Less scary than Fallout 3? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:12 am

This is pretty much my only complaint. Fallout 3 wasn't really a scary game, but it had its moments of creepiness, such as

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Vault 106, the Dunwich Building and bits of Point Lookout.

Contrast that to New Vegas, where I've never been scared once, not even slightly. Furthermore, the whole game seems to lack a vague feeling of menace and desolate desperation that 3 had, although that's probably partly due to me being so used to it, and partly because of the new, brighter setting. Anyway, what are your thoughts?

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:09 pm

Vault 34 is kinda creepy.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:27 pm

New Vegas has creepy places such as Vault 34, Nuclear test site and camp search light. Walking around at night and running into Glowing ghouls, running into deathclaws, all creepy.

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:15 am

Solution: Download Dead Money, creepy as hell.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:21 pm

Fallout is meant to be scary? O_o
Eerie maybe, but not scary.
It's one of those Bethesda things.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:52 pm

In Fallout 3, especially with a darker nights mod, just roaming the wasteland was scary, you never knew when a Yao Guai or a Deathclaw rips you a new one. In New Vegas there are no surprises, same enemies in same place every time :yawn:

As for the mentioned locations, i never found those too scary either, but there really are no equivalents in New Vegas. Closest thing would be Vault 22, and once figure out the trick behind it, :flamethrower: takes care of them.

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:59 am

Actually I think its more scarier in Fallout New Vegas because of Damage Threshold. In fallout 3 you could kill a Yao Guai that comes your way but with DT in New Vegas its not as easy to kill something powerful like a Deathclaw. You can still paper cut the Deathclaw to Death (Pun Intended) but if he gets to you unless you have a high powered gun or a well timed Stealth Boy your done.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:51 am

Vault 34 was really the only place I was creeped out, as the hissing ghouls and close quarters really reminded me of the Metros from FO3, which were quite creepy. There also wasn't creepy use of hallucinations like Fallout 3 made use of.

I do agree that overall NV lacks the same kind of desolate, stark atmosphere, but that's because it wasn't designed to have it. The Mojave Wasteland is in much better shape than the Capital Wasteland.

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:56 am

Fallout isn't a horror game.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:23 pm

You want creepiness and eiriness, Vault 11. One of the best locations in the game in terms of ideas, as an actually physical location it's pretty lackluster though, why the [censored] do Vault's have male and female dorms? Having the males and females seperate in dorms should be a social experiment all on it's own, maybe about inducing homosixuality or something I don't know but it shouldn't be just there, when families move in and get told to split up why would they do it?

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:41 pm

Fallout isn't a horror game.

This.. It was a nice touch by the Devs to have some of the feral ghouls talk. NCR feral ghouls sometimes have knives.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:38 am

I agree Fallout 3 had moments where I was terrified out of my mind, no so much in New Vegas :/

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:03 pm

Sometimes when one of my companions kills an off-screen energy and the horrible thing pops up I jump a bit.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:04 pm

When I first went to Nipton, I thought to myself "Toto, I don't think that we're in Fallout 3 anymore." That town creeped me out more than anything in FO3.

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:12 am

Meh. I don't require 'scary' from Fallout games. :shrug:

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:32 am

I hoped to see more mysteries in New Vegas, but it lacks the dark atmosphere of FO3. All it's so bright, so shiny...I hope Dead Money it's similar to Point Lookout: damn, that was scary and funny!

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:37 pm

You want creepiness and eiriness, Vault 11. One of the best locations in the game in terms of ideas, as an actually physical location it's pretty lackluster though, why the [censored] do Vault's have male and female dorms? Having the males and females seperate in dorms should be a social experiment all on it's own, maybe about inducing homosixuality or something I don't know but it shouldn't be just there, when families move in and get told to split up why would they do it?

Well, IIRC, all vaults basically planned out pregnancies in order to prevent overpopulation. This is one of the founding reasons of Vault 34's rebellion and it's subsequent failure.

Edit: I shouldn't say ALL Vaults, but a large majority.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:13 pm

Solution: Download Dead Money, creepy as hell.

Yep, I hate when you first arive and you se that scripted ghost person walking, then they are just gone.
And the music there gets me, its like, I can hear machinery or something, but cant see, I just imagine an army of ghost people somewhere, kinda like the steelworks in the pitt, just larger scale.
Still not scared, go to silverpeak mine, nothing stikes fear into a persons heart like cazadors.Then you have the huge legendary one.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:50 pm

Solution: Download Dead Money, creepy as hell.

I agree, when I first played it, It was midnight and it scared the bejebus out of me seeing a Ghost Person so I was hesitant to advance.

I was'nt scared by a video game like that since Alan Wake, that game is [censored] bat[censored] insane.

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:15 am

Solution: Download Dead Money, creepy as hell.

As soon as i can download an XBox

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:19 am

Forget Fallout.

If you guys want something scary... and I mean REALLY scary. Then try out Amnesia: The Dark Descent

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:50 am

neither F3 or FNV are scary.

Shadowman, silent hill... they are scary.

But there are certainly claustrophobic, atmospheric places in both Fallouts.

F3 had the metros...

FNV has the sewers beneath vegas.

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:16 pm

You all are wrong, Alan Wake is the most scary game ever made.

» Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:27 am

You all are wrong, Alan Wake is the most scary game ever made.

Pikmin is scary as [censored]. O_o

» Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:11 pm

You all are wrong, Alan Wake is the most scary game ever made.

Alan Wake? Hah, ever tried Amnesia: The Dark Descent? Hailed as the scariest game of 2010 and this generation of gaming.