Comments on: A Kiss To Build A Dream On

By: Naked Dave

Naked Dave — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:04:30 +0000

I just “beat” Fallout 3 today, after logging 60 hours on it (tough economic times means lots of free time to sit on my ass at home). I was pretty stoked about my experience, and began plotting my next playthrough. Generally I play nice the first time, EVIL the next, and then somewhere along the lines of moderately evil the third time. In plotting the demise of every person in the entire universe I came across the fact that some characters were invincible. That’s no big deal, I can understand a game making some of its more important characters invulnerable. In fact, I thank the designers for setting it up that way when I had to *spoiler* all the way to *spoiler*. What irked me, however, was the loss of one of the most important facets to Fallout this side of the ocean (it was removed from Fallouts released in Europe to avoid this problem altogether), you CAN NOT HARM(KILL) CHILDREN. You can’t knock them out, the best you can do (when lobbing mininukes at them) is get them to cower. While it shouldn’t really be that detrimental, I was really looking forward to “Taking care” of a few ruffians I had met my first playthrough.

Someone else wrote more eloquently on this matter here
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20908

And don’t worry, the mod community is RABID to fix, I mean, offer a different solution.

By: Aden Nak

Aden Nak — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:32:31 +0000

Five points for Drizzt! And I definitely recommend watching the intro even if you are unfamiliar with the series, it's pretty funny. I chose that title because my very first interaction with a Fallout game was that intro. And it caused me to really get into the entire series. Though it probably didn't hurt that I was taking a seminar on 1950's American culture at the time.

By: drizzt13626

drizzt13626 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:46:18 +0000

“A Kiss To Build A Dream On” is a song by Louis Armstrong. It was featured in the intro scene of Fallout 2. The song is playing while an old style film is showing vault dwellers how to handle leaving the vault. You can find the scene on youtube, just look for Fallout 2 Intro Movie.

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:48:45 +0000

Nice review. A friend of mine just picked up Fallout 3 as well. It sounds cool, but it sounds a lot like Fable – and since I just bought Fable 2, I’ll probably have to pass on Fallout 3.

BTW – What does your post title have to do with the post? Did I miss something? :)