Forum:Fear and loathing in new vegas



It's my opinion that fallout new vegas is certainly a worthy successor to fallout 3, improving and innovating on gameplay and story to make a riveting game, But I am very dissappointed they didn't include any references to Fear and loathing in las vegas in there. I was almost expecting a Hunter thompson-esqe character, with a hulking, half crazed lawyer to appear on interstate fifteen and start screaming about bats and nazis, or better yet, have a quest based on his interactions with those psychos, but alas, there was none. Now I just hope they include it in some DLC

Yeah, to see a huge convertable red cadilac come flying down the I15 pursued by bats with two demented individuals ranting and howling at everything and nothing...could be a nice add to wild wasteland :D Captain Taipan 12:01, December 23, 2010 (UTC)

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No i dont think they should do anything like this, Ya see in Fallout 3 and fallout 1 The humor Was calm ,well timed, and Suitable , whilst in Fallout 2 and Fallout New vegas had Forced humor , they would place these utterly ridiculous things that dont fit in with the seriousness of the games setting and arent actually as funny as they think they are , New vegas should have been a desolate , abandoned place with nothing to laugh about in it , It would have been much more suitable

I'm thinking the reason they didn't put any nods to Fear and Loathing is that it's the wrong time period. The Fallout world is very 1950's retro future-ist. Fear and Loathing was from the 70's making any of it's cultural references out of place in New Vegas. Mr.goodtrips 20:53, December 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think that there are quite a few popculture refernces that are in FO's 1,2 & 3 and FO:NV that don't necessarily come from the 1950's retro futurist milleu. Adding in a minor bit like a nod to Fear & Loathing wouldn't be out of place at all. The other reason they may not have included it could be for copywrite/licence purposes or perhaps they might include it in a future DLC? [shrug] Captain Taipan 00:16, December 24, 2010 (UTC)

Actually,"A week in Vegas is like stumbling into a Time Warp, a regression to the late fifties..." - Hunter S. Thompson(Raoul Duke) excerpt from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas part two, chapter eight. There were still many qualities of the 50's lingering around in 70's Vegas, as explained by HST while writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Mrgudkat 22:59, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

New Vegas doesn't need anything like that, let alone "Fear and Loathing" almost certainly doesn't exist in the Fallout universe, it's already incredible and dark as it is. If you think Fallout: New Vegas has forced humor, then you're wrong. A lot of the themes in New Vegas are very dark, for example, upon reaching The Fort, you are met by citizens being crucified on crosses. How is that forced humor? The only forced humor in the game is down to the trait Wild Wasteland, which can be chosen if the player wants to have easter eggs in their game. The mormons should be introduced if anything, or maybe even remnants of American Indians who had become ghouls after the war. ~ The Smoothe One

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have been happy to see a blatant reference like the white caddy or the red convertable in FO:NV. It would have been bad enough to introduce Raoul Duke or Dr. Gonzo as characters, but a quote would have been acceptable. It doesn't really matter that Fear and Loathing wasn't in the FO universe, there are tons of references to pop culture in FO. As a HST fan, I'm not disappointed that there was no reference, but I think it would be acceptable to throw a quick quote or quest name from the book into a future addon. Mrgudkat 23:33, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

I love the book "Fear & Loathing" a very subtle nod or two to this work of art would have been fine but until now I'd never even thought of it.

Don't worry though there's enough weird clothing out there for you to role play a character on Hunter!

Gunner Bill 10:51, January 4, 2011 (UTC)

no there if they were going to put a reference in it should be like you go to the macaran air port and while your walking around the outside part you see in the middle of two trucks the great red shark and maybe a note just for some laughs --MR.fallout 23:21, January 27, 2011 (UTC)

I don't think the Fallout games have humor. Really, you may think something is intellectually humorous in the sense that it is entirely ridiculous, not in a bad sense, but look at Fallout 3's Liberty Prime, so retro it was funny, just like with laser rifles and plasma rifles. And then again, using references outside the timeline isn't meant for the NPCs to have known about them, it is about for the players to think "Yeah, I remember that. Funny." References aren't meant for the characters, they're meant for us, so throwing in something twenty years after it was there is totally fine.

Fall out 3 no humour??? Lol you can't have played it very much ;) What about all the bizarre set-ups with kidnapped teddy bears tied to the railway, the headless subway motorcyle jumper... and countless other similar scenes??? Gunner Bill 18:26, February 1, 2011 (UTC)