Where is the humor? Favorite bits found?

Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:06 pm

Fallout, to me, isnt all just dark Liam Neeson-isms hunting to right what ever wrongs the story throws at you. What funny bits have you found? finding the Tardis, going back in time to break a water chip, finding a self declared country of 3, a ghoul who named the tree growing out of his head. All i've seen so far is a skeleton sleeping with a mannequin and two teddy bears in a suggestive layout. What is the most laugh out loud moment of Fallout 4?

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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:50 pm

Codsworth. Nuff said.
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Jessie Rae Brouillette
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:37 pm

It's gone.

As is the dark humor and sixual references and cursing. It's pretty sad.

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Allison Sizemore
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:16 pm

Bethesda fallout games take themselves far more seriously than the originals or New Vegas when it comes to humor. I mean, even gallows humor is largely missing from Beth's Fallout games. They make great RPG's, but I prefer significant tracts of goofiness now and then too. I think that is one of the reasons I really love FO:NV. Sure, there isn't anything funny about the legion crucifying people, but there was tons of satirical humor and visual gags.

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Kirsty Wood
 
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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:54 am

The super mutant stuff dialogue is pretty funny, which is weird because of how grotesque and barbaric they appear to be with all those blood bags.

I swear I heard a super mutant call me a Little Weenie. I got a laugh out of that.

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Tyrel
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:41 pm

Clearly OP has not done the USS Constitution questline.

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Jennifer Rose
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:38 pm

In fact i have not, but the ship holds a special place in my heart so i look forward to that one, funny or not.

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Tyler F
 
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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:57 am

Silver Shroud quest line, come on that's classic.

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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:44 am

Looks to be toned down, which makes sense, Todd has stated that he and many folks at Beth prefer the slightly more serious tone of Fallout 1, over the more humor toned 2.
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Sasha Brown
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:45 pm

"Igor fetch me the brain"

Gotta use that [Sarcasm] option when you can haha it sometimes produces gold

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Ray
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:02 pm

When I switched companions from Cait to Piper, Cait said " You two have fun together, Piper. Too bad we can't make it a threesome." and Piper shot back "Never going to happen Cait."

I found that pretty funny.

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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:19 pm


You think the cursing is gone? I take it you haven't had the encounter I had last night, where literally FU was one of the choices.
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Lillian Cawfield
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:30 pm

Fallout 2 had a little too much for my tastes as well, but the occasional gag or sight or what have you is nice. I just hadnt seen anything like that in Fallout 4 yet, not even a decent bit of humorous dialogue.

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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:50 am

Exactly what Phoss said - Fallout 1 and 2 were full of dark and twisted humor/aspects. Even Fallout 3 and New Vegas had it. Now, in Fallout 4, I don't know. It's dull and the world suffers for it

Shame

EDIT - Perhaps in future DLC they will take some of these criticisms into consideration. The Pitt and Point Lookout were solid and the stories behind them were steps ahead of the Fallout 3 MS

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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:30 am

Just pay attention to the positions the teddy bears are in and what they are doing through out the world. There are also other funny nuggets if you know where to look.

I'm sure Bethesda is just appeasing the PC culture by removing many sixual and dark references though... Sad world we live in. Wouldn't want to offend anyone because apparently being offended isn't allowed.
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Nathan Barker
 
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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 6:27 am

oh come on...I see plenty funny abut a teddy bear sitting on a toilet reading a newspaper....

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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:22 am

Yep, Icedrake.

Gotta be politically correct now in games. Might hurt someone's feelings otherwise.....

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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:10 pm

Yeah, this is it. Sadface. :sadvaultboy:

Oh, that potty-humor. It was definitely funny when I was 12. =)

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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:43 am

Yeah there's the room with skeleton and the manaquin, think it was the bathroom of the same guy that had manaquins around the bath as well.

Then there was a room where a skeleton with clothes on was strangling a skeleton with no clothes, what's going on there, murder or kinky!

I'm sure I've seen a few others too and only just made it to the Super Mart place, other than a short venture to Diamond City.
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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:09 am

Not all, there still is cursing in some of the quests. Also, you get asked about your sixual past by the BoS doctor, and his open terminal has a case where an initiate has radiation burns and STD's on his groin, a "regular" complaint from ghoul six. Not really "funny" and I do agree there is less than earlier versions, but there is some occasionally.

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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 4:15 am

Im pretty sure I found a bar that is supposed to be the one from cheers. But everyone was skeletons haha. It gave me a chuckle.
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:50 pm

Yeah, that's nowhere near accurate or true.

Fallout 4 has a LOT of cursing. It's not a constant stream of garbage, but just hit any Raider site. My character's been call a [censored], the raiders drop the F-bomb about every second or third sentence.

I seem to recall it comes up in dialog, too.

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Tai Scott
 
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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:27 am

There is very little depth to these games anymore, but perhaps it is me being an old man.

Depth in every sense, from the overly-exploited, cookie-cutter narrative conventions which give titles their anodyne feel, to the complete lack of humour which spans the "funny spectrum," indeed from what could be toilet humor, to absurdism, sarcasm and even cringe comedy.

All these thing were present in Morrowind, even in Fallout 3, but have been completely abandoned in favour of a flat, "plateau" experience where everything is the same, like food without salt, like human beings without intuition.

Exaggeration? Not really. I grow bored very quickly of these "THE FUTURE OF ROAMING VIRTUAL WORLDS" experiences nowadays.

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chirsty aggas
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:28 pm


I watched a diamond city guard run up to a super mutant, bashed him to death and then yelled "welcome to diamond city mother [censored]"

Soooooo there is definitely cursing in this game.
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Anthony Santillan
 
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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 4:46 am

Well, that's good to know, lol. I've heard Raiders curse too, but cursing was really just an after thought I had. It's the context in which it's used, mostly dialogue etc., where I miss it.

This man has a better way of explaining it than I do.

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