Fallout Series: Because Arguing Never Changes

Radiation affected different countries differently after the war. In Russia, because Mother Russia Makes You Strong, it was Nosalises and Librarians and Dark Ones. In America, because Fuck Yeah America, it added 50s pulp-era SCIENCE! radiation and other cool stuff. One day, the NCR will fly their nuclear-enabled planes into Europe and find... their infantry desolate as they enter Russia.

Damn, I'm giving Avellone ideas. :P

Fallout UK: Wasteland versions of the Beatles, with punk rock society and twill wearing bandits. Mutant scones and crumpets. And instead of Nuka Cola you have "Milton's Tea".

Which is tea that boosts your ability to be polite in adverse conditions.

Every character should have a nigh-impenetrable, specific regional accent.

Highlanders should knowingly parody Braveheart expectations.

edited 17th Jul '14 6:43:38 AM by TheHandle

Perhaps the string vest would also be an armour type?

There'd have to be an NPC named Blackadder, or one called "Rab". Maybe the merchant'd be a thinly veiled expy of Delboy.

King Arthur mythos'd have to turn up at some point as well. Though you wouldn't have the Brotherhood of Steel. Maybe the SAS'd be the Legendary Warriors...

Yea, the game would end with you in a space station and you either A) Let everything get nuked again, or B) Stop the nukes, killing yourself in the process. There was also a sidequest of having "born ghouls" and if some stats were was high enough, getting one of them pregnant.

man, bethesda were really set on having the player sacrifice themself. wonder why

Black Isle Studios was responsible for Van Buren.

Yeah, I'm... really not a fan of some of the things they planned for Van Buren.

Anything that made it into New Vegas, cool. Anything else? Eeeeehhhhhhhhhh......

ah, was a little confused for a while there. when it said "original fallout 3 plot" i just assumed it was the first draft of bethesda's fallout 3, not the fallout 3 that never got made and used a different name.

Yea, Van Buren was the production title for Fallout 3. It got scrapped when the series went to Bethesda, and the VB content got handed over to Obsidian for New Vegas. Burned Man, Ulysses, Caesar's Legion.

Hey, while the ghoul thing sounds as silly as talking deathclaws, I don't see any problem with original let everything be nuked from orbit or destroy satellite and yourself with it ending The parts that didn't get into New Vegas weren't all bad.

@Tarsen: Van Buren is project codename, all of fallouts used to have codenames after presidents or something

edited 17th Jul '14 10:27:56 AM by SpookyMask

Fallout: Paris would be terrifying. Imagine exploring the catacombs alone...

Those wouldn't even need a Fallout. They would be scary on their own.

I like the STALKER series more than the Metro ones. Besides, STALKER shares a similar "you are all alone in a desolate wasteland and just about everyone has a chance of trying to kill you at some point" theme to the 3D Fallout-verse games. They're mostly open-world, wide-open sandbox games, with some forced "dungeon crawling" phases thrown in, and they have uber-powerful mutants scattered around that EVERYONE is afraid of if they have half a working brain-cell.

ive yet to try STALKER.

i largely liked metro for the atmosphere it created, and the interesting plotline.

and the weird fucked up supernatural nuclear anomalies. the only thing really comparable, to my knowledge between metro and fallout is post nuclear apoc and mutated mo-fos and a lot of grey and gray morality to go around.

even when fallout attempts atmosphere and horror, it reaches a remarkably different tone from metro.

STALKER's where a lot of the design elements for Metro came from. Along with a lot of the staff who jumped ship from GSC Gameworld. They are good games but by all that's holy, if you buy them, get the unofficial patches.

STALKER's definitely always interested me, but I also hear...Things about the difficulty. And the bugs, but what right does a Fallout fan have to complain about bugs?

The difficulty in the STALKER games can be uneven at times, and there are certain bits of the story in Shadow of Chernobyl that you will not get past unless you go and do a lot of digging for proper armor and weapons - if you don't you will get killed. Like, a lot. Do a keyword search for sentry position, railway bridge for details. But I still love them as a whole, and want a picture of the owner who cancelled the sequel, STALKER 2, so I can make it into a dart board.

@Tam: Eh, tone in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is still much different and doesn't story require chernobyl being only hell hole in the world?

Anyway, I still don't see why doing official crossover would be good idea. Like, why make cross over between Gundam and Macross that is canon? Or Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica?

Well, in the original books, and there's a lot of them, the Zone... Spreads away from Chernobyl. Like, a lot. There's no reason that the in-game universe, if you let things run a little longer, wouldn't work out the same way.

And you can guess how quickly things would get fucked up if the Zone areas and anomalies opened up in Berlin, or Paris, or London. (you wouldn't notice it much in Birmingham or Edinburgh )

Huh. Well, thats weird behavior for radiation xD

There's more to the Zone than the radiation. It's alive, in many ways. And it feeds.

It's only marginally more scary than the real Zone of Alienation round Chernobyl, though.

Here's the STALKER wikia page on the subject:

http://stalker.wikia.com/wiki/The_Zone

edited 17th Jul '14 11:35:56 PM by TamH70

Huh, well, that sounds supernatural <_< Which kinda means that if you want to canonically combine the two you would have to remove that

Well, Fallout 3 has the Dunwich Building, so the supernatural is canon to the Bethesda Falloutverse.

Isn't point lookout one of more hated Fallout 3 dlcs?