Border House: Unlike the first two entries in the Fallout series, in which a PC could flirt with and marry same-sex partners, Fallout 3 is mostly straight as an arrow. Play a female character and you can have the “room rental” scene with the waitress, but there is no opportunity to flirt with the women of the wasteland. A perk gives access to damage bonuses against and special conversation options with the opposite sex, but there is no same-sex equivalent.
So you may imagine my delight when, trundling around the wasteland of New Vegas killing wolves and stealing beer bottles, I discovered a new perk: “Confirmed Bachelor”.
Cue much speculation from my partner and me. Did that mean…? Well, the picture DID have a man looking deviously at another man in bed… But maybe the game makers just meant the damage bonus thing… Wait! There were gay conversation options! There were female gay conversation options! You could have gay AND straight conversation options!
That’s right: in New Vegas you can choose to be gay or bisexual. And you get combat bonuses for doing so.
BLG writes, "Some of the most popular games have had a rough start, with some of them being downright unplayable.
Despite that, developers have managed to turn it around for them and make their game worth playing. Here are some games that had a rough start but were pretty great."
Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.
Several years ago, i submitted an idea to Rare that would change up the mechanics of battling opponents in the game. whereby if you died in battle, you turned into a skeleton warrior and had to fight your way back to the land of the living. It was an interesting twist on respawning and would allow the player to experience both sides of a battle.
I keep hoping to see something like that get added to the game.
It's sad that this quick retort is more often than not true... The industry's acceptance of release and patch has gone too far.
Days gone! By the end of the game I couldn't drop it down! I went around so many hours killing zombies! It was addictive by the end.
I don't know, I got it abit late, and struggled for a few days, and then all of a sudden it just got good!!
The Fallout Anthology Edition is coming to PC very soon, and is packaged with some very S.P.E.C.I.A.L. bonuses.
It’s an awful downgrade to the last one they did
They included physical disc back then
I would love the classic fallout games on console. Closest I could find was atom rpg, I liked that one a lot
Getting free games is never a bad thing and Amazon Luna has new offerings for Fallout fans looking for free adventures in the Wasteland.
This - both the article and the subject it covers - is so awesome I nearly applauded from my chair.
That happens sometimes, but not frequently. Well done, Miss Haitch / Borderhouse. I have a new site in my RSS reader.
yeah it's cool. my character is a gay and he has heavily flirted with a couple of guys , but he's only had sex with a male prostitute who wasn't attractive tbh. but he was desperate so i let him. you don't see anything explicit, just the sit on a bed fade out thing, but it's the thought that counts. flirting is more fun. I sort of gave up on the game though cos the crashing was just a bit too often for my stress levels. keep meaning to finish it.
gey hate: +10 damage to gay
I play this game quite often and I have no idea what the article is talking about.... Are we playing the same game?
Wow and someone just found this out?? I knew about this for a long time. Benny I sleep with him and kill him in bed as my female character.