What are Your Favorite References?

Post » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:10 am

Nothing serious, I just wanted to hear other references that people particularly liked.

Thus far the three favorites I can remember off the top of my head are all quest names. The first quest with the title, "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" seemed pretty fitting overall-considering the situation. "Nothin' But a Hound Dog," also, just because of the fact it was a quest for the King's dog and thus fit (also) pretty perfectly. Though the one I was most surprised by would have been, "We Will All Go Together." I suppose you could argue how much it worked for the quest, but I was extremely happy just to see a reference to a song by Tom Lehrer at all-I remember earlier while New Vegas was still developing there were suggestions. Once or twice people actually asked for one of his songs' to be in the game-and I supported the idea once I listened to them, but it wasn't something widely noticed by the board. So I wasn't expecting anything at all.

As a note, to those who don't know who Tom Lehrer is/his songs, there are two that I know of extremely fitting to the Fallout series. Considering it was made in the fifties. That would be the song referenced to, "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs," and "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pklr0UD9eSo."
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Post » Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:27 am

I was amused by a quest in Camp McCarran where the cook asks you to fix his food processing machine. If you don't have 80 Repair, you have to search for about 20 rare junk items to fix it. The only reward is a discount of his rubbish food stock. The (unmarked) quest is called "Not Worth A Mountain Of Corn And Beans," the joke being that it wasn't worth a mountain of corn and beans.
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Post » Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:32 am

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