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Post by Feynman on Oct 25, 2012 21:16:23 GMT -5
Anyone who tries to convince me the original Fallout is relevant after Fallout 3 is a goddamn idiot. I played both and I'm trained in classic PC RPGs. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. Fallout 3 is garbage. |
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Post by dooz on Oct 25, 2012 21:22:14 GMT -5
I like the original Fallouts and Fallout 3. I just think that they are different. They are all really good games, though.
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Post by Weasel on Oct 25, 2012 21:44:27 GMT -5
Anyone who tries to convince me the original Fallout is relevant after Fallout 3 is a goddamn idiot. I played both and I'm trained in classic PC RPGs. Then I am a goddamn idiot. |
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Post by Super Orbus on Oct 26, 2012 0:28:55 GMT -5
If you'd said New Vegas maybe you'd have a case. But Fallout 3?  |
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Post by The Great Klaid on Oct 26, 2012 1:18:11 GMT -5
I cannot play Fallout anymore. It's slow and clunky as hell. To be fair I played it after Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. But I hate that damn AP system. Combat in the early stages takes you an hour to kill a damn rat and it's just tedious. I think I just don't like the original Fallout. Super Orbus I never played a lot of New Vegas... |
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Post by Weasel on Oct 26, 2012 2:42:23 GMT -5
Better that, than waiting your turn in a real-time game.
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Post by TheGunheart on Oct 26, 2012 2:57:30 GMT -5
That's why I preferred New Vegas; they really, really nerfed VATS and upgraded the shooting mechanics to the point you're better off just pointing and shooting. Oddly enough, the only thing I found VATS good for there was melee, given how fiddly close-range combat is...
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Post by Feynman on Oct 26, 2012 3:40:25 GMT -5
In New Vegas, Obsidian also improved the writing, they brought back the Fallout aesthetic that everyone loves instead of the really drab setting of Fallout 3, the quests are more complex and nuanced, the game has a substantial amount actual content with very well-defined progression instead of an entire world of boring, same-y filler, the skills are better balanced in general. They didn't have to sell DLC to fix a really obvious plothole in the ending like Fallout 3 did, either.
New Vegas is pretty awesome and feels like a legitimate installment of the Fallout franchise. Fallout 3, on the other hand, is like really bad fanfiction made by people who think Fallout is cool but don't understand what made it so compelling.
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Post by TheGunheart on Oct 26, 2012 3:45:29 GMT -5
I barely even played Fallout 1, and I would have to agree on it feeling more like, well, Fallout. I also loved the whole Western aesthetic it had going.
Hell, New Vegas might be one of my favorite games of all time.
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Post by megatronbison on Oct 27, 2012 7:36:30 GMT -5
Smoking induced headaches- oye... ¬_¬
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Post by Feynman on Oct 27, 2012 7:44:44 GMT -5
My home is currently being invaded by very large brown spiders. Every day I see at least one, and sometimes three or four. They aren't hobo spiders, brown recluses, or any other dangerous variety of eight-legged menace, but they have giant fangs and they're really big and they freak me the hell out. What's worse is that unlike every single other kind of spider on the planet, they don't try to run and hide when approached by a human. Instead, they just sit there in the middle of the hall, perfectly still, as if to say "look at how giant and scary I am! What are you going to do about it?"
I'm going to crush you with a shoe just like all the others, you son of a bitch. I know it's getting colder out and it's nice and warm inside, but you and your terrifying arachnid buddies had better stay out of my goddamn house.
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Post by Super Orbus on Oct 27, 2012 9:07:19 GMT -5
Get a cat. That'll clear that right up.
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Post by megatronbison on Oct 27, 2012 10:01:06 GMT -5
Like Orbus said- cats do the job quite nicely. Although the bigger spiders do tend to show up in Autumn and Winter if it's any consolation (in the UK anyway) they are still very much harmless spiders and the chances of being bitten by one are really rather low indeed.
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Post by susanismyalias on Oct 27, 2012 10:55:20 GMT -5
My home is currently being invaded by very large brown spiders. Every day I see at least one, and sometimes three or four. They aren't hobo spiders, brown recluses, or any other dangerous variety of eight-legged menace, but they have giant fangs and they're really big and they freak me the hell out. What's worse is that unlike every single other kind of spider on the planet, they don't try to run and hide when approached by a human. Instead, they just sit there in the middle of the hall, perfectly still, as if to say "look at how giant and scary I am! What are you going to do about it?" I'm going to crush you with a shoe just like all the others, you son of a bitch. I know it's getting colder out and it's nice and warm inside, but you and your terrifying arachnid buddies had better stay out of my goddamn house. fuck the cat get a flamethrower euuuuuugh |
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Post by Scylla on Oct 27, 2012 15:49:53 GMT -5
How about a cat wielding a flamethrower?
I don't think I've ever had a cat particularly good about killing bugs. They're too apathetic. Hell, I've seen my cats SCARED of bugs. Stupid cats, you bring me headless birds and shrews yet your battle with a half-inch spider is terrifying? But now my cats are old and do absolute jack. As opposed to next to absolute jack.
I think I'd freakin' die if I was encountering multiple huge spiders everyday. I'm so glad I've only lived in parts of the US that aren't ridiculously awful when it comes to bugs. The worst I have to deal with in NYC are house centipedes, which aren't so bad when they're little but disgusting when they grow up. In Washington state, the creepiest bugs are probably earwigs. Neither places get big spiders all that much, although I encounter a lot of tiny ones in the fall.
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