Realitycrash said:
johannmaximus said:
According to the source files, the message is an mp3 titled hanscom msg. Hanscom Air Force Base is located near Bedford, Massachusetts. Quabbin is also in Massachusetts. I think this adds another layer. Either this reinforces the validity or makes this an even more elaborate hoax.
Awh man, Fallout plus Lovecraft Country in one game. I just think I had a nerd-gasm.
Well, Fallout 3 had a very Lovecraftian quest involving a cursed book that was part of "Point Lookout" and actually brought you back to a location in the main game to destroy it. Something which certainly added the possibility for them to start messing around with dark mysticism and the like if they move on to New England and want to go in that direction.
That said I have my doubts that they will do a whole lot with it, because it would have a lot of people screaming bloody murder as fun as it might be. As Yahtzee is always complaining about, there are a lot of people who get irate whenever "ancient mystical cults" show up by surprise to mix things up or act as a game changer in what seemed to be an otherwise fairly straightforward story. It does not however bother me much when done correctly.
Truthfully, going to "The Commonwealth" is pretty much expected, as they left a lot of questions about that in "Fallout 3" rather intentionally. I'd expect that we'll probably seeing it having a sort of "Blade Runner" type vibe as androids passing as humans seems to be a big issue, and apparently they even had specialists for tracking down escapees, and an underground railroad of sorts established. This was also an element of Wasteland as well, which is pretty much the first game in the series (despite the development of Wasteland 2). The whole bit with the Martians, and the "Fire Lance" was from the Wasteland paragraphs book, as a sort of joke/misdirection aimed at people who tried to read the paragraphs randomly to solve puzzles or figure out what was going on in places. I wouldn't be remotely surprised if we wind up with some references to Finster and his project, and perhaps even a visit by "Stu" who revealed himself to be an android at the end of the story tying together the original Wasteland clue book.
I also am sort of waiting to see if they start tossing in some KKK references, in this case the KKK referring to the Killer Klown Kommandos which are the main antagonists of "Fountain Of Dreams", which was the original, and very obscure, sequel to Wasteland. While a lot of people were looking at the evil clown mask and "kiddie killer" bit in Fallout 3 as a Michel Meyers reference, I think it was supposed to be a double whammie with the Killer Klowns, both invoking that movie, and making a subtle reference to an obscure game in the universe few have probably even heard of.
Then of course there is another spiritual successor to "Wasteland" of a sort called "Escape From Hell" that has been begging for a remake. It mostly just used the central Wasteland engine though, and thus suffered from a lot of the same problems as that game, making it a serious pain to play nowadays. Something they thankfully fixed with the recent "update" of the original Wasteland Inxile just got done with.
