new cities!

[duncanlambert]

When i got to Megaton i thought, yeah, this is pretty cool. Then i heard from an Npc that is was one of the best towns in the wasteland. My heart broke right then and there. I knew that the rest of the game would be aimless wonderings through vast wasteland. In the previous falllout, that was only a very small part of it. You always had a map and a destination and free roaming only yielded small bonuses or amusing scenes. When i first start up a game of fallout 2, i forsake the main mission to immidiately head for either vault city or New Reno. These are the best towns in the game, there are a million and one things to do in them. Could become a prizefighter, a porn star, a citizen of Vault city with jobs to perform, slaves to buy/sell or liberate, a gangster, a made man, a treasure hunter, a gambler, a debt collector, a gun runner, a caravan guard, a magazine collector, a prostitute, an assassin, a gravedigger,......starting to struggle to remember the rest.

 

There were a fair few companions to find as well, like a robobrain and a drug peddling geek. I loved to become a karmasutra master and a sexpert,

to impress all the 'film makers' and haggle my price per film to a reasonable amount of cash for every film i made, Then when i became a Prizefighter, i would walk down the streets of new reno and the people would shout my chosen name at me. My ego inflated, i would wink at the hookers shouting how my exceptional performance in 'poke-a-hotass' or 'vault sexteen' was the best they ever seen.

 

Vault city seemed to be the only 'clean' place in the entire wasteland. They had used their G.E.C.K when they emerged from the vault and seems to have been the only vault in any of the fallout games that seemed to have worked exactly as it was meant to. You would be able to get a vault citizenship through a vigorous test and physical, then you would be be free to perform a veriaty of quests. one of my faves is fixing the medical computer that had many uses, like finding chips in various places, that would contain details on how to increase S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats (except luck of course) then you would also be able to get combat armour implanted under your skin for a bonus damage resistance, but penalty to your charisma. Think about it, your not gonna look exceptionally sexy with pieces of combat armour crammed under your skin. You could also get an update for your pip boy, that would be cool to increase its abilities. Maybe even a new pip boy thats smaller and less 'in yer face' then the current one.

 

These towns all had multiple shops with vendors that could be generous or cheap, and hundreds of hours worth of quests, many of them with a decent about of interest. You could get certain weapons modified, like an extended magazine on your pistol, or a scope on your hunting rifle. These towns had Everything, yet nothing in FO3 could come to even a fraction of the city that either vault city or new reno were.

 

I understand that im asking for a massive, massive project. But for me, They were what fallout 2 were all about. (that and the bridge of death :D) If any modders loved fallout 2 for the same reason, then they would love to do FO3 Justice by adding the either of the aformentioned towns. These bastions of villany and corruption. These cities of sin and seduction.

 

Im asking alot, but for the love of god and all that is holy, improve the game 100%, every day that goes by that its not made, i shall kill a puppy.