Fallout 3 at PAX: GayGamer and That VideoGame Blog

[Daniel_sk]

Well - how stupid, you can cause a nuclear reaction just by planting a charge on a nuke? A nuke would never go off, even if you planted a ton of TNT on it. The detonating process is the most difficult part on a nuke.
In Fallout 1 you had to get the key to activate a nuke in the master's vault.

 

[Pope Viper]

Don't diss on GayGamer, Pope. They my homies.

No hate at all, I was wondering if they just did a "tongue in cheek" comment. And if so, I give them huge claps for doing so.

If not, it's still a great giggle factor.

 

[Brother None]

Who said there isn't? I'm sure there is a speech check behind it.

How are you sure? Magic eyes?

Well - how stupid, you can cause a nuclear reaction just by planting a charge on a nuke?

No. Burke gives you a plasma detonator thingy. Something to arm it with, in any case

 

[Ausir]

No. Burke gives you a plasma detonator thingy.

Fusion Pulse Charge.

 

[Brother None]

I hate you so much, Ausir.

 

[whirlingdervish]

Plasma detonator thingamabob?

Couldnt they just park a car next to it and shoot it with a pistol a couple times?

 

[PaladinHeart]

The cars don't operate though, they only explode. How would you get it near the bomb with Simms watching you?

"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Uhh.. It's a sacrifice to the bomb."
"Oh, carry on then... bomb worshiping fruitcakes."

 

[Pope Viper]

Ask the behemoth to pick it up and move it for you?

 

[Alphadrop]

Fire a fatman at it... or just fire a fatman at the town

 

[Texas Renegade]

Meh, I still don't get what all the commotion about getting near the bomb is.

The yokels of Megaton, their sherrif included, decided to build and live around a bomb that didn't go off. They feel the failure of the bomb to detonate was a sign that they should live there.

They probably don't even think the bomb could go off. With people around it all the time, it probably isn't a concern to them.

Again, they built their homes around it because they saw it as a sign that it was a place to live.

And no I am not hypothesising, that has been brought up in several of the previews for over a year now concerning megaton.

 

[Brother None]

You mean that them having a really stupid reason to live there means it's not stupid for them to ignore people fiddling with the bombs?

Two wrongs don't make a right, equally two stupids don't make a smart. I don't think double-stupid design can excuse 'em here.

 

[Texas Renegade]

It has nothing to do with design. The people think of the bomb as a sign from "God" "gods" whomever, that this is a safe and blessed place to live.

It probably never enters their mind that it could be detonated.

Anymore then you thinking the glow quest is a death trap the BOS sent you on to get rid of you in FO1. There is no impetus for them to see a threat from a bomb that has been sitting in the middle of their town for 200 years that they worship.

 

[Brother None]

It probably never enters their mind that it could be detonated.

Since Simms can give you a quest to disarm the bomb, he knows it can be detonated

 

[eff-out]

Few Fallout 2 quests could hold up to this kind of scrutiny.

 

[Ausir]

Can't think of a Fallout 2 quest as silly as "The Power of the Atom".

 

[oihrebwe]

Can't think of a Fallout 2 quest as silly as "The Power of the Atom".

uhh really how about "replant Seymour the talking venus flytrap next to a retirement home for ghouls so he'll tell you how to beat a super smart radscorpion at chess"

 

[aronsearle]

Few Fallout 2 quests could hold up to this kind of scrutiny.

Instead of smiley's, we should a set of stock answers to cut n paste.


Sequels should improve upon the prequels, just because something was bad in 2, it does not excuse poor design in the 3.



Not that any of the quests where this retarded anyway, and so far I have not seen quests that are better than the good ones that where in the previous.

uhh really how about "replant Seymour the talking venus flytrap next to a retirement home for ghouls so he'll tell you how to beat a super smart radscorpion at chess"

Google "the little shop of horrors"

That quest is a pop reference.

Want to make comparisons, try the modoc quest, or the tensions between vault city and gecko, or broken hills, or NCR.

How does the beth quests compare to those in depth and quality.


/waits for "we haven't played it yet"

 

[raunchy]

o snap pwnt

 

[oihrebwe]

Google "the little shop of horrors"

That quest is a pop reference.

yes I know that's why I remembered the name of the plant. did you read the statement I was replying to?

Want to make comparisons,

but I don't, I was just replying to an isolated statement.

/waits for "we haven't played it yet"

nobody said that other than yourself, if you want to argue with yourself maybe you should start another thread

 

[aronsearle]

but I don't, I was just replying to an isolated statement.

Pick the battles you can win, ignore the ones you can only lose.

Nice philosophy you have there.