More Horror elements in F:NV? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:55 am

One of the main reasons I liked F3 was because I found it exceptionally creepy. I always thought of it more as a survival horror game then an RPG adventure game (or whatever you'd call it).

The parts I liked the most were the areas where the survival horror element was intentionally played up, like in the Dunwich building with it's subtle scripted events and most of Point Lookout.

Unfortunately, places like this were few and far between in F3. New Vegas looks awesome, but I haven't seen anything yet that looks particularly scary yet (I mean like the examples I pointed out)

So is anybody else hoping there are more Dunwich-type places in New Vegas?

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:01 am

Great avatar :thumbsup:

I'm really hoping there are gonna be somekind of underground tunnels, kinda like the metro system... I always found it spooky to creep around in those places.
Vegas does use a number of flood-tunnels to control flash-flooding, and I recently read an article about the homeless community in Vegas, and how a whole sub-culture of indigant people live in the tunnels nearly year round. Something like that in game would please me greatly.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 12:30 am

why not...
I also vote for darker areas that are pitch black, you can barely see, and causes your perception to be lowered by 3
It would make the night vision goggles more useful P=

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:31 pm

I am but I don't want it to have anything with insects :goodjob: The Dumwich building was a nice place for me to have visited.The building area was pretty boring as I've already seen it more than once but the audio tapes and strange hallucinations that occurred in one part were nice touches.

» Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:54 pm

One of the main reasons I liked F3 was because I found it exceptionally creepy. I always thought of it more as a survival horror game then an RPG adventure game (or whatever you'd call it).

The parts I liked the most were the areas where the survival horror element was intentionally played up, like in the Dunwich building with it's subtle scripted events and most of Point Lookout.

Unfortunately, places like this were few and far between in F3. New Vegas looks awesome, but I haven't seen anything yet that looks particularly scary yet (I mean like the examples I pointed out)

So is anybody else hoping there are more Dunwich-type places in New Vegas?

I totally am, for me even when I first started playing F3, I thought the metro tunnels were pretty creepy, the way they made the ghouls act, but I hope they come up with something new to add a different element of of scariness..

The other thing I hope they add is the handcrafted locations and all of the dev placed little easter eggs all across the wast.. One of my favorite things in F3 was finding the corpses and skeletons in various states, it really went a long way to paint a picture of how desperate things were for some folks when they died, and I was really intrigued by all of that, I hope it returns..

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:09 am

I'm gona hope there will be some sort of abandoned mine,
maybe include the whole Cannibal theme without making it stupid? (Yes 'The hills have eyes' i am talking about you...)

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:42 am

Great avatar :thumbsup:

I'm really hoping there are gonna be somekind of underground tunnels, kinda like the metro system... I always found it spooky to creep around in those places.
Vegas does use a number of flood-tunnels to control flash-flooding, and I recently read an article about the homeless community in Vegas, and how a whole sub-culture of indigant people live in the tunnels nearly year round. Something like that in game would please me greatly.

NO NO, NO MORE METROS

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:02 am

Hopefully not. I was glad enough to stumble upon the ghoul mask in FO3.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 12:03 pm

I believe the nightkins will be pretty scary. Popping up out of nowhere.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:26 am

NO NO, NO MORE METROS

I had enough of them being everywhere in the D.C. area of FO3.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:45 am

Don't really care for creepy elements.
Not saying it's not fallout but it's not something I'm holding my breath for in a fallout game.
Think other things are more important.

But they said there's going to be lots of caves and stuff so I expect there to be some creepy moments.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 12:25 pm

NO NO, NO MORE METROS

Why not?

I've made characters in FO3 whose sole use was to explore the metro lines... Those make for some great sessions, deep inside a metro tunnel, stimpaks running out, carrying weight maxed, weapons all wearing out... and you still have to work your way back up to the surface.... I thought the metros were one of the places in FO3 where survival actually came into consideration.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:58 am

I'm gona hope there will be some sort of abandoned mine,
maybe include the whole Cannibal theme without making it stupid? (Yes 'The hills have eyes' i am talking about you...)

an abandoned mine has already been spotted in the various gameplay video's.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:32 am

Why not?

I've made characters in FO3 whose sole use was to explore the metro lines... Those make for some great sessions, deep inside a metro tunnel, stimpaks running out, carrying weight maxed, weapons all wearing out... and you still have to work your way back up to the surface.... I thought the metros were one of the places in FO3 where survival actually came into consideration.

But they also became rather repetitive.
"Oh, a metro, I guess there's going to be raiders or feral ghouls there*
*Goes down*
"Yup, I knew it"
[Clairvoyance achievement unlocked]

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:54 am

Why not?

I've made characters in FO3 whose sole use was to explore the metro lines... Those make for some great sessions, deep inside a metro tunnel, stimpaks running out, carrying weight maxed, weapons all wearing out... and you still have to work your way back up to the surface.... I thought the metros were one of the places in FO3 where survival actually came into consideration.

They are dark, they look the same, it was cramped, and you had to go through about 4 to get anywhere in D.C

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:54 am

I was hoping for tommyknockers in abandonded mines.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:21 am

Here's to hoping that Vegas doesn't have some sort of Metro system. :tops:

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:27 pm

Yes, I hope metros remain unique to Fallout 3.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 12:58 am

Maybe not metro systems, but definitely some sort of underground maze with creepy enemies that give you a shock. Just don't have the maze leading anywhere important.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:20 am

If there is a town that thinks that ghouls are zombies then they definitely need this: http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/fail-owned-prep-win.jpg?w=390&h=500
Too... Awesome...

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:01 pm

Hopefully not. I was glad enough to stumble upon the ghoul mask in FO3.

god yes, amen. I HATE the dunwich building. It's too damn creepy. I also hate the metro tunnels. Actually, I just hate ghouls in general. Something about them (ok, everything about them) just creeps me the hell out. The heartbeat-like sound of them running, their gutteral screams, their empty eyes and .. their speed. Man, they are just creepy. Now, before I even enter a tunnel or place where there might be ghouls, first thing i do is put mask on, second thing I do is switch my sterio to play music. No game sounds makes ghouls 60% less creepy.

I hate the creepy factor of Fallout 3. Deathclaws scared me at first too, untill I realized how awesome the dart gun is

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:38 pm

Actually, I just hate ghouls in general. Something about them (ok, everything about them) just creeps me the hell out.

Even civilized ghouls like Gob, Charon, Desmond, Tulip, Greta, Mr Crowley, Patchwork etc?

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:12 am

If there is a town that thinks that ghouls are zombies then they definitely need this: http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/fail-owned-prep-win.jpg?w=390&h=500
Too... Awesome...

That should come standard in any building you enter. :tops:

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:56 am

Even civilized ghouls like Gob, Charon, Desmond, Tulip, Greta, Mr Crowley, Patchwork etc?

Especially the 'civilized' ones... Never trust a zombie to not go for your brain as soon as you let your guard down.

» Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:31 am

Especially the 'civilized' ones... Never trust a zombie to not go for your brain as soon as you let your guard down.

and the state is trying to make us love ghouls even more by putting them in movies, damn ghoul-lovers all of them