Video Game Thread 2.0

[Ultimate Paragon]

Best thing in New Vegas.  Man the NCR cant tell head from their ass.  Man Legion is evil (who sides with them) oh my god house is a dick nearly about to throw away the game oh hi yesman

Yeah, I remember that.  I chose to side with Mr. House... up until he advocated destroying the Mojave Chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel.  After that, I turned on him and replaced him with Yes-Man.

[ironbite]

Yeah most people will do that.  I mean, the only other place you can get power armor is via the Remnants but that's so late game most people don't bother.

Ironbite-though there are mods for all that malarky.

[kefkaownsall]

I did an NCR run but i went for peace each time like no matter what the big wigs said I tried negociating with Brotherhood and it worked. 

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The Brotherhood and the NCR in the Mojave Wasteland declared an official truce, despite continued hostilities between the two in the west. As per their agreement, the NCR handed over all suits of salvaged power armor and in return the Brotherhood helped patrol I-15 and Highway 95

[Søren]

Has anybody played sins of a solar empire. I have it, but my boyfriend and I cant understand why. I just feel that its way too simple. Not enough depth to the game. I would love to organize formations and manage my planet a bit more but its just rock paper scissors combat

[RavynousHunter]

Yeah most people will do that.  I mean, the only other place you can get power armor is via the Remnants but that's so late game most people don't bother.

Ironbite-though there are mods for all that malarky.

Having played since the very first Fallout, I have been and always will be extremely sympathetic to the Brotherhood of Steel.  Shit, I was disappointed that there wasn't an option to side with them during the war.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Yeah most people will do that.  I mean, the only other place you can get power armor is via the Remnants but that's so late game most people don't bother.

Ironbite-though there are mods for all that malarky.

I also did that partly because I didn't want to make Veronica mad at me.

[RavynousHunter]

I'm drawing up a design for a game that I'm calling Public Menace.  Basically, its exactly what the Moral Guardians think games like Grand Theft Auto and Saint's Row are all about: vandalism, theft, selling drugs, wanton murder, and other forms of general depravity and debauchery.  You play The Menace; a cross between MacGuyver, Jacket and Biker from Hotline Miami, and the fevered dreams of Jack Thompson and Hilary Clinton.  Tonnes of weapons, both conventional, radiological, biological, chemical, and improvised with plenty to scrounge up, steal, or buy from connections both legitimate (and therefore either stupid or misguided) and illicit.

The city in which you find yourself would probably be around the size of Los Santos circa GTA V and comes with everything from a SWAT team to a military base, in terms of resistance...if you don't count certain more courageous (and/or stupid) civilians.  However, and this leads into the game's primary objective, the city has a limited number of people in it.  Your "job," so to speak, is to depopulate the city, or come as close to it as you can before getting killed by law enforcement, the military, vigilantes, or any mixture in between.  In that way, its kinda like Uwe Boll's only good movie, Rampage.

Why do I want something so horrible to be made?  Mostly because I think it'd be funny to watch the moral guardians shit themselves.  That, and to help prove a point that the "violent games" scare is nothing more than bullshit guided by pathetic attempts at "research."

[Cerim Treascair]

I'd buy that.  And I'd laugh my tailfeathers off while playing the entire time.

[RavynousHunter]

I'd buy that.  And I'd laugh my tailfeathers off while playing the entire time.

We're not horrible people, we're making a point!

[chitoryu12]

Reminds me of Postal 2. It's loaded with as much intentionally offensive crap as possible (like a ton of terrorists who all resemble Osama Bin Laden or women in sexy versions of burqas) living in the Indian grocery store, and the ability to urinate on command and make people vomit by peeing in their face) and includes anti-game protesters who are attempting to kill the game developers as a major enemy faction.

The main difference from your concept is that instead of intentionally trying to kill and maim everyone around, your character is just trying to accomplish mundane goals like getting milk and going to the doctor to get venereal disease treated, and gets swept up in gratuitous violence, terrorist attacks, and kidnappings as the city falls deeper and deeper into chaos. Some players have actually managed to beat the game without killing a single person.

[Ghoti]

That reminds me of the Sandy Hook shooting simulator that was on Newgrounds for a while before being taken down due to controversy. Yes, there's a legitimate point to be made (one aspect of the Newtown game was trying to replicate the number of fatalities with a different weapon), but it's likely to get lost in the moral panic that ensues.

I'd still play the shit out of it.

[RavynousHunter]

Hell, I'd probably make it freeware, if not 100% open source, just to even further piss people off by the fact that I'm not doing it just to make money.

When I say "a tonne of weapons," I really do mean a fucking tonne of weapons.  Everything from plastic grocery sacks to (if you can get a hold of one) a howitzer and beyond.  You don't even have to be loud and attract attention to your various crimes; stealthy, low-profile play will be perfectly viable, as well.  Hence the plastic sacks.  And belts.  And other "Garrotte-type weapons" I have in my head.  I've even got a list of the main weapon types: bludgeoning, slashing, piercing, ballistic, serrated, pneumatic, garrotte, toxic, projectile, and incendiary.

[starseeker]

Has anybody played sins of a solar empire. I have it, but my boyfriend and I cant understand why. I just feel that its way too simple. Not enough depth to the game. I would love to organize formations and manage my planet a bit more but its just rock paper scissors combat

Yeah I've played it. I like the fact it's simplish and goes at a calm rate.

[Askold]

Yeah most people will do that.  I mean, the only other place you can get power armor is via the Remnants but that's so late game most people don't bother.

Ironbite-though there are mods for all that malarky.

Having played since the very first Fallout, I have been and always will be extremely sympathetic to the Brotherhood of Steel.  Shit, I was disappointed that there wasn't an option to side with them during the war.

They really haven't had luck after Fallout 2.

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The western Brotherhood turned into a bunch of xenophobic-tech-hoarding-loonies and started a war with NCR and lost. The Capital wasteland Brotherhood are decent folk but they have really poor equipment and had to go up against the Enclave which nearly destroys them (Not to mention that they lose many of their more experienced members who desert because they think that actually helping people is against what the BOS stands for.)

If Fallout Tactics is canon then depending on the outcome, that group of the BOS might also have turned into xenophobic racists lead by a computer that does ethnic cleansings on the territories they control. OR they destroyed the computer and were driven to the brink of destruction by their enemies OR the player took over the computer and rules as a reasonable and half-way decent ruler which is kind to muties and puppies. But that's just one of the endings and I'm not sure if any is canon.

By the time of New Vegas the BOS is really at the brink of extinction and very few endings see them survive. Not to mention that the BOS Companion only has BAD ENDINGS in her companion quest...

[RavynousHunter]

I would like to see a mod and/or addon for New Vegas that'd allow you to rebuild the Brotherhood of Steel.  Yeah, plenty of 'em might be jackasses, but at least they're not the Legion (ie, they can be freaking redeemed), and as I've said before, I'll always have a huge soft spot for my brothers in power armour.