Fallout series

[DrNormalLove]

One of the writers, Someguy apparently left the project midway and NV modding all together. No one knows what happened to him though, no one who wants to speak about it atleast

It was Devil'swish/Maybenexttime, I think, as far as I'm aware, someguy2k was never involved.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Witness a man going insane just by playing The Frontier mod.

30:23 had me laughing like a mad man. i really missed something doing the legion route first.

 

[Dave.]

Who the fuck brings up how bad their feet smell after a long day of working?

 

[Chin of Campbell]

I think it was the A World of Pain mod for New Vegas. It had these areas called redoubts. There was a bunch of them and hints at a experiment and an expedition. You could teleport around and get good loot.

That was a fun little diversion. I love stuff that makes you ask questions but never really explains everything and lets you use your imagination.

AWOP had notes about how immortal dimension hopping millenials knew they were in a video game and had full transcripts for a fictional sitcom featuring the guy's OCs. Even if that wasn't in it had more spelling and grammar mistakes than a fourth grade essay.

It was cool having a bunch of extra places to explore but the lore was so bad it would be better modded out entirely.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

As Ubertroon noted, The Frontier reeks of too many cooks in the kitchen. It has so many setups for interesting places it could go, but never commits to them, presumably because the next writer in line took over. This was originally going to be a long-winded discussion of all of them, but that was getting fucking tedious, so for now I'm just going to focus on one in particular: Survivor's Guilt.

Spoiler: WALL

By the midpoint of the story, the number of people that have died for the Courier is staggering. Named characters are upwards of 10, with a number of generic soldiers that can only be guessed at (my estimate is in the vicinity of 100). There's even a moment in the surgery cutscene where a blood bag is taken from an injured trooper to keep the Courier alive, and all of this amounts to... nothing. There is no capacity for the courier to be damaged by this, no option to tell Blackthorne "no, you made the wrong call, you should have left me on that fucking cross". They make a big deal out of the funeral, but when they offer the courier the option to speak, the only options are one line of Fallout 3-tier "compassionate", "focused" and "sociopathic dickrag", no option to say "I know what you've been saying behind my back, and you're right. This was too much" and wrap it up with either a promise to earn back the blood spent on him or to delve into utter nihilism. Even Mass Effect did a better job of writing speeches using only two options, because they broke it up over the course of multiple inputs, allowing the player to adjust the tone of the speech over its course.

Then, just when it looked like they were going to utterly ignore all of this, we get Reign of Terror and The Shadow, an hour-long drug-induced foray into the depths of the Courier's nightmares that drags all of this back up. And how is it resolved? One line. One FUCKING line. You've seen it in the cringe compilation, the one with the "I saw myself killing you, sir" option, and then it just drops right out of the story as they move onto the next thing. If they want to imitate Kojima so hard, then where's the tearful confession? Where's the option for the courier to admit that he's just a walking avatar of death, marching from bloodbath to bloodbath, deluding himself with the belief that the rare occasions he gets to talk someone down make him a good person? Even Lonesome Road did a better job than this.

And you want the real kicker? They come back to this a THIRD time, with a sequence of the courier seeing the ghosts of fallen characters as he stumbles through the woods at night, slowly dying of blood loss and broken limbs, before moving right the fuck along to the climax and never touching it again. There could have been something fucking excellent here, but they couldn't manage their fucking ambition and actually focus on something enough to make sure they did it right.

 

[Ruin]

I'm about 18 hours into the NCR campaign and I have to say it's not nearly as bad as goony bearded gamer Youtuber's who's shtick is bugging their eyes out and being "cynical" are making it out to be.

Maybe I haven't reached the worst of the worst but overall I've cringed less than the Old World Blues DLC.

My rating now is 7/10.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

I'm about 18 hours into the NCR campaign and I have to say it's not nearly as bad as goony bearded gamer Youtuber's who's shtick is bugging their eyes out and being "cynical" are making it out to be.

Oh, thank fuck, I thought I was going insane. Despite my above post, I did enjoy the NCR route in that schlocky throw-everything-at-the-wall style. It's an unfocused mess trying to do far too much, but the things it does do well are genuinely good. Hell, maybe one day somebody will use all of their neat tricks to make something that genuinely surpasses the DLCs in quality.

Also, the sneks are optional, they never tie into the main quest or any of the sidequests I found, so they can be safely ignored.

 

[Ruin]

Oh, thank fuck, I thought I was going insane. Despite my above post, I did enjoy the NCR route in that schlocky throw-everything-at-the-wall style. It's an unfocused mess trying to do far too much, but the things it does do well are genuinely good. Hell, maybe one day somebody will use all of their neat tricks to make something that genuinely surpasses the DLCs in quality.

Also, the sneks are optional, they never tie into the main quest or any of the sidequests I found, so they can be safely ignored.

I think there's a lot of good here. If this was a stand alone Fallout game I'd rank it above Fallout 4.

 

[Übertroon]

I think there's a lot of good here. If this was a stand alone Fallout game I'd rank it above Fallout 4.

It tries more than Fallout 4, which I can guess should be admired. But its lows are really low. Perhaps this fear of failure is why the industry is so mediocre these days, but I can't believe that nobody attempted a bit of quality control on this project.

It's definitely a story where you have to turn your brain off, and it isn't the perfect fit with the lore that people were hoping for, this isn't a New Vegas expansion.
The writing is definitely the worst part of the mod, the sex slavery stuff is a cringefest.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

It tries more than Fallout 4, which I can guess should be admired. But its lows are really low. Perhaps this fear of failure is why the industry is so mediocre these days, but I can't believe that nobody attempted a bit of quality control on this project.

It's definitely a story where you have to turn your brain off, and it isn't the perfect fit with the lore that people were hoping for, this isn't a New Vegas expansion.
The writing is definitely the worst part of the mod, the sex slavery stuff is a cringefest.

That's actually a pretty good way to put it. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever been this conflicted over a game since trying to come to grips with MGSV. Phantom Pain left a deeper scar, but I'm finding myself in that same place of trying to reconcile what I wanted, what I got, and what everyone else is saying. Wouldn't that be fucking funny if they did that deliberately, just so they could ape Kojima on a meta level, too?

 

[Ruin]

That's actually a pretty good way to put it. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever been this conflicted over a game since trying to come to grips with MGSV. Phantom Pain left a deeper scar, but I'm finding myself in that same place of trying to reconcile what I wanted, what I got, and what everyone else is saying. Wouldn't that be fucking funny if they did that deliberately, just so they could ape Kojima on a meta level, too?

You have to remember this thing is fucking free and a hell of a lot more creative than most AAA games. When the writing is bad it's really bad but it's not enough to ruin the game completely. Compare that to TLOU2 or Cyberpunk2077 both of which you'd pay $60 for and both of which have flaws that are severe enough to completely ruin the games.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

TBF, FO:Tactics does have a sherman you can drive.

However, I really doubt they were using that as a reference.

That, and it's modeled to actually fit the aesthetic.

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I really wish it was a reference , but then they gave the legion a fucking t-62 with a flame thrower so i think its just a case of having a model and using it.

Realistically if a Sherman was still in service and not taken from a military museum/private collection , it would be something along the lines of a m51 super Sherman or some fictional upgrade of the m4a3e8 sherman , think 90mm main gun and some sort of nuclear power pack in it.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

You have to remember this thing is fucking free and a hell of a lot more creative than most AAA games. When the writing is bad it's really bad but it's not enough to ruin the game completely. Compare that to TLOU2 or Cyberpunk2077 both of which you'd pay $60 for and both of which have flaws that are severe enough to completely ruin the games.

I have been, and it's been a big thing in its favor. I probably just let myself ride a little too far on the hype train, is all. I dunno, I'll go give the Legion a spin and see if that helps sort things out.

 

[Übertroon]

I really wish it was a reference , but then they gave the legion a fucking t-62 with a flame thrower so i think its just a case of having a model and using it.

Realistically if a Sherman was still in service and not taken from a military museum/private collection , it would be something along the lines of a m51 super Sherman or some fictional upgrade of the m4a3e8 sherman , think 90mm main gun and some sort of nuclear power pack in it.

I'm like 99% sure it's just usage of assets available. If it was intentional then it's misunderstanding the setting.
A proper tank for the fallout world is those concept tanks they were making early in the cold war

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Time to go back and play FO: Tactics. Now that's a fun one.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I'm like 99% sure it's just usage of assets available. If it was intentional then it's misunderstanding the setting.
A proper tank for the fallout world is those concept tanks they were making early in the cold war
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Yeah I don't disagree I'm just saying if we are keeping the Sherman, since clearly, at least 1 lasted until the mid-2200s, realistically it would be a 1950s model.

 

[Dave.]

*sniff*

 

[King Ghidorah]

You have to remember this thing is fucking free and a hell of a lot more creative than most AAA games. When the writing is bad it's really bad but it's not enough to ruin the game completely. Compare that to TLOU2 or Cyberpunk2077 both of which you'd pay $60 for and both of which have flaws that are severe enough to completely ruin the games.

Oh fuck off with that mighty number 9 "it's better than nothing" bullshit. If I took a shit on the floor should you be grateful because I did it for free? Does it give back the time that was wasted because of it? Being free doesn't make something less shit nor should one lower their standards because something is free

 

[Maurice Caine]

Oh fuck off with that mighty number 9 "it's better than nothing" bullshit. If I took a shit on the floor should you be grateful because I did it for free? Does it give back the time that was wasted because of it? Being free doesn't make something less shit nor should one lower their standards because something is free

I disagree. If this was a professional release, this would be an insult. This isn't one, no one got paid. If you wasted your time on it, it's on you.

 

[King Ghidorah]

I disagree. If this was a professional release, this would be an insult. This isn't one, no one got paid. If you wasted your time on it, it's on you.

Implying I'd ever touch it I'm just insulted by the notion it should get some free pass to be terrible just because it was free as if the people who were suckered into expecting something good and getting a wet fart in their face instead. Believe it or not time is still a finite resource you choose to use on something so I don't see why you wouldn't be justified in being unhappy when someone lies and wastes your time