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Some people wrote a preview that doesn't mention penguins in the slightest.<blockquote>After cleansing the school I wandered off towards the struggling community of Big Town. The struggling community consisted of dilapidated houses that were fortified with barbed wire and sandbags to form a sort of wall. The remaining citizens could be found milling about inside, with one sorry looking guard standing at the only entrance, a makeshift suspension bridge.

I visited the medic station and upon inspecting an ailing patient I was given the option to heal or kill him. Seeing as my medic skills were too low to be of any use I chose to "put him out of his misery" by opening an artery. My karma was penalized and the game called me a bastard. Oh, well. Moving on.

Outside the doctor's quarters I ran into a man named Flash who was eager to brag about the amazing gun he was carrying. He also informed me that Big Town is constantly raided by Slavers and Super Mutants and that the former had just taken a few people hostage in German Town. I picked up the quest Big Trouble in Big Town when I offered to help out with the hostage crisis and had German Town added to my map.</blockquote>The Gun Nut perk is mentioned to add 5% to your Small Guns and Repair skills. There are also lots of "burnt books, bottles, and other trash" for pack rats to carry around.

Spotted on the BGSF.
 
Random pedantry: the first two games had no perks that added to weapon skills. And probably not because they didn't have the technology.
 
And probably not because they didn't have the technology.
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You don't know that!
So far Perks look pretty pathetic and uninteresting.

+ to that, +to this, + to something else etc
 
Does Bethesda have any capabilities to come up with original sounding stuff? Seriously, this isn't snark. Are there any creative people there at all?

Big Town? German Town? A quest called Big trouble in Big Town...

So the Fallout 2 pop culture references broke IMMERSHION, but if Bethesda wants to use a John Carpenter movie (which is actually a great movie with original ideas) reference that is just fine.
 
Big Town.....

Big Town..........

You can't be fucking serious.

Bethesda has an awesome imagination.
 
It doesn't really bother me. Fallout 1 had Necropolis and Junktown.

Plus, these are supposedly names the original residents gave the towns. I can see someone deciding to name a new town Big Town. It sounds silly, but it obviously gets the point across that it is, indeed, a big town.

It also wouldn't bother me any if Fallout 3 had a town full of ghouls named Necropolis. Why? Well the people on the East Coast shouldn't have heard of the Necropolis from the West Coast, so naturally it would be easy for the two cities to have the same name.
 
I was going to comment that it was probably Europeans commenting and they were not aware of American silly naming policy, but these are Americans.

Seriously guys, what? I have some fear about choosing "Germantown" as the supermutant centre and hope Bethesda didn't fall into the trap of making Nazi jokes, but otherwise these names are fine.
 
ArmorB said:
This makes me LOL at ignorant people just trying to get mad about stuff...
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Yes.

I hate to say it, but that appears to be the case indeed.

Seriously guys, pick your fights and make sense.
 
Every time I read "Germantown" I think "Whitemanfromtown".

That is not criticism.
 
Town names are not a good point of contention here (unless they just lifted names from the first two games).

All American towns all have terrible uncreative names, no fooling!

Every 3rd town in Wisconsin is named after something in Germany.

Germantown, New Berlin, Rhineland, etc.

The rest were named with the help of the local injuns, whom I'm sure appreciated the chance to name things for their overlords.
 
Any town named big town or german town is a bad name whether real or fictional. Why didn't they name their towns "A town", "The town", "Another town." A stupid name is a stupid name. I don't like the fact that they took uncreative and stupid names in the real world and stuck with them.
 
EnglishMuffin said:
Any town named big town or german town is a bad name whether real or fictional. Why didn't they name their towns "A town", "The town", "Another town." A stupid name is a stupid name. I don't like the fact that they took uncreative and stupid names in the real world and stuck with them.
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LOL. And, good sir, what constitutes a good name for a town?
 
Well, Fallout's names were pretty functional, as in Junktown, the Hub, L.A. Boneyard (though the town is Adytum), Necropolis. Those aren't just names, they're descriptions.

But creative they're not. They were fine, as are names like Bigtown.
 
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