how van buren joshua graham looks at you after ruining your reputation with all of the in game tribes, insulting every neutral npc within a 15 mile radius, and giving you negative luck within the first five seconds of joining your party
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Sibling J has just confidently announced that in his opinion, Van Buren isn't obscure media within the Fallout community at large. More specifically, he said that he believes the majority of the 'online fandom' (by which he's referring to us over here on Tumblr) would recognise Van Buren-only factions by name.
I already know this is going to be biased as all hell, especially coming from my blog of all places, but I thought it might get a bit of a general picture?
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Are a fan of classic fallout and wish you could find fellows who are into classic fallout? Then look no further! Ive created a server focused on classic fallout, however, modern fallout isnt prohibited. feel free to join or share the link!
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Radio - Escaped Tibbets Prisoner, Plague Victim
Hey has anyone seen a ghoul, oh uh, about yea tall, weirdly symmetric, kind of an asshole? No? Fuck.
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I just realized something I can’t believe I forgot to bring up when I discussed Harold’s vault in-depth a while back… if you haven’t seen it, you can read it here, but a big part of my analysis revolves around the character Diana, who took over Harold’s vault so she could pretend to be a nature god over the exclusively teenager-and-under inhabitants, when in actuality she was a human brain connected to a computer network.
The Van Buren design documents included a picture of what Diana would look like as she projected her “goddess” image to her cult, the Twin Mothers, obviously it’s just an edited photo as digital concept art and not meant to be the final design, but it gives us an idea of what the designers were going for:
Doesn’t the way she’s integrated into the trees remind you of something?
Ironically, when Harold’s mutation caused him to become rooted to the ground and create new life in the wasteland, he became the nature god that Diana so desperately wanted to be, except Harold was trapped in his state and had no desire to be worshipped!
It’s such a weirdly convenient bit of thematic paralleling that I can’t help but wonder if a Bethesda writer did this on purpose, except if that was what they were going for, wouldn’t they have had Harold reference this part of Van Buren to canonize it? I’m gonna have to chalk this up to a freak coincidence.
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I have been running a tabletop game in the Modiphius Fallout system based on the design documents for the canceled Fallout: Van Buren. This concept focuses on the Cult of Blucifer, a faction I created that venerates the horse statue outside Denver International Airport.
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I personally feel that if Bethesda gave Obsidian more time then New Vegas would've been a lot more like Van Buren
Like there's already a lot of things in relation to Van Buren in New Vegas such as The Legion, taking place in Nevada, Joshua Graham, the Chinese stealth suits in Hoover Dam
While I don't think it would've been exactly like how Van Buren was intended I definitely think there would've been more things in relation to Van Buren as there were a lot of factions in Van Buren that didn't make it into New Vegas such as The Cult of Blucifer or The Children of Calypso
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Reading the VB documents is a bit like digging in a combination treasure hoard/minefield.
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Oh god Oh shit classic fallout ocs-
Van Buren is forever in my heart and holy fuck Tactics I love you but oh my god
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I'm thinking of making a Classic Fallout focused Discord server. Please leave a reply or DM so I can send if you invite if I make it. Reblog for larger sample size!
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