I dont know if they actually manage do it well it might be worth it. Prey did well who knows maybe they l manage to. Might be that they are making alien DLC a building block for Vegas alien lore. Point look sounds more like Hills Have eyes etc horror movie about rednecks/hicks turning feral and hunting outsiders. Would be cool if they'd bring in Cthulu myth's for being one reason why they became so.
Aliens Invade Fallout 3
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UncannyGarlic
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Wanamingos were not aliens and greys, the only aliens that did appear, were only in special encounters, thus non-canon. That said, even if they were canon, does it really make sense for them to have a major presence on the planet and do you really want to make them the antagonists of two DLCs? I can take an alien scout ship, especially a crashed one, but this is really going too far. Eternaut beat me to it, it's a jump the shark moment.Dionysus said:
TwinkieGorilla
This ghoul has seen it all
the best (worst) part about this is how teh Toddster and Co. just think this is like, totally the coolest idea evar!!
For me it is that I simply like the bleakness of the Fallout world, which is why I was never too into power armors and gauss miniguns. My draw to it is an RPG world where you are barely surviving.
Aliens make the sci-fi involved even more contrived, seriously I think people should never layer time travel, aliens or the supernatural to something that is already pretty crazy, happens all the time in comics where a pretty solid idea gets muddied by such elements.
Also it adds a ray of “hope”, alien technology would be the ultimate GECK in rebuilding the world. I kind of like it hopeless, like that scene in The Road where the son asks if all the crows could have flown to mars. No, because there is no air in space, no because mars is uninhabitable, no because the technology does not exist for humans to leave or survive there either. It really reinforced in that story that earth is all we have and once we mess it up, well get used to the new apocalypse.
I’m not going to act like a martyr about it, but if it looks like they are handling it clumsily well I’ll just save $10 and go play with my mods.
Aliens make the sci-fi involved even more contrived, seriously I think people should never layer time travel, aliens or the supernatural to something that is already pretty crazy, happens all the time in comics where a pretty solid idea gets muddied by such elements.
Also it adds a ray of “hope”, alien technology would be the ultimate GECK in rebuilding the world. I kind of like it hopeless, like that scene in The Road where the son asks if all the crows could have flown to mars. No, because there is no air in space, no because mars is uninhabitable, no because the technology does not exist for humans to leave or survive there either. It really reinforced in that story that earth is all we have and once we mess it up, well get used to the new apocalypse.
I’m not going to act like a martyr about it, but if it looks like they are handling it clumsily well I’ll just save $10 and go play with my mods.
I_eat_supermutants
Vault Senior Citizen
This is the dumbest fucking idea I've ever seen for a Fallout game.
Aliens? Really? Seriously? Well I guess they had to do something. They have already used up all of the Van Buren material. They have also proven consistantly, they really can't write that well in the first place.
Aliens? Really? Seriously? Well I guess they had to do something. They have already used up all of the Van Buren material. They have also proven consistantly, they really can't write that well in the first place.
The Vault says Wanamingos are "strange mutant animals. They are not aliens, but word is they were designed as FEV-tailored weapons for waging war on other countries... and they got loose". Without mentioning the Fallout Bible.
And the Vault is:
1. Infallible.
2. The primary source of Bethesda info.
makes
c. problem solved
And the Vault is:
1. Infallible.
2. The primary source of Bethesda info.
makes
c. problem solved
I don't think Point Lookout will feature alien antagonists. And I was saying that it was already canon even if you disregard the wanamingos (I don't remember if their origins were ever revealed in a game), special encounters, and alien weaponry in the first two.UncannyGarlic said:
I'm not trying to be mean, but that sounds a little disingenuous coming from someone that has been bitching about the game for years. It can't jump the shark unless you liked it at some point.UncannyGarlic said:
Brother None said:
The Vault also had MCA's explanation of the GECK and Bethesda chose to ignore it.
Their origins weren't mentioned in-game, but MCA retconned them into being genetic experiments in the Fallout Bible. And I wouldn't be surprised if Beth used them as the humanoid aliens' pets. Especially given that there are wanamingo concept sketches in the FO3 collector's edition artbook.
By watching this I always thought how things could end one day if the Southpark (or Simpsons) creators would be absolutely die hard Fallout fans ... one could only imagine about how that would tourn out maybe in the same sense schredding Bethesda as they did with Lucas all the time (which he also honestly deservers a bit).fedaykin said:Aliens?!?!?!?!?
Well, but they HAVE to evolve away from the franchise and canon. We all kow that its just in the way of the "true" spirit of Fallout. Blowing anything up to pieces with nuclear weapons. The more nuclear the better. Nuclear allies might do the trick one day. Loore and canon just get in the way f what is "cool"Brother None said:
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I might be wrong. Then again speculating about somethings that hasn't been released can be hit and miss.warsaw said:
The two DLC together did bring up the image of Redneck rampage.
I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow tied the wamingos with aliens. Hell the easiest way would be say the aliens continued where humans left off. Meaning they took the wamingos and made them more deadlier predators.
PS. Silellak that's great first post if I ever seen one, the words fail to do justice.
GreyViper said:I might be wrong. Then again speculating about somethings that hasn't been released can be hit and miss.warsaw said:
The two DLC together did bring up the image of Redneck rampage.
I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow tied the wamingos with aliens. Hell the easiest way would be say the aliens continued where humans left off. Meaning they took the wamingos and made them more deadlier predators.
PS. Silellak that's great first post if I ever seen one, the words fail to do justice.
Always happy to please.
Spend most of my time with the Angry Cunts at the Codex, but I do lurk here on occasion. I suppose there's something uniquely special about alien abduction in Fallout that just drove me to finally post.
Dionysus said:
While that is true, I myself think that it was always something you should take with a grain of salt, the whole "They are out there" being mostly a myth/conspiracy thing similar to the Russian/Alien invasion scenario people liked to speculate about in the 50's.
Perhaps this is something everyone interprets in his or her own way, but I think aliens should neither play an active or non active (the pre war government for example making their existence an established fact)
It doesn't add to Fallout, in fact, it detracts from Fallout.
UnidentifiedFlyingTard
Vault Fossil
God, the Alien DLC sounds horrible, but for some reason I like the idea of the swamp setting in the other DLC, its going to suck but its a neat idea.
DoktorVivi
First time out of the vault
They have a hard enough time putting a hard edge on an already edgy setting, let alone something as cheesy and silly as 50's B-movie aliens.
Crni Vuk said:
South Park only uses topics that the majority of the general public has heard about, because they (like you think Bethesda does) want as big of an audience as possible. I would certainly love to find out that they, like Yahtzee before them, enjoyed Fallout 3.
GreyViper said:
I smell easter egg!