Comments | capnexposition: Fridge Logic

capnexposition

Fridge Logic

Jul 12, 2009 09:42

So, I finally found something that annoys me enough to drag me up out of my hole of non-writing and non-communication. In fact, I'm even annoyed enough to rant a bit. So, okay: I finally finished Fallout 3 yesterday. As is my wont with big open-world exploration type games, I wanted to go explore everywhere I could before I could be arsed to save ( Read more... )

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ricepapercrane July 13 2009, 02:58:40 UTC

"You can karate kick a helicopter! What the fuck more do you want?!" - Penny Arcade

-Hazel

johnthegreat July 13 2009, 14:07:18 UTC

How about you put the games down for a bit and start writing again?

capnexposition July 13 2009, 15:46:14 UTC

Who says I'm not writing?

theonlymegumegu July 13 2009, 19:38:01 UTC

Binary ending choices are why I loved the end of the most recent Bard's Tale. To the question: "release the evil demonness?" you had 3 choices: yes, no, and fuck you guys I'm hitting the bar.

capnexposition July 13 2009, 19:58:07 UTC

I hope you picked the third option!

theonlymegumegu July 13 2009, 22:33:38 UTC

You know it! If not just that I was incredulous the option was available. I actually checked out all 3 options, and they're all hilarious. Actually, IIRC the options are: Free the demoness, Banish the demoness, fuck it all I want beer. I think if you free her you become her love slave (the whole game you think you're to free a beautiful princess and it turns out she's a demon), if you Banish her I think you get the "unsung hero" status, and with the 3rd one I think the monster plague neither subsides or grows, life just gets weird XD ( ... )

asatruer July 20 2009, 17:06:55 UTC

I had this same issues with the ending of Fallout 3, but in addition to the the same thoughts about other options that you had I also wondered why I could not get my robot butler to do it for me. I also wonder how they justify the follow up expansions given that in the good path of their binary choice ending kind of limits follow up. Most must require completely different characters, or a huge pile of disbelief suspension.

capnexposition July 21 2009, 00:39:16 UTC

Well, of the three expansions, The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage are really doable anywhere in the story, they're basically extended side missions. Broken Steel, the one that continues the main story is a little harder to explain. As I recall, I think I read that you get some explanation about how you're a mutant anomaly and survive the massive radiation or something - basically the devs retcon the shit out of it. It smacks of cop out to me.

And I TOTALLY forgot about my stupid robot butler. HE should go put the code in. Stupid butler.