Fallout series

the same person who voices Myron voices Boone in New Vegas.
voice acting is insane, real voice acting i mean, not celebrity ones. Like the bitch who plays Rebecca in assassins creed can basically nail any accent a person anywhere on the planet could have, but she barely gets work because she's a nutty 80 year old jewish woman who can sound exactly like a 9 year old black girl from the hood but in our DEI era you have to hire someone that matches the description of the character.
 
fallout 2 or 3 next?
You're best off playing Fallout 1 and then 2, then skipping to New Vegas and then playing whatever else you want.
If you're playing the games in chronological order and want the full experience, here they are, along with some fangames if that's your thing:
Nevada=>Fallout=>Sonora=>Tactics=>London=>2=>New California=>3(Just play TTW)=>New Vegas=>4
76 technically takes place before all these games, but do you really want to play that piece of shit?
Then there is Old World Blues mod for HOI4, which I believe takes place the farthest in the timeline, but I haven't looked into it too much.
 
Then there is Old World Blues mod for HOI4, which I believe takes place the farthest in the timeline, but I haven't looked into it too much
OWB occurs a little before NV, in 2275, but as most of the map isn't very involved with NV, and the fact that it spoils some things from NV for the countries that are, I'd say that it's better to play NV first (for example there's a secret Think Thank path for one of the countries). Most of the lore is lifted from cancelled games like Xtreme or Van Buren, or semi-canon works like the Fallout Bible
 
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Wow, cool it with the antisemitic remarks, Doc.
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I have finished the main story in Fallout 3 (what a shit ending) and the game keeps crashing after the ending slideshow. Is there a way to fix it?
 
I have finished the main story in Fallout 3 (what a shit ending) and the game keeps crashing after the ending slideshow. Is there a way to fix it?
Are you playing with a custom race? If so, the game will always crash there without a patch.
BTW, the ending was even shittier before Broken Steel, your radiation immune companions or straight up slaves you could own would all tell you to fuck off or that it is "your destiny to go in that chamber". Broken Steel fixes that, at least for radiation free companions, you still can't force your slaves to go in there.
 
Are you playing with a custom race? If so, the game will always crash there without a patch.
BTW, the ending was even shittier before Broken Steel, your radiation immune companions or straight up slaves you could own would all tell you to fuck off or that it is "your destiny to go in that chamber". Broken Steel fixes that, at least for radiation free companions, you still can't force your slaves to go in there.
All because we where meant to be Jesus Christ Maryland style.
 
BTW, the ending was even shittier before Broken Steel, your radiation immune companions or straight up slaves you could own would all tell you to fuck off or that it is "your destiny to go in that chamber". Broken Steel fixes that, at least for radiation free companions, you still can't force your slaves to go in there.
they couldve put anything like the activation needs a biometric reading or a blood or literally anything more than
just "uhhyeah it HAS to be you because uhhh reasons and stuff"
 
they couldve put anything like the activation needs a biometric reading or a blood or literally anything more than
just "uhhyeah it HAS to be you because uhhh reasons and stuff"
They ruined my boy Charon. You don't really know much about him, other than that he was brainwashed as a child and he has to do ANYTHING that the holder of his contract tells him to. That's why he kills Ahzrukhal only after you buy his contract from him, no doubt over all the nasty things he had to do because of him that he didn't want to do.

So, how does that translate into the actual game? Well, if you want to hire him when you have another humanoid companion, he tells you he doesn't feel like going with you, and he decides to bum around in the 9th circle, where Ahzrukhal's body is likely still rotting away in public. What about turning on the purifier at the end of the game? Well, if you have Broken Steel installed, he has a brain blast and says he just realized he is immune to radiation, so turning on the purifier won't be an issue at all. If you don't have Broken Steel, however? Well, he tells you to piss off because "this is not part of the contract". Okay, buddy.

Quite an interesting character ruined by the game he's in. Shame, he's the only human companion that follows you no matter what karma you have, so he's the most accessible, and the most interesting companion in the game.

The whole plotline of Fallout 3 is fucking stupid and full of holes, so looking for one particular plothole is an exercise in futility when there is another one waiting right around the corner. I mean, the story is centered around a water purifier, but then any character in F4, even those with 1INT can just build a whole bunch of them at level 1 in Sanctuary. Smaller scale ones, of course, but it's still the same principle. Why the fuck were these chuckleheads in DC having so much trouble with this, again? BTW, in the real world, you can purify water with just some sand.
 
I mean, the story is centered around a water purifier, but then any character in F4, even those with 1INT can just build a whole bunch of them at level 1 in Sanctuary.
Its supposed to be because they are trying to purify all the water in the wasteland, the rivers, lakes etc. Because a purifier limited to a city would still require you to probably pay for it, whereas if the river is clean you can go drink from there and not worry about someone wanting you to pay for it or hoarding it...except that would still happen as I see factions like the Outcasts, and some large Raider clans building dams or similar structures.
I think it would be slightly better if James was instead working to try to restore the world to prewar status, bring back the greenery, get rid of mutants etc something like that.
 
Are you playing with a custom race? If so, the game will always crash there without a patch.
No, I think it might have been related to one of the mods. It seems to be fixed, although I picked a different ending, I sent Fawkes to activate the purifier.
I thought the pacing of the story felt rushed near the end. You barely got introduced to the Enclave and the Brotherhood and it's already the final act.
BTW, the ending was even shittier before Broken Steel, your radiation immune companions or straight up slaves you could own would all tell you to fuck off or that it is "your destiny to go in that chamber". Broken Steel fixes that, at least for radiation free companions, you still can't force your slaves to go in there.
Oh so they changed it later. Sure I'm the hero but why not send a mutant who can walk safely in a radiated environment? Hell, there's even an objective in the quest where you meet him in a vault where he stops you and says that he can go grab the GECK in the radiated room, lol
 
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Its supposed to be because they are trying to purify all the water in the wasteland, the rivers, lakes etc. Because a purifier limited to a city would still require you to probably pay for it, whereas if the river is clean you can go drink from there and not worry about someone wanting you to pay for it or hoarding it...except that would still happen as I see factions like the Outcasts, and some large Raider clans building dams or similar structures.
I think it would be slightly better if James was instead working to try to restore the world to prewar status, bring back the greenery, get rid of mutants etc something like that.
No, the purifier only cleans one single riverbed. The surrounding water in the Potomac is still as irradiated as ever. It would be a much better idea to just create a working purifier for all 2 or 3 actual settlements in The Capital Wasteland then help out with whatever Li needs instead of chasing a delusional dream out of his own ego. James is just an idiot, he essentially just created one big purifier and wasted a GECK to do so, when he could have just as easily brought water to people without getting himself killed. The only saving grace here is that Lyons is a bleeding heart, so instead of doing the Brotherhood's job he becomes an errand boy for James post mortem, once the purifier actually works. If you poison the purifier, he still goes thru with it even tho "there are some issues that need to be sorted out", killing hundreds of people in the process funnily enough.
You barely got introduced to the Enclave and the Brotherhood and it's already in the final act.
Thankfully, the entirety of Broken Steel is just a skirmish between the two with an actual satisfying final conclusion. You can even destroy the BOS if you really don't like them, altho sadly you can never properly join The Enclave without mods. BS really is just an essential part of the game and should have been a free update, rather than sold as DLC.
 
It's like they wanted to make James mission seem important but then not at the same time. It's really bizarre. Were they worried about having to respect it in future games or something?
The whole thing just amounts to one big waste of time.
 
It's like they wanted to make James mission seem important but then not at the same time. It's really bizarre. Were they worried about having to respect it in future games or something?
The whole thing just amounts to one big waste of time.
Emil is a retarded hack and wanted him to be an analogy for Jesus Christ. That's it, there is nothing more to James.
BTW, in one of the story drafts, your dad would be found in Vault 87, captured by mutants and already in the process of being turned into some FEV abomination like the half-mutant you find dead in one of the chambers. In fact, it is believed that this model WAS your father at one point. You would have to kill him, and realize that his stupid quest to look for the GECK only ended with him dead, a much more realistic outcome. They should have stuck with that and made the last act of the game entirely about Brotherhood vs Enclave with the purifier being a minor spoil of war thanks to it still not working, but you know Emil: When he's got a "vision", you better watch out!
 
They should have stuck with that and made the last act of the game entirely about Brotherhood vs Enclave with the purifier being a minor spoil of war thanks to it still not working,
I actually like this idea way better. I could definitely see colonel Autumn spewing some shit like
"With our engineers we could easily finish your father's work and get the purifier up and running. All we need is the code your father gave you so we can access its systems without any fuss."

[What if I don't have it?]

"We could theoretically brute force our way in with enough time. It's just much quicker to use the code."


You could still choose to poison the purifier as per Eden's plan like an asshole but it would've been cool to be able to side with Autumn and finish the purifier using Enclave resources or something. Maybe it could've even been a speech thing where you have to convince James to even give you the code before he dies. Maybe realizing it was all possibly in vain to begin with. What would be the point of giving you the code to an unfinished hunk of junk?
Then it could be a nice surprise later when it actually comes in handy.
 
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No, the purifier only cleans one single riverbed. The surrounding water in the Potomac is still as irradiated as ever.
I assumed that in time the rest of the potomac would be cleaned, if GECK was wasted to basically only clean the water for Rivet City thats gay.Should instead be like you said, build a water purifier for every major settlement.
It's like they wanted to make James mission seem important but then not at the same time. It's really bizarre. Were they worried about having to respect it in future games or something?
The whole thing just amounts to one big waste of time.
they probably were worried about respecting it in future games, only for Fallout 4 to give a "canon" ending, since you can destroy the brotherhood in 3 and infect project purity, but then the Brotherhood shows up stronger than before in 4, meaning its canon the Lone Wanderer helped them and didn't destroy them.
 
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You could still choose to poison the purifier as per Eden's plan like an asshole but it would've been cool to be able to side with Autumn and finish the purifier using Enclave resources or something. Maybe it could've even been a speech thing where you have to convince James to even give you the code before he dies. Maybe realizing it was all possibly in vain to begin with. What would be the point of giving you the code to an unfinished hunk of junk?
Then it could be a nice surprise later when it actually comes in handy.
Something tells me that the whole Raven Rock section was meant to be a time to walk around and talk to people, if not downright give you a choice to side with The Enclave proper. Raven Rock was later changed into yet another shooter gallery, I believe the reason for that was Bethesda being burned out from all the various guilds and factions of Oblivion. They wanted a very simple "good guys vs bad guys" story, ie something like Star Wars. That's how we got the BOS vs Enclave conflict in the final game.
 
Something tells me that the whole Raven Rock section was meant to be a time to walk around and talk to people, if not downright give you a choice to side with The Enclave proper.
That’s basically what they did with the Fallout 4 Institute, is it not? Though it’s not like the Institute’s goals make that much more sense.
 
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