Fallout 4 Pre-Release Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Immortal]

TUNNEL SNAKES ROOL

 

[Zeriel]

Well, if power armor is so common in the area that greasers pimp them like motorcycles, it would make perfect sense for the bandits to have some in their possession.

It just makes zero sense. There's no internal consistency. They want to push the "wasteland" vibe while having plentiful old war tech and resources. If everyone has that tech, either the world should be rebuilt to almost pre-war standards or warlords in power armor should be raping and pillaging everywhere. The idea of gangs wearing power armor right next to other gangs who will be wearing scraps of leather and Mad Max style uniforms is so ridiculous, but I'm sure that's exactly what we'll find, because Bethesda doesn't give half a shit about anything that gets in the way of what they think is "cool".

I know no one disagrees here and I'm just ranting, but fuck, I feel like I've gone mad. How do such transparently broken ideas get past the drawing board? Why even have a story at all if it's going to be treated with such disdain?

 

[bonescraper]

It just makes zero sense. There's no internal consistency.

Welcome to 2008

 

[Killzig]

Well, if power armor is so common in the area that greasers pimp them like motorcycles, it would make perfect sense for the bandits to have some in their possession.

They lamp-shaded it a bit in that making of article in GI. They said Boston was a site of major military mobilization before the war. IDK why you would deploy PA to Boston, it's not like the Pre-War sequence shows massive unrest or anything like that. But hey, man, it's just a game. Right? B)

 

[Immortal]

It just makes zero sense. There's no internal consistency. They want to push the "wasteland" vibe while having plentiful old war tech and resources. If everyone has that tech, either the world should be rebuilt to almost pre-war standards or warlords in power armor should be raping and pillaging everywhere. The idea of gangs wearing power armor right next to other gangs who will be wearing scraps of leather and Mad Max style uniforms is so ridiculous, but I'm sure that's exactly what we'll find, because Bethesda doesn't give half a shit about anything that gets in the way of what they think is "cool".

I know no one disagrees here and I'm just ranting, but fuck, I feel like I've gone mad. How do such transparently broken ideas get past the drawing board? Why even have a story at all if it's going to be treated with such disdain?

Fallout has always had a kind of off-tone, especially Fallout 2.. things get a little silly in this department. Bethesda has just taken it to extreme levels where it's just getting stupid.

 

[Toffeli]

 

[Zeriel]

Fallout has always had a kind of off-tone, especially Fallout 2.. things get a little silly in this department. Bethesda has just taken it to extreme levels where it's just getting stupid.

I'm not a fan of Fallout 2 either, and I've grown to loathe it increasingly over the years for how dumb bits of it are (basically everything on the coast next to the Enclave, Hubologists in particular), so I guess I'm just too easily triggered by this stuff.

 

[Blaine]

Now in HD! Wooow-EEEE, Bethesda totally gets Fallout, man!

 

[Killzig]

Please tell me this isn't real.

Recognize the line?

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

WHATS UP WITH HIS NECK

 

[Killzig]

WHATS UP WITH HIS NECK

FEV did it.

 

[Immortal]

WHATS UP WITH HIS NECK

It just works

 

[FeelTheRads]

Prewar is oldschool.

Not like the advanced technology developed AFTER the war, amirite?

 

[One-and-a-half-Ivan]

You don't find the institute, the institute finds you

The wizard doesn't choose the wand, the wand chooses the wizard.

 

[Zeriel]

Prewar is oldschool.

Not like the advanced technology developed AFTER the war, amirite?

Well considering we can atomize random scrap and instantly turn it into computer terminals, human civilization really kicked it up a notch AFTER the bombs fell.

 

[bonescraper]

Fallout has always had a kind of off-tone, especially Fallout 2.. things get a little silly in this department. Bethesda has just taken it to extreme levels where it's just getting stupid.

No. Fallout 2 was silly, but it never went so far to contradict or parody itself. Little Lamplight/Big Town, Tenpenny Tower, Megaton, Republic of Dave, the subway vampires, ninja-samurai Chinks, daddy Neeson's big pointless project, protagonist's ultimate sacrifice, Moira Brown, Colonel Autumn, Enclave's ultimate goal, Steel be with you... none of it makes any sesne, but most of it is supposed to be serious.

Crashed UFO/Alien abduction DLC, now that's Bethesda's idea for an "off-tone" FO2 joke.

 

[Jaesun]

Holy shit, that official trailer. This is completely cringe inducing.

 

[Immortal]

Fallout 2 was silly, but it never went so far to contradict or parody itself.

Fallout 2 is filled with pop culture references and post apocalyptic self-parody... did we play the same game?

 

[Killzig]

Fallout 2 is filled with pop culture references and post apocalyptic self-parody... did we play the same game?

Gotta side with Preston on this one. San Francisco is pretty awful.

 

[bonescraper]

Fallout 2 is filled with pop culture references and post apocalyptic self-parody... did we play the same game?

Yeah, well, FO2 is full of pop culture references and post-apocalyptic parody, but it's still internally consistent when you exclude all that silly stuff. FO3 is just dumb, disjointed and shallow, while trying to be completely serious, dramatic and thought provoking.

 

[Sankarihauta]

Holy shit, that official trailer. This is completely cringe inducing.

You don't find the cringe, the cringe finds you.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Holy shit, that official trailer. This is completely cringe inducing.

Postapocalyptic soap-opera.

 

[Zeriel]

Postapocalyptic soap-opera.

I just wish more of these brainless AAA action games let you be a dick in dialogue as well as in the mechanics. That was the joy that made the Mass Effect games work for me, and it's a crying shame Bioware stopped doing that lately, it makes their games completely unplayable. It's a crime against God and all the saints if you go to the trouble of doing fully voiced dialogue and don't give the player the option of being Supreme Douchebag to everyone, it's so much wasted potential.

 

[One-and-a-half-Ivan]

Guys, I get it now. The dog is a synth, that's why it can't burn.
You almsot got us there, Todd.

 

[abnaxus]