Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

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.

yep. having the same problem (although not as frequent) on my 360. infuriating at times, but survivable. PATCH PLZ.

I called them, but they had no help for me. I may have to just put this game aside and either play something else, or start a new Fallout character while I wait for a patch.

That bad for you? I've had maybe two game-restarting issues.

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

I'll do this when I get home later. The Forks collection had a few of my favorite tunes in it.

I've had Fallout freeze-up on my 360 once in the 30 hours I've dumped into it. I guess I'm in the minority.

ive only had one full-on freeze, but it was at a TERRIBLY FRUSTRATING point, so i am really irritable about it and probably overstating the case.

Just found this:

"It looks like this patch (for PC) might not being going up today, but you should expect it sometime this week. You should know the patch only fixes some crashing on exiting the game, as requested by Microsoft.

We’re also moving along with pulling together a more extensive update. We’re still in the process of going through and looking at any issues/fixes, and once that is done there is lots of additional testing/fixing that has to be done before it can be released. Similarly, we're looking into matters on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

When I’ve got more information, I’ll pass it along."

-Guy from Bethesda

0 freezes here. I've switched to hard mode since I was killing everything too easy /nerdbraggin'

constant crashes on pc, but whatevs. i now have the labtop and an extra monitor on the computer desk, so's i can type on here, watch last night daily show and "talons of wang chiang", and still play.

the only part of oblivion this really felt like was swimming around the depths.

Good news. I took some time in some other parts of the world, followed some more of the main quest, and when I tried a few hours later, the bug was gone. Yay.

It's so good, btw. I hit level 20 and I still haven't explored half the world, I feel.

Guys, every time I fire this up I become more and more enamored. This has got to be the best RPG of the 00's. Eh?

I mean seriously, as much as the hardcore NMA fanboy type guys bitch about the game, I'm impressed with how well Bethesda brought it into Next-Gen console era. It doesn't feel compromised.

I was a hardcore NMA fanboy type, and I think this is the best of the three games so far. It really builds on the earlier mythologies brilliantly and fleshes out the world. I find myself desperate for a Fallout 4. And then 5. Hell, I'd be okay with Bethasda continuing this franchise for the next 20 years.

And yes, best RPG of the '00s so far. Deus Ex is the only one I can think of off-hand that would be competitive for that slot (and that came out early 2000, IIRC?).

TRIO OF DEATH:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/OfMarrow/fallout.jpg

yes, i sold a child into slavery for that headpiece.