Here is a "real" recap from gamescom! : Fallout 4

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:18 am

Sorry NV didn't have any. I don't count the caps quest as real random encounter because it has a definitive start.

» Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:54 pm

*revs up chainsaw*
“See that mountain, Raider? You can climb it.”

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 12:03 pm

New Vegas didn't really have random encounters the same way Fallout 3 did; any sort of thing we'd come across in the wasteland generally only happens in that specific spot (the caravan being attacked by Legion south of Novac, or the scene south of Nipton with the woman robbing that guy for Star bottlecaps); the only things I can think of that can happen in multiple different locations are the faction death squads (ugh) and Malcolm Holmes.

Now, Skyrim and Fallout 3 did have patrols between opposing factions that would occasionally cross paths and duke it out, but the modding community took that to 11. Bethesda might have upped their ante, too, or maybe they kept it as a rare treat.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 9:47 am

Random Encounters in New Vegas, that's news to me. New Vegas didn't have any random encounters which is probably good considering how different New Vegas is from Fallout 3. Encountering a Deathclaw at low level is 99% of the time a death sentence unless you cheese it (I had that happen a couple of weeks ago outside of Hidden Valley :tongue: ). Fallout 3 is slightly different, still tough but not automatically a death sentence.

I for one like Random Encounters but I also think they were overused in Skyrim, seeing the same farmer walk by and say "I'm off To Join The Stormcloaks, Ulfric has The Right Of It" 50 times, Get's old very fast.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 9:04 am

Yeah, I'd rather they be silent until spoken to rather than hear the same lines over and over and over again.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 9:36 am

Too bad all the horses are extinct! XD

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 5:44 am

...curved....ripper...

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 4:20 am

"Have you seen those raiders from Long Island? They have curved rippers. Curved...rippers..."

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:36 am

My favorite Skyrim guard comment =)

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:11 pm

You know some of those will make it into Fallout 4. It's just too good to pass up.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:14 pm

Daggerfall had : HALT! HALT! HALT!

Morrowind had: We're watching you...... scum!

Oblivion had: STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!

New Vegas had: PATROLLING THE MOJAVE!

Skyrim had: Arrow in the Knee, and Curved sword

What did Fallout 3 have as a meme phrase?

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 4:57 am

Good question. I can't really think of any one particular...Other than those drug crazed Raiders screaming "It's time to die!"

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 10:22 am

Nothing in particular that I can think of, although Butch DID try to take my sweetroll.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 6:29 am

Hmm.. I don't think there was a memorable meme from Fallout 3. Moira said some silly stuff but I don't think anything ever really caught on meme-wise.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 5:46 am

Wait, what about TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:38 am

Ah, yeah.. I have seen that around, but I don't think it was a half as popular as the others.

Edit: Although, I could be wrong - lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPlV8V13X3Q

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 2:14 pm

Heh, Tunnel Snakes.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 2:13 pm

Elder Scrolls games are the ones with memey guards. Funny that New Vegas fits into that too.

I'm betting the meme for Fallout 4 will be something our character says. They talk to themselves when they crack a lock, or hack a terminal apparently; I hope it doesn't, but that has a lot of potential to get silly and repetitive.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 5:20 am

Sugar BAWMS!

» Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:44 pm

its time for my pound of flesh!? Or strip the flesh salt the wounds!?.......oh wait

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:34 am

Okay, people are making fun of that, but hey. Our character just woke up on a Saturday morning and he hasn't had his coffee yet. He's going to sound a little drowsy.

(once again, Bethesda is ruining the RPG aspect by forcing traits onto our character! What if I wanted to play as a morning person, huh?)

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 4:36 am

A morning person? Is that some kind of super mutant?

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:18 am

Regarding Fallout 3 memes. You can't be serious:

"Gaaaary!" "Ah, Gary!" "GARY!!!"

"Tunnel Snakes rule!!"

"THE BIG FAT WORM!!"

There were at least three that I know of.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 6:46 am

Once again, Role Playing means "play a role". It does NOT mean "choose to play whatever you like" regardless of Bethesda's continued false marketing ploy. RPGs have never been about "choose to play whatever you like" because that would be impossible to develop (i.e., pretty much an infinite variety of preferences for characters so no company can possibly offer such a game). You are given a character to play and you role play the character. That's it.

Take FO4 as an example. Personally, I will be playing an adolescent young girl and will obviously ignore the content that does not fit that role. However, that is only after I play the game by role playing the character given to us. After that, I will role play the game and do what I can manage to do (certainly not whatever I want which is just false marketing, as I said).

Asking to be able to play any type of character in an RPG defeats the purpose of a company offering an RPG. It would be like auditioning for a play and making up the role rather than being told to act the role.

» Sat Nov 28, 2015 11:41 am

OUCH someone call the burn ward...

Half the RPG lovers on this forum just got schooled.

:twirl: