Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

does this work with pc?

wow this music is excellent. A little AM broadcast processing/compression and it'd be PERFECT.

Christ, I can just imagine wandering thru downtown Portland with this on the player. Alternately surreal yet moribund. Depending on how the election turns out, I just might do that.

Man, for the first time since Deus Ex (!!), I'm afraid I'm playing through the game too quickly. I just can't put it down. I must be 20 hours in, and I'm scared to death it's almost over (and then I glance at the achievements list and see that I'm more like 1/4th in). I just completed the coolest sequence in any video game since, probably, A Mind Forever Voyaging. No exaggeration. So creepy, so cool, and such a cool resolution -- I'm putting the game down for a bit just so I can dwell in the experience.

I'm hopelessly addicted too. I promised myself I wouldn't play for the first half of this week so I can get some work done. We'll see what happens.

GUYS PLEASE STOP TALKING ABT HOW GREAT THE FALLOUT 3 IS SOME OF US HAVE THE RRoD IN

/weeps silently, refreshes UPS.com

how are you dudes playing through, as a goodie or a baddie or something inbetween?

Playing as a pragmatic good guy; willing to shoot a bitch in the face but only if it's absolutely necessary and willing to give purified water to a bum for free as long as I got plenty... but only one bottle.
I'm aiming for that "protagonist of The Road" feel.

Out of self-preservation, I too am trying to limit my playtime so some stuff gets done around the house. About eighteen hours in, but I'm playing kinda ponderously and mostly avoiding fast travel in favor of exploration.

Anybody got any followers yet?

i am also going the ponderous/exploratory route. i lack the self-discipline to stop myself being distracted by everything i wander across so the main quest hasn't seen much love.

i think it;s the kind of game where you benefit greatly from having some kind of character or archetype in mind when you set your attributes and skills. i decided i wanted to be a roguish trader style dude and have realized of late that i am trying to be Han Solo. i haven;t killed anyone that hasn't been trying to kill me, but i haven;t gone out of my way to help anyone without a decent reward being offered, and i will steal anyone's shit, no hesitation.

Interesting. I only steal when I'm absolutely safe and when it's really worth the trouble. I have preemptively killed a few folk; if I have any doubt, you get shot. Apocalypse role playing can be a little discomfiting.

I'm mostly playing a good guy. Tho I've stolen shit and broken into places, my karma is so high at this point that there's no use pretending otherwise.

My guy's about right in the middle. For the most part I choose the heroic option, but I'll go evil if it sounds more fun and it sits OK with me. I have trouble playing as a truly heinous character. I mean, I break into people's places and steal everything that isn't bolted down. I lie a lot and try to swindle money out of folks whenever possible. But I'll give the homeless guys some purified water or help an orphaned kid find a new home. I guess I'm sort of a rogue-ish character with a flickering sense of social responsibility.

did anybody try to set off the bomb at megaton?

that's for the next time thru

Yeah, I def. want to play this as a mustache twirling nefarious villain and start killing children.

Just not this go-round.

you can't kill children in this, I heard, tho I'm sure you were being metaphorical an that

Tranquility Lane was an interesting touch.

Holy shit - Roberto Spiralli has been playing this lately and jjust watching him play is scaring the crap out of me. I'm gonna have nightmares. Am v glad I didn't really watch while he played Dead Space.

just started playing, already uneasy w/some of my "moral ambiguity". so far, though, unbelievably great.

I just did Trouble on the Homefront, and going back there - especially after completing The Waters of Life - broke my heart so much I teared up. When the resolution of Trouble on the Homefront occurred - where there really is no happy ending - I felt so sad. There might have been a better solution for the quest, but I couldn't find one - and what I ended up doing to complete it made me feel awful. It sortof reminded me of the Liquidation Plot in the Brotherhood sequence in Oblivion.

seriously considering playing through initially on hard - think it'd up the desperation vibe and force you to scavenge more thoroughly and run away from dudes

It's pretty hard already just on the default difficulty.

I think I'll get this tomorrow, yes yes

just got this, going to play it all night while waiting for McCain to concede. #

I usually play Fallout games as a smooth-talking evil guy (yeah I know there's no point in being smooth-talking if you're just going to kill everyone) so I think I might do that again.

I've been playing on hard ever since I had that first skirmish outside 101 and some guy was just unloading shots in my face. Hard has occasional frustration moments and lots of reloading but absolutely makes the game more interesting and stressful.

The fucking fireant mission is a good example of that; those little bastards are TOUGH and eat up a lot of ammo. Also: "I'm only going to say this one time: give me the naughty nightware!"

I'm going to grandson this Butch cunt the second I get a chance.

ok, I have killed so many people already.

So it seems like you need at least 3 playthroughs to get all the achievements (since there's an achievement for hitting levels with Good, Neutral and Evil alignment). I guess you could technically get around that by saving well before a level up and then doing Good/Evil stuff and then reloading?

did anyone else think lolpalin when you meet the supply chick in the atom bomb town? I kind of want to kill her now.

OMG. I totally did. She was rocking that accent.

I'm about 15 hours in and have done almost nothing to advance on the main quest, which is great. Anyone else end up with a dead sheriff almost immediately in Megaton? his orphaned kid is bumming me out.

haha how did you manage that... someones brother just appeared dead in the middle of town like the second day I was there ??? no idea why but I took his stuff.

also I play as a sneaky chick named "le tigre"

thats the thing thats killing me about this game, the replay value seems pretty phenomenal, because obviously the storyline is just as fluid as i was hoping for.

I didn't even know the sheriff had a kid! It's easy to get him killed, just tell him about the guy at the saloon who wants you to blow up the joint.

Also: fuck a main storyline. Guys at Penny Arcade intimated that beating the game ENDS the game, so I'm not going that way until I'm well and truly ready to put it down.

Hey Forks, can you put together a second OST disc?

this goes out to the entire ILG collective as well. Grabs your tracks, rar them up, stick 'em where they can be accessed, etc.

One would wonder if ILM could help with this, but probably not.

Also, I will say this: the game doesn't really like Oblivion; it does feel more like Fallout.

Truly in the tradition of previous Fallout games -- this game is buggy as hell.

Just got a corrupted save on my 360. Luckily I think I have a recently saved file I can revert to.

Um. Nevermind. All is not good. The game keeps locking up in the same place. I guess I'm going to have to call Bethasda.

yeah this is a buggy piece of shit. I've had 4 crashes and twice I've been stuck inside of objects and had to load my last save.

This is what happens when you combine a historically buggy developer with a historically buggy game series.

5 crashes now! Just jumped off the bridge that goes over the river in the south-east going across to DC and the second I hit the water it crashed. Jesus jones.

Constant autosaves and fast loadtimes offset the bugs for me ... but then, maybe I'm used to having a computer that deals with tough games with the same problems.

The way to play this that works for me is episodic; one quest per night played through to as close to completion as I can manage. Last night was the blood rites.

on what system are talking about the crashes ?

360.

360 and my 360 has never crashed prior to playing this game.