#I dont like lonesome road much but ulysses is the one good thing to come out of it

[bennymaxxing]

was drawing ulysses as a quick warm up and maybe got carried away oops

[calebwittebane]

like dead money and old world blues and honest hearts are divisive and each have their own glaring problems (dead money is a headache inducing chore gameplay-wise that writing-wise repeats itself endlessly due to being high on its own farts, old world blues has some boring fetch quests and tonally theres lots of highs and lows, honest hearts is one big glaring problem) but the plot elements introduced by lonesome road are downright atrocious and the implications the dlc has for the games main plot cause me nothing but irritation. im not even that opposed to ulysses as a character--sure i think hes some chief example of Chris Avallone Writing Dialogue And Backstory (derogatory) but he couldve been a quirky companion with a legion past and some weird inexplicable mix of grudge and respect and the thing about many couriers being legion spies aint so bad either--but oh my fucking god come on. not this. like you gotta be kidding me. like whenever i tried to give the whole thing a fair chance i quickly found that there was just no good god damn reason for me to gaf about this guy and his mumbling about america and some contrived pretentious backstory i apparently have. like no i dont. i didnt do that. stop putting me in the torture labyrinth. the nuke thing?? youre kidding? and the marked men thing, good lird, i mean visually its a cool idea, but its just too fucking much. i hate those final bosses so bad. sick of dudes with 10 in every stat like shut up man you aint frank horrigan. none of us are. he was a super super mutant 2.0 in power armor and youre just some guy. i hate how much the whole dlc plotline tries to lend some kind of Esoteric Coolness to the legion. im sorry but i dont see that, the legion is at the end of the day a fascist enslaving expansionist genocidal regime wherein being a woman gets you a fate arguably worse than death and which is the result of one spoiled guy deciding that this type of brute force is the best course of action. like idc. who are these people. jotchua ulysses daniel whoever the fuck else: for $2 name a woman. the america fetish that ulysses displays--am i supposed to see that as anything but thoroughly pathetic? ulysses youre an educated man. allegedly. god, learning that chris wanted to end things with ulysses nuking the WHOLE wasteland back to square one, and jsaw stopped him because thats fucking stupid. because god forbid the series about people rebuilding after an apocalypse has too much stuff thats been rebuilt or being rebuilt. chris, come the fuck on man. im sorry but you cant have your darling character be a demigod moving all the pieces from behind the curtain, you have to place him in the setting and accept the existence of his flaws other than "too wise" and "so tortured by his past and his grand ideas". anyway dont play the dlcs. except for old world blues but do keep in mind that its still kind of a chore

glad to have found someone else thinking this because i thought i was going insane

[chaosintheavenue]

Fallout Survey Results!

There were 69 responses this time around, aaand the results are in. This was a really random survey mostly based on pure curiosity, so make what you will of the results!

Without further ado, let’s get into it...

Which Fallout games have you played? 

Which did you play first? 

Which game is your favourite in terms of gameplay? 

Which game is your favourite in terms of lore?

By the way, that one ‘other’ vote was my own, for Van Buren. If I had to stick to the canon games, I’d have gone with New Vegas, 100%.

Are they canon?

Tactics:

BOS:

Van Buren:

Where would you LIKE the next Fallout game to be set? 

Here’s a map of how many times each state was specifically mentioned, because I'm a map nerd.

Top answer: Florida

It’s pretty clear that, as one respondent said, the people want swamp Fallout!

Other countries mentioned: Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, Cuba, UK

A few people just said the US in general for this and the next question, usually when their answer to the other question was a different country. I wasn’t really sure how to categorise that in terms of the way I chose to display the results, so I’ve left them out.

Where do you THINK the next Fallout game will be set? 

Top Answer: New York

Other countries mentioned: Canada

A lot of people mentioned that they expect previous locations to be re-used, but didn’t specify which.

Favourite character

Arcade Gannon: 17 (a lot of my Fallout mutuals are Arcade stans, so there was probably a bit of bias here, but still, an impressive victory for Arcade!) Nick Valentine: 5 Craig Boone: 4 Rose of Sharon Cassidy: 4 Joshua Graham: 3 Raul Tejada: 3 Veronica Santangelo: 3 Fawkes: 3 Deacon: 2 John Hancock: 2 Courier Six: 2 Benny: 2 Lily Bowen: 2 Folks who got one vote: Goris (aside: THANK YOU for making me look up who this is, I have been blessed), Charon, John Henry Eden, Butch Deloria, Irving Gallows, X6-88, Harold, ED-E, Preston Garvey, Ronald Curtis/Picus, Cait, Gob, Ulysses and RJ MacCready

Least favourite character

Vulpes Inculta: 10 Shaun/Father: 8 Caesar: 7 Strong: 5 Paladin Danse: 4 Piper Wright: 3 Craig Boone: 2 Legate Lanius: 2 Parker Quinn: 2 Daniel (from Honest Hearts): 2 Jericho: 2 And the list with one vote: Antony, Mortimer, Three Dog, Princess, Dean Domino, Myron, Cait, Roger Maxson, Arthur Maxson, Justin Ayo, Colonel Autumn, Joshua Graham, Colin Moriarty, Aaron Kimball, Alistair Tenpenny, Ulysses and Robert Edwin House

Favourite faction

Followers of the Apocalypse: 30 (holy moly lol) New California Republic: 7 Minutemen: 6 Railroad: 5 The Kings: 4 Yes Man: 4 Brotherhood of Steel: 4 Caesar's Legion: 2 Enclave: 2 The Institute: 1 Great Khans: 1 Westside: 1 Megaton: 1 Ghoul settlements in general: 1

Favourite DLC

Old World Blues: 14 Dead Money: 12 Nuka World: 9 Far Harbor: 7 Lonesome Road: 6 Honest Hearts: 6 Point Lookout: 5 Broken Steel: 3 Operation Anchorage: 1 Mothership Zeta: 1 The Pitt: 1

When you think of a chem that removes addictions, which comes to mind first? 

When you think of Harold, which version of him do you picture? 

The fate of cats

New Plague symptoms

Does Duncan MacCready have the New Plague?

Are any characters secretly synths?

The synth-accused: Sole Survivor, Ulysses, Easy Pete, most birds, Travis Miles, Courier Six, Colter, Deacon, Mr House (’just for fun’), Piper, and many settlers in general

Also, @ respondent that I’m pretty sure was @hiscotti-biscotti​... 👀👀👀

Which New Vegas ending would you pick to be canon?

And finally, a handpicked selection of the gushing comments (got a bit long because there were so many I liked too much!)...

I wish they made the main quest harder to acces and finish, or to have more step to it... because once I played it one the experience wouldn't be the same. It so amazing discovering new location and being like 'I'm gonna explore that' so damn good.

The fallout franchise has one of the most beautiful heavy lore ridden world I've ever seen

I love the theme of change in the west coast trilogy and how strongly it contrasts the game's moto of "war never changes". I love how you can look at the changes to the NCR from shady sands to the republic but I also love how you can look at the Khans. People and factions do change, but waging war over petty dramas never does, you can escape it, but only if you admit you were wrong and change for the better.

I love the world and the characters. There is always some fucked up shit in the past that has a chance of snowballing into worse shit in the current time, like the  cazadores and the new plague. And when characters are written well, they have a chance of being the coolest part of the games, like with Nick Valentine/Hancock or any of the characters of New Vegas.

When things get creepy it's wonderful. More in the vein of Dead Money or the Glowing Sea please!

I love how in NV the apocalypse isn’t just the end of everything. There’s still culture! There’s towns! There’s just people vibing! It feels less like the apocalypse and more like a developed area that is experiencing a war. People moved on after 200 years. Because that’s what people do.

The hopefulness of rebuilding.

Hhhh LORE!!! Apocalypse aesthetic!!!!! HOPE AND LIGHT AND HEALING AND GOODNESS AND ALSO COOL WASTELAND SHIT AND DEATHCLAWS... fallout good.....

oh my god i love arcade gannon so much i dont know why but i am literally about to start studying latin at uni because of him.

Can I just say I love how fnv gave us LGBT characters without making the fact that they're lgbt their entire personality.

I can go through abandoned buildings without getting arrested.

I love that it's helped me make so many new friends and has reignited my creative drive.

Say what you will about robot fetishists but Fisto was the greatest thing to happen to the series. A true icon and reminder of wonderful writing and character design. They may say you can't make a flawless character, but I say "look at Fisto". Don't boo me, I'm right.