Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[lxlslashlxl]

F2 had more issues then F:NV? Now that's... simply retarded.

Ask people who played it on release about the car.

Based on one of the bugs with the car, the trunk of the car (not the car, just the trunk) was intended to be a high Luck encounter you could find in Fallout: Van Buren.

The disembodied trunk was planned to still hold some of the Chosen One's stuff from F2 that was lost when the trunk refused to reappear attached to the car.

Ah, F2 and your many, many bugs. Still, was fun to work on it despite its flaws.

Stretch goal for the next MCA masterpiece?

 

[Tom Selleck]

(I love you very much, Chris Avellone.)

 

[jaydee2k]

You will have a lot of "fun" with developing Fallout 5 for Todd then...

 

[Irenaeus]

 

[naossano]

The best advertizement that you could ever dream for...

 

[Excidium II]

Describe MCA in one sentence

 

[Infinitron]

racofer OC

 

[Popiel]

I finished Planescape: Torment again after a very long break.

This is The Game. It will never be topped, never. No chance. There is one such a piece of art per generation. TNO learning his original name, and it being just so simple, nothing flashy and pompous, with the First Incarnation laying hand on your shoulder and smiling, music playing in the background - the feels. Thank you Chris Avellone.

 

[Infinitron]

Thorough description: http://www.devgameclub.com/blog/2017/5/31/dgc-ep-064-interview-with-chris-avellone

Fairfax

 

[ColonelTeacup]

I liked the pop culture references, bad jokes and New Reno.

Wait, what was wrong with New Reno?

 

[Prime Junta]

Wait, what was wrong with New Reno?

Nothing as such. It just didn't fit the rest of the setting. Went from 1950s retro kitsch to 1930s gangster film.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

1930s gangster film.

Good enough for its own game though, mind you.

 

[Infinitron]

One thing I'd like to ask Chris Avellone but never got around to was whether the families in New Reno were inspired by specific gangster archetypes from popular culture and real life.

To my eye it seems like the Mordinos are Central American druglords, the Wrights are prohibition era Irish mobsters, and Bishop has a touch of James Cagney.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Intetesting tidbits from dgc interview:

- Nameless one is immortal and death mechanics exist because avellone are bad at playing RPGs (cue wolves in arcanum flashback)
- He wanted new vegas companions are more intertwined to the main plot (i agree too) and thats why he wanted to push ulysses into the main game and wanted more characters in the story like benny become companion
- He thinks icewind dale was a regress. I wasnt a project everyone wanted, but have to do to churn game asap to get out of critical financial problem.

 

[naossano]

I liked the pop culture references, bad jokes and New Reno.

Wait, what was wrong with New Reno?

For some people, it is less convincing to have bad guys dressed as 1930s gangsters, than one-wheeled robots acting as casino security.

 

[ColonelTeacup]

I liked the pop culture references, bad jokes and New Reno.

Wait, what was wrong with New Reno?

For some people, it is less convincing to have bad guys dressed as 1930s gangsters, than one-wheeled robots acting as casino security.

Ah, right. That's too bad. I loved the setting of New Reno. Was my favorite city of all of Fallout 2.

 

[Prime Junta]

For some people, it is less convincing to have bad guys dressed as 1930s gangsters, than one-wheeled robots acting as casino security.

Consistent, not convincing.

Here, let me spell it out for you.

Fallout is 1950s retro-futuristic kitsch.

One-wheeled robots with TV screens for faces are 1950s retro-futuristic kitsch. They fit the theme and the setting just fine.

Bad guys dressed as 1930s gangsters is not 1950s retro-futuristic kitsch. It doesn't fit.

It's like if Durlag's Tower was sitting somewhere in the corner of the map. Cool in its own right, but doesn't fit the setting.

 

[ghostdog]

I disagree. New Reno was great, the best area in FO2 probably, and it didn't clash with the setting beacause FO2 has a more tongue in cheek style in general, more like wasteland. FO2 declined from San Francisco and forward.

 

[Prime Junta]

it didn't clash with the setting beacause FO2 has a more tongue in cheek style in general

That "tongue in cheek style" is precisely how it clashed with the setting. Retro-futuristic 1950s kitsch is already tongue in cheek, slather a ton of contemporaneous pop culture references and random 1930s shit on top of it, and it's like deep frying butter.

But hey, 'murica I guess.

 

[Background Character]

That's really nice and all but New Vegas is not isometric so it can't be better than 2

Wish Tactics was better

Fallout 1 best forever

 

[HoboForEternity]

Maybe it is not better, but it is still a respectable entry to the series, especially with ultimate edition and bugfixes that i dare to put it on a pedestal along with 1 and 2 and just think them as the fallout trilogy.

 

[Irenaeus]

Come on... New Vegas is not terrible, but to put it anywhere near Fallout 1 & 2 is creative, to say the least.

 

[Rev]

Come on... New Vegas is not terrible, but to put it anywhere near Fallout 1 & 2 is creative, to say the least.

New Vegas has a far better thought setting than FO2 with its themepark approach.

 

[Drax]

Behead those who disregard New Vegas. And their women and children too.

Irenaeused tfy

 

[Immortal]

racofer OC

> Implying Brian has ever actually created anything.



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Lol J_C - Your anger makes me
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