BigBossBalrog

2 minutes ago, Celan said:

I finished the series. It's... very Bethesda.

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+ Great production values

+ Cooper and Lucy are both great characters and had an excellent arc. So did Dogmeat.  

+ Zany, humorous, as gory as Fallout should be. Had some good moments. I loved the DJ, for instance.

- The main story sucks.

- Precise on the smallest details, fast and loose with the big ones. Come on guys.

- The cultish aspects of the Brotherhood were dumb but I expect it's a case of this one chapter?

- Vault Tec's manager vault is in New Vegas??

- The romance with Maximus and Lucy... no. She can do better.

I was going to say Lucy seems to be...very sex positive (I'll put it that way ). Maybe it'll just be a fling?

4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Anyone want to hop on Discord here in about 30 minutes?

Me and my brother are taking my brother in law for some pub crawling, so sorry 

1 minute ago, The Good Doctor said:

He actually did call Fallout 4 his great American novel. That is a real quote.  

He's such a hack. 

If the STALKER fanbase got wind of an adaption doing these kinds of retcons, there'd be riots in Moscow, Kherson, and Warsaw  While all Fallout fans do is whine on reddit...

In a week of shitty news for good games. EA is killing Dead Space a second time  New team wanted to work on a new game, EA said no, and assigned them TO BATTLEFIELD. Like...WTF?!

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/dead-space-franchise-is-officially-on-hold-at-electronic-arts-1.2057633

Just now, The Good Doctor said:

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The "fall" has no date so I’m assuming it goes with the nuke.

Regardless, neither version works. Shady Sands was very much alive and well during New Vegas. It had not "fallen" and it certainly had not been nuked. The NCR was actively expanding at the time, not collapsing.

Just now, The Good Doctor said:

Ah… I see now.

 

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Yes, it appears that this is correct. 

The show says Shady Sands got nuked in 2277. New Vegas takes place in 2281.

That is a major fuckup. 

9 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Do you think it’s a coincidence that the best character by far is named "Howard"? 

I kept thinking the same 

Well I saw the scene.

Just now, The Good Doctor said:

How’s posting an accurate timeline damage control? 

It was in response to a Twitter meltdown about people saying Bethesda has removed NV from the timeline 

Apparently Beth is doing damage control 

Just now, The Good Doctor said:

Seems like it.

 

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Don’t know the details yet, but Shady Sands is now a crater, and a character explains that the NCR didn’t last, describing them like a distant childhood memory.

11 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Episode 5 major spoilers.

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Okay, I officially hate this show.  

Would be fine if it was just a goofy noncanon adaptation but since they claim it’s part of the actual game timeline, yeah, I hate it. 

The NCR is gone. They got deleted off-screen like an afterthought.

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2 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Re-releases and games nobody likes 

Actually, people use to say "There a better publisher then a dev studio!" Can't even give them that with Microsoft handling all of that 

6 minutes ago, Celan said:

Mod breaking is what Bethesda does these days.

 

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Do they establish that it’s all ghouls? The interpretation I have seen is that Goggins’ ghoul is an addict and just thinks he needs drugs to remain non-feral.

 

Re-releases and games nobody likes 

Even with retcons, is the show still maintaining it's batshit funnery? 

4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Minor episode 4 spoilers. And new ghoul lore.

 

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Funny, the near-feral ghoul they meet is startlingly similar to a character that I wrote for the RP but never got to the point of including. Even his role in the story is somewhat similar.

They’ve retconned ghouls again. Not a fan. Now apparently they all go feral and are constantly needing to take radiation drugs in order to stave off the process of losing their minds. Only ghouls with lots of money to afford them (like Goggins) can remain normal, which is pretty contradictory to all the downtrodden ghouls we see in the games. Seems a pointless thing to introduce just to invent artificial new stakes for our ghoul protagonist.

The actually makes him a bit more like a Hollow from Dark Souls 

Fallout 4 is getting a nextgen update with "free content" 

https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/4s2bXQEbpcrsdCZhUYLHAi/fallout-4-is-getting-free-updates?linkId=100000254670482

There getting new creation club stuff, but there's apparently "other" new content too

4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

I’m just saying, if I get through a Fallout show and the most entertaining part was yodeling, I’m gonna call it an L.  

An immortal zombie cowboy who sleeps in a coffin and has insane gunslinger skills with YODELING is a W 

2 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Jury’s still out, to be honest.  Half of my enjoyment came from laughing at it. 

I didn't know half of the time if I doing that or laughing with it  Some of that yodeling has to be intentional! 

1 minute ago, The Good Doctor said:

It’s basically Fallout 3 mixed with the worst parts of Fallout 2.

One thing’s for certain. Bethesda writers definitely helped with this one.  

 Could have been worse though. Much worse.

And I must say, I'm a sucker for Winchester Rifles  

And yeah, I hope they explain the lore situation, but thankfully all the episodes have released, so we don't have to wait.