How Special Encounters Could Be Made

[sagittarius22]

Nice thread, I am following it.

[simplywayne90]

Nice thread, I am following it.

 

Hopefully Me, you and whoever takes the charge in creating these encounters will work together on a proper Cafe of broken dreams encounter soon.

[sagittarius22]

If someone wants to make a team, I will be in it for the Cafe

[simplywayne90]

If someone wants to make a team, I will be in it for the Cafe

 

Wonderful, I've hit a snag though with most of the encounters I wanted to post guides for, Fallout 3 and New Vegas has no way of "overhear" NPCs talking to each other, without audio, I've posted a thread hoping to find a way to recreate the floating text that was present in previous fallouts, then I could revise the Cafe idea with more dialog, as well as continue with many more encounter creatation outlines.

 

Edit: Any modders looking for Classic like floating text. I refer you to this thread "Is it possible to make floating text/dialog?" Where I think we've got a good start on solving the problem.

Edited December 7, 2010 by simplywayne90

[simplywayne90]

Okay I've got some encounters that would be fairly easy. (with the text problem fixed anyways)

 

Post which ones you'd really like to see outline guides for and I'll make them. I'll getting these out of the way since they arn't as funny as the others and they'd be quick encounters.

 

 

These are all quoted from The Vault page for Fallout Tactics Special Encounters

 

Sixth Sense - Again a brahmin farm filled with ghost-brahmins and a living one, named Cole, that says, "I see dead brahmins". Spoof of the movie "The Sixth Sense".

 

Titanic - You found Jack Dawson. He has the "Heart of the Ocean" gem and an 'artistic' drawing of a girl (It's a stick figure with boobs). The gem will get you heaps of cash when sold. Parody Of Titanic

 

Canadian Invasion - You encounter a border control group protecting America from the dangerous Canadians. Parody of the Mexican Border issue, as well as cannon since in-game history states America did conquer Canada.

 

Komodo Man - In this encounter, you'll find Komodo Man wrestling a Komodo Dragon in front of a large audience. If you wait around long enough, the dragon will eventually kill Komodo Man. Spoof Of Steve Irwin (This was way before his death)

 

Terminator Brahmin (B1000)

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080121163130/fallout/images/f/f8/B1000_FoT.jpg

 

 

 

The Four Horsemen of the Post-Apocalypse - War gets defensive about Ron Pearlman's (Narrator) comments about him, while the others brag.

 

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091018011938/fallout/images/5/52/FourHorsemenPostApoc.jpg

 

 

 

Brahmin Playing Poker - In this encounter the Player will discover a group of Brahmin playing poker and exchanging dialogue with one another. If the player gets too close the Brahmin run from the scene saying "Holy Cow! It's the Feds!" implying that their poker game is illegal. Joke on the "Dogs playing poker" painting.

 

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080121173709/fallout/images/a/a4/Brahmin_Poker_FoT.jpg

 

 

Amelia Earhart - In this encounter, you discover a long lost airplane and the remains of a pilot's skeleton, presumeably Amelia Earhart, hanging out of the cockpit.

 

These are Easter Eggs from past games, but could be made into special encounters or into dialog.

 

http://www.nma-fallout.com/fallout2/eggs/disturbance.jpg

He is talking about the nuclear blast killing much of the enclave at the time. (Fallout 2)

Reference to Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi says something like this when the Death Star destroys the homeworld of Princess Leia.

 

(Fallout 2) Reference to the show South Park. - You can find boxes of Cheesy Poofs at various points in the game.

 

(Fallout 2) A pair of brothers, When asked about their jerky, and they will say: "It's made with eleven herds and spices, and it's finger-lickin good"

 

(Fallout 2) Reference to Mike Tyson biting of ears - In the basement of Desperado in New Reno, there's a boxer who says his name is Mike and he likes ears.

 

(Fallout 2) Reference to Final Fantasy VII - In combat, Cassidy will say, "I wish I had a limit break."

 

(Fallout 2) Reference to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - In the Den graveyard, the bottom left tombstone tells you that it's occupant was decapatiated by ill-tempered mutant sea bass

 

(Fallout 2) Reference to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - A man having bathroom troubles in the game says "Who does Number two work for!?", which is a line Austin Powers delivers as he is being strangled by a thug in a Las Vegas bathroom stall in the film

Also, In a battle in the Enclave Oil Rig, somebody said "I've got a bag full of Shhh with your name on it!" (Dr. Evil)

 

(Fallout 2) Reference to Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise - When you try to join the Hubologists in San Francisco, you are told to go see Vikky Goldman, and Juan Cruise who are high ranking members (and porn stars). The Reference is that hubology is really Scientology, and that Vikky Goldman and Juan Cruise are really Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise

 

(Fallout 2) Reference to Dirty Harry - Quote from magnum's description: "being that this is the most powerful handgun in the world, and can blow your head clean-off, you've got to ask yourself one question, do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" This is Clint Eastwood's famous line in Dirty Harry.

Edited December 7, 2010 by simplywayne90

[simplywayne90]

-------------------------The Guardian Of Forever------------------------

 

 

 

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090721205408/fallout/images/thumb/2/20/Fo2_Guardian_of_Forever.png/558px-Fo2_Guardian_of_Forever.png

 

 

 

In Fallout 2, The Guardian of Forever encounter, is a time portal which lets the player travel back in time before the start of Fallout 1 to break the water chip in Vault 13 (Causing the beginning of the series, paradox-ily) After breaking the water chip it says that "the vault has maybe 100-150 days left of water, this comforts you for some reason." Its a reference to something from Star Trek apprantly.

 

This encounter could be made realitively easily using the modders resources I've found

http://fallout3nexus.com/downloads/images/14088-1-1286148621.jpg

This was the closest looking thing to the original portal.

Various Space Shows Resources -- Modders Resource

 

And for Vault 13

Vault 13 And 15 -- Modders Resource

Classic Style Vault 13 - Modders Resource

Blank Vault Suit Normals - Modders Resource

Vault Suit Numbers - Modders Resource

Meos Vault-Tec - Modders Resource

 

In the encounter you also get a solar powered gun, If anyone has a good ray-gun mod (should be a custom gun and we only need 1)

 

And I'm sure someone has solar ammo of some sort.

[simplywayne90]

If your interested in this thread I'd also suggest looking up on the Fallout 2132 mod project which is trying to overhul the entire game back to classic fallout

 

Also I know a lot of modders have read this but is my method (from the first post) even a workable way to do this? I'd appriciate an answer from any skilled modder.

Edited December 8, 2010 by simplywayne90

[simplywayne90]

Edit:

 

December 9, 2010

 

Heres another monty python scene we could recreate using the legion cruesifixtions

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

 

Let me know if anyone like this idea.

Edited December 10, 2010 by simplywayne90

[Terralventhe]

A recommendation would be to also try and include more recent examples of hilarity, such as Metal Gear Solid's cardboard box or Johnny Tanaka (The guard with bowel problems), or making fun of Twilight (like having some Vault girl being head-over heels in love with a Feral Glowing One by the name of Ed Cohen). Edited December 9, 2010 by Terralventhe

[simplywayne90]

A recommendation would be to also try and include more recent examples of hilarity, such as Metal Gear Solid's cardboard box or Johnny Tanaka (The guard with bowel problems), or making fun of Twilight (like having some Vault girl being head-over heels in love with a Feral Glowing One by the name of Ed Cohen).

 

I didn't even think of twilight but I love that idea, maybe her name could be Twilight,

 

I've been putting off coming up with original special encounters so far until I can confirm that my methods even work. The only exception was Nanuk and his little tribal, but thats still from fallout and has damn funny dialog I believe, however if you'd like to I encourage any well thought parodies.

 

However I do have some guidelines I'd like us to follow

 

Make them funny, not mean.

Offensive ones are allowed, but only somewhat offensive, or only offensive to people who are dead. (Like no one will be sad Killing a zombie/ghoul Hitler who attacks you willing "Jewish!" in german, revenge time everyone)

Make them obvious but not too obvious, your supposed to kind of guess.

 

I'll think up more if I see anything too nasty or offensive or bad.

Edited December 9, 2010 by simplywayne90