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One of my new favorite things to do is blow the arms off of someone and watch them rushing around in circles shouting swear words at me.
Fallout series
- Thread starter exball
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I finally got to the Nuka World expansion. Like, it's so bleak. These traders and settlers there are having a bad time, they are made all slaves, and even if you free them, you regularly come across terrible stories.
A ghoul woman who goes looking for a cure and eventually kills herself before she goes feral. A bunch of Traders massacred by park robots because they ripped too many circuit boards out of the mainframe to sell for scrap. A boy raised by ghoul gorillas who fights off genetically cloned gatorclaws. A bunch of gunners massacred by super powered mirelurks. You walk into an old town nearby and find the entire population are feral ghouls. You randomly come across dead or dying settlers from every possible enemy there is.
You kinda see where the Institute is coming from when they say the surface is pretty fucked.
A ghoul woman who goes looking for a cure and eventually kills herself before she goes feral. A bunch of Traders massacred by park robots because they ripped too many circuit boards out of the mainframe to sell for scrap. A boy raised by ghoul gorillas who fights off genetically cloned gatorclaws. A bunch of gunners massacred by super powered mirelurks. You walk into an old town nearby and find the entire population are feral ghouls. You randomly come across dead or dying settlers from every possible enemy there is.
You kinda see where the Institute is coming from when they say the surface is pretty fucked.
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True, but the Institute themselves fucked up any chance of making things any better and continue to do so.
The Commonwealth almost united under a proto-NCR in the backstory, but one of their prototype synths (which they KNEW was still in the testing stage) flipped out and fucked that all up, so they decided any further attempts to encourage unity were doomed to fail and set about making sure it could never happen again, even though the blood was legit on their hands due to negligence for said failure.
Go check some failed settlements around the map, like University Point. They fucked them up ON PURPOSE in pursuit of this.
The Super Mutants were dumped on the surface even before they decided the surface was screwed and both before and after they came to that conclusion, they didn't give a fuck about the consequences for the people above of doing this.
Porter Gage even makes the legit point in Nuka World even the raiders see the Institute as a legit threat because they give even less shits than the RAIDERS who they experiment on. He also make a comment on the Vaults that applies just as well to the Institute, saying putting a bunch of people at the mercy of some asshole in an underground hidey hole is just a recipe for disaster.
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Yeah I was thinking so as well, but then you get to Nuka World where the Institute has minimal influence, and that place seemed screwed as well. You go to Fallout 3, the Capital Wasteland is arguably even worse off and the Institute has no influence there. Hell, if you look at the Vault 76 trailer, the first people out of the Vault are already fighting, I dunno, these things.
To the Institute, I suppose to them it's like pissing in a sea of piss.
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This video basically unintellionally points out the fundamental flaw with making a Fallout game an MMO.
The point of the series has been to take your time exploring and reading shit but a Pvp MMO where you have to worry about and compete with other players and guilds makes that difficult.
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I hate that guys voice so much. But it's funny where he's like tracing a story through the world with notes left behind. The developers already spoiled the whole game, because they said the only humans in the game are players. Which means every NPC you will ever find is already dead, you are simply going to be finding out what killed them.
All the while you are getting constant pop ups about events happening in the area with party balloon sounds, and people jumping around in the same room wearing party hats and emoting while you listen to a crying scared person on holotape. Gives me a sort of bizarre ESO feel where it felt almost like a multiplayer mod you downloaded for a base game.
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I was thinking how funny it would be if they went full on MMO. You'd be talking to some quest giver about how hard it is to scrape by in the world and look over and see like 60 people standing around dancing while wearing full power armor or riding on mounts like motorcycles.
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Funny that you say it. I think they may have merged The Elderscrolls and Fallout in the same universe. I mean Fallout 3 and New Vegas use the same engine as Oblivion (Gamebryo). Skyrim and Fallout 4 use Creation Engine.
I should have seen it coming sooner myself.
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Well they already have the systems in place to make dragons in the engine. May as well just redo them so they are more like giant mutant bats or something, then drop them in.
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Lol Fallout 76 literally looks like Skyrim with guns. Or more like Oblivion with guns with all the bright, cartoony over saturated colors.
What I don't understand is who does Bugthesda think is interested in their game? It's not the hardcore Fallout fans, that ship sailed after F4. It's not the filthy casual fans (like me) and it's not the competitive FPS players because the whole game is just one big unorganized clusterfuck. It's not RPG fans because it's basically radiant quest dispener: the Game. Is it the people who liked Fallout Shelter? But that was a free to play mobile game; you can't really compare the two.
It looks like no one is wanting it. Just out of curiosity, I went to vgchartz.com to see how many preorders there were. As of now, 11 weeks to launch, there's only 73,748 preorders for XB1 and PS4. You wanna know how may XB1 and PS4 preorders Fallout 4 had around this time? 319,163! It's really starting to look like Bugthesda screwed the pooch with this whole thing.
Nah, I take that back. Bugthesda screwed the pooch with Fallout 4. With F76 they tortured the pooch to death, gouged out its eyes, and skull fucked it!
What I don't understand is who does Bugthesda think is interested in their game? It's not the hardcore Fallout fans, that ship sailed after F4. It's not the filthy casual fans (like me) and it's not the competitive FPS players because the whole game is just one big unorganized clusterfuck. It's not RPG fans because it's basically radiant quest dispener: the Game. Is it the people who liked Fallout Shelter? But that was a free to play mobile game; you can't really compare the two.
It looks like no one is wanting it. Just out of curiosity, I went to vgchartz.com to see how many preorders there were. As of now, 11 weeks to launch, there's only 73,748 preorders for XB1 and PS4. You wanna know how may XB1 and PS4 preorders Fallout 4 had around this time? 319,163! It's really starting to look like Bugthesda screwed the pooch with this whole thing.
Nah, I take that back. Bugthesda screwed the pooch with Fallout 4. With F76 they tortured the pooch to death, gouged out its eyes, and skull fucked it!
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They already confirmed it will have MTX. And of course they are, shit is crazy profitable thanks to all the retards out there.
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People have already commented on it while playing, you earn a currency "atoms" while playing, that you can spend on store vanity items.
The thing is, that just like in Fallout Shelter, the in game currency starts coming in good at first, then once you've got all the starter achievements, it slows down more and more til you are getting drip fed them at the high levels to encourage you to spend real money to get them.
I think people are being skeptical about Fallout 76, plus the ones that would fall for the hype are all playing Fortnite so they are essentially out of the picture for now.
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Umm... So people have found evidence that the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 76. They are supposed to be in a bunker in California and not come out until like a hundred year later after 76.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/9mpihe/fallout_76_has_retconned_in_the_brotherhood_of/
This is far worse than the Ghoul kid in a freeze. Any attempt to explain this is going to be so terrible and contrived. Holy shit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/9mpihe/fallout_76_has_retconned_in_the_brotherhood_of/
This is far worse than the Ghoul kid in a freeze. Any attempt to explain this is going to be so terrible and contrived. Holy shit.
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We were in reasonably plausible territory when we first heard of F76. Even Super Mutants make some sense, Vault 87 isn't THAT far away, that place had been decanting those muties since before the war, so for some to make it to WV is plausible.
But the BROTHERHOOD? Bethseda bent canon pretty far without breaking it in any MAJOR "fuck this, this is too stupid no one could ever believe it" way just before this, but with the BoS in a place that would have been utterly impossible to make any sense given the time and place, they just took what few shreds of plausibility the lore could ever have and flung it out the window.
If Bethseda tries to insist this is canon after this game bombs hard, my disgust will be potent enough to turn nearby vegetation lifeless.
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This is reaching new depths of laziness. It was bad enough when Bethesda stooped down to relying on the Fallout Wikia site as their definitive internal reference for lore development, but now they are not even reading the wikia.
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Not interested talking about internal consistency in a series with talking zombies
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The people in the thread mention it's the writer that did the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim. So screw lore, just do whatever seems cool. Hell the BoS and Ghouls and Super Mutants have always existed, hell just make Super Mutants used to put on a hat and suit and go to work at the office back during the pre-war days.
Most people won't give a crap, they just want to see Brotherhood of Steel. You guys are giving way to much credit to the legions of fans, they'll forgive Bethesda for whatever. I'm sure there'd be complaint threads the BoS aren't in Fallout 25 years after the bombs fell otherwise.
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The only way this would be excusable is if they made Fallout 76 it's own a game much like Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel in that they are nothing more than just spin-offs but that may just be pushing it.