Hubologists and Scientology

Grasshopper

First time out of the vault
When the game was released in 98 or whatever Scientology had just started to make inroads in California. We had a few of them here in Long Island, but we drove them out with pitchforks and torches. :mrgreen:

At the time, the writers had made one of the biggest, best jokes on celebrities in a game. Juan Cruz was Tom Cruise and Vikki Goldman was Nicole Kidman. It made the game so much more enjoyable to play knowing that you could snipe, burn, burst fire, or just plain beat em with your fists.

Now 10 years later, the Hubologists are everywhere. How stupid can people with money be? I am not a modder so here is a suggestion. When you enter the temple room, give names and interaction to all the hooded peeps standing around. IE Jason Lee, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Mimi Rogers (the convertor of Tom), Kelly Preston, etc. The list is huge. Still the funniest initiate was Sonny Bono. The tree didnt have microcircuits so he tried to convert it with a body-meld. Oops.
 
I thought it was funny, but fallout 2 has plenty of references that are like that, some were ahead of it's time and well, some were misplaced.

Beating the shit out of a psuedo Tom cruise is lots of fun though, powerfist!
 
Yep. In both FO1 and FO2, the game comes to a screaching halt just when you get near the end. Containters are empty. Quests are stupid. Wouldn't it make more sense to load stuff towards the end rather than front load? Too many games are like this.
 
I loved the hell out of San Francisco. It was one of my favourite areas in Fallout 2. And I dont think the quests we're "stupid" for the most part.

But I do admit there could have been a lot more to it.
 
KingAlex said:
Misplaced, how so?

Ummm... let's see:

- it's Bruce Lee shadow ninja attack town!!!
- it's wacky relgious zealot town!!!
- it's me yellow, me have Space Shuttle town!!!

The Tanker Vagrants were the only sane part of San Fran. The vagrants and the BoS outpost. The rest is somewhat over the top.

San Fran does have two bloody good shopkeepers, though.
 
They actually weren't *that* ahead of the times. Scientology was pretty damn big (at least monetarily, and, thanks to the link between money and power in the U.S., rather powerful elsewhere) in the L.A. area well before the parody showed up in Fallout 2.

Creepy, creepy religion. Seriously. I've known people who took their free 'personality tests' at the big 'temple' (and officially, a religion they ain't, folks... they're a non-profit with religion tax exemption status) for a laugh, who got incredibly spooked by the way the people there were acting.

Ever see that South Park episode where Kyle and Stan get caught up in a cult, and Kyle (I think) tries to leave, only to have a cult member stand in front of the door?

Kyle's like "I want to leave," the cultist replies something like "You are free to go" while still standing in front of the door. Apparently their experience at the big creepy building was a lot like that.... They just sneaked out while the Scientologists were getting the results of the test and never, ever went back.
 
It took me awhile to get the Scientology parody in that level. Nonetheless, I thought San Fran was well written for the most part. And I agree with whomever said the shopkeepers were superb.
 
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