Fallout The Original Fallout 3 - Investigating Fallout Van Buren

[Boleskine]

 

[agentorange]

Can we ban people who post these dumbass youtube videos as thread openers.

 

[Lurker47]

Part of me is glad Van Buren didn't get made because the main plot synopsis sounds extremely dumb and boring. It's just a convoluted way to "nuke people me no like"

Everything else seemed amazing though.

Also, yeah, that video kind of sucks.

 

[Jimmious]

Actually the RT/TB hybrid didn't look amazing to me but I'd gladly take it over the shit we got from the Bethesda..

 

[Invictus]

To be brutally honest, I will take New Vegas (gamebryo and all) over the Diablo style combat any day... seems like we got the very best Fallout 3 in New Vegas; better story, better setting, better premise and honestly better development team with a more mature Obsidian with a stronger cast of writers

 

[Lurker47]

To be brutally honest, I will take New Vegas (gamebryo and all) over the Diablo style combat any day... seems like we got the very best Fallout 3 in New Vegas; better story, better setting, better premise and honestly better development team with a more mature Obsidian with a stronger cast of writers

All of the Legion stuff in Van Buren will be missed alongside a lot of its misc. lore. It was certainly a loss- just fuck that main plot.

 

[Egosphere]

There's a long series of vids by RetconRaider discussing Van Buren at length on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCagUJdg-iWr4kukWlqXsT_5F1r_iXcSz

I haven't watched many of them so I can't really verify the quality, but the ones that I watched were pretty informative and detailed regarding the main plot, some side quests, etc.

 

[Invictus]

To be brutally honest, I will take New Vegas (gamebryo and all) over the Diablo style combat any day... seems like we got the very best Fallout 3 in New Vegas; better story, better setting, better premise and honestly better development team with a more mature Obsidian with a stronger cast of writers

All of the Legion stuff in Van Buren will be missed alongside a lot of its misc. lore. It was certainly a loss- just fuck that main plot.

That was more of an issue with the deadline Bethesda gave Obsidian rather than any writers’ fault... one of my only issues with Obsidian is how Legion felt rather one sided and underdeveloped both as lore and as a faction for gameplay
Weird that with all these great mods nobody thought on fleshing them out more

 

[Lurker47]

To be brutally honest, I will take New Vegas (gamebryo and all) over the Diablo style combat any day... seems like we got the very best Fallout 3 in New Vegas; better story, better setting, better premise and honestly better development team with a more mature Obsidian with a stronger cast of writers

All of the Legion stuff in Van Buren will be missed alongside a lot of its misc. lore. It was certainly a loss- just fuck that main plot.

That was more of an issue with the deadline Bethesda gave Obsidian rather than any writers’ fault... one of my only issues with Obsidian is how Legion felt rather one sided and underdeveloped both as lore and as a faction for gameplay
Weird that with all these great mods nobody thought on fleshing them out more

The Legion never felt underdeveloped or one-sided to me; you just never got to see or interact with any of its more interesting bits.
I've recently come to the realization that they had an opportunity to do so in Honest Hearts and totally squandered it. Besides, centering the Legion around several other dangerous cults would have been a far better context for their storyline to play out in then maybe (theoretically) you could lean into their war with the NCR.