Vaarna_Aarne
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Vibalist said:
Read the previous page bro.
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Read the previous page bro.
Vaarna_Aarne said:Vibalist said:
Read the previous page bro.
Sorry bro. I guess alcohol and browsing the Codex doesn't go well together, as I actually just skipped most of the last page in my eagerness to post my own response.
Will get to it at some point. Hopefully.
Vaarna_Aarne
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Theoretically the conditions could have happened elsewhere, and not even with a stretch.
And even then, Ghouls are functionally immortal, so like Super Mutants they're not just going to go away. In fact it's a shame New Vegas didn't have anything on the "Born Ghouls" Van Buren had as a plot point.
And even then, Ghouls are functionally immortal, so like Super Mutants they're not just going to go away. In fact it's a shame New Vegas didn't have anything on the "Born Ghouls" Van Buren had as a plot point.
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You know how KotOR and Star Wars prequels included certain races, themes, or characters simply because they were there in prior instalments and there was need of an excuse to throw them in again?
It's the same thing. Ghouls in Fallout sequels are like Master Vandar and Ebon Hawk in KotOR.
Couldn't the Fallout series have done something new that was still in the spirit of the first game? Something like an abandoned underground military base being a virtual coffin for a nuclear-powered superhuman creature (a purplish glow in humanoid form) who is released by a group of raiders scavenging it for supplies? And then the nuclear man blows out of the place and goes all Supergod on the wasteland.
It's the same thing. Ghouls in Fallout sequels are like Master Vandar and Ebon Hawk in KotOR.
Couldn't the Fallout series have done something new that was still in the spirit of the first game? Something like an abandoned underground military base being a virtual coffin for a nuclear-powered superhuman creature (a purplish glow in humanoid form) who is released by a group of raiders scavenging it for supplies? And then the nuclear man blows out of the place and goes all Supergod on the wasteland.
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New indeed, Wyrmlord. Bethesda got it all topsy-turvy. They failed to appease fans in gameplay and then they added insult to injury by trying way too hard on the setting. Apparently their thinking was "if we throw in all elements from older Fallouts, no one can deny it is a Fallout!"
At least they skipped making F:BoS canon.
Sort of? I mean Bakersfield mostly produced a TON of them in one go and that's what made it unique, but it's not like the ghoulification process can't be reproduced by coincidence independently. It doesn't require anything special unless you believe the FEV-in-the-air explanation (I don't).
So you can have ghouls. They shouldn't be necessary, and they definitely shouldn't be swarming the wasteland like they are in modern-day Fallouts.
At least they skipped making F:BoS canon.
Wyrmlord said:
Sort of? I mean Bakersfield mostly produced a TON of them in one go and that's what made it unique, but it's not like the ghoulification process can't be reproduced by coincidence independently. It doesn't require anything special unless you believe the FEV-in-the-air explanation (I don't).
So you can have ghouls. They shouldn't be necessary, and they definitely shouldn't be swarming the wasteland like they are in modern-day Fallouts.
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