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Really funny how an unfinished salvaged new vegas post game is a million times better than 4.
One of the few followers I remember being annoying to actually ingratiate yourself to was Strong because he wants you to act like a violent retard as often as possible.
Actually he likes it when you show basic decency but the only thing that makes him like you is eating corpses. He's probably the hardest companion to max out.
I don't need to hear the obvious from a tourist
Yeah but usually they're at least not openly malicious towards the source material and the original fans, just incompetently and carelessly made. This show is clearly written to piss OG Fallout and especially New Vegas fans off on top of also being terrible on its own merits.
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Actually he likes it when you show basic decency but the only thing that makes him like you is eating corpses. He's probably the hardest companion to max out.
When I last played, I maxed him out by doing a lot of dungeon crawling, since he has a silent like for killing stuff. So, as long as you are just going around and fighting, you will tick up, but it is really easy to get negative affinity, so people think it is hard to get approval with him.
 
When I last played, I maxed him out by doing a lot of dungeon crawling, since he has a silent like for killing stuff. So, as long as you are just going around and fighting, you will tick up, but it is really easy to get negative affinity, so people think it is hard to get approval with him.
Last time i maxed out was completing rogue robot every time.
Still, best companion besides dogmeat is ada.
 
Nuka World only works if you are melee-cannibal.
Generally i just play the DLC until the invade part to the Commonwealth with Gage perk unlocked. At that point, i just blast Swank into oblivion and all the other motherfuckers.
Never done a run like that in NW, but the DLC is pretty fun for all combat builds. Invading the Commonwealth is painful in the vanilla game tho, you need to mod the shit out of it to make it in any way fun, both to overhaul the mechanics themselves and to add dozens of settlements to actually make it feel like you're taking over the Commonwealth. You know, just like how the base game settlements are useless without an overhaul(or installing Sim Settlements 2). I will confess, modding the game to establish Raider outposts anywhere is fun, I had a playthru where they took over not just Commonwealth but also Far Harbor and other new land DLCs, even Nipton thanks to Project Mojave.

Yeah, now. Back in the good old days, there was pretty much no merch or anything outside the games, back when the franchise was more niche. I was one of those people that made his own custom Vault 13 hoodie+jumpsuit, I still even have them, so if you wanted your own Fallout anything, you had to make it yourself. Bethesda only started pimping out the franchise around the time of Fallout 4/Shelter, so the tourists don't know what it was like before then. It has it's perks, mind you, I have the official Nuka Quantum and Grape in my fridge, for example, but not like there weren't bootleg Nuka Colas sold before then(again, not like tourists would know anything about that).
 
Played and finished New Vegas again. Decided to try out an melee/explosive build but this time, I kill all friendly NPCS. Made the game harder for myself with the SWYER mod meaning less EXP and more broken limbs. I was surprised Marcos of all things was the biggest threat. He kicked the shit out of me and i had to cheese him. I swear the AI focus most their attacks on your head cause i found myself with broken helmets all the time.
 
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Yeah but usually they're at least not openly malicious towards the source material and the original fans, just incompetently and carelessly made. This show is clearly written to piss OG Fallout and especially New Vegas fans off on top of also being terrible on its own merits.
Us Oldfags just have to accept that Fallout is basically dead, at least the Fallout we knew so many years ago - and even gaming as a whole will never be the same as in le good old days (mid 90s to mid 00s imho). For me Fallout is a trilogy of 1, 2 and NV - NV unfortunately being infected with a lot of stupid and broken stuff from FO3. I don't expect anything to come out of it anymore, even tho I had my fun with Fallout 4 in Survival mode and 200 mods for a couple of weeks a few years back. I mostly just (re-)play old games and indie stuff these days.

When I heard they were making the show, I already asumed it's going to suck, because... well, it just has to. They would definitely base the tone and story of the show on what the Bethesda games established, not on the old Black Isle games, since Bethesda Fallout is what the vast majority of players nowadays mean when they say "Fallout".
I heard that the new lore is super terrible and basically turns it into "Fallout is about capitalism bad" (never mind this playing only a minor role, if any, in Fallout 1 and 2, Fallout became "about capitalism" as soon as it became a generic corporate franchise funny enough), but I try to avoid even most basic information about the show.
 
Well, i finished my FO4 playthrought killing all the raiders with a custom robobrain with both a gatling gun and a minigun. Very powerful.
 
He says the pop culture references aren't the issue but more how it clashed so much with Fallout 1's tone.
The first thing you see when you start Fallout 1 is Ed and Ed's dead (that's the description of the corpse you spawn next to - "You see Ed. Ed's dead."
The first armor you'll likely find is a Mad Max reference and so is Dogmeat.
Not to mention all the random encounters (Godzilla, Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). And Chris Avellone making an appearance as a merc in the Boneyard.
I'm sure there is more (I remember Joker's line about dancing with the devil from the Tim Burton's movie being a battle cry but I don't remember if it was 1 or 2).
Generally I think that people overestimate both F1's seriousness and F2's amount of pop-culture references. I played both back in the late 90s and I never considered it being a problem.
 
Has anyone tried The New West yet? A demo dropped yesterday; apparently, it's a remake of Van Buren using New Vegas' engine.

Jesus Christ, another one? What about Revelation Blues? Why aren't these devs working together? Hell, recently cancelled Nuevo Mexico was also dabbling with being a spiritual recreation of Van Buren.
We will never get a proper Van Buren project finished at this rate.
Generally I think that people overestimate both F1's seriousness and F2's amount of pop-culture references. I played both back in the late 90s and I never considered it being a problem.
The word you're looking for is "moderation", something modern day studios and gamers simply do not have. You can have little movie references everywhere and still have a serious, dark world with well written setting and characters. These days, if a game wants to be referential, you will have nothing but non-stop memberberries with a subtlety of a brick and probably lots of reddit writing to appeal to the kind of soy ridden subhumans who crave this sort of content. Even what Fallout 2/New Vegas with Wild Wasteland did is preferable in comparison.
 
The same project, renamed.
That makes more sense. Hopefully, new blood will do them some good, as I covered in this thread I was very disappointed in their borderline broken demo I played of Burham Springs. Only good thing about it was what was carried over from Van Buren, they really need to step up their game and just remake it 1:1, as closely as possible.
 
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Surprised no one did this crossover before.

Imagine Asterix punching a legionaire out of their shoes or clearing up Quarry Junction in 10 minutes off screen with the mother deathclaw just having a big bump on the head running off.

"Quite the charming single mother, nasty breathe tho!"


Speak of the devil.

A nice summary of the garbage Fallout show..


Fine video but it nothing that you couldnt find in other videos that dissect the series, if anything, his video was extremely brief compared to others (maybe a good thing if you are into just the commentary instead of indepth dissection of the awfulness).
What's your opinion on this video that suggests Fallout 2 laid the foundations for the franchise's decline that Bethesda simply built on? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIRRvO_ZRVI

oh no, not this fag...
one, cut the tracking portion of the link or stop using the share button like a filthy phoneposter, and two, he's a fucking retard and so is anyone who thinks the issue with fallout 3 is that it had a good ending good as in karma, not opinion. it makes sense that the second game could be more optimistic after the first because so much shit has happened since then. the seeds planted by the vault dweller bloomed into a bunch of trees helping to purify the wretched wasteland they had to travel. fallout 1 is the cause, 2 is the effect. i don't even give a fuck about what the rest of this BRITISH BELL-END has to say because i don't want to keep listening to his annoying fucking voice if he's going to go on retarded tangents about fucking terminator 2 but i'll assume he also bitched about the pop culture references. yeah, i'll agree that those were egregious, and a lesson that avellone had to learn which is why new vegas has the wild wasteland trait.

He does walk the fine line between "annoying contrarian begging for a reaction" and "Retard"
 
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Surprised no one did this crossover before.

Imagine Asterix punching a legionaire out of their shoes or clearing up Quarry Junction in 10 minutes off screen with the mother deathclaw just having a big bump on the head running off.

"Quite the charming single mother, nasty breathe tho!"
Next time i assault the Caesar's Camp in New Vegas i'm gonna put this song in the background:
 
Not to mention all the random encounters (Godzilla, Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). And Chris Avellone making an appearance as a merc in the Boneyard.
I'm sure there is more (I remember Joker's line about dancing with the devil from the Tim Burton's movie being a battle cry but I don't remember if it was 1 or 2).
It helps that stuff like the tardis or crashed star trek ship is that the VD/CO encounter them randomly out in the wastes and is the only one who sees them (ignoring companions) so its not like the entire wasteland learns theres a crashed star trek ship somewhere or know what a tardis is to understand its importance.
Even what Fallout 2/New Vegas with Wild Wasteland did is preferable in comparison.
Yeah I'll take two bears high fiving references and Planet of the apes lonesome road endings over borderlands writing even if i do like maybe 10 jokes across 1,2 and pre sequel
Surprised no one did this crossover before.

Imagine Asterix punching a legionaire out of their shoes or clearing up Quarry Junction in 10 minutes off screen with the mother deathclaw just having a big bump on the head running off.
>Fallout tribals that act like the Asterix gauls
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Next time i assault the Caesar's Camp in New Vegas i'm gonna put this song in the background:
Are the XXL games that good?
I heard they got remasters so they have been on my radar as a enjoyer of Asterix
 
I played through fallout 3 with ttw and just did the main story and fucked around in dc. It's way shorter than I remember it being. (Than again the last time I played was on a ps3)

Without playing through the dlcs and just walking through the main story it took me like a few hours in total on top of that the story just kinda sucks. I do like the design of DC and the surrounding wasteland though I think they did a way better job at the abandoning city feeling than they did with fallout 4
 
I played through fallout 3 with ttw and just did the main story and fucked around in dc. It's way shorter than I remember it being. (Than again the last time I played was on a ps3)

Without playing through the dlcs and just walking through the main story it took me like a few hours in total on top of that the story just kinda sucks. I do like the design of DC and the surrounding wasteland though I think they did a way better job at the abandoning city feeling than they did with fallout 4
I recently did a TTW F3 playthrough and came to the same conclusion. I will say that I actually hated F3's vaults this time around, they're very bland and samey layout-wise and the gimmicks were pretty weak and one-note IMO. I have a stronger appreciation for NV's vaults now.

In fact, all of F3's internal levels felt very copy-paste. IDK if the metro systems and sewers skewered my perception, but after a while everytime I entered a building I kept thinking "I've already explored all this before". NV's outer map may be shittier that 3's but man 3's 'dungeons' turn into green-gray mush.
 
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