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[Column] General: My Troubled Relationship with Fallout
SBFord
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With last week’s announcement of Fallout 4, Chris explores his troubled relationship with the franchise. Like an old flame, it’s an on-again off-again relationship. Read on as Chris dedicates the first half of this week’s RPG Files to the game to an open letter to the franchise and the second half to the week’s news. Fallout 4 releasing in 2015? It’s looking likely. Click through to see why!
Read more of Christopher Coke's The RPG Files: My Troubled Relationship with Fallout.
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"To this day, I feel like I have been missing out."
Go play the first 2 then come back. Also, my head hurts from reading this article.
Written by someone who sounds like he has played too many theme parks and linear rpg's. If you have not played the originals then most of the lore is lost on you. An old saying puts it best I think, "for those that understand no explanation is needed, for those that don't no explanation is possible".
Just one more thing though, MODS! use the bloody mods and turn the wasteland green
FO3 kept crashing on me. It would wait until just after I forgot that it kept crashing, and then it would crash. I kept coming back to the game every couple months and finally after about (really) a year, it just kept running, so I kept playing. I got lost in the wasteland, and finally finished the actual story line, which I could have finished in something like a few hours if I had been really dedicated to doing so.
That said, I'm really digging the colors in FO4. Like, the fact that there are more than 2 of them is pretty awesome. The only other thing was the super frustrating points where you had to travel a half hour through tunnels to get to the other side of the wall, about 15 feet away.
I would like to see some stuff from Fable, where you could build towns up, or drive them to bankruptcy, that sort of thing. They've got big changes pretty much down, but an accumulation of little changes would be kind of neat.
Yeah, the timbre of the article, for me, made it hard to read. This style really isn't my style of article.
Still, I'm in the same boat (but for different reasons). I've purchased Fallout 3 twice (first time disks, lost the disks when I wanted to reinstall so downloaded it from steam) and I just couldn't stick with it.
I tend to lose interest in sci-fi (ish) games (except for games like GalacticCiv or Masters of Orion/Andromeda) and "post apocalyptic" anything.
I'll try to force my way through a third time as it's a bethesda game and I should love the open exploration. But the world covered in debris and garbage doesn't seem to hold my attention.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Just use VATS, it makes it almost like a turn based game. VATS lets you pause the action, and select particular body parts to aim at.
Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
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Two atoms walk out of a bar. The first exclaims, "Damn, I forgot my electrons." The other replies, "You sure?". The first explains, "Yea, I'm positive."
You are quite correct, Christopher. The problem is with you.
Oh, and the expression is "bated breath", not "baited breath". You're welcome.
If I haven't played Fallout since two am I missing out?
If I haven't played Fallout since two am I missing out?
you are definitely missing out....
Ditto. I am sure there is a point buried there somewhere. I just wish I did not have to look for it.
I guess FO3 was too complex for the writer. Considering how simple and easy FO3 is, he would've probably never made it out of the rat cave in Fallout.