Fallout series

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

Operation: Anchorage was good

Operation Anchorage was the first Fallout 3 DLC I ever got because I had just enough Xbox Points, or whatever they were called, to get either it or Mothership Zeta, and I am eternally grateful I got it over Zeta. It's not great, if Fallout 3 had better gunplay it would probably be better, but the rewards are worth the pain.

Creetosis is one of the prime examples of YouTube essay guy whose grift is that he can whine for hours at a time about one topic and say virtually nothing of substance at all. Its autistic brain food for people who want background noise that's vaguely negative and reinforces their own opinions.

How does one genuinely sit down and spend countless weeks writing, recording, and editing damn near 40 if not 50 hours of content about media they claim to hate, without once sticking a shotgun in their mouth and debating pulling the trigger. I just can't wrap my head around it.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

I checked, he has made 18 fallout videos that either reach or pass the 1 hour mark. 9 of those were about the Fallout show alone. I didn't like the Fallout show, but how the fuck do you find enough stuff to complain about to make a combined total of over 24 hours of content? I'm not even going to bother doing the math on how long he talked about Fallout 4 and 3, but for comparison:
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The first 2 Fallout videos on his channel are responses to Many a True Nerd videos,
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Both of which are at least double the length of the videos he's responding to, The Fallout 3 one being a bit over 4 times the length of the original video.

These types of videos are usually just argumentative slop, I do agree that 3 and 4 are good games and over-hated by Obsidian purist’s but essayists stretching out their defense of them or really any game is absurd to me, if someone prefers NV over 3 I’d certainly disagree but at the end of the of the day Vidya tastes are 100% subjective and it’s just content for the sake of money and not a good faith argument

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Dust did the same thing with perks, with almost all of them having downsides that ruined them and railroaded you into one single gameplay style. Which would be fine if Dust didn't make ammo super rare and made guns so fragile they break after 100 shots, forcing you to use whatever it gives you.
I like challenges, but I never understood the concept of crippling yourself. And this is coming from someone who grew up playing early to mid 90s games.

DUST is a decent but overly edgy sandbox worldspace over the tepid survival mechanics of NV and alot of broken shit, you're better off just playing the OG Jsawyer mod or the faggy forks built around it like Lone Star if you want a hardcore NV experience

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

The Combat Armor with Balaclava along with winterized unbreakable guns(most have unique skins) used to be my favorite kit in the game. Or, you can run around with the Winterized Power Armor and Winterized Combat Helmet(the one with the balaclava), looks sick.
If you glitch the Gauss Rifle and Jingwei Sword you find in the sim with this exploit, you can also give it to companions. The ones in armory are different variants that are flagged to never be used by NPCs(likely so that the Outcasts can't grab them and use the weapons against you).

Sniping jingweis sword out his his hand with the gasses rifle is a bitch but I always use it as my main melee weapon. One of my favorite weapons alongside the MPLX novasurge.
Ill say this about Bethesda: the op as fuck enemies added by broken steel were cool in concept but Jesus fuck they shouldn't need a mininuke to kill. Even Obsidian fucked up in this regard, with white legs and lobomites being tanks. How to fuck does a cloth jumpsuit protect you from a fucking .50 cal round?

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

These types of videos are usually just argumentative slop, I do agree that 3 and 4 are good games and over-hated by Obsidian purist’s but essayists stretching out their defense of them or really any game is absurd to me, if someone prefers NV over 3 I’d certainly disagree but at the end of the of the day Vidya tastes are 100% subjective and it’s just content for the sake of money and not a good faith argument

I love 1, 2 and nv. I also love 3 and 4. Every game is flawed and every game has strengths. But i think everyone can agree the best game in the series is Brotherhood of Steel.
/sneedclave

 

[30+GameOvers]

Fallout 1 and New Vegas actually. All the other good games are in Russian. All the crying you do and you haven't even been able to comprehend that I don't even really like 3 all that much. It has some decent elements, but the gameplay is so ass that unless you play it via TTW it's hardly worth the hassle. But keep constructing Strawmen, maybe NMA would be more your speed faglord.

I don't really care what you have to say, I already called you a low IQ mongoloid and you haven't made any serious counter arguments to anything I said as of late on a variety of topics, so it's clear you're a waste of time and a franchise tourist. You can toot your horn elsewhere, your kindergarten level non-arguments might impress someone one day, but not me, feel free to respond to this post to show how you totally haven't been burned by what I said and how none of it matters to you. Again.
Also, I haven't watched all of Creetosis videos yet, they're on my backlog. Doubt anyone here can counter even a single thing he ever said in any of his video tho, so he's alright in my book. I already said I would be open to discussion on any of these long form videos, but I doubt anyone here will take that offer. Even you @Deus Exica , if you have something to say and you have an hour's worth of attention span, there is your chance. You have nothing to offer to me otherwise.

How does one genuinely sit down and spend countless weeks writing, recording, and editing damn near 40 if not 50 hours of content about media they claim to hate, without once sticking a shotgun in their mouth and debating pulling the trigger. I just can't wrap my head around it.

It's actually not that hard if you know what you're talking about. Recording yourself saying something that is common sense and getting some gameplay footage over it is amateurish work, and yet nobody really made any good reply videos to anything he said yet. How curious, you would think all these critics would be able to easily put him in his place, if anything he said was actually factually wrong. Those videos earn money too, so you would think it would pay off to create an 8hour long response to him.
Oh wait, nobody can defend Fallout 3 or 4 for 8 hours, not even a Bethesda dicksucker like MATN, whose two "X is better than you think" videos are full of holes(which is why the responses videos are so long).

Ill say this about Bethesda: the op as fuck enemies added by broken steel were cool in concept but Jesus fuck they shouldn't need a mininuke to kill. Even Obsidian fucked up in this regard, with white legs and lobomites being tanks. How to fuck does a cloth jumpsuit protect you from a fucking .50 cal round?

The balancing of DLCs to make the aritficially difficult is not something I will defend, but at least it's done more organically via slightly better armor than you would think(jumpsuits, tribal armor) and just giving them big, end game guns. Much better than Fallout 3, which just made enemies bullet sponges that deal unblockable 40 damage per shot(per projectile, so if all the pellets from, say, a hillbilly's double barrel hit you, you're done). NMA used to joke that Enclave should have abandoned their toy cardboard power armor and just make suits out of hillbilly hides, if you recall Fallout 3 didn't have DT, only the utterly useless DR which meant even mole rats could chew threw your winterized T-51 suit.

 

[foreman 89]

Fallout 1 and New Vegas actually. All the other good games are in Russian. All the crying you do and you haven't even been able to comprehend that I don't even really like 3 all that much. It has some decent elements, but the gameplay is so ass that unless you play it via TTW it's hardly worth the hassle. But keep constructing Strawmen, maybe NMA would be more your speed faglord.

Creetosis is one of the prime examples of YouTube essay guy whose grift is that he can whine for hours at a time about one topic and say virtually nothing of substance at all. Its autistic brain food for people who want background noise that's vaguely negative and reinforces their own opinions.

Absolute bottom of the barrel content and probably @30+GameOvers YouTube channel.

Fallout 2 is good as well.

 

[Deus Exica]

without once sticking a shotgun in their mouth and debating pulling the trigger.

He's just a rage monkey following a trend and getting positive reinforcement in the form of ad revenue and asspats. You see how a certain somebody immediately leapt to his defense the moment somebody said something negative about him? He unironically has "fans", this kind of content does well on YouTube.

I enjoy ripping into things I don't like but if you can't explain why something is shit in 1 hour max you're not worth listening to.

 

[Dave.]

Well I tried to watch that video but our pretentious autistic here had to run his intellectually superior mouth about a nitpick about a closing line during the intro for almost six fucking minutes. Over a nitpick. I really don’t know why YouTubers are so smug but it’s really irritating to watch.

 

[Deus Exica]

I don't really care what you have to say

Really? Coulda fooled me. I clearly live in your head rent free since you keep crying about interactions we had like 8 months ago like a little bitch, because I have a vaguely critical opinion of content in one of the games you have an autistic hyperfixation on.

Here's an idea. Just admit defeat and stop replying like the little bitch baby you are. Sawyer is a gay man, but he probably won't fuck you for defending his products so religiously. Sorry to say.

And no, I didn't read the rest of your post beyond what I quoted.

Fallout 2 is good as well.

I don't like the pop culture references much. I prefer the tone and story of 1, simple as it is. I can see why people like 2 though.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Well I tried to watch that video but our pretentious autistic here had to run his intellectually superior mouth about a nitpick about a closing line during the intro for almost six fucking minutes. Over a nitpick. I really don’t know why YouTubers are so smug but it’s really irritating to watch.

Care to paraphrase? I can't watch a 6 hour video right now, but I would be interested in what bothers you in that video in particular. If it's a nitpick, then it shouldn't be a big deal.

 

[Deus Exica]

Care to paraphrase? I can't watch a 6 hour video right now, but I would be interested in what bothers you in that video in particular. If it's a nitpick, then it shouldn't be a big deal.

You are definitely fucking Creetosis. That, or you're too fucking retarded to watch the big video. Hurt your brain little retard? It's only six minutes.

 

[Dave.]

Care to paraphrase? I can't watch a 6 hour video right now, but I would be interested in what bothers you in that video in particular. If it's a nitpick, then it shouldn't be a big deal.

...did you just seriously misread my post? I said he went on and on for nearly six minutes about WHAT I THINK is a nitpick. "This is where you live and this is where you die" and Creetosis went on a word salad about how "Well umm ackshually you don't live or die in here therefore it's misleading lol it just shows the narrator is unreliable". It's a fucking nitpick. A line like that shouldn't warrant six minutes of word salad and besides, it's not even unreliable. It's a metaphorical statement in reference to vault dwellers never leaving the vault.

 

[30+GameOvers]

...did you just seriously misread my post? I said he went on and on for nearly six minutes about WHAT I THINK is a nitpick. "This is where you live and this is where you die" and Creetosis went on a word salad about how "Well umm ackshually you don't live or die in here therefore it's misleading lol it just shows the narrator is unreliable". It's a fucking nitpick. A line like that shouldn't warrant six minutes of word salad and besides, it's not even unreliable. It's a metaphorical statement in reference to vault dwellers never leaving the vault.

I wanted to confirm if you got filtered out within 6 minutes of a 6 hour video, that's all
Also, the intro to Fallout 3 is horrible, just like the one in Fallout 4, so I won't even bother defending it. If he nitpicks it, more power to him, that means he gave it more thought than anyone ever did at Bethesda.
If you can ever get past more than just the first 10 minutes of that video, feel free to tell me what other points you didn't agree with.

 

[Dave.]

I wanted to confirm if you got filtered out within 6 minutes of a 6 hour video, that's all
Also, the intro to Fallout 3 is horrible, just like the one in Fallout 4, so I won't even bother defending it. If he nitpicks it, more power to him, that means he gave it more thought than anyone ever did at Bethesda.
If you can ever get past more than just the first 10 minutes of that video, feel free to tell me what other points you didn't agree with.

I'll go into more detail presuming you're not Creetosis and you aren't just some sock puppet account given that I literally just rewatched the part.

Spoiler: Spergout over the opening narrator

So he goes on a rant about the opening narrator's final line in the intro saying "This is here you are born and this is here you will die" and he goes on some massive spergout over the fact this is misleading and it's supposed to be a reference to the ending on the game which is completely un-fucking-true. The line is supposed to be in reference to vault dwellers living in the vault forever and "dying" in the vault never leaving. It's supposed to be a threatening, ominous descriptor about life in the vault but Creetosis, being the superior intellectual, completely misreads this line that it's supposed to be a reference to the ending.

Then he goes into some weird word salad rant about how this should be something that's told to you via a character or someone in the universe and, to me, it doesn't fucking matter who tells it. And if we're seriously painting that fact as being a negative it's a small one and it's a minor writing oversight. It doesn't need three minutes of rambling to tell me that this line is bullshit and it should've been written how Creetosis wanted.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

The retard level of hate for Fallout 3 where autists feel the need to over-analyze a "meh" game is somehow making me want to give the game another try.
The DLC for 3 might actually be better than FNV, because at least in the pulp sci-fi FO3 DLC, you at least don't have to deal with the dialogue of 5 ultra-redditors demanding your upvotes and being "zany".
You also get to blow up Canada, which is based.

 

[30+GameOvers]

So he goes on a rant about the opening narrator's final line in the intro saying "This is here you are born and this is here you will die" and he goes on some massive spergout over the fact this is misleading and it's supposed to be a reference to the ending on the game which is completely un-fucking-true. The line is supposed to be in reference to vault dwellers living in the vault forever and "dying" in the vault never leaving. It's supposed to be a threatening, ominous descriptor about life in the vault but Creetosis, being the superior intellectual, completely misreads this line that it's supposed to be a reference to the ending.

Then he goes into some weird word salad rant about how this should be something that's told to you via a character or someone in the universe and, to me, it doesn't fucking matter who tells it. And if we're seriously painting that fact as being a negative it's a small one and it's a minor writing oversight. It doesn't need three minutes of rambling to tell me that this line is bullshit and it should've been written how Creetosis wanted.

Well, he's right, compared to the intro of Fallout 1/2/New Vegas and even fucking Tactics this is a large nothing burger word salad. The story that Emil intended was indeed meant to come full circle, with you dying where you were born. That is to say, in the Jefferson Memorial, since that's where you were actually born, since the canon option(pre Broken Steel) is to sacrifice yourself at the end. So yes, it is a reference to the ending you clearly missed, and that intro isn't "threatening" since anyone with a brain would know you would escape out of the Vault somehow. Otherwise, we wouldn't have a game, and it's clear within the first hour of the game that was a lie too, so a complete waste of time narration wise. Fallout 1 narrates the urgency to find the Water Chip and Fallout 2 narrates the urgency to find the GECK much better without telling the listener any lies. Hell, even Tactics sets up the premise of the game much better, even tho it does spoil who the end game threat will eventually be.

And yes, we should know a bit more about the Vault, we knew what the Vaults were in Fallout 1 intro and we were told what happened to the world after the events of that game in Fallout 2. New Vegas sets up the premise around Mojave between NCR, Vegas and Legion nicely and similarly Tactics shows why we have a new, more open minded Brotherhood in the Mid West inbetween the events of Fallout 1 and 2. Fallout 3 just has Ron Perlman scare his audience, children apparently with how the intro is written, and then he lies at the end for absolutely no reason. We know nothing about the DC ruins, the people within them, what Vault 101 is except for "place you never leave" which is a lie, and the game literally just shits you out of your mom the next moment. Yes, the "plot twist" Emil is so proud of here that you weren't born in the vault and that people indeed left the vault is neither clever nor is it something you find at the end after a lot of suspense, it is obvious all the way at the start of the game when you read the Overseer terminals and speak to Colin Moriarty or Moira Brown, both of whom tell you that Vault 101 residents are uncommon but a regular occurrence. The Fallout 3 intro is bad and factually incorrect and Creetosis is more than welcome to complain about it. Just like everything else in the game, the intro should have been re-written instead of handing Ron something Emil wrote on a napkin at the last minute when Todd told him they needed a classic Fallout styled intro, I guess he forgot to told him that they needed those 200 endings too but that's a topic for another day.

Is this a "nitpick"? Yeah, probably, but it warrants the autism involved in picking it apart at something so stupidly written. Your autism game, on the other hand, is weak if this is what filters you out. I suggest not watching any further.

The retard level of hate for Fallout 3 where autists feel the need to over-analyze a "meh" game is somehow making me want to give the game another try.

It takes no effort to "over-analyze" something that is so obviously broken and badly written, but it is satisfying. On the other hand, Bethesdoids can't hope to do the same to New Vegas or even defend their own shitty game in return.

 

[Boxless]

*Sonic Emitter - Tarantula is the best weapon in the game. Now, you might be confused, but hear me out: Sonic Emitter is a generic weapon given to you at the start of Old World Blues and you can buy more from the sink CIU later. Base Sonic Emitter(Revelation) is crappy, but you can upgrade it to various variants that have differing stats and critical damage effects. You can forget about all of them, only Tarantula matters, and it is found in the same area(Higgs Village) where the Jukebox needed for upgrades is found anyways. So, what makes it so special, you ask? Well, that's simple, it's critical damage effect just straight up kills any enemy in the game, period. Legendary Deathclaw? Gone. Legendary Bloatfly(which is even more dangerous)? Gone. Rawr, the most dangerous Deathclaw in the game found in Lonesome Road? Gone. Ulysses? Gone. Legate Lanius? Gone, all you need is a critical hit, which is guaranteed while sneaking and there is a way to raise critical hit rate with a certain character build and gear to always be 100%. The downside is that the weapon doesn't fire right away, it charges up for a second and fires this weird blue projectile, similar to the one Lakelurks and Robobrains use. It is hard to hit enemies at range and misses a lot, so it should be used in close-medium range. Without criticals, it hits hard but too slow to do any real damage in a prolonged fight. Still, a bugged one-hit kill is not something you should overlook, none of the other Sonic Emitters even come close to being as effective. Perfect sidearm to put those energy cells to use, and you need to keep at least one Sonic Emitter in the DLC for taking down force fields anyways.

Didn't you go over how this was only in the 360 port sometime before now?

[2 pages+ long slapfight over Fo3's quality or lack thereof, evolving into a slapfight over how the community is dogshit or not when it comes to them]

I'm not even going to bother reading that. You all get puzzle pieces in spirit.
Anyone have any decent New Vegas mods to recommend? I've already got quite a few common ones, so stick to something that might be more niche or difficult to find.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Didn't you go over how this was only in the 360 port sometime before now?

I did research on it recently and it works on PC as well, even modded a few weapons to have that same effect. When modded on a semi auto laser pistol like weapon it becomes devastating.
My posts about it are somewhere in this thread, can't care to look now. TLDR is that there is two weapon effects meant for the weapon, one(unused) is borderline useless but the other is extremely OP one shot kill and it is not known if this is a bug or intentional, the devs rather infamously are not familiar with how the GECK works due to how little time Bethesda gave them(especially with the hacked together solutions for some scripts and quest sin the base game). The description for both effects is the same, meaning that the gun that is supposed to set the enemy on fire with a critical effect for a measley 2 points of damage for 5 seconds(much like Firelance in Fallout 3) actually explodes the enemy into giblets, one-hit killing them creating a small localized explosion(much like setting off gas leaks with a firearm) and setting that corpse on fire. So, not technically incorrect, but you would never know from the description, and for whatever reason the wiki article still says this is not the case years later when you can test this yourself.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

The DLC for 3 might actually be better than FNV,

It all really depends on how you define "better"
In my opinion Fallout 3's DLCs really break down into 3 groups: Pretty good expansions (The Pitt and Point Lookout), Really should have been in the base game (Broken Steel), and What the Fuck (Anchorage and Mothership Zeta.) None of them are better than the base game, but outside of the WTF ones being a bit of a slog to play through, none of them take away anything either. (Broken Steel is debatable given how it rewrites the ending.)
New Vegas, in general, has a better standard of quality but I feel like none of it's DLCs are exceptional. They all suffer from boring maps with some neat areas occasionally, and certain characters who come off as way too "deep".
Fallout 4 is the only game that I'd say has a DLC that surpasses the base game, but It also has the most abysmal dogshit DLCs in the various workshop addons.

Personally I'll always prefer The Pitt and Point Lookout over any of New Vegas's and 4's DLCs, Fallout 3 era Bethesda were great at making game worlds and for that reason alone I find Fallout 3 beating New Vegas out in my heart.