Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

never got the dog either, i stuck with my man fawkes

my follower is the robot right now, he's okay but he gets in the way of my minigun a lot

By the time you hit level 20 there is no challenge and you might as well push up the difficulty
I never beat this game because I was playing like a power gamer on the first run through. I was on my way to collecting 100 skill points for each skill (except the karate skill.. I think I may have fucked up my skill point distribution to get 100 in everyone including that one).

Basically I quit the main quest after I had just left the enclave headquarters with the supermutant guy. I don't know how much main quest was left for me anyways (probably not much).

In retrospect I didn't mind using VATS one bit during the game because it was extremely helpful but I think I would remove VATS from any more versions of the game because it makes things a little too easy and really distracts from the FPS feel. Eventually there was no reason for any creature to ever pop up at you and scare you if you were playing this game skillfully. (maybe Vats should change real-time to something 6x slower rather than completely pausing the game)

I was the opposite, I think they should tweak VATS and make it more useful. The way I had my character balanced, I was more likely to be able to take some shots in FPS-style shooting and kill guys faster. VATS is a lot better for conserving ammo, but just shooting like crazy when you're at the point where you can take some damage kills guys a lot faster.

It's faster shooting like crazy because Vats pauses the game. I had most of my powerups in Vats stuff. I think it took 4 shots at most to kill an enemy and I would gets my Vats refilled (or somewhat refilled?) after every kill.

I don't think Vats detracted from anything, please to keep it in future games.
And yes great for conserving ammo, especially assault rifle which I can get a bit trigger happy with in non-vats combat.

my dog seems to be fire proof, is this a bug or what? he's killing like a maniac at the moment.

I played the whole game in VATS! Whenever I ran out of action points I'd just run and hide until they recharged.

I think on some of the guns that are fairly accurate at a longer distance, you can actually score more hits by zooming in and sniping than you would in VATS -- it seemed to me like shots that would have gone wide hit every time.

do you have to zoom + Vats to improve your hits, or will just pressing Vats automatically assume you want to zoom with those type of guns? if you follow me.

VATS assumes zooming, I believe. I think "zoomability" is just kind of a range bonus on the gun that manifests as a scope in fps mode, and as an increased accuracy in VATS.

I played the whole game in VATS! Whenever I ran out of action points I'd just run and hide until they recharged.

ditto

i liked how (sorta) cinematic it felt. not so much the actual choices of zoom and shit, just that it'd look like my arm was about to get chewed off or whatever but by some THE PROTAGONIST ALWAYS WINS logic my dude would pull up his shotgun and get a shot in at the last minute, etc

cover action for the new game:

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/03/03/curious-about-new-vegas-europes-got-you-covered/

http://www.eurogamer.net/gallery.php?game_id=11594&article_id=1001838#anchor

All looks a bit...more of the same.

yeah, that was my take as well. interviews with devs suggest that they're not calling this fallout 4 for just that reason.

will play the shit out of this one

There is a picture with geckos! I am happy.

I think I just expected more variation in the environment. A post-nuclear Vegas could feasibly look very different to a post-nuclear Washington, but it doesn't here.

http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/0/0/1/8/3/8/ss_preview_f13.jpg.jpg?slideshow=true

i had no idea New Vegas was being made by Obsidian - gotta say, i am highly intrigued by this

how does obsidian compare with bethesda?

Obsidian is notable in that the founders are former employees of Black Isle, the developers of FO1&2.

ah, intelesting

If this game has many nods to fallout 1&2 I will be a happy man.

its pretty much gonna be van buren

Don't tease me like that.

Dont tease me, bro

boy... the main quest is really short (and underwhelming). and it won't let you continue playing after you beat the game???? so the game's over and like half the map is unexplored, because the game gives you zero reason to visit about 90% of it. i'm not sure i even wanna bother loading an old save, i might just install and play fallout 1 instead. anyway, i give this game the gas face.

the giant robot that said 'better dead than red' was cool though

You need the main expansion that lets you go to level 30, the robot features in the first act of it.

As announced on Major Nelson’s blog, Fallout 3 DLC will be the Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week between March 22nd and March 28th. During this time, all DLC for the game — that’s Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta — will be half off and cost only 400 Microsoft Points.

i'd try the DLC if it was available on steam, but it's not, so

I will buy all that DLC!

yeah i'm glad i saw that. i was about to buy a few right now.

So have we come to consensus about which of the DLC are essential? I remember a lot of people saying Operation Anchorage blew.

i just played it and yeah, it wasn't great.

I'd recommend Broken Steel and Point Lookout.

^^^then the Pitt, then the others if you're desperate

ok so i had no idea that Chris Avellone (lead designer on Planescape: Torment) is a senior designer on Fallout: New Vegas, which should at least geek out HI DERE if not others.

You mean Chris Avellone (LEAD DESIGNER OF CANCELLED GAME VAN BUREN AND CONTRIBUTOR TO FALLOUT 2) imo.

KOTOR II has a pretty bad rep, though. Alpha Protocol doesn't look particularly thrilling yet.

Yeah, but much of KOTOR II's flaws can be easily chalked up to Lucasarts suits cutting dev time down to nothing. I did enjoy the story, tho.

I'm disappointed that Obsidian never got to finish that Aliens RPG that had been announced 4 years ago, and that Sega went with that other mediocre version.

Some previews of new vegas on the web out today. Some complaints about the game looking exactly like fallout 3. I will gladly put up with sameyness especially if obsidian hits the classic fallout notes better than bethesda.

needs fast travel

F3 had fast travel. What is really needs is the F2 car.

yes i was referring to reports that vegas would not have fast travel

Ew.

that would be bad

this hardcore mode sounds kind of awesome but possibly annoying especially since once you turn it off its off for good

Actually, before setting out, you have one last decision to make: to play in Hardcore mode or not. In this mode, you have to keep track of your food and water, pay attention to the weight of items (including ammunition), so you don't get overloaded, and make time for regular visits to a doctor, because stimpacks will not fully heal you. Hardcore mode can be disabled at any time, but it can't be switched back on. If you complete the entire game in Hardcore mode, you'll receive some sort of "special reward."

sound cool, probably tedious