Forum:Fallout 3 - Personal Tear-Jerkers

Of The Reason 20:16, July 30, 2010 (UTC)

On my first trip to Arlington National Cemetary, I noticed that there were 3 raiders who were hanging around - it may be a game, but Arlington is still home to our war dead, and the fact that these hoodlums were even around triggered my "Berserk Button." In response, I made sure that they would never defile the cemetary again, taking them out with Lincoln's Repeater.

As I walked around Arlington, I couldn't make out any of the names on the graves though I suppose it should have been expected, considering it's been 200 years and time had certainly erroded most of the names away. I said to myself, "We may not know your name, but your sacrifice will never be forgotten."

But as I continued walking, growing increasingly morose (the fact that base 3 was playing in the background didn't help matters much), I stumbled across a flower in front of one of the graves. Even in the middle of a nuclear wasteland, there was a sign of life amongst all the death and destruction. Even as I type this, I find it hard to hold the tears back.

I don't know why I was struck so emotionally as I wandered through the cemetary - I mean, I actually visited Arlington about 9 years ago, but back then, I just went, "Oh. A cemetary. Huh." I guess I didn't fully understand the whole place at the time, but now? I'm not sure I'll be able to visit Arlington without getting a little misty-eyed, be it FO3 or real life.Titan AEX4 02:14, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

I felt similar when I came upon the slavers at the Lincoln memorial. Wickedjacob 06:24, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you Jacob. When I found out they were slavers, I said "I don't think so" and shot every single one of them and dragged their corpses into the reflecting pool. (Off topic real fast: The real pool looks the same as Fallout 3 it's so dirty... minus the light radiation.) P1 Press Start 02:27, July 14, 2010 (UTC)

lol. that was awesome. thanks for that titan 206.45.126.121 15:43, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

Usually related to war/pre-war people and trying to figure out thier last moments. Finding Bob Andersteen's radio message, then finding that he and his family are nothing more then war time corpses. Stuck in sewer waiting for help is a hell of a way to go.

Also Vaults to me are rusty, dirty hellholes. I mean your trying to survive a horrible situation and you got some "Overseer" whos going to get you killed. Vault Master 04:06, July 13, 2010 (UTC)

It's worse than that. He's not trying to kill you, he's experimenting on you.

12:11, July 13, 2010 (UTC)

I always found a walk through a rusty vault to be a solemn experience. Big steel graves for most of them. Big McLargeHuge 02:38, July 14, 2010 (UTC)

I hear that ^. Every time I walk through a Vault, I just think to myself "What happened to all the life here?" To think that these people were being experimented on sickens me! Corpses of children and adults, dead because the government was being it's typical self... TobiasSmith 13:14, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

Dad dying to save me was one... Oasis another, but happy tears. Finally, Bittercup. Even amongst the wreckage, the dying, and the kidnapping, you still found time to look pretty, and hit on guys. God bless America? God bless slutty teenage girls. Vault-BA 01:40, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Not that I'm trying to diss you guys or anything, but you all seem very emotional over the smallest things. I mean, you all are very appreciative over these things, but it's just a game, you know? It's meant to entertain. Like, you can't be like "I'm not going to kill this guy because it's unethical" or something in a game because they aren't living. You should be appreciative of our country, and our world, and the beauty in it, not man-made games. Still, this is just my opinion, and not meant to be offensive. Sombar1

Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that games can't tug at our heartstrings, right? =P Titan AEX4 02:20, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

First time I played the game, I had fun. But as you play it again and again, you begin to actually understand it. The Fallout team put a lot of work into making this game emotional. I think anybody who feels nothing about it has something wrong with them. Vault-BA 02:20, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

I wasn't saying that I felt nothing playing it, and I wasn't saying that no one else should, what I was saying was that I wouldn't expect others to start crying over national landmarks being defaced within a different world. I can understand people getting emotional over a game, and I did cry a little when my dad died in the game, but a game isn't truly meant to be moving or artistic or any of that first, but is instead to be fun first. So yeah, after a while i guess one could get extremely emotional over the game, but as I said, i wouldn't expect it in this game and under those circumstances. Sombar1

I just found a skeleton clutching a teddy bear in the corner of a bathroom in Vault 92. Big McLargeHuge 20:50, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

A slight twinge when you see the skeleton straight after leaving the vault and when i found that abandoned shack that was full of them. That really hurt. 21:13, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

I felt sad when I was exploring Springvale School, and behind a cell door, there were several skeletons of children. And another when I saw a tiny skeleton next to a rigged baby carriage. Made me sad when I found the rigged baby carriage because someone had the audacity to remove a child's body from it's resting place and rig the carriage to explode. StatusQuo 23:26, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

It's all so horrible. My cemetary trip was also a big emotional thing. Yum Brahmin 18:31, August 1, 2010 (UTC)

I was sad when all of big town were dead because i left them all to die86.160.247.195 13:18, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

BY FAR, when I sold Bumbles into slavery to get a stupid hood. Still feel bad Ferbil 16:44, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

Ummmm.. oh yeah, getting only 25 caps for killing Tenpenny using ghouls. I should have got extra for that. Fucking ghoul bastard... xD Vault-BA 17:18, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

Seeing the pickets outside vault 101... Why wouldn't they just let them in? D:

It was sad when Dogmeat and Dad died and in lock and load the dead kid in a care wearing a party hat from little lamplight he was 16 fresh out of lamplight off to see the world and they did that to him I was glad I killed them all. Knight Captain Kerr 22:54, August 17, 2010 (UTC)

It made me very sad when after my second time in vault 101 because amata told me i could never come back. You see i killed the overseer in the mision escape and then i killed the next overseer when i came back to the vault because of the radio signal. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User:Rohtvak

Well, I'm not a very emotional person, but with the GTS mod, and when I traveled the world, seeing all the lonelieness made me sad.