Longtime fan benefits

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chadious maximus

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if Bethesda is to make FO3, here is yet another idea. some sort of secret weapons or technology only available to original disk owners (ie, long time fans).

if you have the original game installed, you get one item, FO2 yet another. as the disks are nearly impossible to find these days, anyone who still has one or both (ME!), and still plays the games might as well be rewarded in some way. i personally like the idea, and if they design the game to reach out to a NEW fanbase besides our bitchy selves, they might as well offer us SOME KIND of reward for keeping the fanbase alive for so long!
 
In the similar fashion to when you play Need for Speed Most Wanted. You get 10k cash if you have NFS: Underground 2 installed :P

Yeah, yeah, I could have used a better similarity, but you get the picture.

But, I do like the idea. Yet, is there a way to 'prove' you have legit disks?
 
Nope.
This would be pretty pointless, mainly because all it could do to see if Fallout is installed would be to check the registry.

Besides, whatever they try to do to check this, there will be instructions out on the net within a day on how to fake this. Just like the pre-orders of BG2 and Tactics.
 
And besides, Bethesda isn't interested if you have bought Fallout 1 and 2, and the cr@99% other Fallouts, it might be more interested of the O= the end of cRPGs, with I will promise to buy, if Fallout 3 will be any good at all.
 
Yay, we will get brahmin armor for free!

Eh, as far as I know, there is no way to ascertain legitimacy of a Fallout installation. So, no, this will never work.
 
yes, the legitamacy thing could be tricky, i too have realized this, but the idea of putting something unique in there for us would be interesting.

how about this, instead of original disk owners, how about a "Bridge Keeper" sort of random encounter with many obscure FO1 & FO2 questions that only die-hards like ourselves would know (and be unwilling to share with newbies), that would give us something unique, but still be balanced in the game? maybe that idea would be a bit better perhaps?
 
A nice idea in theory, but the reality is that you would have a group of people ranting that Bethesda put spyware on their PC to detect other installed software.
 
chadious maximus said:
how about this, instead of original disk owners, how about a "Bridge Keeper" sort of random encounter with many obscure FO1 & FO2 questions that only die-hards like ourselves would know (and be unwilling to share with newbies), that would give us something unique, but still be balanced in the game? maybe that idea would be a bit better perhaps?
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You assume that Bethesda developers know enough about Fallout and the Fallout community to pose such questions.
 
But, they have to have SOMEONE there, right? That knows a LITTLE about Fallout canon, or am I just being optimistic?
 
as far as i know, all the original creators are not working with Bethesda. im not online as much these days (this sudden burst of activity is rare for me), so i should probably recheck my info.

most likely i am correct, however, so our only hope is that *some* of Bethesda's crew are devout FO fans like we are, and are doing all they can to keep the story and universe from being boned.

this is probably the best we can hope for, that maybe one or more of the members of No Mutants Allowed are actually working for Bethesda, and just keeping quiet.

Bethesda has the *resources* to make a great game, hopefully they have somebody we can find wise steering the direction it takes.
 
I suggest the best 'long time fan benefit' would be a decent Fallout 3 without fucking FPS shit and crap they intend to add as "t3h new way of making Fallout'.

It's like making chess better. Impossible.
 
in my opinion this is a stupid idea -the special content for THE FANS.

why somebody that never played a Fallout title before (whatever the reason) should be deprived of ingame content. If it turns out that Beth's Fallout3 will be a great successor (which will be....not!), we should all enjoy its full greatness, Fallout fan(atic) or not.
 
It would be cool if the game asked you questions to find out whether or not you have FO:POS... like, what is the second word of the the third sentence on page 3 of the manual? And then when it is absolutely sure you have FO:POS in your possession... your computer will blow up...
 
If they do anything for lifetime fans it will have to be in subtle and small ways. Similar to what the actuall FO games had. Like have characters or dialogue from past games that would only make sense to someone who has played them. Like say.....hmm... you pass a well in the middle of nowhere and there is a midget at the bottom screamin about bottle caps, assuming its not the currency in FO3. To the average Joe, that makes no sense, but anyone whos done that quest will get a little bit more from the game than others.
 
Yeah... but you know Bethesda and their subtile way of doing stuff will lead to a giant phallus in the middle of nowhere and if you aproach 100 people (all with the same voice) will start yelling "P3NIX OMFG!" "ROFL A GIANT NOB!" "HAHA YOO GOT PWNT!"

By Bethesda, for 12 years old console crackers.
 
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