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Fallout series
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There's a Fallout mod for Darkest Hour (revamped and improved version of Hearts of Iron 2).
It was originally made long before Fallout 3, though - no Capital Wasteland and no New Vegas can be found here.
It was originally made long before Fallout 3, though - no Capital Wasteland and no New Vegas can be found here.
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I hope I'm not the only person who hates Dead Money with a passion. I'm about to up and quit and start a new game because those fucking neck collars keep killing me.
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Looks like it's a countdown to something which will be revealed tomorrow... 9am for me... this is one of the only reasons why'd I'd wake up early on one of my days off.
As for the Fallout games... I fucking love them.
Let me tell you a story.
When I first played Fallout 3, I was new to the whole gaming scene outside of Nintendo, so I'd never played a Bethesda-styled RPG before. I had just bought a 360 a few months beforehand shortly after Nintendo's dismal 2008 E3 showcase, which finally caused me to bail from the Nintendo ship after years of being one of their fanboys and out-and-out denying myself to buy any other console to that point.
But, as luck would have it, 2008 was also the year the print industry, the place where I was at the time, nosedived hard into the ground. The place I was working at have to shave off 2/3rds of its staff. I was a part of it. This was September 2008. I was given a severance package that would float me for about a month or two but I needed to find a job.
Because of my reduced income, I wasn't able to buy any vidya and instead had to rent them. One of the local video stores (yes, we still had one of those in this town) was a really cool place that rented brand new games for five days at a go for like $5. It was around the time when Fallout 3 came out, my sevrance was drying up, but I was woefully naive back then in thinking a job would pop up.
During the daylight hours I would be canvasing the area with resumes and filling job applications. At night I would play Fallout 3.
And remember how I told you at this time I hadn't ever played any Bethesda RPGs yet? Yeah, I completely and totally sucked at it. I got out of the vault but managed to die about ten times before finding Megaton. I made it to Galaxy News radio and got to the Washington DC mall by sheer luck alone.
But eventually I found myself in an impasse. I found myself in-game, cowering in a broom closet with just a hockey mask and my armored Vault 101 jumpsuit, halfway dead, with all of two landmines, five .308 rounds, and my trusty BB gun. On the other side of the door were two or three patrolling super mutants, each with rifles. It was a terrible scenario.
At the same time in the real world, things were looking grim. My money was slowly draining to zero. I was having to pawn off my stuff to make rent and pay my bills. Food budget was about $30 per week. Yeah, and I know playing vidya wasn't the most financially sound of plans, but it helped curb the anxiousness I felt each day.
In game, in the broom closet, I had to organize and prepare myself. I wasn't about to restart the game. I had to make it through this scenario. And so, through trial and many, many errors, I managed to get through by using all of my bullets to down one super mutant, grabbing his gun and luring his pals down a corridor, dropping land mines along the way. By some miracle they managed to take out the other two, and by sheer luck I got through that building.
For me, the game was kind of a "wake up" thing. If I could manage to survive a horde of super mutants with next to nothing, I could survive my real-life situation. I planned, reorganized, and focused myself harder onto the task at hand. I adapted.
And I survived. In about two months time, I finally found a new job. Granted, it was a job I would learn to hate with every ounce of my being, but it was a well-paying gig. With my first paycheck, I bought Fallout 3. It would be one of the few games I truly completed/ platinumed.
When New Vegas dropped, I was well situated into my new job, but like I mentioned, I hated it terribly. It was easily the most soul sucking experience I have ever had felt even to this day, draining any joy I had at the time, leaving me exhausted physically and mentally dead every day. But New Vegas for me became my refuge from that job. Much like Fallout 3 before it, it gave me something to be excited about. I probably spent four solid months playing nothing but New Vegas. It also became one of the few games I 100% completed/ platinumed/ whatever.
But, as luck would have it, 2008 was also the year the print industry, the place where I was at the time, nosedived hard into the ground. The place I was working at have to shave off 2/3rds of its staff. I was a part of it. This was September 2008. I was given a severance package that would float me for about a month or two but I needed to find a job.
Because of my reduced income, I wasn't able to buy any vidya and instead had to rent them. One of the local video stores (yes, we still had one of those in this town) was a really cool place that rented brand new games for five days at a go for like $5. It was around the time when Fallout 3 came out, my sevrance was drying up, but I was woefully naive back then in thinking a job would pop up.
During the daylight hours I would be canvasing the area with resumes and filling job applications. At night I would play Fallout 3.
And remember how I told you at this time I hadn't ever played any Bethesda RPGs yet? Yeah, I completely and totally sucked at it. I got out of the vault but managed to die about ten times before finding Megaton. I made it to Galaxy News radio and got to the Washington DC mall by sheer luck alone.
But eventually I found myself in an impasse. I found myself in-game, cowering in a broom closet with just a hockey mask and my armored Vault 101 jumpsuit, halfway dead, with all of two landmines, five .308 rounds, and my trusty BB gun. On the other side of the door were two or three patrolling super mutants, each with rifles. It was a terrible scenario.
At the same time in the real world, things were looking grim. My money was slowly draining to zero. I was having to pawn off my stuff to make rent and pay my bills. Food budget was about $30 per week. Yeah, and I know playing vidya wasn't the most financially sound of plans, but it helped curb the anxiousness I felt each day.
In game, in the broom closet, I had to organize and prepare myself. I wasn't about to restart the game. I had to make it through this scenario. And so, through trial and many, many errors, I managed to get through by using all of my bullets to down one super mutant, grabbing his gun and luring his pals down a corridor, dropping land mines along the way. By some miracle they managed to take out the other two, and by sheer luck I got through that building.
For me, the game was kind of a "wake up" thing. If I could manage to survive a horde of super mutants with next to nothing, I could survive my real-life situation. I planned, reorganized, and focused myself harder onto the task at hand. I adapted.
And I survived. In about two months time, I finally found a new job. Granted, it was a job I would learn to hate with every ounce of my being, but it was a well-paying gig. With my first paycheck, I bought Fallout 3. It would be one of the few games I truly completed/ platinumed.
When New Vegas dropped, I was well situated into my new job, but like I mentioned, I hated it terribly. It was easily the most soul sucking experience I have ever had felt even to this day, draining any joy I had at the time, leaving me exhausted physically and mentally dead every day. But New Vegas for me became my refuge from that job. Much like Fallout 3 before it, it gave me something to be excited about. I probably spent four solid months playing nothing but New Vegas. It also became one of the few games I 100% completed/ platinumed/ whatever.
So yeah, tomorrow, I'm throwing on my Brotherhood of Steel hoodie, my Galaxy News Radio t-shirt, and be a complete fan sperg for whatever they're announcing.
KaiserC
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I had to breathe like twenty times in my lunchbag before calming down enough to type. Plagued by all of its problems, Fallout is what I feel a videogame should be. Even after playing Skyrim, I went back to New Vegas over and over because of the many options it offered.
I loved it because of the story and hated it because of the gameplay.
I loved it because of the story and hated it because of the gameplay.
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I will be so anxious tomorrow. Any speculations? If the peak about the cinematic was correct this will be a teaser like they did with Skyrim a few years back.
I can honestly see them using the new Skyrim engine for Fallout 4 but one thing is bothering me: are they going to learn from NV's storytelling and choices or will it be as casual as Skyrims Red or Blue?
I can honestly see them using the new Skyrim engine for Fallout 4 but one thing is bothering me: are they going to learn from NV's storytelling and choices or will it be as casual as Skyrims Red or Blue?
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They could end up doing as casual as Skyrim did with Red or Blue. Still, one would like to see how the teaser goes in terms of what the location will be.
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Is there any confirmation that it's developed by Bethesda as well as produced? If Bethesda develops it, we might be looking at a more clear cut faction system rather than if they had Obsidian develop it like NV.
either way, I'm very excited.
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I read somewhere else today (I've been scouring gaming sites so it was one out of a half dozen places), that they noticed the "fine print" on the countdown page lists this as a game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, so its a good chance it was made in-house instead of someone like Obsidian.
Also, just for the hell of it... today deserves some "celebratory" music.
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Dead Money is the most unpopular DLC aside from Honest Hearts.
I actually like Dead Money quite a lot mostly because it is essentially a Japanese Horror DLC. The atmosphere and writing in it are second to none. I also liked how there are very small references to it in later DLC and in the core game.
It does have flaws though, and it certainly isn't for everyone. I like the exploding head collars since it provided an interesting mechanic but otherwise it was pretty annoying. The same with how limited ammunition and healing items were is very jarring compared to the rest of the game.
Still it is my favorite DLC but I fully understand why people dislike it.
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Apparently, the Fallout website's files contain a reference to a Javascript file "institute.js", which mean FO4 will take place in Deaglenationland aka Boston.
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Could that mean we might be playing an android? One may as well wonder what the new protagonist could aside from just a random wastelander.
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I liked the atmosphere, characters and some aspects of it... but I really didn't like how the cloud and exploding collars were basically just invisible walls and artificial difficulty. And the whole end sequence was a pain in the ass, trying to trap Elijah took so goddamn many tries and although I guess it's possible to get all the gold bars somehow, I never managed it and that was just annoying. I don't care how unrealistic it'd be to carry a ton of gold and never have to worry about money again ever, if you put something in front of me I'M GOING TO WANT IT.
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There's nothing there at the moment, as the website has been taken back down. Therewas a picture of a Brotherhood of Steel trooper, a dog, and a video that is, as I write this, still private. I've embedded it below. It'll probably go live once the countdown officially expires.
Source.
1 hour to go.
Source.
1 hour to go.