Ever since the noclip cheat in Unreal clipping has been woefully unapreciated. It's clearly there especially for the anecdotal lulz 
Dogmeat
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You know, I've played a lot of Fallout 3 (Had to borrow my friends copy tho >.>) and i never once got Dogmeat for this exact reason.Caramel Frappe said:
I just never saw the point in companions until they redid the system in New Vegas so they don't instantly die for no reason.
That and Rex was WAAAAAAAAAAY cooler then Dogmeat and doesn't die to everything nearly as easily!
Cyborgs are always cooler
I never actually found the dog in fallout 3 on my first playthrough, and I didn't bother finding him on subsequent ones because I didn't want to see him die. In new vegas, I considered Ed-e more like my pet, though; also the k-9000 gatling gun. Also, considering new vegas made you kill someone else's cyborg doggie I always felt kind of bad.
It'll be interesting to see if the dog becomes somehow mandatory in the new one.
It'll be interesting to see if the dog becomes somehow mandatory in the new one.
Bethesda, causing me to feel something? Hah! Bethesda games have interesting stories, but Bethesda seems to have a track record for falling flat on story delivery. I'll be pretty impressed the day they manage to make me feel attached to one of those robotic NPCs.
Admittedly it was due partly due to a mod, but I once had Heironymous Lex get knocked completely out of the world, in mid quest. Had to console port to him, walk him as close as I could to a road, then fast-travel. It was enough to knock him back into the normal map. Needless to say, I disable that mod any time I run the Thieves guild quests now.The Artificially Prolonged said:
Oddly, I never even saw Dogmeat in my first three Fallout 3 playthroughs. I'd heard about him when looking up things when I was trying to find the fucking vampire lair, but couldn't be bothered to actually go look until around the middle of my fourth character, with whom I just wanted to be sure I'd seen all the content.
I don't even remember longer than a few dialogue choices being offered before he fades from my memory, so for all I know, I shot his head off for giggles the moment I left the scrap yard.
I don't even remember longer than a few dialogue choices being offered before he fades from my memory, so for all I know, I shot his head off for giggles the moment I left the scrap yard.
Just finished playing Fallout 1. Dogmeat ran off and attacked 3 enemies and by time i caught up with him he was dead. I really they would let me control his movements.
I just wish companions like Dogmeat actually had some effort put into getting the player attached to them. As it is, I could care less that they die or anything the vast majority of the time because they are so flat and uninteresting with nothing much to do with them besides recruit them and are either too weak to be useful or so freaking overpowered they can pretty much play the game for you. In fact, it's true of companions in general are rather dull most of the time and are completely pointless for stealth characters because they ALWAYS give your position away no matter how sneaky they are supposed to be themselves.
Nonono, Bethesda are really, REALLY good at eliciting one emotion, and one in particular, Terror.sageoftruth said:
I refer, of course, to the dead, souless gaze of their NPC's who cheerily look like they are about to gut you and wear your skin as a cloak... Don't believe me?
He'll run into a forcefield at a military base like an idiot and get killed.
I've played Fallout 1 around half a dozen times and I've never had any of my companions survive to the end, ever. Now Ian I don't really care about because he always shoots me in the back so screw him but Dogmeat? It breaks my heart everytime.
"It was there that I came across a dog, who adopted me and was my faithful friend from there on. I miss Dogmeat to this day." - The Vault Dweller.
I've played Fallout 1 around half a dozen times and I've never had any of my companions survive to the end, ever. Now Ian I don't really care about because he always shoots me in the back so screw him but Dogmeat? It breaks my heart everytime.
"It was there that I came across a dog, who adopted me and was my faithful friend from there on. I miss Dogmeat to this day." - The Vault Dweller.
I bought the GOTY edition and so have never experienced a Dogmeat that can be killed. The first thing I do after visiting Megaton is go pick him up. And, yeah, I've seen him take on Behemoths, Feral Ghoul Reavers, missile launchers, etc. and be just fine.hittite said:
OT: Great comic this week. This is a sentiment I can relate to concerning Bethesda games.
I save every few minutes thanks to the possibility of a dead companion. They even died in New Vegas at times.