Fallout 3 launch party bits and pieces

aronsearle said:
thefalloutfan said:
That's one of the good things about the game ~ since I like the new BoS PA better than the original BoS PA, which I did not like.
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I like and dislike the new PA.

The problem I have with it, is that although it looks cool, it looks 2008 cool, rather than 1950s stylish.
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I thought about giving a couple hundred early in the morning to one of those employee's in Game Stop (all but the managers are part time from what I understand, so they arien't making that much money) and bribe them to let me grab it and run out the door. Unfortunately the closest one is roughly a hour away being shipped to a "Sam's club" which has old people guarding the front door and makes it quite a bit harder to bribe and steal it from the store, and I have a car so it would be sticking half way out the trunk anyways... and the closest game stop getting one is 4 hours away and I don't think he would survive a trip that far hanging half way out the trunk... not to mention the calls the cops would get along the way (god if I had a sunroof and he was sticking out of it with his gun, lol!) So my idea is kinda shot. Just going to look for one on e-bay and rent a U-haul.

I think I am actually happier about this metal(or plastic? more likely?) guy than I am about the game being released.
 
aronsearle said:
FYI Those big hulking PA promo suites are appearing in GAME.
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PLEASE tell me that you're joking.

Makes me also wonder if we're going to see in-game characters based around those people who attended the party. Only way I could see some of them rocking up to what was essentially a Nerd's Party, unless it was just for the free feed and booze (or... royalties perhaps? :deal: ). Heh, Courtney the Raider instead of Daisy the Raider, anyone? :eek:

thefalloutfan said:
That's one of the good things about the game ~ since I like the new BoS PA better than the original BoS PA, which I did not like.
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Agreed. I always liked the concept of a quasi-religous military technocracy that kept itself shut away from the outside world, therefore making it shunned and considered to be filled by a bunch of oddball freaks by the rest of the wasteland folk, but their setup always struck me as being too 'clean' for a PA setting. The East Coast BoS have no active support where they are, so they make do with what they've got, scavenge for spare parts and ammo like the rest of the world does and constructs/repairs their Citadel out of what's available, in essence creating a Brotherhood of Steel Junktown. THAT has been one saving grace that I've seen in the game so far. Was there anything else that stood out besides that for you TFF?
 
Pretty bizarre for a video game to have a launch party. Whats the going rate per "celebrity" for them to show up at these sort of things, $1,000 and some junk schwag? Apparently they had some money to waste.
 
Launch parties aren't that weird. I went to the Fallout 2 launch party and that was 10 years ago. Of course it wasn't an odd celebrity thing like this one apparently was. There was a costume party though! Then again I think a celebrity would have been unnoticed, what with everyone huddled around the people with laptops installing the game on the spot. I'd take that kind of launch party over the douche bag celebs any day.
 
Raoul Duke said:
Of course it wasn't an odd celebrity thing like this one apparently was.
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That's what I mean, having one is mandatory sure, but this type of event is a bit strange for a video game to have. Doesn't really seem applicable since video games and celebrities dont have much to do with each other. It would be like the opposite happening at a record release party, where some random game developers who had no interest or connection with the music getting a bunch of face time.
 
Funny that none of the celebrities who actually do have some connection to Fallout 3 (the ones who voiced characters) appeared.
 
Winona Ryder was there? :shock:

Why wasn't I invited, dawgunnit? She stole my heart when I was a teenager, it's time for her to steal the rest as well. :(

Hipster girl: "This is Fallout 3? What was Fallout 1?"
Hipster guy: "I have no idea."
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Oh man...
 
moyogo said:
Oh man if I threw a party and Dane Cook showed up there would be hell to pay...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAVaDxbqiZU

You can find videos on his joke-thievery as well, but I stick with the point that he just isn't funny.
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agreed. he's an amazingly unfunny douchebag.

It speaks volumes about Fallout 3's expected audience that they'd invite Dane Cook to the release party, considering his career consists of nothing more than ripping off others, only being funny to 12 year olds, and being a big fat slap in the face to the others in his industry who actually have to try to make money while he pretends to be your uber-cool-frat-guy-buddy-from-college in every single thing he's ever done, and rakes in a bundle.
 
Oh come on, people: Dane Cook may not be the best in the business, but he's definitely not the worst. He just doesn't know when to stop. And his timing is kinda lousy at times. But he can squeeze a laugh ut of me at times.
 
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