October's Post - Fallout 3 mods

No real "update" this month, so I'll just call this a "post" instead.  I think I've mentioned before that my other hobbies are mainly spring & fall hobbies.  They're in full swing right now, so I haven't done much with the game other than daydream a bit.  I wouldn't expect any real posts about the game until the end of this year, but I've kinda got in the habit of posting monthly, so figured I'd chat it up for a sec.

Since this is a blog about porn games, let me start this one off with one of my biggest pet peeves.  Video games that have brothels, where you can go to NOT have sex.  I don't know why games feel the need to include prostitutes when there clearly isn't going to be a follow through.  I can't think of the last game that included guns but didn't let you shoot them.  But for some reason, there's a slew of games that feel the need to paint a bright arrow in the sky pointing towards sex, only to stop short with an aborted cut scene (at best).

So where am I going with this you may ask?  Well, I'm not the only person who feels this way.   As proof, I point to the stack of nudity & sex mods for these very same games.  Most of them are crap, but every so often there's a gem.  I had heard really good things about sexout, and figured I'd take it for a spin.

Unfortunately, I didn't get very far.  Turns out sexout isn't for Fallout 3, it's actually for Fallout 3 New Vegas.  (Guess which one I don't own).  So after a few nights of frustration puzzling out that sexout was for the wrong game, I decided to see what sex mods were out there for plain Fallout 3.  Surprisingly, I didn't find all that much.  Err, well, I didn't find much that still worked anyway.  Plenty of dead links & outdated mods.  But that's another story.  Of the ones I found that still worked, the best was "Animated Prostitution - Work in Progress".  As you might guess from the name, it could use a lot of work.  When it does work though, it's not bad:

If you're interested, you can find it on Nexus mods, but you do need to register.  Search is 'funny', so you may need to search for JoshNZ instead of by the mod name.

You will also need to install the Fallout Script Extender or FoSE.  My limited understanding is that this is a game launcher with some of the piracy checks disabled, which you need since Fallout thinks sex mods are fucking with the security settings... somehow?  Whatever.

Anyway, the mod itself is a mix of fucking amazing mixed with broken shit.  It fixes the "Here's our brothel, but your sex is in another castle" problem.  It also has some really smart options integrated into the game, such as the ability to bring a playmate back to your home.  There's even some skills checks (speech) and the possibility of xp rewards depending on how you go about getting your groove on.  Needless to say, I was really impressed with how well the mod fits with the rest of the game.

Sadly, the actual sex is bad.  Eyes stare off into space, the camera is always in the wrong spot, animations are stiff, and the couple rarely line up correctly with each other - even had a few times where one fell through the floor or appeared on the wrong side of a wall.  Oh, & no voices either.  I'll take still images with good voice work over silent animations any day.  (In fairness, there's a separate mod to add some moaning, but it also appears to be outdated / broken.)

Despite all my bitching, it was a fun dive to try & get this all together.  What can I say, porn is a great motivator.  It does make me seriously consider trying to build a sex mod of my own someday.  Not for Fallout 3, but maybe next time I find a game I actually like a lot.  Fortunately for y'all, I don't think RailRoad Tycoon 2 would really benefit from a sex mod.  =D

Til next time
DirtyC101