Ironman Debate [special encounter spoil]

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I started an "Ironman" Game, For those of you who don't know what that is... It's playing one of the Fallout's and if you die...Game Over, period. No picking up from a saved game, when you die... you...are......DEAD. So anyways, I was playin' it as an Unarmed character (Which as you probably know is rather hard compared to using a gun.) ...And I freaking died. Pissed me off, cause I was doin so good..... But here's the catch, I wasn't killed by a pistol... a shotgun...bazooka, bozar... or even a crazed deathclaw... I was killed by an..... EXPLODING COW. Damn that badluck random encounter all to hell!

I don't know whether to count that or not! I mean, It's retarded... It's not like you could get killed by a random exploding cow in real life, But then again it IS part of the game.. What do you people think? Should I pick up where I left off and ignore the whole cow thing, or should I count that as a legitimate death?

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Hmh, my take on this.

In my opinion the exploding cows are one of the stupidest jokes in the game and it's certainly not a way someone would die in a post apocalyptic world. I'd just reload and pretend it never happened.

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your character died, your dead, no matter what u do u can not ignore it and predenting it did not happen is not helping. it maybe a ramdom encounter with a exploding cow, it is still part of the game, bottom line is your character is dead, start over.

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From wht i've read you save incase a bug mucks it up or i suppose you might want to stop the game and have a little break. You still haven't died so legally you can carry on with the game from where you left off still being an ironman game.

I've never personally tried one though so i maybe slightly mistaken.
 
RE: Hmh, my take on this.

not to b mean, but i rekon ur dead.. if in real life, u died jokinly, perhaps someone drops a cow on ur head for sum reason, u aint gunna come back to life..
 
Yeah, Like that guy said, I save because of bugs and the like. My game crashes a lot, It crashes sometimes if I miss a shot and it makes the noise of it hitting a wall or something instead, rather odd... But I save after every battle because of it, just in case.

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"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things..
The glass is always half empty....and cracked..
And I just cut my lip on it... and chipped a tooth.."
 
My opinion is that, well, its just damn stupid a exploding cow was in your way. A joke the game plays on you no? Dont count it. Id say count only what could happen in real life, if real life was a post-apocalyptic world and we had all that cool stuff. And a cow weighs in excess of 400(i think) Ibs., so the chance of someone dropping it on your head is nil.

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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Nov-19-00 AT 03:11PM (GMT)[p]Ok so what if you haven't answered right to guardian of forever, would you have ignored it?
It's also a random encounter. Obviously you're not new to this forum and it's not the first game you're doing.
So IMHO you should have know about the exploding brahmins and get the hell away.

Sorry!

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>Ok so what if you haven't
>answered right to guardian of
>forever, would you have ignored
>it?
>It's also a random encounter. Obviously
>you're not new to this
>forum and it's not the
>first game you're doing.
>So IMHO you should have know
>about the exploding brahmins and
>get the hell away.
>
>Sorry!

Guardian of forever was the portal to the original Vault 13 ^.- You're thinking about the Bridge of Death. And I couldn't get away from the cows fast enough, It was at night first off.. I tried to run out of the crowd and -boom-. Also, I'd never answer wrong to the Bridge of Death question, I mean....It's pretty obvious what you need to do if you've ever seen the damn movie.. Even a char with an intelligence of 1 can do it. And screw it, I've decided to pick up where I left off, I'm going with what someone else said... "Normal ways of dying in a post nuclear war" or something. But.. If I walk outside one day and see an exploding cow taking out one of my neighbors, I'll stop my game. :)

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"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things..
The glass is always half empty....and cracked..
And I just cut my lip on it... and chipped a tooth.."
 
<But.. If I walk outside one day and see an exploding cow taking out one of my neighbors, I'll stop my game>

Sure, wait till it happens, I say lets prevent it, Shoot cows at sight! especially two headed ones!

Good luck on the rest of your game. Myself never had the courage to do it. Started it but i didnt save so when i died i did not have the courage to start over again.

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On a funny note.

After deciding to pick up where I left off and ignore the exploding cow incident... I was killed by a Mutant with a rocket launcher. Go figure, and after I made such a big deal out of it.

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"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things..
The glass is always half empty....and cracked..
And I just cut my lip on it... and chipped a tooth.."
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RE: On a funny note.

I say you just let it slide. The whole point of Ironman games is to survive, but you had no 'say' in whether you got to go to that encounter or not. counting that would totally defeat the purpose of ironman games. Thats like saying: a glitch caused the people at vault city attacked me for no reason, and they killed me' and making THAT count. I say just let it slide.

However, if you are just SOOOO serious about those kinds of things, you did die, and it wasnt a glitch. but, i still stand with: just reload. it wasnt your fault.

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RE: On a funny note.

This is just my opininon but couldn't you just carry on and say thta it isn't an Ironman thing. I mean that's probably what i'd do. Try to complete the game without dying. If you die once it isn't ironman but you can still play on if you like the character or something
 
Yup, I agree with that, besides...

You started playing Ironman, so it really is up to you wether or not you reload.
 
RE: On a funny note.

The gods of fallout played a cruel joke on you my friend :D

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