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Posted: 4/9/2024 12:52:06 PM EDT
Looks like all the other threads went to archive. Season drops tomorrow at 6pm PST. I'm sure it'll have some shit that annoys me, but I'm looking forward to checking it out.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 8:54:37 AM EDT
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Fallout isn't even fallout anymore.
Fallout 1 & 2 were king. |
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OK, USA
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:00:10 AM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hostile1: Fallout isn't even fallout anymore. Fallout 1 & 2 were king. So edgy |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:11:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BillofRights: Virtual transvestites. Like regular trannies, but less courage. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BillofRights: Originally Posted By sandboxmedic: Originally Posted By DK-Prof: Originally Posted By fike: Female protagonist, so arfcom won’t like it as they “can’t see themselves” in the character. Yeah, I do wonder how many people are going to claim that the choice of a female protagonist automatically makes it "woke" I am guessing the people who will complain about that are not people who actually played Fallout games a lot. It's always struck me as odd how many males play as female characters in video games. Nothing like just playing your game and some chick comes up and a dude starts speaking over the in game comm.  Virtual transvestites. Like regular trannies, but less courage. If they're going to play in 3rd person (  ) and hear someone grunting in melee fights for thousands of hours, they want a female ass and vocal track. Kharn |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:26:49 AM EDT
[Last Edit: RealityCheck0311]
[#4]
Watching the first episode, really enjoying it so far.
Kind of pissed about the actor they chose for her brother, Moises Arias. He's another one of those Hollywood creeps. Hadn't heard his name for awhile and figured he was canceled awhile back. One of the incidents is him having a relationship with Will Smith's daughter, Willow Smith, when he was 20 and she was 13. And having the balls to take pics of them in bed together with his shirt off. Why would 20 year old man be hanging out with a 13 year old girl??? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/willow-smith-in-bed-with-moises-arias-fans-outraged/ But of course the Smith family is deranged and they defended him. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/willow-smith-photo-moises-arias-jada-pinkett-6084548/ Imagine anyone else in that situation being seen as perfectly normal and swept under the rug. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:32:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BillofRights: Virtual transvestites. Like regular trannies, but less courage. Or they don't want to stare at a dudes ass for 40 plus hours. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:34:27 AM EDT
[#6]
7 min in and it’s awesome
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:35:31 AM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CavScout: This was intended to attract minors then…show the real stuff, the raunchy sex, the jacking off, the wipe, this is precisely what they intended. Reel in a youthful audience to watch the video game production and bam. Fallout was rated as mature. If you were letting your kids play it you are the problem. |
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CT, USA
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:38:20 AM EDT
[#8]
S1E2
"Please don't murder me sir .... that guy was f**king my chickens..." 
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:39:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: TxRabbitBane]
[#9]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: Fallout was rated as mature. If you were letting your kids play it you are the problem. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: Originally Posted By CavScout: This was intended to attract minors then…show the real stuff, the raunchy sex, the jacking off, the wipe, this is precisely what they intended. Reel in a youthful audience to watch the video game production and bam. Fallout was rated as mature. If you were letting your kids play it you are the problem. In fallout 2, if you did the prostitute, you got a happy face on a blacked-out screen and squeaky mattress noises, IIRC. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:41:47 AM EDT
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:54:41 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Wineraner]
[#11]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By November5: Vault Tec didn't expect a real apocalypse. They were going to fake news an apocalypse, lock people away, and conduct their experiments. Then China nuked the US and Vault Tec ceased to exist as a company. I'm probably remembering wrong, but I think it was New Vegas that covered that. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By November5: Originally Posted By Wineraner: Aside, that is one of the stupidest fucking parts of the canon, that the vaults were psychological experiments. For the benefit of who, assholes? WHO IS GOING TO CARE ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY AFTER A GLOBAL APOCALYPSE? That's better? Does that sound possible to anyone? Even with the considerably more lax attitudes about customer safety or warranty, that abounded within the Fallout universe. Along with a media that made Pravda (or our own) look hard-hitting. No one's going to miss 1-2% of the US population? Wonder where they went, etc? Look, I love the Fallout series. I can excuse a lot of inconsistencies in the writing. The Sierra Madre cornucopia technology for one. As a critic of the Star Trek transporters termed it, "It's like seeing a movie about Ancient Egypt, sitting on Queen Hapshepsut's Barge, and seeing a working nuclear reactor." It just doesn't fit. If you can create whatever you want, atom-by-atom, we're fighting why again? For me though, "They were supposed to be experiments," is just too dumb to excuse. Still entertaining to find 200 years later though, however it's excused. (The 200 years later, is another beef with the canon, but whatever.) Edit: sounds like the show was quite well done. Hmmm. Yar! Maties.... |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:12:04 AM EDT
[#12]
We watched the first episode last night, all we had time for.
I think they did a good job on some things, a "meh" job on other things, and a "yep that's modern Hollywood" job on a few more things. I'll keep watching it as it did a good enough job of making me want to see more, and when it comes down to it that is how a first episode should land. My own personal observations: The good... they nailed the props, sets, costumes, and the general ambiance. The main cast seems very capable so far. They've planted decent story seeds that they can cultivate provided they don't derail themselves on other things. There are already enough references to the games to keep true fans busy. The "meh"... I'm not a fan of their lighting or camera work, as many shots look flat or like they're in front of a cyc or green screen (which they undoubtedly were). You can really tell what is a set and what is an effects shot. The majority of the supporting cast is flat. The power armor moves like a guy in a cardboard costume until they need it to really move, then it becomes CGI. The "yep, that's modern Hollywood"... Benetton ad casting, including a Brotherhood aspirant trans-go-joe-bot. But that is commonplace now. Lucy had sparks of power girl tropes, but at least they made sure to humble her a few times to keep it from going totally strong woman. How does Overseer Dale Cooper have a smokin' daughter but an absolute chicken boy troglodyte of a son? |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:16:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hostile1: Fallout isn't even fallout anymore. Fallout 1 & 2 were king. I played Fallout 1 on a 133mhz PC with only 32mb of RAM and yet I still loved Bethesda's games too. Take off the nostalgia glasses man. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:18:23 AM EDT
[Last Edit: ArmyInfantryVet]
[#14]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wineraner: That's better? Does that sound possible to anyone? Even with the considerably more lax attitudes about customer safety or warranty, that abounded within the Fallout universe. Along with a media that made Pravda (or our own) look hard-hitting. No one's going to miss 1-2% of the US population? Wonder where they went, etc? Look, I love the Fallout series. I can excuse a lot of inconsistencies in the writing. The Sierra Madre cornucopia technology for one. As a critic of the Star Trek transporters termed it, "It's like seeing a movie about Ancient Egypt, sitting on Queen Hapshepsut's Barge, and seeing a working nuclear reactor." It just doesn't fit. If you can create whatever you want, atom-by-atom, we're fighting why again? For me though, "They were supposed to be experiments," is just too dumb to excuse. Still entertaining to find 200 years later though, however it's excused. (The 200 years later, is another beef with the canon, but whatever.) Edit: sounds like the show was quite well done. Hmmm. Yar! Maties.... Your right, but it's being deliberately absurd. It is part of that Dr Strangelove kind of gallows humor style comedy. That's how I think of it anyway. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:32:28 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hostile1: Fallout isn't even fallout anymore. Fallout 1 & 2 were king. Communist detected on American soil. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:39:13 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hostile1: Fallout isn't even fallout anymore. Fallout 1 & 2 were king. The future is now old man. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:40:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: There's some good fallout swag coming out for this release. Mini Nuke card holder with all pc games That’s been out for a while, |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:43:21 AM EDT
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I haven’t watched it yet, I saw a comment about a guy wiping his unit on a curtain and a tranny growing a mustache, is this actually in the show? My daughter is stoked for this show but now I’m not so sure she’ll be watching it.
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MO, USA
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:48:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheTallest: I haven’t watched it yet, I saw a comment about a guy wiping his unit on a curtain and a tranny growing a mustache, is this actually in the show? My daughter is stoked for this show but now I’m not so sure she’ll be watching it. Yes it's in the show, also heads exploding etc Definitely not for little kids |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:49:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RealityCheck0311: Watching the first episode, really enjoying it so far. Kind of pissed about the actor they chose for her brother, Moises Arias. He's another one of those Hollywood creeps. Hadn't heard his name for awhile and figured he was canceled awhile back. One of the incidents is him having a relationship with Will Smith's daughter, Willow Smith, when he was 20 and she was 13. And having the balls to take pics of them in bed together with his shirt off. Why would 20 year old man be hanging out with a 13 year old girl??? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/willow-smith-in-bed-with-moises-arias-fans-outraged/ But of course the Smith family is deranged and they defended him. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/willow-smith-photo-moises-arias-jada-pinkett-6084548/ Imagine anyone else in that situation being seen as perfectly normal and swept under the rug. Looked like a little weirdo since he was a kid |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:51:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jackthom8: I played Fallout 1 on a 133mhz PC with only 32mb of RAM and yet I still loved Bethesda's games too. Take off the nostalgia glasses man. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jackthom8: Originally Posted By Hostile1: Fallout isn't even fallout anymore. Fallout 1 & 2 were king. I played Fallout 1 on a 133mhz PC with only 32mb of RAM and yet I still loved Bethesda's games too. Take off the nostalgia glasses man. Did they new games let you marry a chick, make money off her by prostituting her, and then selling her to slavers? I also recall planting explosives on the theiving kids in the Den. Good times. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 10:53:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MTpint: Communist detected on American soil.  Liberty Prime Sings Ain't I Right (Kits.AI) |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 11:34:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TurtlesAlltheWayDown: Fallout 3 was amazing. The NPC interaction had real consequence. The storyline options were great. I really don’t understand the love of new Vegas. It was so linear. I play fallout for the “choose your own adventure” aspect. Maybe I’ll just kill off an entire faction, maybe I won’t. It’s my wasteland world in 3. Not so much the other fallouts Very much agreed. Fallout 3 was my introduction into the franchise, and an amazing one. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 12:12:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sixtigers: Very much agreed. Fallout 3 was my introduction into the franchise, and an amazing one. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sixtigers: Originally Posted By TurtlesAlltheWayDown: Fallout 3 was amazing. The NPC interaction had real consequence. The storyline options were great. I really don’t understand the love of new Vegas. It was so linear. I play fallout for the “choose your own adventure” aspect. Maybe I’ll just kill off an entire faction, maybe I won’t. It’s my wasteland world in 3. Not so much the other fallouts Very much agreed. Fallout 3 was my introduction into the franchise, and an amazing one. A lot of the people who loved Fallout and Fallout 2, and who have disdain for Fallout 3 seem to sometimes forget that for a HUGE number of fans, Fallout 3 was their introduction to the Fallout universe. They also often forget that when Fallout was originally released in 1997 it was NOT a big expensive game, or a super-valuable franchise. When Bethesda purchased the rights, and released Fallout 3, they had sunk a LOT of money into it. While nostalgia for the quirky writing and humor (and third-person isometric view) may cause some people to dislike Fallout 3, the reality is that Fallout 3 was a huge commercial success compared to Fallout and Fallout 2. I think Fallout and Fallout 2 are awesome, but I also think Fallout 3 is awesome, even if it is very different from the earlier games. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 12:15:35 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sixtigers: Very much agreed. Fallout 3 was my introduction into the franchise, and an amazing one. My intro to it was New Vegas. Which I wonder if that sets me up for failed expectations for every past and future FO game. Because the first game is what your mind sets as the standard..... and NV is in like the top 5 all time greatest OWRPGs ever made. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 12:17:10 PM EDT
[#26]
The show is great.
I want a set of power armor. 
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Posted: 4/11/2024 12:29:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Who_Me: The show is great. I want a set of power armor.  Nick |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 12:29:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Kharn]
[#28]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By flyhack72: Yep...it's pretty clear that's what they are going for. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By flyhack72: Originally Posted By fike: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Yep...it's pretty clear that's what they are going for. "TG,tB,&tU meets Monty Python" is a pretty good way to sum it up. Like the BoS acolyte carrying the oversized golf bag full of shit everywhere, when it wouldn't affect the knight. Episode 3: Click To View Spoiler  Kharn |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 1:03:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheTallest: That’s been out for a while, It was a pre-order when I ordered it on Wednesday. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 1:05:29 PM EDT
[#30]
Watching it last night, and today while I pack for a work trip. E5 so far. Never played any of the games but so far its interesting
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Posted: 4/11/2024 1:39:46 PM EDT
[#31]
Definitely nailing the dialogue and quirky humor. The fact that there's no explanation for the technology and the timeline might be confusing for non-game players.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 1:51:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: It was a pre-order when I ordered it on Wednesday. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: Originally Posted By TheTallest: That’s been out for a while, It was a pre-order when I ordered it on Wednesday. Well then it must be a rerelease because I remember seeing this months ago. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 1:54:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TxRabbitBane: In fallout 2, if you did the prostitute, you got a happy face on a blacked-out screen and squeaky mattress noises, IIRC. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TxRabbitBane: Originally Posted By callmestick: Originally Posted By CavScout: This was intended to attract minors then…show the real stuff, the raunchy sex, the jacking off, the wipe, this is precisely what they intended. Reel in a youthful audience to watch the video game production and bam. Fallout was rated as mature. If you were letting your kids play it you are the problem. In fallout 2, if you did the prostitute, you got a happy face on a blacked-out screen and squeaky mattress noises, IIRC. There was the arm-wrestling challenge with the Super Mutant in the mining town (Lost Hills? Where you can meet Marcus.) that you really didn't want to lose... i think my favorite was the chess match with the enhanced radscorpion. God, FO2 could get *weird*. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 1:58:24 PM EDT
[#34]
I said earlier in this thread they would fuck it up. I was wrong and actually pleasantly surprised. They did a fairly good job with this. Binged the whole eight episodes. It didn’t follow any of the games specifically but there were a few Easter eggs and they did the lore pretty well.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 1:58:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 10-8DoWork]
[#35]
Like everyone else. I have high hopes because I love the Fallout series, but am ready to turn the TV off early if it's a bunch of woke garbage
 .Edit: Looks like the series might be OK based on some of the earlier posts. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:01:00 PM EDT
[#36]
This is all I can picture evertyime the Ghoul makes it into the shot.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:01:46 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Spade: Did they new games let you marry a chick, make money off her by prostituting her, and then selling her to slavers? I also recall planting explosives on the theiving kids in the Den. Good times. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Spade: Originally Posted By jackthom8: Originally Posted By Hostile1: Fallout isn't even fallout anymore. Fallout 1 & 2 were king. I played Fallout 1 on a 133mhz PC with only 32mb of RAM and yet I still loved Bethesda's games too. Take off the nostalgia glasses man. Did they new games let you marry a chick, make money off her by prostituting her, and then selling her to slavers? I also recall planting explosives on the theiving kids in the Den. Good times. The shotgun wedding with her was a nice touch. As was cuckolding the Wrights or Morellos, I forget which. I forget, did letting the Den kids pickpocket a running timed charge or grenade, and getting turned to paste, earn you the "Child-Killer" badge or not? (With Fallout Guy kicking a pregnant woman right in the guts, as the image. Or was that just a draft version?) |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:04:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: My intro to it was New Vegas. Which I wonder if that sets me up for failed expectations for every past and future FO game. Because the first game is what your mind sets as the standard..... and NV is in like the top 5 all time greatest OWRPGs ever made. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: Originally Posted By Sixtigers: Very much agreed. Fallout 3 was my introduction into the franchise, and an amazing one. My intro to it was New Vegas. Which I wonder if that sets me up for failed expectations for every past and future FO game. Because the first game is what your mind sets as the standard..... and NV is in like the top 5 all time greatest OWRPGs ever made. You've played 1 and 2, right? The interface and gameplay is butt ugly (not like that's a big change from NV) and it can be very rough, with few of the gatekeeping heralds NV has to prevent you from dying right away, but the writing and plot pathing is exquisite. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:07:27 PM EDT
[#39]
My introduction to Fallout was Fallout 4 that I just started playing two weeks ago. I wanted to be able to relate to the series. Fantastic game and I really enjoyed the show.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:12:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: There's some good fallout swag coming out for this release. Mini Nuke card holder with all pc games That was one of the props in Ma's store. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:14:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MisterPX]
[#41]
Binged the series. Overall I liked it. Each episode had unique out tros which was cool.
Favorite part of the whole series was a knight running away like a bitch yelling "fuck" for like 20 seconds.  I fully expect a video of that dubbed over with the benny hill soundtrack. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:19:34 PM EDT
[#42]
Pleasantly surprised with Ep 1.
Don't even mind trans surface dwellers. Honestly that's the most sensible place for them to exist. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:25:53 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DK-Prof: A lot of the people who loved Fallout and Fallout 2, and who have disdain for Fallout 3 I was prepared to hate 3 when I found out that it is first-person. Luckily I was wrong. 'Wasteland 2: Director's Cut' is scratching my FO@ itch at the moment. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:34:27 PM EDT
[#44]
1 and 2 were the iconic emmersion. And completley naild the tone and the pace. In an era where that was cutting edge technology, the emmersion was amazing.
3 was OK. After that, they kind of slid. The challenge with FPS interface is it becomes a FPS experience. The action becomes the focus, and the story and theme gets lost. Fallout was amazing because of the setting and world you were in, and the complexity and nuances that far exceed "center crosshair, hit mous button" that first person generally simplistically becomes. I find isometric games the more emmersive and what tell the story better, and where I can see the overall detail better. The 1950's style theme, with the cigar indians, and the art-deco styling in 1 and 2 are part of what made the setting so interesting, and that shows up better in isometric than it does in first person Same with Tomb Raider - the original game, it's soundtrack, and the way it revealed the settings, made the exploration and adventure the theme, with the action an exciting thrill of the total story and experience. First person makes the action, the experience. That's just me - no idea if anyone else feels the same way. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:39:54 PM EDT
[Last Edit: ArmyInfantryVet]
[#45]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wineraner: You've played 1 and 2, right? The interface and gameplay is butt ugly (not like that's a big change from NV) and it can be very rough, with few of the gatekeeping heralds NV has to prevent you from dying right away, but the writing and plot pathing is exquisite. No only New Vegas. I recently started a FO4 campaign and not very far into right now. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:46:33 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hostile1: Fallout isn't even fallout anymore. Fallout 1 & 2 were king. I started on fallout 3 and fallout new vegas then fallout 4 I watched the first 2 episodes today. I enjoyed it. I will watch some more later on today. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:47:34 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By trainfreaky: S1E2 "Please don't murder me sir .... that guy was f**king my chickens..." Haha i was laughing at this part as well |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:56:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bologna: Yes it's in the show, also heads exploding etc Definitely not for little kids She is 24 he is just over protective |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 2:58:09 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lazyengineer: 1 and 2 were the iconic emmersion. And completley naild the tone and the pace. In an era where that was cutting edge technology, the emmersion was amazing. 3 was OK. After that, they kind of slid. The challenge with FPS interface is it becomes a FPS experience. The action becomes the focus, and the story and theme gets lost. Fallout was amazing because of the setting and world you were in, and the complexity and nuances that far exceed "center crosshair, hit mous button" that first person generally simplistically becomes. I find isometric games the more emmersive and what tell the story better, and where I can see the overall detail better. The 1950's style theme, with the cigar indians, and the art-deco styling in 1 and 2 are part of what made the setting so interesting, and that shows up better in isometric than it does in first person Same with Tomb Raider - the original game, it's soundtrack, and the way it revealed the settings, made the exploration and adventure the theme, with the action an exciting thrill of the total story and experience. First person makes the action, the experience. That's just me - no idea if anyone else feels the same way. See I feel the opposite. You don't have to play first person; third person imo is the better option. You are actually exploring the landscape and interacting with the living creatures whether friend or foe. It's less like reading a book and more like being a character in a movie. |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 4:11:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JsARCLIGHT: We watched the first episode last night, all we had time for. I think they did a good job on some things, a "meh" job on other things, and a "yep that's modern Hollywood" job on a few more things. I'll keep watching it as it did a good enough job of making me want to see more, and when it comes down to it that is how a first episode should land. My own personal observations: The good... they nailed the props, sets, costumes, and the general ambiance. The main cast seems very capable so far. They've planted decent story seeds that they can cultivate provided they don't derail themselves on other things. There are already enough references to the games to keep true fans busy. The "meh"... I'm not a fan of their lighting or camera work, as many shots look flat or like they're in front of a cyc or green screen (which they undoubtedly were). You can really tell what is a set and what is an effects shot. The majority of the supporting cast is flat. The power armor moves like a guy in a cardboard costume until they need it to really move, then it becomes CGI. The "yep, that's modern Hollywood"... Benetton ad casting, including a Brotherhood aspirant trans-go-joe-bot. But that is commonplace now. Lucy had sparks of power girl tropes, but at least they made sure to humble her a few times to keep it from going totally strong woman. How does Overseer Dale Cooper have a smokin' daughter but an absolute chicken boy troglodyte of a son? Watched the first episode, it's pretty solid. The atmosphere of the Vault is great. The CGI was pretty good to me. The Brotherhood aspirant trans joe is a fuckin' joke, they don't look like they could hold their own as a soldier but that's expected with Hollyweird and they don't get much screen time. I checked IMDB Fallout page and didn't find them. Assuming that means we aren't going to see much more of whatever it is. You're right about Lucy's brother, totally miscast and the most jarring part about the first episode. Chicken boy troglodyte is spot-on. Overseer Dale Cooper should have demanded a DNA test. WTF?
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