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Verb and Tru told me to make this my own thread, so now that I got free time I can continue from last night.

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Yeah, your only reason was "it's an unneccesary change". I actually gave reasons why it made Fallout 2 and the character of Myron retroactively better.
I disagree with those reasons though. I think it's better that a guy makes a drug in a world where there is a bunch of crap going on, to capitalize on their troubles. It makes him dirt.

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Yep, after making a huge walk from Lost Hills to The Pitt to DC, seeing countless horrors along the way and dying wastelanders who he had to ignore out of some old book, it's completely unreasonable for Elder Lyons to try to be more compassionate and helpful to the residents of the East Coast when he eventually settled there. It's completely unreasonable for the diehard BoS members to hate him for that, and break off to remain true to the actual BoS. Totally doesn't have any story value or interesting concept behind it. It would be TOTALLY better for Lyons to be another faceless, generic BoS operative who's diehard to the Codex and doesn't change a thing about their organization, and for that facelessness to carry into the F4 BoS.

The horrors of dynamic storytelling, where experiences change people, and they have to deal with the repercussions of that change.
My argument is that they don't capitalize on that story at all. They talk about it a bit in The Pitt DLC I believe, and that's it. My issue too is that they don't like Ghouls, yet they do nothing to show it. My issue is that they have this faction that split off and they have an uneasy cold/civil war, yet nothing goes on about it.

They completely shove down your throat that the DC BoS are the good guys, and you have to be with them whether you like it or not. There is nothing dynamic about the, and goes entirely against what the BoS should be. Even if they SHOULD be good guys, they should expose some of the flaws they have, rather than just give one line to them and that be that.

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Uh, yeah. If you find something in a container, it's there.
I have to disagree with this if it's randomized. Unless it's specifically there for a story purpose, or actually placed there purposely without the random loot being into play, then yes I would agree.

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Except the BoS in F4 was a blend of their original goals and Lyons' influence, as seen by the fact that they recruit wastelanders and have a tolerance for sane ghouls. EC BoS has never returned to the exclusion and bigotry that the WC BoS had.
Actually not every chapter of the BoS on the West Coast was isolated like that, considering you can join them in Fallout 1 (and Tactics).

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Become_an_initiate

In Fallout 2 you can't join them, so they're more like the Mojave Chapter, but not all of them are like that.


My main gripe with all of this, like one of you said in the other thread, is how they portray them in Fallout 3. As in, the writing was so bad they fail to take advantage of any of it. I guess I'm walking back when I say that, but other posts made me more or less realize some of the things they did lore wise with them weren't bad. Just how they executed it. I like the concept of the split in FO3, don't get me wrong. I like that one Elder has a sense of humanity, and other hard liners don't so they split. And like it was said (and something I never considered), it'd have been MUCH better if the Outcast replaced the Enclave in Fallout 3. I feel like there was so much potential for that civil war, and a mixture of humanity and some lingering hard liners, but it was squandered by somehow shoehorning the Enclave there instead, and forcing you to go with the BoS (if you want to complete the story properly at least).

I give them credit for fixing them in Fallout 4 though. In fact I'd argue THAT Brotherhood is even more batshit scary than the ones on the West Coast. They turned into Crusaders more than anything, where as the original BoS was more so just Army Guys who were weary and horde happy.
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It wouldn't make sense for the Mordinos to spend so much money on slaves for testing Jet, or go to the trouble of testing on slaves in the first place if Jet already existed.


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So... I guess I'm going to have to pick up after your horrendous mistakes on here too?
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It wouldn't make sense for the Mordinos to spend so much money on slaves for testing Jet, or go to the trouble of testing on slaves in the first place if Jet already existed.
Geez I completely forgot about that. See the little details miss me sometimes (hence my walk back a bit in the OP).


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Something else I hate about Bethesda's Fallout (more of a problem in Fallout 4) is how they've given pre-war robots (Mr Handies in particular) completely human-like AI personalities. It's like Bethesda forgot that one of the main differences between this universe and ours is that the transistor wasn't invented until a few years before the war, and even then it was rarely used, so having such advanced personalities in these robots shouldn't be a thing. Especially when you have the ZAX computers which were built to have artificial intelligence and had to be absolutely huge to accomplish the task.

EDIT: Before anyone brings up Lonesome Road's ED-E, ED-E was a post-war prototype unlike the other eyebots. And Robobrains and the Think Tank use...brains.
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At least they're not trying to do mothership zeta again.

Thank fuck for that.


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At least they're not trying to do mothership zeta again.

Thank fuck for that.
>yfw they decide to put more of the supernatural shit into fallout
>yfw they dont realise how effective it was to keep aliens and magic and shit on the periphery of things, suggested but never made true, only in easter eggs and side shit.


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I think it's better that a guy makes a drug in a world where there is a bunch of crap going on, to capitalize on their troubles. It makes him dirt.
Yeah, that's somewhat scummy, but it's still his own original creation; he can do what he wants with it. It makes it infinitely better that it was never even his to begin with, and he's profiting off of something that he knows he didn't even create. Makes his hubris around it that much more interesting, as well.

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Yep, after making a huge walk from Lost Hills to The Pitt to DC, seeing countless horrors along the way and dying wastelanders who he had to ignore out of some old book, it's completely unreasonable for Elder Lyons to try to be more compassionate and helpful to the residents of the East Coast when he eventually settled there. It's completely unreasonable for the diehard BoS members to hate him for that, and break off to remain true to the actual BoS. Totally doesn't have any story value or interesting concept behind it. It would be TOTALLY better for Lyons to be another faceless, generic BoS operative who's diehard to the Codex and doesn't change a thing about their organization, and for that facelessness to carry into the F4 BoS.

The horrors of dynamic storytelling, where experiences change people, and they have to deal with the repercussions of that change.
My argument is that they don't capitalize on that story at all. They talk about it a bit in The Pitt DLC I believe, and that's it. My issue too is that they don't like Ghouls, yet they do nothing to show it. My issue is that they have this faction that split off and they have an uneasy cold/civil war, yet nothing goes on about it.

They completely shove down your throat that the DC BoS are the good guys, and you have to be with them whether you like it or not. There is nothing dynamic about the, and goes entirely against what the BoS should be. Even if they SHOULD be good guys, they should expose some of the flaws they have, rather than just give one line to them and that be that.
Well, I obviously agree there. Fallout 3 is a terrible game. Earlier you were going on about how the move itself to make the EC BoS "so wildly different" was bad in and of itself. That's where I took issue, because lore-wise, the idea that Lyons would try to change things is completely in line with his character, and is far from an unnecessary change. If they changed nothing, and the EC BoS was a clone of the main branch, then a shitty story would just be even shittier.

Not to mention that the game does point out on several occasions how terrible it is that Lyons is doing this, and how the BoS is stretched far too thin to deal with Super Mutants, lock down an area, and help wastelanders all at the same time. Should it have been expanded upon more? Of course. But the move and idea itself was perfectly fine.

I have to disagree with this if it's randomized. Unless it's specifically there for a story purpose, or actually placed there purposely without the random loot being into play, then yes I would agree.
Whether or not its randomized has no bearing at all. You can say "says you?", but you have the same exact proof to back up your theory that I do.

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Except the BoS in F4 was a blend of their original goals and Lyons' influence, as seen by the fact that they recruit wastelanders and have a tolerance for sane ghouls. EC BoS has never returned to the exclusion and bigotry that the WC BoS had.
Actually not every chapter of the BoS on the West Coast was isolated like that, considering you can join them in Fallout 1 (and Tactics).

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Become_an_initiate
Yeah, you can join the BoS. Not any wastelander can join, and any wastelander who tries to join is sent on the literal suicide mission to go to Dayglow. The BoS knows and expects no one to return from there, the "initiation mission" is a joke to them. When you actually return, they're fucking baffled, and are kind of obligated to let you join. That's a far cry from F4, when they actually try to actively recruit wastelanders, and it's an easy task to join, if you have the skill.


My main gripe with all of this, like one of you said in the other thread, is how they portray them in Fallout 3. As in, the writing was so bad they fail to take advantage of any of it. I guess I'm walking back when I say that, but other posts made me more or less realize some of the things they did lore wise with them weren't bad. Just how they executed it. I like the concept of the split in FO3, don't get me wrong. I like that one Elder has a sense of humanity, and other hard liners don't so they split. And like it was said (and something I never considered), it'd have been MUCH better if the Outcast replaced the Enclave in Fallout 3. I feel like there was so much potential for that civil war, and a mixture of humanity and some lingering hard liners, but it was squandered by somehow shoehorning the Enclave there instead, and forcing you to go with the BoS (if you want to complete the story properly at least).
I agree with all of this.

It wouldn't make sense for the Mordinos to spend so much money on slaves for testing Jet, or go to the trouble of testing on slaves in the first place if Jet already existed.
Because it was forgotten about on the west coast. Myron reverse engineered it, lied and said he created it, which is why the Mordinos gave him shelter and did everything they did. In the mind of the Mordinos, Myron did create it.

It was far from unnecessary to make jet pre-war, considering a creation of a single drug manufacturer could never have spread all the way to the other side of the country in 35 years.

Something else I hate about Bethesda's Fallout (more of a problem in Fallout 4) is how they've given pre-war robots (Mr Handies in particular) completely human-like AI personalities. It's like Bethesda forgot that one of the main differences between this universe and ours is that the transistor wasn't invented until a few years before the war, and even then it was rarely used, so having such advanced personalities in these robots shouldn't be a thing. Especially when you have the ZAX computers which were built to have artificial intelligence and had to be absolutely huge to accomplish the task.
For real, it totally dilutes the whole idea of synths when AI is apparently abundant now in the Fallout world. Even worse that robots can be "transplanted" into synth bodies. Ugh.
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this sucked

i expected at least three pages of popcorn-tier squabbling


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this sucked

i expected at least three pages of popcorn-tier squabbling
It's been rather civilised so far.

tbh it's pretty refreshing because i've seen/had this argument so many times and it never reaches a conclusion


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Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is the best Fallout game though.


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Might try and get back into FO1 when I get a desktop

I'm sure that trying to play it on my god awful laptop affected my enjoyment the first time around. I would try fallout 2 but the graphics glitch out on me whenever I try launch it.


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So it turns out that two of the Bethesda writers left the studio after Morrowind and Oblivion, respectively, leaving only Emil as lead writer.

Explains a lot actually.


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this sucked

i expected at least three pages of popcorn-tier squabbling
It's been rather civilised so far.

tbh it's pretty refreshing because i've seen/had this argument so many times and it never reaches a conclusion
Yeah we pretty much did our arguing in the E3 thread and I'm kinda too lazy to carry it on because we really more or less came to an agreement that the concept of the BoS in Fallout 3 was good. But the execution was bad.


 
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Chris Avellone is working on Prey so there is still hope he could come over to Fallout when he's done.
I hope so


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Fallout sucks and so does elder scrolls
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