Previously Unlisted Special Encounter?
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 6:23 pm
Having purchased the Chinese version Fallout Tactics (published by Ubisoft here) and completed the single-player campaign, I decided to study some FAQs about the game to see what I had missed. In particular, I looked at the random special encounters. Having read Guiler's FAQ and a few websites on the topic, all of which described everything from the Mutant Brothers to the Nuka Cola Cyclist to the Pip Boy, I was surprised not to find a special encounter that I had come across.
The encounter goes as follows. My party appears in the middle of a small map. All around me are voices (appearing as overhead text) that repeatedly chant in Chinese, "Zou ba, zou ba." The meaning is a bit ambiguous to me as it can be either a polite "let's go" or a blunt "get out" message; the Chinese language is one of those that rely a lot on context. The speakers are invisible although their voices are all around my group, but they do show up as grey blips on my map radar.
The experience was surprisingly freaky as the voices appear everywhere around you, almost drowning the screen in text. The closest equivalent to this encounter I had read about is the Sixth Sense "I see dead brahmin" one. I am posting this to try to make some sense out of this experience. I think it may be possible that in this translation, certain special encounters from the normal version were overwritten because some of the in-jokes would be hard to understand in Chinese (such as, say, the Energiser Battery Bunny, which I've never seen on Chinese TV), so what I encountered was one of these replacements.
The encounter goes as follows. My party appears in the middle of a small map. All around me are voices (appearing as overhead text) that repeatedly chant in Chinese, "Zou ba, zou ba." The meaning is a bit ambiguous to me as it can be either a polite "let's go" or a blunt "get out" message; the Chinese language is one of those that rely a lot on context. The speakers are invisible although their voices are all around my group, but they do show up as grey blips on my map radar.
The experience was surprisingly freaky as the voices appear everywhere around you, almost drowning the screen in text. The closest equivalent to this encounter I had read about is the Sixth Sense "I see dead brahmin" one. I am posting this to try to make some sense out of this experience. I think it may be possible that in this translation, certain special encounters from the normal version were overwritten because some of the in-jokes would be hard to understand in Chinese (such as, say, the Energiser Battery Bunny, which I've never seen on Chinese TV), so what I encountered was one of these replacements.
