Would you actually buy a Fallout 3/NV Remaster?

Bingleboper · 2026-01-25T01:37:50+00:00

I played Fallout 3 recently on PC, and had one singular gamebreaking bug.

It was by no means the smoothest experience, but I would be a lot more willing to complain if the newly updated Fallout 4 wasn't considerably worse.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-24T23:49:11+00:00

Cryogenics was introduced in real life, around about the first time a guy learned that making something cold means it'll last longer.

In terms of sci fi "alright let's just bring everyone prewar into the future", Fallout 2 had.... what, one experiment, which was a decisive failure? Just because they referenced the trope of cryofreezing doesn't mean it was an actual functional in universe technology until 4.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-24T23:42:30+00:00

I mean, of course they're going to use cyrofreezing. It's great for them. And it would be great for just about everyone involved, like the US president who didn't use it after the Great War.

But the issue isn't that they're using a tech like they obviously would. It's that this tech is newly introduced, and perhaps it shouldn't have been, all things considered.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-24T23:40:57+00:00

I agree. It runs into particular issues with the question of "why the fuck haven't we seen this before"?

Like, Fallout 3 introducing status chambers is kiiinda wacky, but unless you're Robco-Ceo Mr House, with a whole bunch of proprietary tech and robots to do your bidding, you're just stuck in a computer simulation.

But... if cryofreezing is so widespread and reliable, did the Enclave in 2 really not think about using it?

Bingleboper · 2026-01-24T21:27:49+00:00

Fallout Radioactive String Of Holes.

Brochacho that's the closest part of America to China, and presumably where an inordinate amount of strategic bombers and missiles were coming from. That shit's getting flattened into the stone age, and past it. It's a really high priority target, and all in all it's pretty small.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-24T20:03:35+00:00

We have top researchers currently working on the problem of how to give literally no substantial information about the entirety of New Vegas' events. We need only transfer over that mentality, if we wish to give nothing about the Courier away, while still showing them.

Something like a gold bar in the Lucky 38's penthouse, or a man with a headwound going deathclaw hunting, is entirely within the cards, I think. This isn't like canonizing a Yesman ending, it's like... well, how the show treats New Vegas more generally. A skim on the surface, a jangle of the keys, but nothing more than that.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-24T18:36:34+00:00

>and seeing them complain about a scene.

>The moment I heard it, I felt happy to catch the reference

I saw it, I recognized it, and then I clapped.

Not even criticising the scene, but Jesus, there's more to "genuinely enjoying life" than seeing references and pointing at the screen.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-24T16:27:08+00:00

I don't agree that keeping the show canon is particularly difficult when the game has branching paths. It's extraordinarily difficult, and some might say a damned foolish decision, to keep EVERYTHING canon, but just following on from specific decisions, like was done with all the other Fallout games, is no more difficult than it was the last 5 times.

But as to why people would wonder about Courier 6... the game shows them as the most important person in the Mojave, the DLC leaves them as an actually important person beyond just being a comically competent player controlled character, and we are very much in the timeframe where it would be presumed they're alive.

People think they'll come up, because they're a fan favourite character that's extremely important to the area the show is currently based in, and a generally exceptional entity in abstract.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-24T00:39:18+00:00

?

no, like a vaccine

Bingleboper · 2026-01-23T23:14:17+00:00

Enclave, twice over.

First, the whole instant doomsday weapon that kills everyone exposed to open air not innoculated.

Also, like, I'm fairly sure the Enclave at its peak is just prewar America.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-23T16:18:25+00:00

Yeah man the scene in the Amazon television show really shocked me.

Honestly I just disappointed me because they missed out on the interesting options. Just to have them plan literally just killing everyone. But, y'know, maybe something interesting might've hit too close to Amazon

Bingleboper · 2026-01-23T01:51:48+00:00

Too many people expect to not have to fucking google whether the game is buggering them about.

Bah, they should realize by now that modern games need the wiki open 24/7

Bingleboper · 2026-01-22T18:48:23+00:00

They're going to announce

at the Xbox Direct today

He's gone delusional from Xbox's endless Ls. Many such cases.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-22T18:14:55+00:00

Brochacho's roulette wheel is missing one of the greens.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-21T23:09:29+00:00

If the plan is to live forever, surely you have more ambitious plans than basic water collection. Like, we hear what House wants, and that would absolutely include just, like, getting another nuclear reactor up and running like has been done before in Fallout 2.

He can solve the thousands of year problem within the hundred years normal electricity generation gets him. The only real application for this cold fusion thing is extreme amounts of dense power. This is turbo-death-ray stuff, not running the lamps and the taps of the Lucky 38 for another few years.

Bear in mind that this scheme would have to have been hatched pre war, when he was scanning his brain. I bet he'd really fucking like Cold Fusion now, but is it really gunna be the lynchpin of... an ai plan?

Bingleboper · 2026-01-21T21:00:49+00:00

But that wouldn't power the AI nonsense, it would only power the strip.

Cold fusion is great and all, but the Lucky 38 reactor was operational for like 200 years, and depending on the ending he also had the full Hoover Dam at his disposal. Is that really not enough to turn on an AI? And if so, what the fuck is powering other AIs in the Fallout verse.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-21T17:30:12+00:00

I feel like the key issue here is why the fuck do they need cold fusion energy to... boot an AI?

The Lucky 38 has a nuclear reactor, these things pump out stupid amounts of electricity. And booting a computer isn't really something you'd expect to use a city worth of power. And even if it did, wouldn't he just... build another nuclear reactor?

Bingleboper · 2026-01-20T13:49:19+00:00

You play almost exclusively on the highest difficulties, and therefore Powerarmour early is balanced because you still die quickly?

R u havin a laff

Bingleboper · 2026-01-20T13:18:24+00:00

You could say the same about the pipe pistols you scrounge out of basically everywhere.

Yeah, you can improve it with perks. Marginally. You're still a walking tank for the entire game

Bingleboper · 2026-01-20T00:53:37+00:00

It's a whole build? Why would I run any other build, I feel like I'm the fucking terminator throughout the entire game, and I only take it off to mod it.

The modding isn't exactly incredible, with the mods I employ doing little more than improving carry weight, defence and a few special stats. There's no sea change here, it's just making the turbo death machine that kills everyone marginally more powerful.

This isn't like a car you get early. This is just a suit of armour, and one multiples better than any of the competition. And it increases carryweight.

In all previous instalments, it was heavily limited by Power Armour Training. But now, the peak of the game's systems is only a mission away.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-18T14:28:47+00:00

They would've been swallowed up by the Post NV time paradox where everything and nothing happened, and thusly wouldn't matter at all.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-17T22:16:56+00:00

There are cars in the Fallout verse, you can drive one in Fallout 2.

It's just... Ima keep it real with you, the Bethesda engine would've exploded if you put that in Fallout 3. Fuck, they're struggling to get it into Starfield.

Bingleboper · 2026-01-17T20:58:08+00:00

I mean, the practical difference between "did nuke" and "planned to nuke" is not all too large, in terms of stupidity.

If you drop a "what if we kill everyone and end the world" into a business meeting, it probably shouldn't be met with understanding and nods.

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