I found it

[heracy00]

fallout 1 - 2 not funny.

 

OK, if you are a rampant monty python fan, and enjoy plagiarized lines, then yeah I guess it's funny.

 

The key to understanding the humour in f3 is understanding IRONY.

 

The whole experience is bitter sweet.

[crimsonsteel]

No, it's just that most people don't know their geography. Somebody, I don't know whether it was on these boards or elsewhere, made a post commenting on how there was "a guy in the water" in the Project Purity control room and asked if there was a way to get him out (durr, it's the Jefferson Memorial you dolt, take a wild guess as to who the mystery man is).

 

Abraham Washington at the Capital Preservation Society is pretty funny, too- if you ask him for details on the Declaration of Independence, he rattles off this whole blatantly wrong story about the signing and how the document was then flown to England on a plane. It highlights the ignorance of a society so far removed from its history that it has been screwed up and mostly forgotten, but because we know what really happened it turns his sincere zeal for preserving "history" into absolute hilarity.

 

Then we have the Washington Monument- memorial to our first president and the man who led the Continental Army to victory against Great Britain- which has been turned into an over-glorified radio tower, the Capitol which has literally been taken over by bloodthirsty crooks, and the Lincoln Memorial which has, ironically enough, been occupied by slavers.

 

But no, Fallout 3 doesn't have dark humor in it at all. [/sarcasm]

 

wow, i only read the 1st page and already there is a lot of short sighted commenting. does anyone pay attention to storylines or side storylines for that matter? the slavers were in the memorial beocs they were trying to stop the slaves from taking it and using it as a rally point. a safe haven. the humor in this is dark, so dark its pessimistic, so pessimistic its depressing, did anyone hear any of the keller tapes? "oh i have a mushroom cloud to walk into" what kinda joke is that??? iknow it has something to do with the game, collect all the numbers and then find the bunker, but it was bethesdas pitiful attempt at a joke.

The nukacola lady, yeah its just silly, but its also a side quest if anyone cared to notice what she said after she was all hyperactive, instead of laughing at her addiction. <i have to admit, it was kinda funny when u give her "bodyguard\boyfriend" the quantums>

whats truly lacking in fo3, is that in fo2, the humor that was going around wasnt just movies, it was jokes on just humanity over all and what some people would call "wacky characters", such as drunk priests... the people in that werent all "oh my life is poo, the supermutants are going to eat me", i mean sure, being stuck at the bottom of a tanker surrounded by centaurs and aliens isnt good, or that the mining town is skrewed cos their mining chip broke and their tunnels are also flooded with aliens, but completing that, u get more background on the char that was in trouble, such as the girl that was stuck in the tanker, she was a nanny and the children mutated into monsters etc... and yes, i am playing fo2 atm

 

but what i can say, is that fallout 3 is almost a different genre than fallout 2. sure it would be nice to have blackisle still around, but what can u do. this game is more about the gameplay than the comedy, although walking thru a wasteland with GNR music in the background is just comical as it does not match. the almost flamboyancy of the music, on the grey partched landscape, with a mutated bear running directly at u, is probably the funniest thing in this game, if ur in the right mood.

as much as i like fallout 2, i like fallout 3 a lot also, and with fallout 2 being part of a bygone era, u cannot really match them.

 

~yet another edit~

i did miss the fact of no cars in this game. its annoying that u cannot fast travel to towns at the start of the game like in oblivion. no horse eqivilants.

but yes, the mr gutsy and the giant robot are great.

mr gutsy: "take that u commie son of a female dog" or something and "tell momma (if forgot)"

giant robots been said. by everyone. still good. (they shouldve put some russian reversal jokes in there)

 

in soviet russia:

*bed sleeps on you

*computer game plays you

*horse rides you

just to name a few of the best.

[mobil115]

somewhere near ranger's base near seward

[Sephlyn]

I liked the detail about the former slave's dogs name 4score or whatever being a part of old man Lincon's speech.

 

But let's face it Fallout 2 had characters who were funny and comical. And on a quick break down sex, blatant drug abuse and over the top violence is funny.

(I guess the next part I tell you will not surprise you when I say that "New Reno" was my favorite town in the Fallout Universe) And when I say over the top violence I mean some of the options you could choose for the sake of choosing it (I'd always drop the land mine while that guy was in the grave)

 

 

Nuking Megaton doesn't count because you took away your home base and your decent mid point for any travels wtf is what with that? and the crap we do in battle can't count either. Cause the combat system sadly was more dynamic ten years ago then it is now with more creative deaths that were still more over the top then Fallout 3's

 

(This being said revive the true SPECIAL and skills, opt traits options in the game to make character growth more unique)

[heracy00]

Nuking Megaton doesn't count because you took away your home base and your decent mid point for any travels wtf is what with that?

 

Uuuuh .. Tenpenny Tower? You hear of it?

[Guest]

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Nuking Megaton doesn't count because you took away your home base and your decent mid point for any travels wtf is what with that?

 

 

Uuuuh .. Tenpenny Tower? You hear of it?

 

Tenpenny is only a replacement for a home base but it is not much of a place of trade. By blowing Megaton you destroy a lot of opportunities and end up making the game more barren. You could replace Megaton with Rivet City but.....

[Werewolf334]

Some funny things I like is the jokes from your house or suite bot :D

 

Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.

 

The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.

 

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One cannibal turns to the other and asks, "Does this taste funny to you?"

 

I once visited a crematorium that gave discounts for burn victims.

 

I was going to attend the clairvoyants meeting, but it was canceled due to unforeseen events.

 

It's common knowledge that irradiated cats have 18 half-lives.

 

Two atoms are in a bar. One says, "I think I lost an electron." The other says, "Are you sure?" to which the other replies, "I'm positive."

 

A neutron walks into a bar. "How much for a drink here, anyway?" To which the bartender responds, "For you, no charge."

 

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

 

 

I found them very funny :D

[crimsonsteel]

really, i only found the neutrons one funny, not the neutron walks into a bar tho, oh and also the clairvoyants meeting. the rest ive heard a dozen times before, and the war one, thats not a joke, thats a fact of life (im not joking there)

[Werewolf334]

alot of them you have to have knowledge in chemistry to get, which make them even funnier :D

[mikekearn]

Also, even though I guess it's not "intended" humor, the character glitches can be quite hilarious. I remember shooting a Yao-guai with a hunting rifle, then watching it fly 50 meters straight up in the air

I just saw this for the first time today while playing. When people talked about this, I thought they meant when the body goes all retarded and turns into a stretchy, disturbing mass that lags my game. But when I was cleaning out Fort Bannister, I sniped one of the mercs, and instead of falling over dead, his body just went flying up and over the whole fort.

 

It was just so unexpected that I busted up laughing and couldn't stop for several minutes.