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For the uninitiated https://www.fimfiction.net/story/119190/fallout-equestria
Do you like it? Do you not like it? Opinions on it? Favorite side fic?
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No.320578
>>320505
If you're on the fence about the story, I hope this review might convince you: https://onemansponyramblings.blogspot.com/2012/07/6-star-reviews-part-80-fallout.html
>>320512
>innocents suffering and dying in the most imaginative ways the author can come up with
I really don't think that's a fair description of the story. Yes, the settings of Fallout Equestria is a grim and dark one, and while death and horrible things can and will occur in the story, they are by no means the focus point. In fact, I'm also generally averse to the grimdark fanfics, but wasn't at all put off by the blood and violence in Fallout Equestria. I think part of the reason is that the more heart wrenching deaths occured before the main story took place, and is told through memories, logs, recordings, or environmental story tellings. That extra degree of separation does a fair amount to 'dull' the sorrow those tragedy might otherwise have caused.
Instead, what I remember about Fallout Equestria is the sense of adventure, to explore both the world and its history through Littlepip's eyes. I remember camaraderie between her and her traveling companions, from the banters to heartfelt moments of friendship; and I remember, believe it or not, the humor, often in the form of Littlepip's inner monologues, or at her expense. Even in the bleak wasteland, there is room for some lightheartedness.
And I also like to talk about the pacing of the story for a bit, for a monolithic story such as Fallout Equestria, KKat did an excellent job with its pacing. Inexpert writers wields their story's genre and story tags – be they tragedy, grimdark, romance or horror– like a blunt instruments, they pommel you none stop from start to finish with scenes designed to elicit the exact same emotional response from the reader, so much so that it's easy to get fatigued by it.
I like to call it the literary equivalent of artificial flavourings.
KKat did not fall into the same trap when writing Fallout Equestria. The story smoothly and organically transitions between periods of exploration, planning, 'questing', actual combat, and recuperation. Every major fight or conflict is followed by appropriate amount of downtime for both the characters and the readers to recuperate before slowly ramping up the pace again.
Combat and other life threatening situations is, well, rather common in the wasteland, but as often as they occur in the story, KKat is again careful about managing reader fatigue. Rather than writing like a play-by-play of a modern day AAA cover-shooter, the combat scenes are varied, Littlepip make good use of her arsenal of weapons, telekinesis ability and the environment. Fights are usually only described in detail when there's something new to add, such as when faced against a new enemy or set in a new environment. KKat knows when to either gloss over or skip the more repetitive bits, or when the party's fighting things far beneath their skill level.
Littlepip's creativity in combat is most readily demonstrated when she has to face against the alicorns, one of the more formidable foes she'll encounter in the wasteland. Not only do they individually possess great magical capabilities, and is capable of putting up shields that couldn't be brought down without a heavy barrage of missiles, they are also telepathically linked with each other, so when one dies the other 'remembers' how they died. This means no tactics could be exploited twice against them, and Littlepip is practically forced to rely either on the element of surprise or quick thinking and inventive strategies to survive the encounters.
Jeeze, I wrote a lot more than I expected, but with the apparent minor resurgence in board activity, I hope I could at least convince one or two people to at least give the first couple chapters a try. Fallout Equestria is one of those stories I encountered in my early fanfic readings that permanently raised the bar and standards of what I expect from a engrossing story.
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No.320648
>>320489
Well, I'm sure-as-shit eating my words now. This game is fucking brutal. Anybody know how I'm supposed to deal with clowncars full of zebras every time I open a Vault door, or how I'm supposed to react to teleporting robots with plasma rifles? I'm drawing a blank. Maybe I'm just a scrub, but this is the same problem I had with Madness Combat. The controls are wonky and the enemies react a shitload faster than you can.
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No.320759
>>320578
Thanks, but it doesn't, because it doesn't tell me what the plot is about. I'm fine with spoilers, I just want to know if it's interesting or not.
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No.320777
>>320759
The plot plays out very much like a Fallout game's main quest line, in that it started out with the protagonist initially setting out for some simple objectives but get embroiled into bigger and bigger things along the way.
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The story started out with Littlepip, a unicorn technician stuck with a boring job in Stable 2, leaving the Stable against the Overmare's wishes in search of her idol, the Stable's performer and singer Velvet Remedy, whom had left the Stable without warning.
The first 4 or 5 chapters is primarily Littlepip acclimatizing to the world outside, which involves: getting captured by slavers mere moments after stepping out, escaping through dumb luck, taking out a nest of raiders, exploring ruined factories, getting her dumbass shot half to death by a vigilante pegasus outcast because she was wearing raider bardings, subsequently formed a life-long friendship with said pegasus… and so on.
That's only the first tiny fraction of the entire fic, the plotline structure is one of the many aspect the story subtly mimics from a Fallout game, with its initial smaller sub-arcs, before Littlepip and her traveling band of companions turn their attention to three of the major players:
- The Goddess: The mysterious master of a race of alicorns almost identical in appearances, telepathically linked, and stripped of individuality. They preach and work towards the goal of Unity, where they believe the only path to a viable future is with everyone transformed into one of them and have their minds added to the gestalt.
- Red Eye: The silver-tongued leader of the largest slaver operation ever to exist in the Wasteland, based in the industrial city of Fillydelphia. Red Eye genuinely wants a better world for the future generation, and sought to do so by reclaimed the glory of pre-war Equestria, even if it means rebuilding its infrastructure and factories on the back of slave labor and forming an uneasy partnership with the Goddess.
- The Grand Pegasus Enclave: The militaristic governing body of the pegasi. The pegasi broke off from Equestria immediately after the apocalypse, closing off the skies and living above the cloud cover, putting the land before under a permanent overcast. The Enclave have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and when they caught wind of Red Eye's operations that threatens their way of life, the Enclave launched an assault, indiscriminately targeting everyone groundside.
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No.320778
>>320777 (cont.)
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Throughout her travel, Littlepip will come across records from before the war, the majority in the form of memory orbs. Some provides a brief vignette into the life of war-time Equestria, some contains informations eventually proving useful in her quest, and some will gradually piece together the secrets of the Mares of the Ministries – the Mane 6, and the precipitating factors leading to the apocalypse.
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Notable characters:
Calamity: Pegasus outcast. One of the extremely few pegasi in the Equestrian Wasteland. An adept flier and expert markspony. Is extremely principled and possess a strong sense of justice ("Ah see a raider heading at a caravan, ah'm gonna perforate her till she ain't movin' no more! It's muh policy.") He first met Littlepip when he mistook her for a raider ambushing the caravan he's watching over. At first he stuck with her out of guilt, but the two quickly bonded over the adventures they've had.
Velvet Remedy: A unicorn from Stable 2. Her beautiful voice and skill in singing made her a celebrity within the Stable, where artistic ponies are highly valued for providing ponies with entertainment and keeping the morale up. But she secretly yearns to be a healer, to leave the Stable that she sees as a cage and help the ponies outside. It is her disappearance that spurred Littlepip to follow in her wake. An idealist and the pacifist of the group, she tries to provide medical aid to everyone indiscriminately, and always advocates diplomacy when facing opponent,
SteelHooves: A Steel Ranger, a faction that stemmed from the remnants of the Ministry of Wartime Technology. Stoic, reserved, and never took off his armor. The Steel Ranger joined the party when they saved him after a close fight with the alicorns.
Xenith: A zebra slave that Littlepip rescued from Fillydelphia. A skilled alchemist and formidable hoof-to-hoof combatant.
Watcher: The first ally Littlepip met in the outside world. He has the ability to hack into and communicate through the sprite-bots that wanders the Wasteland. Secretive and with his own agenda, very few people even knows of Watcher's existence.
DJ Pon3: The enigmatic voice over the airwaves, the energetic and boisterous DJ operates the only radio station across the Wasteland, playing pre-war music and reporting news to loyal listeners, many of which focus on the exploits of "The Stable-dweller", after Littlepip's heroics caught the DJ's attention. Despite seemingly having eyes and ears everywhere, nobody can agree on the true identity of DJ Pon3…
Gawdyna Grimfeathers: The leader of Gawd's Talons, a sub-group of the griffon mercenary that operate throughout the Wasteland. Though mostly motivated by bottle caps like other mercenaries, she's nevertheless fiercely loyal the clause of the contract and those she's paid to protect.
Ditzy Doo: A ghoul pegasus from before the war, the weight of two centuries and the harsh reality of the Wasteland had not robbed the wall-eyed pegasus of her kind, caring, and bubbly demeanor. She now operates the general store Absolutely Everything out of the settlement of New Appleloosa, and yes, she does deliveries.
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I think that about outlines the main plot and colorful casts you can expect to find in Fallout Equestria.
Though, in my personal experience, I have found that the deciding factor in whether I find a story interesting has more to do with the narrative style of the author than the plot. A good author, or one whose style you resonate with, can bring life to even the dullest subjects. So I would still recommend that you to give the first few chapters a try, you'll know then if this story is for you or not.
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No.320784
>>320777 checked :^)
>>320778
Well, it does seem interesting, thanks a lot for posting this.
>Though, in my personal experience, I have found that the deciding factor in whether I find a story interesting has more to do with the narrative style of the author than the plot.
That is how it is in most cases. However, if the story itself feels "empty" to me… well, for example, I have always absolutely despised Bildungsroman stories, because, quite frankly, I could never give less of a shit about some stupid twat's "experiences" growing up, no matter how well-written his pathetic exploits were.
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No.320800
>>320784
Oh yeah, I get what you mean, there are some genres I tend to shy away from.
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No.321303
Just finished reading Guise of Chaos, Make Love Not War, and Pink Eyes. Pink Eyes is definitely a nice read for anyone looking to avoid sadbox. The tragedy-comedy ratio is probably the lowest out of any fic i've read, and it's a unique take on the general FOE idiom. I'm a sucker for romance, so every single time someone's love interest gets killed I want to cry like a little bitch. Goddamn I feel sorry for Shade.
Still haven't done Heroes. Normally I can force myself to finish a fic no matter how shitty it is but for some reason it absolutely fails to hold my interest.
>>291181
>it's Tenpenny Tower, but it's called TenPONY tower
I have zero Fallout background, so I'm just going to pretend all of the environments the authors create are completely unique and original.
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No.321321
>>321303
>Pink Eyes is definitely a nice read for anyone looking to avoid sadbox. The tragedy-comedy ratio is probably the lowest out of any fic i've read,
Why would you read FoE stories while looking for the exact inverse of them? Serious question.
>Still haven't done Heroes. Normally I can force myself to finish a fic no matter how shitty it is but for some reason it absolutely fails to hold my interest.
Heroes is sincerely trash, even if you're merely comparing to other FoE fics. I can't even recall the name of the main character at this point, even though I'd read every chapter of the fic on a binge just last year.
>I have zero Fallout background, so I'm just going to pretend all of the environments the authors create are completely unique and original.
This, I think, has to be the main reason why FoE became popular at all. The fic only really diverts from the FO3 story about a dozen chapters in. Combine that with the relative shittyness of the first few chapters, and it's a wonder that even the EqD autists made it a 6-star fic at the time.
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No.321322
>>321321
>Why would you read FoE stories while looking for the exact inverse of them? Serious question.
Well there's no central authority mandating that every single FoE story be mostly tragic (even though most of them are that way). I guess I just like the setting even though it's mostly stolen from another franchise.
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No.322523
Is this thread still alive?
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No.322529
>>322523
Yeah, if more people are lurking I'll start posting my nightly doodles here instead of /mlp/
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No.322533
>>322529
The absolute last fucking thing this board needs is more Fallout faggot shit. Post yourself at /mlp/ and stay there.
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No.322535
>>322533
Get out, Vaultcuck
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No.322536
>>322535
I belong here, I'm going nowhere. You get out, you little shit. This setting is garbage, edgy banal garbage. Piled on top of something beautiful to taint it. No single valuable being would ever indulge this trash with his time. It belongs on /mlp/ where everyone is similarly irredeemable to you, if even there.
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No.322540
>>322536
>>322533
More and more retarded posts like this reek of intentional attempts to kill the board by chasing away every last scrap of content. Off yourself.
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No.322541
>>322536
>I'm going nowhere.
Same here. Have some firearm humor!
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No.322542
hey did you know I built an AR and had the Ministry of Peace's emblem added, and cerakote'd it after Velvet? It's calibered in the enemy's rounds, so you have to maintain trade relations during war. So the ministry mare told herself, anyway.
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No.322544
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No.322552
>>322540
We don't need shitty content wholly unrelated to MLP. We don't need you. Off yourself first, manlet.
>>322541
It's shit, like everything connected to your gay little subfandom of midget tryhards.
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No.322553
>>322533
>>322536
>>322552
>being this salty about a thread thats over a year old on a dead board.
Who raped you as a child? Do you need a hug?
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No.322554
>>322536
But I like to draw horses
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No.322556
>>322553
I've been saying everything about FoE is shit since it was first conceived of, I'll say it until it's entirely forgotten. Hug my dick with your mouth.
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No.322595
<<322529
<<322552
<<322552
<<322556
>midget
>manlet
I've been seeing you all over the place lately. Are you trying to be the new glimmerfag?
>we
You some kind of hivemind? Speak for yourself retard.
>I've been saying everything about FoE is shit since it was first conceived of
And yet you only started sperging out now, in one of the oldest threads still up. It's weird how I've only starting seeing your autism on /pone/ starting about a year ago. You sure you aren't a rapefugee yourself?
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No.322750
>>322552
>>322556
>mlp fanfic isn't mlp related
People aren't going to run to mlpol or /mlp/ just because you're shitting this place up.
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No.322766
>>322750
It has nothing in common with it, it's shock value tacked onto it that subverts and destroys every theme of the original for the banal edgelord autism of manlet teen niggers like you. I am the only thing not shitting this board up in this thread, and the most valuable poster since before you left cuckchan you little disgrace.
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No.323672
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No.323676
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No.324663
In order to not forget this thread exists, I'm bumping it. Although I still don't know anyone to play FoE-the-tabletop.
But if there are written some D20 conversions for it, I'll be ready.
An almost funny story … I showed these off around the office, and one coworker grimaced. Said he was weirded out because he immediately though of horse poop, and their dirty tails. I congratulated him on not jumping to R34 and "getting a piece of Equestrian tail"
And that weirded everyone out enough that they all found other places to do their work just then. Their loss, I suppose.
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No.324668
>>324663
Congrats, you played yourself.
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No.324678
>>323676
god i wish that were me
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No.324683
>>324678
with your fingers cut off and your rump set on fire?
subs are weird.
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No.324881
>first upload by Overmare Studios in over a year
>it's an April Fool's joke
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No.324884
>>324881
They stopped producing new songs shortly after Yondy passed away, so there isn't that to look forward to anymore…
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No.324891
>>324884
>Dec 9, 2017
Their last upload for the band was in March 2018 so I hope not
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No.327235
Bumping again. How do mouthguns work? Or hooves, for that matter. I've some authors assume the hooves create a small levitation field, others, especially in FoE, assume hooves are just as they appear: hooves.
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No.327253
>>327235
I was thinking the action is released with the tongue, through a hole in the mouth piece. Before that I had imagined it silly for the action to be controlled by squeezing like a chew toy. Tbqh, I never liked the idea of anypony that wasn't unicorn surviving the nuclear apocalypse. So mouth guns just seem silly to me. Why in sam hill is there an Archive check box on the Quick Reply?
((( who knows )))
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No.327254
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No.327315
Anyone else been playing pic related? I was a little disappointed that's it's not so much an RPG as a very loose adaptation of the original fic, but now that I've replaced the awful fucking soundtrack with some background music from the classic Fallout games, it's easily the most well-made MLP fan-game I've ever played.
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No.327316
>>327315
Oh nice, chodemonkey ate my pic. Pic related was a FoE-based platformer/dungeon-crawler called Remains. Not nearly as expansive or ambitious as something like Ashes of Equestria, but as a result also not nearly as glitchy or incomplete. Runs perfectly in Wine, hard as fuck even on easy mode, and allows for some engaging strategizing in most places except for the boss battles. I'll just fucking link to it since 8kun is being a shit today and won't let us post images.
https://empalu.itch.io/fallout-equestria-remains
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No.327317
>>327316
Oh. Now that I've actually read the thread I see we were already discussing this. Not even gonna try to delete these posts with 8ch being this fucking buggy. Polite sage.
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No.327406
>>286451
>Do you like it?
no
>Do you not like it?
ding ding ding
>Opinions on it?
grimderp despair-porn in which adorable pastel pones die horribly. this is the exact kind of shit that I read horsewords to escape from. if I wanted horror, madness, and rivers of innocent blood, I could turn on CNN
>Favorite side fic?
the one set in the parallel universe where FOE doesn't exist
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No.328129
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No.328130
>>327406
why bother even posting? Not everyone likes what you like.
>>328129
well, her nickname IS BJ.
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No.328150
Don't make funna mah aim, cuz i aint missed yet
Ah may be branded fer leavin but at least I aint a pegasus pet
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No.328630
Are back to needing to pour hooffuls of sunfire onto the board's catalog at times?
Have a running Lil'Pip while I kick the board in the head.
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No.328644
havn't had time to read the main story, but everyone should definitely check out Fallout Equestria; The Chrysalis. Its a serious story without memes and dumbfuckery, and it gets extremely compelling by their characters. It starts off slow in the first 3 chapters, until they recruit the other characters. The story really beginns at chapter 8, when they recruit the most badass mercenary you've ever come across in any story, I can promise you that. Thats a fucking promise.
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No.328684
So, who-all reinstalled Fallout to review the inspirational material?
I just recently cleared Dead Money, which was largely the basis for FoE Canterlot. No Grand Pegasus Enclave blowing it up when you leave, but "you'd never be able to find this place again" So, once through and don't forget anything, just like Little Pip's Canterlot run.
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No.328690
Sometimes you just have to find out for yourself what all the hype was about.
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No.328721
head canon: Little Pip was born male, but surgically altered before the age of 4, so s/he doesn't remember it.
This helps explain several details of how the pony reacts to problems, and why there is lust for the female form.
However of course this detracts from the chances there is a timeline with a mrs. calamity. So maybe it would be better if she was a mare that just needed to be screwed until straight again.
You might think Calamity or one of the Talons would … comment on the on-display axe wound. But consider how piss-poor the disguises on the show have been, leading to DWK's comment about "Hood Autism". Ponies seem to just believe what they see.
It's also possible I suppose that Stable #2's autodoc was an amazing sculptor but … No. No it isn't actually possible.
Nevermind, Hood autism, that's the way.
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