I kind of really dig the alien stuff that happens in all the Fallout games.

It's usually creepy behind the scenes stuff, finding dead bodies and old top secret files and in Fallout 3 even fighting them.
I really want there to be more creepy alien stuff in New Vegas. Not Mothership Zeta style but like finding bodies in tubes in old military bases or finding a couple of alien gadgets.

Only played Fallout 3, but I loved Seeing all the dead bodies, and hearing things, rumors about alien technology, and THEN finding Mothership Zeta and going to murder them all. That was fun.

If they have to be there, behind the scenes only please.

Aliens should be easter eggs not canon martian men.

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Depends on how it all fits.

I liked the implementation of the Firelance event in Fallout 3. Something like that would be fine by me. Zeta was fun, and I really liked the cast of characters, but the whole thing didn't make a whole lot of sense.

So I'd prefer a Firelance-style reference over a Zeta-style one.

I wouldn't mind them being in Vegas, would be nice to have some alien weaponry back.

I want them with the Wild Wasteland perk. In an encounter featuring a record player and a Slim Whitman record. You know which song.

After Gilligan's Floating Island Mothership Zeta, I want a complete break from aliens for a while, thank you very much.

My fortune cookie told me that one of the main antagonists in fallout 4 are aliens. ^^,
My magic 8 ball confirmed it as well.

I'm sooo bored of saying no... I say why Not?

My magic 8 balls tell me cyborgs are coming.

I voted behind the scenes. Aliens are already confirmed canon reguardless what anyone says, I mean lets face it there were reference to aliens in all the previous Fallout`s and you got reference to alien crash sights from FO3 on the citadel`s computer system and then you find a crashed alien spaceship with a dead alien. They have been in games so they are canon and I dont mind seeing them refered to. Not too big on another MZ type thing, the game was fun but out of all of them that one was the most grapically tense one that really lagged the laptop down where I had to go to medium graphics where the others were bearable on high. I also always found it funny as hell how people would claim this or that add on isnt canon but yet they would claim a game that was never even made and released as canon.

Now if people dont want to agree with me thats their choice but I hope to not see anyone turning this into a internet war over my opinion on the subject.

Definitely never, ever, ever anything like Mothership Zeta again. I actually enjoyed it, but it's something that should only be done once. A few notes or characters referencing aliens would be welcome, but I don't want dead alien bodies, crashed ships, and definitely not Motherships in any future Fallout game.

Yeah, the "crashed alien spaceship" gag is only good for so many laughs. I don't think that's something we need to inevitably see in every single Fallout game made from now on. Other than that, there already is a http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1078258-aliens-are-canon/page__st__120 thread over in the Fallout Universe discussion, so I don't want to drag all that hullabaloo over here. (Though quite frankly - like "immersion," and "engine," "canon" is one of those terms which the world would probably be a better place if it had never found it's way into the mainstream gamer's lexicon... )

Anyway, I think it's kind of a fine line. To me, it's simply a matter of relevance. A couple of winky winks to a previous alien presence (I wouldn't mind coming across Area 51 and finding some alien autopsies or something,) is one thing. But I feel it kind of belongs in the same category as the nods to Pre-War civilization - it's pertinent to see where we came from, and how we got to our present situation, but otherwise it's just not relevant to the narrative at-hand. I voted "behind the scenes." That's just how I prefer my aliens in the Fallout world.

Another way of putting it is - take Fallout without aliens, and you have A Body and His Dog, Mad Max, The Road, etc. Put aliens as a primary plot device into Fallout, and you end up with Battlefield Earth (and I don't think anyone wants that... )

Edit: But I don't think there's much chance of any of that happening in regards to Fallout: New Vegas, personally...

I fully agree, I have said numerous times on the Area 51 threads that they could do the alien placement and not get too corny like MZ became. I say make Area 51 (if it ever comes out as a DLC) as a strong hold for the BOS or maybe the BOS is starting to push into Area 51 when we show up. Most things we find would be references to prewar USA and prewar alien encounters maybe even throw in the gag of the roswell ship half burried in rubble like the wright flyer was in the musuem of technology. Maybe even an autopsy room with skeletal remains which would be two ways to see it, A) were the aliens left there after being cut open forgotten for ever from the 40`s/50`s/60`s or B) was the autopsy on going at the time when the bombs fell.

I also agree on the part about only needing one MZ, I think it would be insane 3 years later to have another MZ style contact on the otherside of the US. The Lone Wanderer already took out the other alien ship with the "death ray" from the one he took over so its doubtful there are anymore in orbit especially 3 years later.

Please God, no more Aliens. Mothership Zeta was TERRIBLE

this.

i finally got around to playing MZ yesterday(i stayed away caused i heard nothing but awful things) cause i was looking for an excuse to play more Fallout... honestly it seems like alot of overreactions,but then again everyone is entitled to their opinion. i enjoyed it, the further i got the more i started to like it, but i probly wouldnt enjoy doing it,or something like it, again.

i hope there is a DLC for FONV that is similar to Point Lookout in which you get to explore another part of Nevada,and Area 51 is a location where you can find dead ET bodies and some government/alien tech and then move on to the next thing. anything beyond that (like fighting your way out of area 51 :wink_smile: ) would be unnecessary and possibly unacceptable

After Mothership Zeta I am sick of Aliens in Fallout even as behind the scenes easter eggs. I won't be upset if there are little easter eggs but I just hope there is none.

We're not done being cliche yet?

I don't think aliens are necessary but I'm sure there are going to be references

Aliens have always been part of Fallout tradition.

Just make them more kickass than the ones in Mothership Zeta.

maybe a roswell dlc not like mothership zeta but 1 or 2 loose aliens that could become followers or maybe a chance to find some cool equipment.

For the most part I agree with you, but wouldnt there have to be some kind of conflict for it not to be a waste of time, and money?

No.

you do have a good point maybe a little alien combat and some crazy army ghoul things on the base.