Aliens wont change the game. They already have not changed the game.



Which it wont if the aliens are given a minor role. They dont have to be the entire game, but a minor role wont hurt anything.

This. So much, this.

FEV is In the Fallout Universe made by man on earth in a lab to make super humans but it failed and we got supermutant freaks. Aliens had nothing to do with it. FEV made super mutants it used to make ghouls as well till that was changed as well. FEV is a big part of fallout. Aliens will take us down the road till one day we are playing a fallout knock off off Mass effect.
Who is to say that it will not go that far, It can happen it might happen and that will svck.

I said "no", because I'd rather not. But if it were an easter egg, and not the ridiculous Mothership Zeta. Area 51 would be cool, but it should contain some high-tech armour/weaponry, not just aliens.

Yes I agree with that, as long as they stay minor I'm fine with it.

Fallout wasnt about realism. That should have been quite obvious. Fallout was retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic game. Future as 50's saw it , nuked.
FEV was mankinds own mistakes coming to haunt us. It fits in post-apocalyptic fiction, and it was well explained. I can suspend my disbelief.
Its all about cohesion of storytelling.

i think there will be because you got area 51 and if they extend it down into new mexico Roswel

wow...

So when are they making that Godzilla DLC?

People in the 50s believed in and feared both mutants and aliens. They are equal in storytelling worth in this or any other mid-20th century based universe.

Plus how many times do you want them to keep spinning out the same old story? Until it gets boring?

But theres the problem. 50's doesnt equal Fallout. Its Post-Apoc and Retro-futuristic. Cramming aliens into a series that doesnt need them inorder to make it more intresting is outright moronic.
Bethesda decided that they wanted to pretty much just not even bother, and reused factions etc from previous games, and didnt really do anything with the setting.
Instead they could have focused on the re-emerging civilization and early city states, and different factions seeking to control trade routes, resources and territory or even slaves.
You dont need to include aliens. Just use good writing. Fallout 2 was already heading more into the re-emerging civilization territory.

Luckily, instead of any of those things, Bethesda decided to make a good game.

Just in your previous post you were saying that they need to change things or otherwise it will get dull, but changing things is bad now ?
So adding aliens, that really dont have jack to do with Fallout , is good, but building on the established setting is bad.

No aliens.

I accept mz as canon, it's now part of the universe get used to it people stop being stuck in the past. As for aliens being in nv, why the hell not area 51 is known for it for gods sake, I fully expect the devs to acknoledge this fact. I just don't want to see tonnes of them or them cropping up as a main protaganist

I am almost excited to see if there will be one lol.



Indeed.



Way to overgeneralize. Aliens obviously have alot to do with Fallout know. And, it would be building on the already established setting.



If there are aliens, more then likely it will be just dead bodies. I would like to see a base of them, or a few roaming patrols. Not much, but certainly more then just a few dead bodies.

yeah it could be a random encounter, the player might bump into a 3 man(alien) survey or recon team out in the desert giving you a chance to get your mits on some alien guns and tech

What is so exciting about aliens that they have to be stuck everywhere? Even if they don't really belong. They're boring fillercontent in a setting that tries to depict human survival of it's own mistakes (and obviously not learning from them) with which they have nothing to do with unless forcefully crammed in.

Now, I don't mind if end up finding Area 51 having couple of extraterrestials in formaldehyde with a computer or scetches giving some prewar info about a mysterious "weatherballoongcrash-winkwink-nudgenudge", but anything much bigger than that (lke martian patrols to shoot at) would just feel stupid and out of place.

I'm with the Mothership Zeta is canon people. Now I didn't think MZ was a very good DLC, but that is not because it was about aliens. I simply didn't like the corridor shooter based gameplay, and the way aliens were just shoved into the setting without any real thought put into why.

Aliens have always been a possibility in the Fallout universe, and I see no problem with them being present in a Fallout game as long as they aren't as sloppily implemented as they were in MZ. A side quest where you get to work with an alien visitor would be interesting; especially if there were some twists depending on your decisions. I don't think aliens should play a major role in New Vegas, or any Fallout game for that matter however. Aliens shouldn't be a core element of the series, but there's a lot of potential for interesting interactions between aliens and post apocalyptic humanity. That's my two cents anyway.

here here, those two cents were good

I too am in the group that aliens are cannon. More important for me however is that it goes with the 50's pulp fiction theme. Sci-fi of the 50's was filled with movies about creatures or people from outer space.

Examples:
Forbidden Planet
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
The War of the Worlds
The Thing from Another World
It Came from Outer Space

That is just a short list, there were many, many more. And with that in mind to me, it just makes sense to have a bit of alien stuff in the Fallout world. If someone wants to call it and "easter egg" in the first two then I will claim Mothership Zeta too is just one huge easter egg and call for such in future games. Maybe better done but still...I believe aliens fit well into the Fallout world. I rarely say this because so many are dead set against it and I don't want to squabble over it but...my two cents this time around. :bolt:

well with our three two cents we have six cents, this is good case for aliens being in

Aliens can be in the game if they are just easter eggs any more mothership zeta size DLC or quests will svck. Aliens should remain in the back ground. A alien body here an alien blaster there. I would like to see any alien in future games dead. If they keep having aliens on the scale of zeta then the game will become something different all together "mass effects" but with super mutants and ghouls. I say Zeta is nothing but a big Easter egg. I know alot of people don't give a crap what I think but hey that's my "two cents" eh.

I'm with the canon people too, but it's up to Obsidian to decide whether there will be aliens and how many there will be, dead or alive.

I'll add a cent in the pot, if - if presented at all (preferably not) - there are maximum of two aliens in the whole game, neither being hostile (unless the player makes them so) or crammed wiht kewl tech and both appearing in less obvious circumstances (not studying humanity, nor invading the world, nor being tourists from where ever). And once you complete the questline they have, they'll leave never appearing again and what benefits it adds if at all, would be up to the player - how s/he handles the situation with them.With the benefits being more eathly, but not obtainable otherwise.

Actually the first time aliens were found in a Fallout game was in the first one, there was a random encounter in Fallout 1 with a space ship, http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_Ship