Is any one else seeing the hommage to wastelands? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:59 am

Is it just me or is Fallout: New Vegas showing obvious signs of wanting to be wastelands!

Well.. The golf corse needs mines and the toasters need things jammed into them for that to happen!

Seriously though I keep noticeing things. Next I'll find a jeep That I can fix by finding a few spair parts to fix it that will quick travel me to quartz or somthing. lol.

Also.. Mr house.. HMMMmmmmm

So far I havn't found any of the colored keycards though :/

» Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:09 am

Is it just me or is Fallout: New Vegas showing obvious signs of wanting to be wastelands!

Well.. The golf corse needs mines and the toasters need things jammed into them for that to happen!

Seriously though I keep noticeing things. Next I'll find a jeep That I can fix by finding a few spair parts to fix it that will quick travel me to quartz or somthing. lol.

Also.. Mr house.. HMMMmmmmm

So far I havn't found any of the colored keycards though :/

Wait, do you mean Wasteland? I don't think there's an "s" at the end.

But yeah, I think I might have noticed a few nods to it. It's one of my favorite games evar.

My forum avatar is Faran Brygo from Wasteland (who was one of the bosses in Las Vegas), but right now he's wearing his Todd Howard mask for Halloween.

Here's one, did anybody catch this Army of Darkness reference?

Spoiler

When talking to Beatrix Russell in Freeside one of her pieces of advice is, "Good...bad...the guy with the gun calls the shots." This is a reference to Army of Darkness when Ash is confronted with his evil clone, who points out that he's "bad Ash" and Ash is "good Ash." Ash's response is to blow Bad Ash's head off with a shotgun. He then says, "Good...bad...I'm the guy with the gun."

» Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:52 am

Brian Fargo worked on Wasteland and he went on to work on Fallout 1 and 2 (I guess).

I don't know if he did anything with New Vegas or FO3, but the similarities between Fallout and Wasteland were already in the game world by the time FO3 came out. I think Fallout was supposed to be the spiritual successor to Wasteland anyway. It got called something different because they couldn't get the rights to the name.

Trivia: Fallout was going to use GURPS rules but Steve Jackson decided that it was too violent and cut his deal out from under Interplay. The development team responded by making their own GURPS clone rules, and thus SPECIAL was born.

I assumed all the shopping carts in FO3 were a nod to Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" but maybe not. I've only seen a few in FO:NV.

There are tidbits of a lot of stuff in Fallout. It's fun to try and find them all.

» Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:40 am

Brian Fargo worked on Wasteland and he went on to work on Fallout 1 and 2 (I guess).

He was the lead designer on Wasteland, but he was just a producer/consultant on Fallout 1 and I don't think he was involved with Fallout 2 at all, and certainly not Fallout 3 or NV. He has a new company now called InXile, who interestingly enough is working on a game called Hunted: The Demon's Forge that is going to be published by Bethesda Softworks.

Faran Brygo (my avatar) was one of the bosses in Las Vegas in Wasteland. His name was obviously a play on "Bryan Fargo." In Wasteland post-apoc Las Vegas was being overrun by killer robots of unknown origin. Oh, Slicerdicers, how I do not miss you.