Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

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.

rather than wait to play through a second time after i've finished, i am more and more tempted to play a simultaneous second game as an evil dude. i am presently weighing the merits of two charcter ideas: gigantic lumbering evil retard or stealthy evil ninja assassin. it is a huge credit to this game that whichever i choose, my experience of the game really will be significantly different.

a goon posted this:

OLD TIMEY RECORDINGS HERE

Internet Archive;

http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio - 1,578 different recordings of old radio shows that should be just right for Fallout 3. Download'em, put'em in your soundtrack folder, enjoy. Look, here's Dragnet, http://www.archive.org/details/dragnet, pure awesome.

http://www.archive.org/details/78rpm - 78rpm recordings, cylinder recordings. These are real old, even for Fallout 3.

http://www.archive.org/details/cylindertransfer - C'mon, you really should just click all of these links and populate a massive oldies folder. This one's even more good recordings, click the different artists on the right side menu if you're looking for some top picks.

http://www.archive.org/details/worldwarIInewsOTRKIBM - News broadcasts surrounding World War 2, probably the most perfect for your soundtrack folder.

Archive.org, along with other things like libraries, are meant to give people fair access to information and media. If you haven't yet checked it out, you're missing a ton of awesome old movies, news, software, you name it.

Why does everyone want old timey recordings? Didn't the fallout happen in the '50s? Shouldn't there be a lot of '50s and '40s music, and potentially popular stuff rather than obscurities?

Old-tymey recordings have that properly lo-fi production, that tinny sound which makes me think that I'm hearing something from a very different time, a lost era if you will. Which is what the game is from; you have a world of scavengers picking over whatever bits & pieces they can find, including the pop culture refuse.

Obscure scratchy recordings are more fun than just elvis tunes for a game set in an alt-universe, IMHO. Unknown rockabilly would work, tho.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallout3/news.html?sid=6200678&mode=all

Fallout 3 ships 4.7 million in first week
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
Posted Nov 6, 2008 10:41 am PT

Bethesda proclaims that postapocalyptic role-playing game for 360, PS3, PC topped $300 million in sales at launch.

Last week's launch of Bethesda Softworks' after-the-bomb role-playing game Fallout 3 was, appropriately enough, explosive. The publisher took a victory lap today by announcing some early statistics for the game. Bethesda said that it shipped roughly 4.7 million copies of Fallout 3 around the world last week. Sales of that massive stockpile surpassed the $300 million mark.

Both of those figures stack up reasonably well with last year's release of Halo 3. Microsoft's heavily hyped first-person shooter posted sales of $300 million in its first week on analyst-estimated shipments of 4.2 million. It's worth noting that Halo 3 was an Xbox 360 exclusive, whereas Fallout 3 is available on the 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, and the installed user bases of those platforms have increased significantly in the intervening year.

Fallout 3 was released on October 28 in North America and October 31 in Europe. It may receive another sales boost in the near future, given that Bethesda has planned a Japanese launch for the game on December 4.

PC patch is out. v1.0.0.15. we'll see if this helps or not.

So, this game is amazing. I'm going to be finishing my first playthrough tomorrow and I seriously already can't wait to play again. (The only thing stopping me from finishing is that I want to collect all the bobbleheads before I quit this character -- so that I at least get the achievement.)

and FWIW, here's what the wiki currently says:

Soundtrack

The Fallout 3 soundtrack continued the series' convention of featuring sentimental 1940s American popular music, in addition to a foreboding, menacing score.[80] The score was written by noted composer Inon Zur. In a review of the game for Kotaku, Mike Fahey commented that "while Inon Zur's score is filled with epic goodness, the real star of Fallout 3's music is the vintage songs from the 1940's. (sic)"(81)
# Title Music Length
1. "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" The Ink Spots 3:07
2. "Way Back Home" Bob Crosby 2:54
3. "Butcher Pete (Part 1)" Roy Brown 2:28
4. "Main Title" Inon Zur 2:07
5. "Megaton" Inon Zur 3:26

and the wikia:

Songs

Crazy He Calls Me by Billie Holiday
Easy Living by Billie Holiday
Happy Times by Bob Crosby and The Bobcats
Way Back Home by Bob Crosby and The Bobcats
Anything Goes by Cole Porter
Civilization by Danny Kaye (with the Andrews Sisters)
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall by Ella Fitzgerald
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire by The Ink Spots
Maybe by The Ink Spots
Might, Might Man by Roy Brown
Butcher Pete by Roy Brown
A Wonderful Guy by Tex Beneke

http://www.wikia.com/wiki/c:fallout

ooo, new username

They really could've done with about double the # of tracks.

there are some other music radio stations out there...

i accidentally beat the game the other night. the main quest is really short. i had several older saves to go back to so it wasn't really an issue. the sidequests are better than than the main quest anyway, 40+ hours in and still finding lots of cool shit.

are there? I've found a few other radio stations (and some distress calls), but no other music radio stations.

there's at least one other music station that i received for a quest. there are only a few tunes on it but it's nice every once in a while.