Fallout Series: Because Arguing Never Changes

I turn to exit, but I barely get 15% through the turn before it crashes. Turning off autosaves helped, but as for a drone mod I installed the problem persists.

That aside, did you know the guys who did Fallout Lanius are now working on another Legionary? The Burned Man.

Ooh! Joshua Graham? Sweetness.

I know right? They got Lanius's voice actor, I bet they can get Joshua's.

Hey guys, a question on behalf of my sibling. He's trying to play Fallout New Vegas on a 4 year old computer (running Windows 8) but unfortunately every time he's able to get through the opening cutscene but the game then crashes. He's tried opening it in compatibility mode but that didn't help. Has anyone else had this problem and been able to fix it?

Gamebryo games are notoriously difficult to run on operating systems that came out after their release. Playing Fallout 3 on anything but Windows XP can be a nightmare if you don't know what you're doing.

There's some guides out there, but I'll have to dig for them.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Sep 27th 2018 at 1:38:55 AM

I'm not sure if anyone here has watches him but Thenthapple is back! He's a youtuber who presents Fallout (and occasionally other games) lore and theories who stoped uploading two years ago. He's very humorous and it's nice to see him again.

People have their issues with Fallout 3 that are completely fair. But to this day I think I like President Eden, or at least the idea of him, more than almost any character in New Vegas.

Like, the best characters in New Vegas are better than him, but Eden is so good I kinda wish he could appear again. The idea of an AI president who's like this perfect amalgamation of the US' greatest presidents is amazing and fits the Enclave to a T. The Enclave in Fallout 2 always felt like spectacular (in a genuine, non ironic sense of the word) idiots. Basically everywhere you go, you see that they've screwed up in some major way, but they succeed through sheer power and spectacle. Eden is that in speech form. He says basically nothing of substance, and it's great. The sheer charisma in his speeches actually made me cry a few years ago. Which is ridiculous, I know. But he made me want to be an american (I'm not). He made me miss the "good old days".

I unironically listened to Enclave Radio far more than I ever listened to Three Dog.

Edited by GNinja on Jul 25th 2019 at 12:28:18 PM

I've been playing Fallout 2 for about two hours, just got my nephew's dog back.

How do you get used to this fighting system?

How do you mean? It can be clunky, to be expected given how long ago it came out, but it's mostly pretty much what you see is what you get.

Early Game Hell is in full effect, though. The starter cave, the little geckos and those damn plants are notoriously dangerous for low-level characters. If you didn't specialize for combat, you're probably better off running from enemies and holding off on those quests, at least for now. You can come back later when you've built up the appropriate skills/better weapons/party members who can do the fighting for you. Or you can go for a pacifist/stealth/diplomat run, combat is (mostly) optional throughout the game.

Edited by Unsung on Jun 2nd 2020 at 5:17:57 AM

I have been (re)playing Fallout 2 with a non-combat oriented character too, and, yes, the beginning of the game is really hell to play. Your best bet if your character is not specifically optimised for combat (and even if he/she is, since the beginning is still hard) is to make a beeline to Klamath and recruit Sulik as soon as possible. Not only is he usually a better fighter than most starting characters, he will present an additional target to ennemies.

The combat system is really not that hard once you get a hang of it. Every character plays in turn (it becomes more complicated later on because of Sequence, which I never quite understood), and each action costs a certain number of points. It can be a good idea in the beginning of the game to practice hit and run tactics (hit once, then move away from the critters - does not work with Hakunin's plants, obviously), since no matter how your character has been combat optimised even an ant will be able to drop you at half your health points if you give it enough times to hit.

Vault Boy is getting a Mii costume in Smash. So that's neat.

Fallout is getting a live-action series on Amazon Prime, created by the team behind the new Westworld.

I won't get my hopes up, but I think I'll definitely watch that, if only to check how well they stuck to the spirit of the games and the Diesel Punk tech.

That should definitely be interesting, if nothing else. Done well I could see it actually being great.

I mean, that's a promising team to work on it, at the very least. Gives me hope it won't just be a cheap, hokey cash-grab type of thing.

Is there any information on the plot?

As long as it's a new plot, I'll be happy. Trying to adapt one of the games would be difficult at best.

I could see the plot of the first game making a good series, for a season at least.

Have a +1 on that. I've always liked what I heard about the story for Fallout 1, I just never could bring myself to play through it.

Holds up pretty well, honestly. Turn-based tactical combat is having a moment right now. Kind of short compared to the Bethesda games, but you know. Focused. And cheap.

Arcanum is pretty daunting and people sometimes bounce off the Weird Wasteland aspects of Fallout 2, but the first Fallout is a pretty easy ride.

Crossposting from the FO 76 thread since it's actually interesting: the next "season" of content for that game is going to introduce a new Show Within a Show to the franchise: Armor Ace and the Power Patrol, a G.I. Joe-esque cartoon about freedom-loving badasses in power armor fighting an army of Dirty Commies known as "The Red Vipers".

Of note: they're also continuing the trend of sly references to New Vegas by implying that Ulysses' love for America started when he discovered some Armor Ace merchandise - the symbol for the heroes is identical to the one he wears on his duster, and the male lead of the series, Brickhouse, looks kinda like him.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Aug 14th 2020 at 5:16:55 AM

He's just... parroting icons and looks from a kid's cartoon?

I feel like they just made this character, considered by some to be one of the best developed characters in the series, lesser because they tied him to a kids show.

I don't know why they felt the need to do this? What does this serve to the characters? Even if they intended only for him to have stolen the icon, I don't think many fans will read that and instead interpret that they're trying to say he's been radicalized and motivated by the tv show as a source for his motives... which makes him a weaker character.

Guys, I know you want to shout-out to New Vegas... just put some armors in. A few sigil spams. Revel in some nostalgia. Just... don't go further than that. You've already broken the ice at this point...

I mean, that's just the US Commonwealth Flag, it shows up more than just on Ulysses' Duster.

Also, I wouldn't say he looks like Brickhouse except for the fact that they're both black? So implying some sort of connection between the two characters seems a little...off.

Edited by ArthurEld on Aug 14th 2020 at 5:46:18 AM

It's not really the commonwealth flag though? It's the specific "blue circle starfield with 5 vertical red stripes going down" arrangement, which to my knowledge doesn't appear anywhere else in the series; the commonwealth flag is just the regular American flag with the star circle.

And I meant the comparison to Brickhouse more in a "muscular and no sleeves black guy with that specific symbol" sense than a "he looks JUST LIKE HIM!" sense. Like, it's probably a deliberate allusion by the designers working on the game

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Aug 14th 2020 at 6:05:12 AM