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[danm999]

Played about three hours of Fallout 4 last night. It looks kinda nasty on my 4K monitor and doesn't run great but not to the extent it's a problem.

The writing is serviceable so far though I hope it'll get a bit more interesting than simply find your son. The dialogue system can run into that Mass Effect issue of no I didn't want to say that.

The base building stuff seems nice. I've run around Sanctuary cleaning up basically. Now I'm looking for food crops for the losers at my town.

I dunno, the open world exploration stuff seems to be scratching that itch so far, I hope it builds on the story in interesting ways most of all.

 

[OdysseusVA]

The ending of FO4 is amazing

Spoiler

ly bad

 

[tuxfool]

We've all been running bitcoin miners obviously.

Effing Bethesda. They're not happy enough to sell tens of millions of copies on a game with a tiny development team. No wonder they gave up on paid mods.

 

[Volotaire]

I think I have to unfollow Austin on Twitter. Love the dude, hate his tweets. Sorry Austin!

It would be useful if Tweetdeck enhanced it's option to turn off retweets in columns to individual users. This could be an option I don't know about which already exists.

 

[SilentMatthew]

Any update on the status of Vinny's extra life stream?

Well, if you didn't know already. GBU has it saved here. Not sure if the youtubes people were managed to save the broken stream file if that was what you were asking about. Probably not gonna bother I'm guessin.

 

[TheMrPliskin]

I'm pretty sure I've hit a bug in FO4 where a certain chunk of the map just causes the game to crash, what a game!

 

[KingKong]

I've generally been lucky to only have 2 bugged out NPCs (that saving/loading fixed) and only one infinite loading crash, but I don't think a single quest has actually looked good as far as scripting/ai movement goes

the worst ones are when it involves several characters interacting with each other when you come upon them, things pretty much never trigger like they're supposed to

 

[BanGy.nz]

I'm not out of the vault yet and I've had two hard locks. I should've played SC2...

 

[danm999]

Oh and three episodes into Tales from the Borderlands the whole Bro sequence is probably the dumbest (in a good way) Best Moment or Sequence I've ever seen.

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Time to catch up on the last 3.5 hours of MGScanlon V.

 

[robotrock]

It's on GB Unarchived for now.

Well, if you didn't know already. GBU has it saved here. Not sure if the youtubes people were managed to save the broken stream file if that was what you were asking about. Probably not gonna bother I'm guessin.

Hell yeah!

 

[FStop7]

The base building and crafting stuff just opened up for me in Fallout 4.

Holy shit.

This is my GOTY.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

The base building and crafting stuff just opened up for me in Fallout 4.

Holy shit.

This is my GOTY.

It's pretty damn neat. I mean, you don't have to do it if you don't want to, but it's awesome making your own garage for your power suits to be on display.

 

[TheMrPliskin]

Oh and three episodes into Tales from the Borderlands the whole Bro sequence is probably the dumbest (in a good way) Best Moment or Sequence I've ever seen.

That game has some of the best sequences of the year just because of the intros.

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Oh my sweet lord that hemorrhoids story is the worst.

 

[justjim89]

Oh my sweet lord that hemorrhoids story is the worst.

In what video, dare I ask?

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

In what video, dare I ask?

MGScanlon V Part 14 (starts at the 29:00 mark):
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/metal-gear-scanlon-v-part-14/2300-10824/

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Jeff's tumblr is the best

http://jeff.zone/post/133231032061/hey-jeff-whats-a-jake-brake

Are there any news on Vinny's EL stream I missed?

 

[BanGy.nz]

Are there any news on Vinny's EL stream I missed?

Giant Bomb Unarchived is on it.

 

[karobit]

Aiiight I'll post it here and PM you too just in case you miss it here
http://youtu.be/PbviNjxcnA8?list=PLGZzj3oUhxhvqSYNLAScBhG-5S8pzIL1i

I forgot about the time Drew typed out the D-Day statement in DOS, but thank you for giving me once more the joys of Brad saying "When I decided I wanted to memorize something, I picked 'Bombs Over Baghdad'."

 

[MassiveNights]

I think I have to unfollow Austin on Twitter. Love the dude, hate his tweets. Sorry Austin!

thanks for letting us know

 

[BreezyLimbo]

thanks for letting us know

It's important to catalogue the opinions we each have of the GB crew

For example-
Drew-Handsome, cool dude
Dan-Reckless, cool dude
Vinny-Fatherly, cool dude
Jeff-Cool Uncle, cool dude
Brad-Sleepy, cool dude
Rorie-Weird Uncle, cool dude
Jason-Also fatherly, cool dude
Alex-That one cousin who comes in and stares at you and you stare back but nobody says anything and you try to head nod but it looks like you're checking him out so he does a face and then you stutter out 'hi' and he says 'hi' back then you stare at each other a little bit more before he leaves to do his business, cool dude
Austin-Alex's best friend, cool dude

 

[Tubobutts]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbymQuSJmwI#t=48m40s

Wine and cheese connoisseur Jeff Gerstmann.

Also this is like that other video in the last thread in which the person was using Jeff, a person who was fired for not letting advertising pressure his review, as an example of reviewers being paid off.

 

[AcridMeat]

I just finished the first iteration of my base project in Fallout.

A few more pics here. If anyone with more experience with pixel art can help make Pac-Man not look so dumb that would be great.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I just finished the first iteration of my base project in Fallout.

A few more pics here. If anyone with more experience with pixel art can help make Pac-Man not look so dumb that would be great.

Nice! Pac Man can use a bit more work, Where'd you get the colored squares though? Under what option are they o.o?

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

I just finished the first iteration of my base project in Fallout.

A few more pics here. If anyone with more experience with pixel art can help make Pac-Man not look so dumb that would be great.

Pac-Man gargling mouth wash before bed.

 

[Chance Hale]

My subscription auto renewed today at full price, who can I contact for a partial refund?

 

[Myggen]

My subscription auto renewed today at full price, who can I contact for a partial refund?

Support@giantbomb.com, Rorie will help you out.

 

[justjim89]

Fallout 4 folks, a little follower opinion poll for y'all:

Spoiler

Nick or Piper? I really like both of them so far.

 

[stump sock]

Fallout 4 folks, a little follower opinion poll for y'all:

Spoiler

Nick or Piper? I really like both of them so far.

Spoiler

nick 4 lyfe

 

[tuxfool]

Fallout 4 folks, a little follower opinion poll for y'all:

Spoiler

Nick or Piper? I really like both of them so far.

Both are great.

Spoiler

Piper has the best sister though:

 

[KingKong]

Fallout 4 folks, a little follower opinion poll for y'all:

Spoiler

Nick or Piper? I really like both of them so far.

Deacon is my favorite so far

 

[justjim89]

Deacon is my favorite so far

Damn it, just googled who that is and spoiled something cool for myself.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Both are great.

Spoiler

Piper has the best sister though:

That little thief!

 

[KingKong]

Damn it, just googled who that is and spoiled something cool for myself.

If its what I think, its not much of a spoiler

 

[BUNTING1243]

Fallout 4 folks, a little follower opinion poll for y'all:

Spoiler

Nick or Piper? I really like both of them so far.

Spoiler

piper's romance arc

is surprisingly sweet and well-done, so i've been rolling with her

 

[stump sock]

i'd like to point out that the female MC is continuing to be weird and badly written, 30 hours into the game.

also her background is so dumb that they were obviously just checking boxes. thought maybe it would be too obviously lazy if they just made her a housewife, so she's a housewife with a law degree, which obviously gave her all the training she needed to become a superviolent survivalist when the situation arose

it's weird that I'm enjoying this badly written, buggy-ass game as much as I am

 

[tuxfool]

i'd like to point out that the female MC is continuing to be weird and badly written, 30 hours into the game.

also her background is so dumb that they were obviously just checking boxes. thought maybe it would be too obviously lazy if they just made her a housewife, so she's a housewife with a law degree, which obviously gave her all the training she needed to become a superviolent survivalist when the situation arose

it's weird that I'm enjoying this badly written, buggy-ass game as much as I am

She beats the male MC. That guy sucks, no matter what option you make him say.

 

[stump sock]

she did have one legitimately hilarious line so far, where she just replies to someone with "Dude, what the hell?" and the delivery was perfect. it made me sad because if she just responded to everything with incredulity and sarcasm it would be the best thing.

I like the voice actress though, I just wish they gave her better lines.

 

[Scizzy]

i'd like to point out that the female MC is continuing to be weird and badly written, 30 hours into the game.

It's super weird that they didn't just rewrite the opening scene to make her the veteran if you choose her. This game also has Arkham City syndrome where I'm already utterly sick of hearing Raiders yell "bitch" every time they see me.

Still really liking the game for all its many, many faults.

 

[justjim89]

i'd like to point out that the female MC is continuing to be weird and badly written, 30 hours into the game.

also her background is so dumb that they were obviously just checking boxes. thought maybe it would be too obviously lazy if they just made her a housewife, so she's a housewife with a law degree, which obviously gave her all the training she needed to become a superviolent survivalist when the situation arose

it's weird that I'm enjoying this badly written, buggy-ass game as much as I am

I'm starting to view Fallout 4 as a more charming, better looking STALKER with light character development. Which works for me cause I basically modded New Vegas into being STALKER-light years ago.

Haven't tried the female MC, but both seem pretty damn generic and forgettable. It makes actual roleplaying in the game a bitch, because your character has a background and a personality preset and you determine none of it. Even in RPG's with established characters like Geralt in The Witcher let you kinda determine the shades of his personality that fit your playthrough. In Fallout the most you can do is [SARCASTIC].

It's a hell of a fun game, though.

 

[tuxfool]

That little thief!

She got Ghoulified. She got what she deserved.

 

[Zoggy]

anyone wanna share each others steam library with me? specifically someone with fallout 4...

i've never done this steam sharing before, but i wanna check out fallout for a couple hours, probably for the night and then thats it.

anyone wanna try?

i got over 200 steam games as well, so you'll be able to check them all out.

 

[demidar]

I'm starting to view Fallout 4 as a more charming, better looking STALKER with light character development. Which works for me cause I basically modded New Vegas into being STALKER-light years ago.

Haven't tried the female MC, but both seem pretty damn generic and forgettable. It makes actual roleplaying in the game a bitch, because your character has a background and a personality preset and you determine none of it. Even in RPG's with established characters like Geralt in The Witcher let you kinda determine the shades of his personality that fit your playthrough. In Fallout the most you can do is [SARCASTIC].

It's a hell of a fun game, though.

[SARCASTIC] makes up about 90% of useful expressions anyway

 

[justjim89]

[SARCASTIC] makes up about 90% of useful expressions anyway

It just sucks though, cause it doesn't really give you an idea of what you're gonna say.

Among the many mods that I can't wait to come out, a full dialogue box with percentage indications for speech checks and the complete sentences written out is definitely one of the primary ones.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

It just sucks though, cause it doesn't really give you an idea of what you're gonna say.

Among the many mods that I can't wait to come out, a full dialogue box with percentage indications for speech checks and the complete sentences written out is definitely one of the primary ones.

X) HATE SARCASM

 

[demidar]

It just sucks though, cause it doesn't really give you an idea of what you're gonna say.

Among the many mods that I can't wait to come out, a full dialogue box with percentage indications for speech checks and the complete sentences written out is definitely one of the primary ones.

Oh yeah, Fallout 4's dialogue is complete dogshit. No two ways about it.

 

[skLaFarebear]

One and a half hour long beastcasts are an injustice against humanity and it needs to stop!

And I know why they did it but still!

 

[tuxfool]

X) HATE SARCASM

There are too many words in that description.

 

[justjim89]

There are too many words in that description.

SuperBunnyhop's review put it pretty well in that it's just an adjective. It's an adjective with nothing to describe. It's half of a description.