BigBossBalrog

1 hour ago, Witchking of Angmar said:

Watched the Fallout show. My thoughts:

 

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I really liked they way they handled the vaults. I felt they handled it better than games did in various ways. Though I give the games the leeway of the vaults being ill suited to shot and loot gameplay.

Jet arms on the power armor, really? I also think it too often detracts from the tank feeling of the armor.

Something about the Brotherhood just feels off. They nailed the aesthetic, but their actions and behavior feels off.

Cold fusion? Couldn't they just have copied the regular fusion plotline of the Institute from Fallout 4?

Where the fuck did Hank get his hands on a nuke to blow up Shady Sands just like that?

Loved all the little references and general tone of the show. Felt very Fallout.

Maximus clearly dumped Charisma. Maxed out Luck though as he keeps succeeding despite utterly failing every speech check.

Lucy was fun all around.

Final battle should have been Brotherhood really decimating the NCR remnants with how much power armor they brought. Or at least they should have given the NCR remnants some plasma weapons.

Speaking of cool mutants, I love this 

Some good Silent Hill news for once. Bloober updated Jame's Remake look. He looks alot closer to the original game, just high fidelity. 

I like the more subtlety tormented versus you know this guy has done something really fucked up 

Like fuck. ACTUAL plantlife in Fallout. 

38 minutes ago, TheCzarsHussar said:

Oh hell super mutants in 3 are fun to fight, it's just their existence on the east coast that's contrived

That's unfortunately a common thing with Fallout 3. For better or worse, they went with rule of cool.

55 minutes ago, Celan said:

I even liked Operation Anchorage, and Point Lookout had great atmosphere and spy stuff. We're not talking FNV quality stories but a lot of fun.

But I gotta disagree with you on the supermutants. One of the best memories I have of FO3 is throwing a nuka grenade into a bunch of supermutants in a hospital and seeing one of them shoot up to the ceiling.  

I was going to mention I think the best "this is a zany post-apocalypse" they did was in Point Lookout. It was grounded in alot of pulpy elements (including killer hillbillies and swamp monsters) but had a very consistent theme they kept to, with alot of really good dark atmosphere. Excellent piece of content imo. It's also one of the best usages of Lovecraftian themes that Beth usually likes to throw on without putting much effort into making it work 

13 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Nearly everything in 4 is the low point. Tone, art design, writing quality (until the show). The one thing it’s got going for it is Maxson and the BoS, and amusingly most modern fans hate the BoS in Fallout 4.  

If were comparing I think Fallout 3 is elevated by really strong art direction, quest design, and the Fallout 1-esque horror elements. Yeah it's writing aint good, but it's better then 4 in that regard  

Like these fuckers. Yuck 

4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

I crap on Bethesda Fallout a lot, but I wont fault them for their monster design. They invented lots of cool mutants.

I'd say they've been slipping since 4 was a pretty big step down, but Far Harbour and Fallout 76 has some really awesome ones, so I think we can chalk 4 up as an irregularity. But I still say artistically 3 was there high point. So filthy. 

14 minutes ago, Celan said:

Pretty sure that's a callout to every person's first encounter with a yao guai/ deathclaw/ mirelurk.

I remember the first time seeing a mirelurk in my scope and thinking what the FUCK is that. Fallout 3 was so much more menacing than 4. All these candyass new players in Fallout 4 are getting the comic book version of everything. Although one of them on reddit was whining about the raider with a Fat Man in Lexington.  

Ironically, the Fallout 3 design Queen is more pulpy; It's a homage to the Gillman from Universal Monsters  And yeah, it's a million times more soulful then 4 version's. 

You're just repeating me and Doc's live pm when we watched 

3 minutes ago, ColonelKillaBee said:

Ok how did the turret not hit them on episide two  

Every important character in the show has the essential npc tag 

Here's a good example of a company making a light-hearted jab at their predecessors earlier work; I think this is supposed to be a dig at our favorite edge-lord Spartan 

3 minutes ago, Celan said:

Here's another gem from this dimwit but I can't find anywhere where it says that she worked on the production.

 

I saw it being paraded around X and people were saying they were part of the production. If that isn't the case, I guess it's some dummy 

Alot of petty drama happening in the industry in April for some reason 

Witcher got renewed for two final seasons, and some of the staff are mounting there attacks against Henry. I don't think this is going to go like she thinks 

2 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Yeah, I don’t believe it. "Death threats" and "Racist/Sexist DMs" have become every media corporation’s shield from criticism in the 2020s. It’s a way to paint critical fans as "toxic" evil bastards.

Now that the Fallout series has been eaten up by the masses, they seem to be treating that "validation" as a Casus Belli to finally go all out on demonizing classic Fallout fans 

https://kotaku.com/fallout-3-reveal-death-threats-security-guard-bethesda-1851423466

*Roll my eyes* I think death threats are terrible, but it seems really coincidental that Beth is opening up on them right now. 

10 minutes ago, TheCzarsHussar said:

Watched this since it was in my recommended. One of the most memorable episodes and only had Jack in it for like a minute lmao

Never killed a person my ASS

That's another Lone Wolf and Cub reference 

For a cringe comedy Gag Manga, Road to the Erdtree goes hard sometimes 

9 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

Watched A Haunting in Venice last night. It was a really good mystery/detective movie. Had great characters, a tight script, a compelling mystery, and even a little horror. Sets in Italy were beautiful too.

Most impressive part was how well it kept you guessing at whether or not there was anything supernatural going on without ever feeling like it was cheating or lying to the audience.

I’d recommend it to anyone here. Especially @BigBossBalrog and @Celan. Seems like your kind of thing.

I remember liking the trailer and then being cheesed a movie called a Haunting in Venice wasn't a true horror movie, but i'll check it out 

Well there it is. Amazon's probably slobbering on the mouth. 

Just now, The Good Doctor said:

Gaming fandoms are the most oppressive force of the 21st century. 

"For the first time Bethesda had to hire a security guard...because of Fallout fans* 

Oh and the historical revisionism is starting again

58 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

There are people on the Fallout subreddit theorizing that the Elder in the TV series is secretly Caesar in disguise, pretending to be BoS so he can use their resources to take over the wasteland. Also that the Prydwen we see is not actually sent by Maxson, but is instead a second, identical, airship that "the Elder" built in secret to fool his followers into thinking he had support from the Commonwealth.  

That's stupid enough I could see Bethesda going with it