Fallout 4

Nah, save Lonesome Road for last. It ties up everything nicely.

Nah. Old World Blues does a better job at tying everything up. You discover the origins of Sierra Madre hotel technology, how Elijah obtained the explosive collars, how Christine and the second courier met complete with her original voice. Plus it's epilogue gives your Courier an ending that extends beyond the ending of the actual game, where as Lonesome Road's ending is only there as a set up. And unlike the Lonesome Road, Old World Blues is VERY non-linear so you get a lot more bang for your buck.

Plus, the final confrontation with Ulysses is probably the biggest cop out in the whole Fallout series. Not only are his motivations completely asinine, but his character model is a freaking joke. The developers actually made Ulysses' head a mask worn by a normal NPC character and tried to cover up the laziness by putting a cheap looking gas mask over his mouth since a mask cannot be animated. It's pitiful. Now contrast that with Old World Blues, where you have one of the best finales in any Fallout game period. You're lead to believe that you must stop the evil Mobius, but it turns out not everything is at it seems. In fact, the next confrontation after that IS ALSO not the last thing you have to deal with. The grand finale that ends the DLC is such a riot that I dare say makes the whole entire game worth getting just to play this DLC. And all three of these confrontations can end in so many different ways too.

And on one final note, the ONLY good thing to come out of Lonesome Road was this beauty. That's it.
 
I'm going to try all the options for fallout 4 but right now i'm shooting the crap out of folks. I found some really nice touches that made me smile but i don't' want to spoil them. I also saw a naked mr handy which is horrifying. Ulysses is a lot different than I think he was meant to be, they turned him into a throw away character. Oddly enough in the Interplay fallout 3 he was a computer. I have to say that Old world blues is my favorite just because it doesn't always take itself seriously and has the darker humor the first 2 games had.
I'm enjoying 4 but I'd still love to see one that has you survive the war and your choices end with you surviving, getting into a vault, turning into a super mutant, or a ghoul and ends around the time the first one hits. Interplay's F3 actually dabbled a bit with this as it had a huge storyline featuring where old Harold came from.
 
I didn't know there was an order to do the DLC... I did Dead Money, then Old World Blues... I'm on Honest Hearts now...
 
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I came across this today, made my laugh. I left it in-tact.
 
I agree, I'm not a fan of all these homemade guns everyone is running around with. I try not to use them at all to be honest. I keep using my laser musket, my heavily modded 10mm, a tommy gun i found and that's it. Leveling up is a lot slower now than in any other game I've noticed. I miss the old level system.
 
I found a skeleton in a tub of water, surrounded by three mannequins. One held out a plunger over the tub, the other two held out machetes. In the toilet next to the tub sat the skull that belonged to the skeleton.
I took a screen cap of the skull in the bowl, will load it up next time I hit the Xbox.

Yeah I saw that one too. I found a box of sugar bombs in a toilet with a spoon on the seat lol. I'm going to have to get the guide i think, i was trying to avoid it as I hate 25.00 for something i use once.
 
One thing that got me about the game is the baby was named Shaun just like in the reveal demo instead of a random name and somehow he was um...black when my character isn't lol. It might have been a glitch but he for sure was darker than either of his parents lol. I am having trouble getting used to them moving the vats button to l1 from r1 after 2 games.
Are you sure you're the daddy?

And I don't know if I want to rearrange the controls or not. The first few times I used VATS and nothing would happen because I was hitting the wrong key. Also, I need to start over because I found out I was doing things wrong when I leveled up. I did not realize you can choose to raise your special settings OR get perks so I don't have any perks yet. It's only 4 hours. But at least I can save a grenade or two. I like the new look of the mirelurks.
 
Yeah I've decided to mostly focus on the special stuff to max it out as there's no waiting for you to hit a certain level. I do like the soft shell mirelurks, it appears the boston area has a lot of mutations that you don't see anywhere else. Though I'm hoping that these goals aren't what they're always going to look like now.
 
Had a big crash on PS4 tonight, was battling up a tower, made it nearly to the top, then it wouldnt let me load the last two saves, just kept crashing over and over, had to restart from before I ever went in, didn't go back in, in the end.

For a moment I thought all my saves had been corrupted, would not have been happy starting over from scratch again.
 
I hope that's not some new glitch that showed up. I've been glitch free lately. i do have another very minor gripe: the head lamp on power armor is way too dim to be much use. i'm in an area underwater that you have to find stuff and you can't see enough to even move around. The BOS guy in this game is much friendlier than the ones in the last 2 games. I kinda wish you could go into other towns and start tearing stuff up or areas that you cleared but i keep having to carry arm loads of aluminum cans and stuff back to break down lol.
 
I played it for about two hours last night and just got into Concord. I was scouring the original neighborhood. I was shocked they throw a deathclaw at you that soon!

Do stimpaks work different in this game? They don't seem to heal instantly. Either that or there's a bug that doesn't update your HP.
 
They heal instantly once you come out of the menu screen to the main game, he has to actually inject them this time. I finally got some laser weapons and ran out of ammo for them lol. I miss my new vegas armory lol
 
I played it for about two hours last night and just got into Concord. I was scouring the original neighborhood. I was shocked they throw a deathclaw at you that soon!

If your Charisma is high enough and you chat with Mama Murphy before heading to the roof, she actually foresees your encounter with the Death Claw in a not so subtle way. Big creature of death, eh? If it wasn't for the fact that supernatural elements do indeed exist in the Fallout universe I'd say the writers were just getting lazy.

I met some Brotherhood members in my recent play through and after I left the building with the Paladin Danse, I encountered my first weather occurrence! It was quite surprising and in a certain way, depressing. Not really a spoiler, but just incase...

Radioactive thunder storms?! This world is totally screwed now.
 
I'm on the Danse mission right now actually. I've seen a lot of weather: storms, rain, i think a dust storm because everything was red but without any other weather.. As much as I like the supernatural in fallout i kinda like how metro 2033 did it as it was a lot creepier.
 
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