Comments on: Screw you, game designers 2: The Wrath of Khan

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:03:52 +0000

You can quote parts of it if you like but I’d rather you didn’t quote the whole thing. My twitter id is djp928

By: devoll502

devoll502 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:39:39 +0000

it was very interesting to read.
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:10:06 +0000

Yes, I believe the game tells you the code at some point. I remembered it somehow, and I’m usually the last person to puzzle anything out.

And yeah, I love how the game freezes on you when you punch in the code. The rad level in that place was nothing compared to some other places in the game, but YOU ARE GOING TO DIE ANYWAY ASSHOLE! ACCEPT IT! Come on guys, was it super hard to just make the rad level really high, so you really DON’T have much time? I guess that’d piss some people off too, though. CAN’T WIN!

The Fawkes thing just bugged the shit out of me though. It still kind of bugs me, because it was just so fucking lazy.

And yeah, the game seems to indicate that Fawkes is (or was–super mutants are basically asexual) a chick. But according to the Fallout wiki, the game is wrong. Because the game designers say otherwise, apparently. So I guess they made the game lie.

By: Darien

Darien — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:12:21 +0000

I kind of glossed over that Fawkes bit, because I already knew there was a big sacrifice ending coming. But, wow, yeah, that’s a pretty damn good point right there. Here’s another: it took me like two seconds to turn on the purifier, and I was wearing the T-51b Power Harmor and popped a Rad-X, so my rad resist was 85%. I got all the way up to “minor rad sickness” before I got the thing running (and then only because I hadn’t cleared my rads before I entered). Any reason why I can’t just, like, leave? You know, once the switch is flipped?

I was pretty proud of myself for figuring out what the code was. Does the game ever straight-up tell you that? If it does, I think it was before I quit playing for a year and forgot about it. But I riddled it out, and that made me feel all smug for a few minutes.

Also, come on. They missed a golden opportunity by not letting you send Fawkes in in the first place, which is the first expansion: Fallout 3: The Search for Fawkes. You know you’d buy it.

Incidentally, I’m pretty sure Fawkes is a woman.

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