Comments on: Fallout Girl: Little Lamplight

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:40:45 +0000

@Devlosirrus:

Yes. This is all I can say: FUTURO-LINCOLN is the best thing ever.

It makes me sad: I’ve almost reached the end of the main quest with my character; knowing he’ll be gone when I finish soon, I’m planning to start as a new character, maybe female. But females can’t have the Honest Abe Beard! It saddens me slightly.

(NB: I’m playing on PS3, they haven’t yet released the DLC which lets you play on after the end, as it were)

By: Lurking Yeti

Lurking Yeti — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:46:42 +0000

Ah, cool. That’s a mystery solved then. My tagged skills are all based letting me put landmines in people’s pockets more easily.

I’ve just had the misfortune of having the game crash on me. I was around 4 feet from the door to the Oasis at the time. This being after reading your post calling it the defining moment of the game… Gah.

I laughed at the poetic injustice, reset my 360, and was prepared to load my last save, in which I was about 5 feet from the door to the Oasis (handy, that).

I was then informed by the game that it was, in fact, an Xbox 360 game, and I should remove it from my DVD player and put it in an Xbox 360.

Hang on, what DVD player? This IS an Xbox 360! What’s wrong with my game?! Gah! A perfectly round scratch around the edge of the disk, inflicted by the console, that’s what.

I’ve always found getting games to run on my PC a hassle, but at least its never actually physically assaulted one of my disks. The injustice is no less poetic now, but it has somehow become a lot less funny.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:32:16 +0000

Thanks man. It’s pretty abridged; I’ve missed out hijinks like the time I blundered into some abandoned town and got utterly destroyed by four Raiders. Took me a fair few attempts to get around that Raider cave with Smiling Jack in it, too.

I think I had a 76% chance of bluffing my way into Lamplight, Speech is one of my tagged skills.

By: Lurking Yeti

Lurking Yeti — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:03:23 +0000

I love this, not least for how the story’s being told in the cold, distant way you’d expect from a murderer like Sophie.

I’ve been wondering though… it all seems a little easier for you than it was for me. Ok, a lot easier. Getting into Little Lamplight on pure charisma? Getting close enough to beat raiders with sledgehammers without dying at range?

So what’s the difference? Is your difficulty slider set way easy? Are you just infinitely better at the game than me? Or is this adventure a lot more abridged than I thought, with levels of experience being skipped between posts?

By: J-Man

J-Man — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:10:48 +0000

That would be good. Or you could sign on as the resident indie guy.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:53:36 +0000

Doesn’t make sense to limit your options, I don’t think. Imagine Cobbett joined PCG :D

By: J-Man

J-Man — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:16:24 +0000

Question: why is the job of deputy editor being offered externally and why not to an internal editor in PCG?

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:04:37 +0000

I did the Big Town quest quite early, but for some reason once I completed it all the characters there vanished.
And this is a problem because I wanted to find Red and make him a slave.

By: Devlosirrus

Devlosirrus — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:31:38 +0000

Man, I’ve really gotta start playing this game again. Any game that lets me blow the heads off mutated monsters while dressed like Abe Lincoln 2099 is a success in my book. TOP HAT FTW

By: TooNu

TooNu — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:19:04 +0000

Any game that gives you a world to explore and kill things in is awesome. There are days upon days of stuff to do, places to see, secrets to find, stories to hear/seek out/reveal, people to kill, monsters to kill, beasts to kill, people to befriend, monsters to…kill, beasts to tame AND kill.

You get a house, you get lot’s of weapons, lot’s of gear, lot’s of small collectable things and junk…lot’s and lot’s of junk.

Just build a game foryourself within this game and you will be hooked. I love this game.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. complete mod pack is out btw, that is also awesome.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:05:16 +0000

Check your signal for the matrix, and the spinal port too, there were some driver issues I think. When did you update your Brainware last?

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:55:57 +0000

@: Johnny Bulwharks: Maybe you just don’t like the game, and he does? Thats all I can think of.

By: Johnny Bulwharks

Johnny Bulwharks — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:18:40 +0000

How come when other people play the game and I read about it, it sounds awesome, but when I play it, all I get out of it is an above average experience?

By: TooNu

TooNu — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:58:17 +0000

Best perk in the game: Cyborg.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:24:40 +0000

You know, that is an excuse.

I mean, if you knew for a fact free lasers came with a perk, it sounds a lot more like a good idea, even if the perk’s name is “#1 Hitler fan”.

By: Jackrabbit

Jackrabbit — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:03:04 +0000

Child at Heart gets you a free powerful lazer gun, doesn’t it?

By: Kodiak

Kodiak — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:58:21 +0000

Any child born in Big Town is sent back to Little Lamplight, and so are lots of orphans found wandering the wastes. I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable. [And it’s totally worth it for Eulogy’s Boogeyman Mask quest!]

By: AlphaTM

AlphaTM — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:10:24 +0000

A hah, I remember the “Sick bastard” comment. Good times…

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:40:59 +0000

Oh god, I can’t wait to see just how your adventures in Big Town went, if the game had to tell you off.

By: jcstarzyk

jcstarzyk — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:54:37 +0000

Next time you’re in Little Lamplight, find Biwwy and use some of your Charisma on him. Your muderous rage will love it.

By: skizelo

skizelo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:21:57 +0000

I cant help but think that the whole of Little Lamplight was a massive mistake on Bethesda's part: a plot-important town of massively annoying, immortal brats who don't make any sense, biologically speaking. Not to mention that you cant really do much while there, because of the headline-dodging.

By: EGTF

EGTF — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:27:46 +0000

All games I think program especially for Tom a dialogue option calling him a sick bastard. I think even Prototype might shudder a bit at him and mutter “Hang on, that’s a bit far isn’t it?”

By: Desmolas

Desmolas — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:17:57 +0000

S’aight. Still, this makes me yearn for Nondrick.

Did Chris Livingston die? It appears he left a monkey twittering but no actual articles come out of that site.

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:16:50 +0000

@Jazzmeister: You actually have to visit Little Lamplight as part of the main storyline, so if you continue along that you’ll get to it eventually.

By: Dante

Dante — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:32:11 +0000

You worry about other people’s choices in Fallout Tom? Because yours are so defensible? What exactly did you do to big town you horrible monster?

I actually picked ‘Child at Heart’, partly because there weren’t that many interesting perks at that level, but mostly because I always go for extra dialogue perks.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:06:44 +0000

I never actually found little lamplight. I didn’t notice the spoiler, but I’m not about to go back and – actually I just did there and still couldn’t find it.

Actually, I’ve just realised, I didn’t finish Fallout 3! :o why didn’t I discover this sooner?!

By: nine

nine — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:59:15 +0000

glad to see this return!