Eric Fenstermaker on New Vegas' Vault 11

[Bester]

Sawyer clearly felt that Fenstermaker was capable of writing Vault 11, and he was proven right since, despite whatever your personal opinion is on the area

84 metacritic. Shit tier.

Not my fault you can't distingusih between "it's outside my comfort zone" and "I'm shit at it".

Not my fault you don't know that it's the same.

 

[gruntar]

I can't feel the same for hype about Vault 11 after our interview with Eric: http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10231

Vault 11 is cool, but it gained recognition from game journos because it hit walking sim notes.

Who cares about journos, Beyond the Beef quest is widely loved among NV fans. This chart is being used to shut down bethestards in pretty much every NV vs Fallout 3/4 thread:

 

[Viata]

I really hope you guys helped White Gloves go back to canibalism. No matter how.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

The Glow has the "playing chess against the computer until you die" and that was really unique. Probably the only peaceful death in Fallout 1.

I died in the Glow once from reading the book

 

[2house2fly]

Beyond The Beef is a technically impressive quest but not really that fun, except that you can resolve the quest by offering to suck a guy's dick in a dumpster and then knocking him out

 

[RoSoDude]

The "Beyond the Beef" quest led to some of the most aberrant stealth/alliance AI behavior I've ever encountered in New Vegas -- party guests and bouncers ended up in an all out fight while I was running around trying to nab Mortimer. I'm not sure if it made the quest worse, or better by adding some unintended humor with the fact that a bunch of former cannibals were trying to cut each other apart with eating utensils.

Vault crawling is definitely my favorite part of Fallout, personally. I had more fun with Vault 22 and Vault 34 than 11, though. But I also dug the intrigue in Vault 11, and the level design was definitely compelling. Cool read.

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

The Glow has the "playing chess against the computer until you die" and that was really unique. Probably the only peaceful death in Fallout 1.

Truly monocled individuals quickly hit their carry weights and then spend a day or two leasurely reading books the Big Book of Science, First Aids manuals, Deans' Electronics and other manuals... in the middle of a radioactive hole.

Well sir, just because radiation is off the charts does not mean putting a stop to my self-education, no siree

 

[FreeKaner]

Beyond The Beef is a technically impressive quest but not really that fun, except that you can resolve the quest by offering to suck a guy's dick in a dumpster and then knocking him out

The whole thing was fun beyond the technical depth.

 

[Sigourn]

I feel Beyond the Beef is a great quest that gets a bad reputation because of people wanting to get the "best" endings but failing to do so due to bugs. It's a very buggy quest, and when you are looking for a particular ending (as opposed to earning whatever comes your way) it can get very frustrating. That was my first time with New Vegas. On my last playthrough, I simply had to put everyone to sleep after I couldn't get Philippe's recipe and cook the meat myself. Something really annoying: I couldn't kill Mortimer afterwards as he sleeped, everyone would wake up magically.

I think I ended up throwing a Plasma Grenade his way when he got back to his post as a receptionist or something.

 

[Sizzle]

Sawyer clearly felt that Fenstermaker was capable of writing Vault 11, and he was proven right since, despite whatever your personal opinion is on the area

84 metacritic. Shit tier.

Still butthurt at Obsidian for patching PoE - which broke your precious mod - I see :D

Good lad, keep it up. Never give up on your pettiness, draw strength from it, like a mental patient banging his head against the padded wall

 

[AwesomeButton]

Bester may be a vatnik, hence a misguided person living in a reality constructed by fake news state-controlled media, but his mod was good and useful. It was fortunate that he made it.

 

[laclongquan]

PS: whoever fucking said that as a writer, your job is to be versatile enough to write anything?

Generally the boss who is too cheap to hire more writers for different styles. Or the HR people who is too lazy to go through all the step to find a different writers for different styles (I admit it's difficult).

What's generally go unsaid is that when you are versatile enough to write anything, you write most of it badly or mediocre enough to pass muster, with the few are good which are your strength anyway.

If you think you can write versatile enough and good enough in most of it, I have really bad news for you.

 

[Delterius]

If you think you can write versatile enough and good enough in most of it, I have really bad news for you.

you have a long and bright career in the gaming industry