Recent content by TakLoufer

New Reno is a fun place and to be honest is one of my favorite locations in FO2. Myron, Jagged Jimmy J, the stand-up comedian, Mrs. Bishop, the boxing, Father Tully . . . FO2 would be worse off without these elements. BUT. New Reno does not fit into a realistic model of a post apocalyptic...

Hmm. When FO2 first came out I remember having an encounter every half square of travel. Took me forever to get from the Den to VC. But then, I was playing on one of our older machines. When I reinstalled it on a new machine the encounteres were more reasonable. Now, however, map travel is...

Yeah, I remember the Flame Axe (Featherweight Axe + Gasoline?) to be one uber weapon. The Dog also kicks ass. The Tech trees are fun, but I remember spending an inordinate amount of time digging through trashcans for stuff. And with only a few exceptions, the guns suck. OTOH, later in the...

Well, I never liked Arcanum as much as I did the Fallouts, but I can't imagine any company today doing it right. To do it right, it'd have to be: 1) Isometric 2) Purely turn based (the sequel should scrap the half-assed TB/RT combat). 3) Have good writers and a dynamic world that...

Well, I've been playing it for a few hours (killed my first Behemoth) and the best thing I can say for it is that it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. That being said, I thought it was going to be pretty bad. I mean, I half expected it to have rap music or a bitchin' rock soundtrack...

For the first time in over a year, I've started playing FO and FO2 again. This has got me to thinking about what I'd like to see in FO3: 1) Armor that effects stealth: No, not "+4 Ninja Armor" or whatever, but realistically there should be a penalty for sneaking about in cetain kinds of...

Yeah, kung fu doesn't fit in the FO world, and certainly not as a fighting style the character would use. As for swords . . . the whole craze for katanas is a relatively recent one, and a 50 style world would fnd them out of place. At most, they could have one katana hidden somewhere in the...

I am not adverse to the idea of motorized vehicles existing in the FO universe, as long as they are oddities, and not the norm. Surely someone somewhere can construct or scavange up a working internal-combustion engine that runs off brahmin shit or alcohol or something. I think the real...

While having all of these options for TB would be good, it is not needed, IMO. The combat in FO was modeled off of the combat from P&P RPGs of old. The actual combat is partially abstract and much of it is left to the imagination. During the gun fights, the people seem to be standing around and...

Yeah, the only good thing about the "ask about" feature was asking Harold about the Master.

Yeah, if you were playing a techie, you spent most of your time sifting through trashcans for stuff, which isn't exactly fun.

Oh yeah, and remember that crappy porn they were showing? lol! Oh yeah, I forgot about Last Man on Earth, that movie was closer to the book. And Vincent Price was closer to the book Robert Neville. Also, here are some more PA movies: Beneath Planet of the Apes (1970): Not as good as...

The Omega Man (1971): This 1971 gem has Chuck Heston battling albino zombie-cultists after a virus kills virtually everyone (or turns them into albino zombies). Soylant Green (1973): Another great Heston film. Takes place in a dystopic future where NY is really really over-crowded...

Still, I see what Per means. The cities in FO looked more like real cities, and Tarant looked like it was designed using tiles. OTOH, Arcanum had really beautiful wilderness areas. What I was refering to when I said Tarant felt "fake" was the general lifelessness of the place. There was...

Is it just me, or is the music from David Lynch's Dune?