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"God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
 
   I wish I could get a synth body for Codsworth. Gunbutler rides again.

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God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? [View All] Gryphonadmin Jan-29-16 TOP
  RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? CdrMike Jan-29-16 1
  RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Matrix Dragon Jan-30-16 2
  RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Gryphonadmin Jan-30-16 3
     RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Matrix Dragon Jan-30-16 4
         RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? ebony14 Feb-01-16 13
  RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Gryphonadmin Jan-31-16 5
     RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Gryphonadmin Jan-31-16 7
  RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Gryphonadmin Jan-31-16 6
     RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Matrix Dragon Jan-31-16 8
         RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Gryphonadmin Feb-01-16 11
     RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Verbena Jan-31-16 9
         RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Sofaspud Jan-31-16 10
  RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Matrix Dragon Feb-01-16 12
  God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Gryphonadmin Sep-17-21 14
     RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? StClair Sep-18-21 15
     RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? CdrMike Sep-19-21 16
         RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Gryphonadmin Sep-19-21 18
             RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? CdrMike Sep-21-21 19
                 RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Peter Eng Sep-21-21 20
     RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Gryphonadmin Sep-30-21 23
     RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Gryphonadmin Sep-30-21 24
         RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Droken Sep-30-21 25
             RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Gryphonadmin Sep-30-21 27
     RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Trscroggs Oct-01-21 29
         RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Gryphonadmin Oct-03-21 30
             RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again? Gryphonadmin Oct-03-21 31
  RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? TsukaiStarburst Sep-19-21 17
     RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Verbena Sep-21-21 21
         RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Peter Eng Sep-22-21 22
         RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Sofaspud Sep-30-21 26
             RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4? Gryphonadmin Sep-30-21 28

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1. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   Well, if you get far enough in Curie's loyalty storyline, you'll get the next best thing.

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2. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   Hey, Tenpines Bluff has a problem with Feral Ghouls wandering out and attacking people. Not a problem, I'll head over and clear it out. Where are they? Up on the old freeway? Satellite Station Olivia?

... Hubris Comics? That's down in Back Bay. I don't think that you've got much to worry about from them, but I'll go and look into it when I get the time. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go speak to Wiseman at the Slog about a problem.

Deirdre's been kidnapped? Damn, I'll see what I can do. Where is she? Big Johns Salvage, Vault 75?

The Sagus Ironworks. The one right there? Yes, I know how it sounds, it's just... Look, I can understand you guys not having the firepower to storm the Forged. I was expecting to have to walk a bit more. Long story involving some folks back west convinced the Feral Ghoul army was on the march. I'll be back in a few minutes.

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3. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   All right, Cait, look. I know we kind of got off to a bad start, what with Tommy sort of pawning you off on me without really asking either one of us and whatnot, but I believe in giving people a chance, so let's have another try at this thing. OK? Cool. Awright, Pres, we're heading out to look into that thing at Zimonja Outpost you mentioned. See you in a few.

"We'd move faster if you'd keep yer eyes on the road an' off me arse."

... You know what, forget this, I don't need your shitty attitude. CODSWORTH! We're going.

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4. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   "Jolly good sir. Always a pleasure to help out however you need."

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13. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   >"Jolly good sir. Always a pleasure to help out however you need."
>

"One question, sir. Shall I be keeping track of the young miss' posterior, or shall you?"

Ebony the Black Dragon

Aaaaand then it got very loud for a few minutes....

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5. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   Hey, you know what I don't miss at ALL from 3/NV? Centaurs. Absolutely do not miss. Mutant hounds any day of the dang week.

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7. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   As a Super Mutant-related aside, it's a shame there's no workbench at Breakheart Banks. It'd be a decent settlement if you could get in there, swamp out all that weird heavy-metal-album-cover Super Mutant deco crap, and put up some proper fences. I bet somebody's modded that.

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6. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   Man, the Nuka-Cola machines they had in New England are weird. They're these enormous things that can hold, at the very most, maybe six bottles of soda, of which they seem to have no mechanism for preventing the customer from taking more than one once the door's open. The rocket-shaped bottles are pretty cool, I admit, and the Northeast Region's version of Quantum is way better than that swill they were test marketing in DC, but that vending machine technology is a big step back. What is even in the rest of that giant enclosure? The reactor that powers the cooling plant, I guess. :)

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8. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   Personally, I feel sorry for Don Griffin and co if they ever end up in the Commonwealth.

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11. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   >Personally, I feel sorry for Don Griffin and co if they ever end up in
>the Commonwealth.

Maybe Proton Cola machines were more sanely designed...

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9. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   It's at this point I must refer to the Telzey Amberdon books. They're hard sci fi, pretty much, and in this setting there's quite a few psionic machines in use in society. One thing Telzey discovers very early in her adventures (since she's a newly erupted* psi) is the psionic machines in use to screen new planetary arrivals for biological contaminants are much, much bigger than they need to be to accomplish that task--and they're doing much bigger other things, like mind reading (and in Telzey's case, implanting a psionic compulsion in) unsuspecting travelers.

So, perhaps, in the grand Fallout tradition of Evil Human Experimentation Conspiracies, Nuka-Cola is doing something in the Commonwealth other than dispensing soda. Maybe Vault-Tec had a controlling interest in their New England bottling affiliate.


*'Erupted' isn't a Telzey book term. IIRC it's from Cthulhutech. Just woke up, I can't think of a more generalized one right this moment.
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10. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   I don't play Fallout 4 (though folks 'round here are slowly convincing me to give it a try), but I'll second the Telzey Amberdon series.

Which, hey! Most, possibly all, of the Telzey stories, including the ones with her partner-in-crime Trigger Argee, are available for free on the Baen Free Library.

(I am not a shill, I'm just really, really fond of the Baen Free Library. :) )

Okay, actually, I just checked, and they're no longer in the free library. Books get rotated out as new ones come in. My bad there. But still, recommend at least checking out the sample chapters. Linky.

--sofaspud
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12. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   As I said in the last thread, my first visit to Quincy was something of an accident, and I moved on before clearing out the place completely. Tonight, that changed. I decided to make an occasion of it, and swapped mods, allowing for multiple companions. Alice, Preston and Piper marched up to the town gates, ready to finish a war, then report on it. Just before the shooting started, I fired off a signal flare, and history didn't repeat, as a squad of Minutemen arrived, one of whom had a minigun.

What followed was... well, it was pretty one-sided actually. There were a lot of Gunners, and I don't think any of them were below level 70, but none of them had a Fat Man this time. There was a guy with a missile launcher, but he didn't last long. Clint stuck his head out over the edge of the freeway to find out what was going on, and one of my militiamen gave him a minigun to the face for his trouble, followed by the familiar THWOOM of Prestons laser musket.

After about ten minutes of chaos, the sun was setting, and the Gunners had received a hard lesson in what happens when they don't have insider information and civilian targets to distract the heroes. It was a good day. Now, to go talk to Nick about this holotape I found...

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14. "God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   LAST EDITED ON Sep-17-21 AT 03:11 PM (EDT)
 
I dusted off Fallout 4 and started a new game last night, since for one reason or another I never got through it and it's been a few years since I tried. I was immediately struck by how completely implausible it is that the player character would emerge from the prologue in any condition to be a playable protagonist.

I mean, think about it. If you're the Sole Survivor, you just watched your world end in nuclear fire, and then--a few seconds later, from your point of view--saw your spouse murdered and your child abducted while you could only watch helplessly from inside your stasis pod.

Then you emerged into an abandoned, decrepit facility that, again from your perspective, was brand new a minute or two ago, surrounded by the frozen corpses of your spouse and neighbors (and you come from a setting where neighbors knew each other), and had to pick your way through (and occasionally loot) the still-clothed skeletons of the long-dead staff (whom you just saw alive and shepherding you to what seemed like safety) and fight roaches the size of toy poodles with your bare hands to get outside again.

There, you found nothing but a ruined place that looked vaguely like the world you just left no more than twenty subjective minutes ago, now scorched and barren, and made your way down the hill to find your neighborhood deserted and collapsed into ruin. The computer on your wrist says it's the year 2287. You have no idea how long ago your spouse was killed and Shaun taken. For all you know in that moment, that happened 200 years ago, everyone involved is long dead by now, you're the last human being left alive, and you have nothing to live for.

You should be irretrievably catatonic with shock at that point, not wisecracking to your robot butler. The only action you should be capable of taking is collapsing into a corner of what's left of your bedroom and rocking silently in place until you starve to death.

To give it all a little sense of realism, I always spend the first two or three in-game days in workshop mode, going around the cul-de-sac scrapping everything scrappable and making the place presentable, to simulate being in some kind of manic fugue state, reimposing order. Only then do I decree that my character has snapped out of it and decided there's nothing for it but to get on with things, possibly after a recitation of Hunter S. Thompson's soliloquy on reaching one's limits.

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now...

... But collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. Indeed. This is the moment of truth, that fine and fateful line between control and disaster.

—Hunter S. Thompson
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(1971)

I can't help it. I roleplay in games that DON'T claim to be roleplaying games, I certainly can't avoid doing so in games that do. :)

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15. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   Quite right, and I very much approve of how you've chosen to act out the Sole Survivor's... ah, state of mind.


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16. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   I could see my Sole Survivor as a guy who hasn't checked-out, but is instead just in total denial about the reality of his situation and convinced it's gotta all be a dream. Figures those scientists probably did something to him when he was in that pod, just like all the experiments they ran in Anchorage while he was in the service. Cockroaches the size of schnauzers? Super mutants and ghouls? The whole city in ruins? Just what was in the stuff they had him breathing after they closed the lid? For all he knows, they're poking and prodding him while he's passed out.

That would probably hold right up until the first time he got a sucking chest wound from a raider's bullet. After the Stimpak/Med-X/adrenaline cocktail worked through his system, the stark reality of what he'd found himself in would hit him with full force. He's not tripping on some experimental chemical or part of some elaborate fantasy, he really was on ice for 2 centuries and is now standing in the decaying ruins of his home. But that also means that his son is out there, that he's the only one left to save him, and his wife would never forgive him if he quit. When he's completed his mission and his son is safe, only then can he sit down and finish losing what's left of his mind. And it certainly helps the immersion that I'm a deadpan snarker IRL.

Look on the bright side, at least you're not an Elder Scrolls protagonist, so you didn't start the story in a prison cell or on your way to a date with the headsman's axe.

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18. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   >Look on the bright side, at least you're not an Elder Scrolls
>protagonist, so you didn't start the story in a prison cell or on your
>way to a date with the headsman's axe.

I dunno, I don't think that's worse. In those situations, there's always the possibility, however remote, that you might get out of it (as, indeed, you almost immediately do in all of those games). There is zero possibility of escaping from the starting scenario in a Fallout game. Whatever you do, whatever niche you may manage to carve out for yourself, however much power and makeshift luxury you might somehow accrue, the world is still a filthy, radioactive ruin overrun with mutants and psychos, and you still live in ramshackle squalor surrounded by decaying relics of a past that will never return. (And in Fallout 4, it's all made that much worse by the fact that it's a past you knew. At least in the other games, you were born into that shitty reality and never knew what it was like before.)

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19. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   >I dunno, I don't think that's worse. In those situations, there's
>always the possibility, however remote, that you might get out of it
>(as, indeed, you almost immediately do in all of those games). There
>is zero possibility of escaping from the starting scenario in a
>Fallout game. Whatever you do, whatever niche you may manage to carve
>out for yourself, however much power and makeshift luxury you might
>somehow accrue, the world is still a filthy, radioactive ruin overrun
>with mutants and psychos, and you still live in ramshackle squalor
>surrounded by decaying relics of a past that will never return. (And
>in Fallout 4, it's all made that much worse by the fact that
>it's a past you knew. At least in the other games, you were
>born into that shitty reality and never knew what it was like before.)

Well, depending upon how you play your cards, The Courier could end up beating the House. And The Chosen One in FO2, assuming you go for a "good" playthrough, eventually ends up as the leader of a semi-modern settlement significant enough to end up on NCR maps.

But yeah, even if you live in a place like Vault City or one of the major NCR cities, the reality remains that you're in a crapsack world where your choice is between wildlife that the Aussies would cringe from or living in the decaying ruins of the old world under governments that range from despotic to corrupt.

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20. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   >
>But yeah, even if you live in a place like Vault City or one of the
>major NCR cities, the reality remains that you're in a crapsack world
>where your choice is between wildlife that the Aussies would cringe
>from or living in the decaying ruins of the old world under
>governments that range from despotic to corrupt.
>

I was going to say there was a third option, but I suppose that earning a place in an occupied Vault is pretty much the second option.

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23. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   One of the "official" mods adds an automatic suit of power armor to the game. You can get ahold of it, at which point it joins you as a permanent companion without taking up your "proper" companion slot. It seems to have been an experiment by the Outcast Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout 3.

Thanks to the way power armor works in Fallout 4, the item that is the actual Sentinel NPC is just the frame. You can remove all of the armor pieces to repair/upgrade/customize them (although they don't seem to require repairing once they're on there), or put whole different ones on there, or whatever.

Or, as I have discovered, you can just... leave them off.

Now, I realize that this is just a mod, and it isn't reasonable to expect whoever made it to have updated every single NPC interaction in the game? But I'm still a little disappointed that no one reacts to the fact that my Sole Survivor is being followed everywhere she goes by a headless, empty suit of T-45 power armor.

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24. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   So there's a certain NPC that you have to track down and kill in the course of the main questline. Offing him is a richly satisfying experience, but yesterday, I discovered a way to make it even more satisfying:

Dropping into VATS the instant the conversation is over and oneshotting his damn head off at point-blank range with an 18th-century naval gun.

Hell yeah.

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25. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   ...That is the most brilliant response to that NPC I have ever encountered.

Hat is off to you sir, and mad respect. It seems I'll need to get Fallout 4 back on once I finish off NV again...

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27. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   >...That is the most brilliant response to that NPC I have ever
>encountered.

I wasn't sure it would work, but it went perfectly. The only way it could have been more satisfying would've been if I had hit the RNG right and gotten the Mysterious Stranger showing up to take out his henchbots while I was stuck in the VATS animation. But I had Nick with me, so it was fine.

--G.
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Trscroggs
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29. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   Not to mention that if you read the computers in the Vault, you learn that you were just part of some experiment.

Honestly I'm not sure which corporation in Fallout is the most corrupt.

Vault Tech for, you know, the Vaults, most of which were doomed to just one outcome. (And in fact were never really intended to be used the way they were.)

Or Nuka Cola, which for whatever darned reason was experimenting on their own staff while experimenting on visitors.


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Gryphonadmin
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30. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   LAST EDITED ON Oct-04-21 AT 03:39 AM (EDT)
 
>Honestly I'm not sure which corporation in Fallout is the most
>corrupt.

It's a crowded field, and yet, upon reflection, there is a clear winner: General Atomics. Yes, Vault-Tec trapped hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of unsuspecting people in a range of hideously unethical experiments when they were all just trying to survive. Yes, Nuka-Cola exemplified a cavalier disregard for consumer safety that puts the "pharmaceutical" companies of the real-life 1890s to shame. Yes, ArcJet covered up the death of a journalist who perished attempting to breach the secrecy with which they surrounded their massive tax boondoggle of a Mars rocket. And yes, Hubris Comics completely fucked up the Silver Shroud TV series.

But only General Atomics built Robobrains.

(As an aside, there is an actual defense contractor called General Atomics. That's a little odd, since all the other companies I can think of in the Fallout universe are either completely fictional or at least slightly oblique references to real corporations, they aren't just straight-up real companies. I wonder if maybe someone didn't know that there's a real company by that name, and though "General Atomics" was just a clever riff on General Dynamics--which the real General Atomics was originally part of.)

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31. "RE: God, Are They Playing Fallout 4 Again?"
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   Speaking of Vault-Tec's ethics, I reached Vault 88 last night. I'd never actually gone there before, and I very much enjoyed ruining all of Overseer Barstow's experiments by setting everything to the most benevolent possible configuration. I will treasure her parting remark, which her feeble sociopathic psyche surely considered a dire insult: "I cannot stand this cheery purgatory you've concocted."

--G.
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TsukaiStarburst
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17. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   Any time Gryphon plays more Fallout means annother chance of another 'Vocaloids trekking across blasted America' story, and since I really like those, I applaud this new gameplay.


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21. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   >Any time Gryphon plays more Fallout means annother chance of another
>'Vocaloids trekking across blasted America' story, and since I really
>like those, I applaud this new gameplay.

I can't help but agree! I rather enjoy those stories. And if it leads into the story of how the Fleet of Fog gained sentience and stopped menacing Earth, that would be even more awesome.


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22. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
In response to message #21
 
   >>Any time Gryphon plays more Fallout means annother chance of another
>>'Vocaloids trekking across blasted America' story, and since I really
>>like those, I applaud this new gameplay.
>
>I can't help but agree! I rather enjoy those stories. And if it leads
>into the story of how the Fleet of Fog gained sentience and stopped
>menacing Earth, that would be even more awesome.
>
>

You guys are so particular.

I figure that as long as it gets his muse going on something, we're ending up ahead.

Peter Eng
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Sofaspud
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26. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
In response to message #21
 
   >>Any time Gryphon plays more Fallout means annother chance of another
>>'Vocaloids trekking across blasted America' story, and since I really
>>like those, I applaud this new gameplay.
>
>I can't help but agree! I rather enjoy those stories. And if it leads
>into the story of how the Fleet of Fog gained sentience and stopped
>menacing Earth, that would be even more awesome.
>

I didn't realize Fallout was how that was inspired. I mean I can see the parallels? But, huh. Neat!

--sofaspud
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28. "RE: God, Are They Still Playing Fallout 4?"
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   >I didn't realize Fallout was how that was inspired.

It's not, directly, but there are a few references. Kind of inescapable in a worn-down, resource-poor setting, even if the apocalypse of the 2040s was a lot slower than a nuclear war, and things falling apart had more to do with rampant deferred maintenance.

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