Fallout (?)

Technology and Gaming
#21

OR if you have PC (everyone here should…), Start the game with a gender you haven’t chosen before, like a female for instance. Put your intelligence at 2 or lower bc doing so I heard changes all of the dialogue choice options in the game to “caveman talk”. :stuck_out_tongue: haha

I wanted to try it sometime after i’m done with my serious character. And to make it even more replayable and fun, Max out your characters stats and skills, get all perks, and spawn best weapons and armor right from the beginning by using the console. That’s always fun. (take the Wild Wasteland perk too, if you haven’t in the beginning already)

Tgm (toggle god mode) in console and have infinite ammo, condition, health, and no reload. Firing a missile launcher with no reload is a blast. No pun intended. :wink:

The game has a huge replay value, imo. So many different ways to play it.
Currently, I have a male, do-gooder, idolized by several factions, and specializes in sniping, guns, sneak, and speech/barter.
My second character will be a psychotic murdering seductive bitch, evil sexy female, with a charisma of 10 with the Black Widow perk and an intelligence of 1 for more dialogue lulz (better make her bright blonde :smiley: ), and will be hated by every faction except for Ceasar’s Legion while specializing in melee and explosives.

After finding the right console commands and fun shit to spawn and fuck with, you can have endless fun. I remember when i played Fallout3, i started off in Vault 101: tgm, spawned an Experimental MIRV with 20 mininukes, and shot 8 mininukes per second (no reload from god mode) at whoever i saw. My computer got pretty laggy. lol.

#22

I love the Fallout games.

One thing I certainly would not do is consider the art style and the overall aesthetic as being something either arbitrarily used or ignored past a certain point throughout the games. There’s an entire underlying philosophy that ties into this retro-future-50’s thing they have going on. It’s evident in the brash, optimistic attitudes displayed throughout the artifacts of life before the bombs dropped. There’s the sense that all would be right with the world if the entire world was the USA. Everything is big and bold and loud and people get what they want by doing what they want and “let God sort the details out” in the end. The cavalier attitude towards nuclear energy is almost as strong of a counterpoint to the real-world cold-war paranoia that stigmatized nuclear energy in our society.

Nuclear power is to that world what the concept of “sustainable living” is becoming to ours-- the answer to everything. It shows its irony when you see all the remnants of humanities golden age losing their glitter and rotting away to the madness and desperation that overtook the land when the power of the future ended the future they sought. The entire philosophy and aesthetic is carried out unflinchingly and uncompromisingly throughout the series. How much of this you notice depends entirely on how deep you wish to dig, or how much you read and pay attention to the details beyond the main questlines.

The design programs for posters, autos, electronics, computers, houses, offices, sci-fi, robotics, and essentially everything else is steeped in mid-20th century Americana, almost to the point of overdoing it. The world is the best ideals of the 50’s and the shiniest of its camp married with the rotten desperation of a world gone mad with death. It makes for quite the startling juxtapositions at times, and in some random set pieces here and there, downright depressing to witness.

#23

Being overly descriptive is nice and all, and big words are excellently used, but what all you said could be summarized for easy reading. just sayin’ :slight_smile:

You nailed it though on the last paragraph. i agree completely.

#24

This coming from the guy whose previous post was a massive brain dump that could have simply read “Cheating in Fallout is fun!”

tl;dr: :meh:

#25

Can’t we all just get along and post intelligently? I don’t mind long posts if the poster has something interesting to say…

#26

Yeah, I’m not looking for a fight, man. I thought I praised your last paragraph, rtanger. And your writing is amazing. I was just sayin’. My post was rather more directionally detailed instead of being artistically/descriptively detailed like yours.
Neither were brain dumps.

#27

We’re a trusted source?

I have played Fallout 3 and found it similar to Oblivion, just in a post apocalyptic world with guns and robots. I did enjoy it and it does have some differences and nice features (like VATS with a mini-gun :stuck_out_tongue: ).

#28

I liked Fallout 3, but I could never finish it. The game world is so large, it’s almost too big. The main quest is apparently beatable in 45 minutes, but there is so much other stuff that will divert you from that quest yarn for sure. I myself took up a personal quest to get to the Washington Monument rather than visit 3 Dog or whatever I need to do for the main quest. I haven’t played it in a long time. Perhaps I’ll revisit it after I finish FFXIII.

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