HAMPOLLO Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 (edited) Remember the first time you entered Nipton and heard the blood-curdling "City of the Dead" music from F1 & F2? First you encountered that crazy Powder Ganger babbling about winning a lottery, then you saw the smoke and then the fires and the impaled heads and the crucified Power Gangers. Then the "Oh S#!*" moment when you saw all those dogs and Legionaries in front of the town hall. Then you had to listen to Vulpes Inculta's insufferably arrogant speech, all the while wishing you could draw your gun and splatter him all over the landscape, but knowing that if you tried, you'd surely be loading up your last save within a few seconds? Pretty horrifying, wasn't it? The Nipton Lottery has to be somewhere in the top ten of unsettling video game moments... However, the effect is somewhat lessened by the fact that you had never been there before. You'd never met any of the people on the crosses, or the crooked mayor who was burned alive on a pile of tires. You'd never done any quests for them or had any interaction whatsoever. Imagine if it had happened in Goodsprings? Imagine if it was Sunny Smiles and Doc and Trudy and Easy Pete and the others up on those crucifixes; people you had gotten to know and even like, as far as you can like a computer game character, anyway? I'm not saying I want a mod that decapitates and crucifies the people of Goodsprings, but rather a mod that allows us to enter Nipton before the tragic day of the lottery and mingle with the people there before they meet their horrible fate. We could barter in the General Store, meet the sleazy and corrupt Mayor Steyn, learn a little bit about the crazed paranoiac with the scorpion cage in his livingroom, maybe do a little gambling or patronize one or more of the prostitutes the town was famed for, do a little minor quest or two (perhaps find parts for the guy with the Mr. Gutsy) and generally get to know the hard-partying folks of Nipton. After a day or three, the open road will beckon and we will be on our way. Some time later, we are given a quest that requires we return to Nipton. We arrive, expecting to see old friends, and then... the horror begins... Edited August 16, 2016 by HAMPOLLO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtull1127 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 this is a great idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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