Some of these failure Speech checks can actually be pretty funny, or ridiculously stupid. That's why I'd like to hear some of your favorites in this thread.

I think my two personal favorites have to be...

There's a point in the Dead Money DLC where Christine tries to explain to you through her hand motions that your collar and her collar are at just the right frequency so that they'll jam incoming signals for a while. If you lack INT or perception but try to make the check anyways, you're character will say, as if he were practicing his best Homer Simpson impersonation: "Aaaah, I understand. The collars are explosive."

Another one is you can offer to give the Legion advice on how to deal with landmines. If you lack enough experience with explosives, it leaves your character saying "The key is to approach the landmine, veerrrry carefully." The response you get is something along the lines of "Oh really genius? Why don't you go test that theory out for us?"

Lol there are some funny ones out there but i cant think of one to save my life.

Same here. I'll have to do a speech run on both F3 and F:NV and look for funny failures.

Saying that NCR needs primm for slaves :biggrin:

There are also plenty of hilarious random npc comments that are entirely inappropriate for the context in which they're being said... for example, one of my favs is a random hopeless junkie sitting on a couch in the derelict's flophouse in Aerotech Park... when I walked up and clicked on him to talk, he said "I really have more important things to do, sorry." Mhmmm... riiiiiight.....

This alone makes me wanna design a character with as crappy stats as possible, just so I can see all these.

during the quest "young hearts: where you can get pearl to allow janet into Nellis to see Jack. When you talk to Janet about going to nellis, instead of giving her the outfit to pass, you can try to get her killed trying to go there. But if you dont have a hogh enough speech to convince her to kill herself, your char will say something along the lines of " just run in as fast as you can & flail your arms." its funny in a sick & twisted kind of way. XD

Yeah I saw that one yesterday during a playthrough. Thanks, I'd forgotten.

For some reason, imagining a moron going 'ROBOT! LET ME PASS!' at the Strip gate is one of the most hilarious. :laugh:

Yes, this one is one of my favorites. What makes it even better is the way the Securitron actually sounds annoyed when it responds.

"Boy, I...sure would like some drugs. Do you know where I could buy some drugs?"

"But where do you get protein from? Oh my god, you're all cannibals! "

COURIER: Raise your price or... or, uh... you're "chip outta luck."
HOUSE: ...Was that an attempt at humor?!

JACK: What do you mean helpful? My stuff makes people feel groodalicious.
COURIER: If by groodalicious you mean dead! Think of the children, man, the children!
JACK: ...Dude, I don't know what you're on, but I want some of it.

Please submit to a credit check or present a pass :glare:

Tbh though almost all of the failed speech checks are hilarious, too bad I cant remember any of them right now :unsure:

Tbh though almost all of the failed speech check are hilarious, too bad i cant remeber any of them right now :unsure:

Same here.

Where's the first one from? :laugh:

Fail the Science check from the Securitron Gatekeeper in Freeside,
"Robot! Let me past!"

You get that one by speaking to Kieth in the Aerotech Office Park. Agree to find out if he's selling illegal drugs and scamming others for Captain Parker (also in the Office park), and it'll come up.

buying slaves at cootonwood cove. can't recall exactly but you mention the girl has "[censored] dentata" and he says no i inspected them myself.

The one when talking to Veronica and she asks you about the Brotherhood and you can say "I hear they shoot lasers from their mouths"

"FIXER IS FOR PANSIES!"

I thought the one with jack was "I don't know what you been smokin' buuuuttttt......where can I get some?"

All the failed speech checks are hilarious. Like in the start of Good Springs trying to convince Trudy to help out. If your sneak is low enough she is like - Think I will pass. Good luck with that ambush. LOL, I am tempted to make a character that will fail every speech check just to hear them all! I wonder - can you beat the game with failing every speech check?

I think so. You'll just have to kill a lot more people who won't cooperate with you. Stock up on bullets.

Where's this one? High times?

Best ones are with a character who has an intelligence of 1.
- repconn headquarters top level asked for a password and your character can yell ICE CREAM!! And get it right.
- asking doctor usanagi if she sells plants. She then explains that she sells implants and offers an intelligence implant on a discount.

Low intelligence also pays off during the Helios One quest.

"I IS SCIENTIST!"