In which I give in to the hype.
Okay, I've never done something like this before, so forgive me if the format I chose here is annoying. What I'm going to do here is write my thoughts on a chapter of Fallout Equestria as they come, then give a summary of my opinions at the end of a chapter.
Prologue + Chapter 1
- Okay, the intro makes no attempt at hiding what's in store here, but it doesn't exactly tell much either.
- So, PipBucks appear to be the gadget to end all gadgets here. I know that all of the things it can do are what the Pip Boys do in the Fallout games, but that's a lot of useful abilities that other characters don't have, especially the edge in combat. (Why would that functionality even be built in to them, anyway? At least in Fallout, the people inside the Vaults were never meant to leave. Why build in combat assistance for a device meant to assist in everyday work in the Stable?)
- Unicorn Master Race, eh? Not a fan, but what are you going to do?
- At least they're smart enough to recognize that living in a bunker is plenty depressing. Most post-apocalyptic stories either ignore it just have the characters go completely insane with no attempts to stave it off.
- Obvious crush is obvious, not that there's anything wrong with that.
- You know, ditching the best survival tool you have is probably a bad way to go about going out into a very hostile environment.
- CMC 3 BFF? Real subtle.
- Ahhh... skeletons. I see we're off to a great start
Thoughts on Prologue+Chapter 1:
Well, it's certainly well written, but I really wasn't expecting otherwise. Aside from my musings over the Batman level of gadgetry in the PipBucks, I really couldn't think of anything wrong with it. Of course, the story's hardly started, so we'll see how things go.
Chapter 2
- How does she even know what sounds he's hearing? I doubt insects were a subject taught in Stable School.
- Sweet Apple Acres? Where in the world is that thing getting its map data from? If it had old records on file all this time, why didn't anypony look at them?
- Chekhov's Terminal, I presume?
- Looks like slavers. This is going to end in blood.
- ...or immediate capture, that works too. The blood can come later.
- How does a pony get a talent for cheese in the Wasteland? Come to think of it, how does Pip even know what cheese is? How much useless (for life in the Stable) knowledge did they teach these ponies?
- Ah, human profanity. At least I hear that Pip gets creative with hers later on.
- And there's the blood. Reminds me of that famous scene from Scanners. You know the one.
- Pip is a competent fighter? That was fast. I guess having that gadget helps, but it doesn't exactly teach you how to pull off roundhouse bucks.
- Are you feelin' lucky, punk?
- At least Pip also wonders how his map knows everything, too.
- That's one lazy sniper. It had all the time in the world to kill them on the bridge.
- And the CMC were the first Overmares, as if that wasn't made obvious enough by the passcode last chapter.
Thoughts on Chapter 2:
And so the bloodbath begins. Pip learns fast. Almost too fast. A good bit of Fridge Logic too on how she could know so little about the outside world yet still know about the little things, but lets just assume that they can somehow synthesize cheese in the Stables. Still not a fan of exploding ponies, but it'll only get worse from here on out, so I'd better get used to it. It's certainly entertaining, but I do hope it doesn't rush Pip's development here.
That's all, for now. I'll probably continue later, but I make no promises. Peace out.
Comments
Seraphem
Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 17th 2012 at 2:56:30 PM
Basically while there was no official draft, there was a lot of unofficial pressure from a number of 'celebrity' pegasi like the Wonderbolts and RD to recruit as many pegasi into the war as possible, as well as pegasi being used as the front line or infiltration troops and tending to suffer the highest casualty numbers. And it wasn't ALL the pegasi that felt that way, not even clear if it was a majority of them, but it was a large portion of there leaders that felt that way.
And the radio thing is from the games, Canterlot is one giant expy of the Dead Money add-on to New Vegas, there you were forced to wear an explosive collar with a twitchy remote trigger that would go if you got to close to a radio for to long. She just adapted it for being deadly without the collar. It's not a radio frequency that is deadly, it's the sound the transmitters are emitting, it's basically a massive magical Brown Note. And even normal sound waves of the right frequency and power can mess a person up.
Cloudsdale got nuked, the pegasi closed up the sky to prevent the Zebras from being able to aim at them, they looked down saw a wasteland and the leaders that were scared into waiting, Enclave came to power and once it was safe to go back, they kept the common pegasi convinced it was still a hellish wasteland of instant death.
manual dexterity is not all the great when you got hooves
Arbu is prety much the point where Lil'pip realizes she HAS been "wishy-washy" as you put it, and really gets serious about doing shit right. yes it's a bit late in the story, but it's pretty much the major point of CD for her.
Sereg
Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 18th 2012 at 4:00:05 AM
"And no, cosmetics is not tangentially related to music or medicine. You're all crazy. "
One of the skills I learned in University is the way to justify everything being related to everything else. XD
"•Why is it that 90% of scenes with Homage revolve around sex? "
Point, but at least it's funny.
The pegasi were taking the heaviest losses.
"•You know, Equestria is a big place. The Enclave can't have the whole sky covered with guards, can they? It probably wouldn't hurt to pop above the clouds and avoid the storm. "
It's more that they don't know where the guards are.
"•Non-ponies can't wield the Elements of Harmony? That's rather arbitrary. "
I agree, but Spike isn't sure anyway.
"The main bulk of things here is the exposition of just how deadly Canterlot is. I don't even want to know how deadly magic radio waves are supposed to work."
Canterlot is Everything Is Trying To Kill You, the city.
"Why isn't anyone calling her out on it? "
They will.
I was not happy with Littlepip here, but she gets her act together.
Unknownlight
Since: Dec, 1969
Aug 8th 2012 at 7:58:11 PM
This live blog has been really entertaining for me to read. Keep it up! =D I'm looking forward to your opinion on the ending.
