beneficial skills and perks are in this one. Any tips?? [link] [comments] |
| Fallout New Vegas 1st play through (i actually made it too the end to) thoughts. Posted: 28 Jun 2021 09:18 PM PDT What I liked: It was great I loved the aesthetic of being essentially a cowboy in the post nuclear American west. I also liked the characters and how in dialogue you had unique options to extract more info if you were efficient in a certain field. I also enjoyed how perks worked. Also when i finished the game under Mr house and saw all the bits I realised, "Wait there's a lot of shit i didn't do" and that's another thing I like about this game, yes you can rush through it and get the ending while doing the necessary stuff but you can also slow down, explore and look for stuff you missed. I think the only real thing I struggled with was the combat, but I recognize that it was because I was rubbish ( I mean that's why i played on the easiest difficulty) So overall 4/5 Sorry for shitty grammar and punctuation. [link] [comments] |
| Poor performance on Fallout 76 -- 5700 XT/3700 X. Posted: 29 Jun 2021 05:00 AM PDT Title. I can run RDR2 on High settings at 60+ FPS. I don't understand why I can't run F76 at more than 30 FPS on High. I'm running the latest drivers and I'm playing at 1080P. Any help would be appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Can you use mods with tale of 2 wastelands installed? Posted: 29 Jun 2021 04:41 AM PDT |
| Is it normal for New Vegas to crash a lot on an XBOX One? Posted: 28 Jun 2021 09:55 PM PDT I have it through Game Pass and it frequently will freeze (seems like its always as an enemy is about to engage, but that could just be a coincidence) and then make a loud buzzing sound. I can still back out of the game and restart it through the XBOX menu. This is my first time playing NV, or any Fallout for that matter, so I'm just curious if this is a me thing or a problem with the game. [link] [comments] |
| Is it hard to come across fellow Vault Dwellers IRL? Like we're out there but hidden in plain sight Posted: 28 Jun 2021 05:36 PM PDT The Fallout community and fan base is massive, but I feel like we never stumble across each other unless it's at E3, or some other convention. We're proud to be Fallout fans, but shy when it comes to publicly showing it, or at least in my experience. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2021 05:10 PM PDT I have fallout 3 new Vegas fallout 4 and fallout 76(I think) and going back on old games and I wondering if fallout 3 is worth playing? [link] [comments] |
| What is the best ballistic and energy gun in the entire series (all games, best guns ever)? Posted: 29 Jun 2021 07:26 AM PDT |
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