Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

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.

The forties feel of the sound seems deeply motivated by Bioshock's success; once they committed to the inkspots for the ad, I think they shrugged and went for postwar stuff. The game takes place in like 2770 though right; shouldn't some kind of postpunkcrunkrapveeblefritz music be appropriate?

In any case, the fact that most of that stuff is available with minimum (or no) licensing fee is probably what's really drawing designers to it. Not that I'm complaining, I love postwar doo-wop/r&b/pop.

Fallout games have always had a 40s/50s song at the start of the game. Louis Armstrong's "A Kiss to Build a dream" on is at the start of Fallout 2. And one of the songs that is in Fallout 3 was the opening song of the original Fallout. The game has always taken place in the future but the Pip Boy/Vault ads and etc. have always had the 1950s Cold War feel.

While trying to work out who was voicing the president of the enclave earlier, I first suspected Michael Richards before realising it was Malcolm McDowell o_0

Oh man, i finally got my house. Thank god i can actually have a place to dump all this shit. Not having the car with its trunk from FO2 is a drag, but there you go. And the english droid butler/barber makes up for it.

this is quite useful on PC where the NPCs sometimes disappear/die:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Recovering_missing_NPC_in_Fallout_3

I'm kinda pissed that the game is still this buggy, but as long as you can pop the hood and root around inside to fix things again(like with most Bioware/Black Isle games), it's a little better.

wow, this IS buggy as fuck, isn't it.

Haha. Which one did you run into?

soundtrack mod
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=159

pacing mod
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=80%3Cbr%20/%3E

i ran into a shitload of freezes getting by some mirelurks and then more when I was going to rivet city. Weird music/sound hitches. A spot where the world geometry came apart and trhrew me into a black hole. At least five cases where I've run into divots of rough terrain that I simply couldn't extricate myself from. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason and it comes and goes.

But I can't stop playing! Working on the Deckard replicant quest and FINALLY finished that goddamn book for the Wasilla salesman at Megaton.

This has now made my xbox crash 10 times!

It's definitely a testament to this game that despite the bugs, I can't remember anything I've enjoyed playing more.

Tho I did take a frustration break last night and play through Portal.

There's plenty of games I've enjoyed playing more, but I've notched up 37 hours in a week and despite now having it crashed 11 times and corrupting a save game I'm still persisting at it. Actually if I was to enumerate all the lame things in this game that pissed me off about it it would sound like I disliked it, but that couldn't be further from the case.

By the time they get an xbox patch out, I will almost certainly have logged fifty hours and stopped playing.

wow, you guys are getting slammed by crashes a lot more than i am. i still only have the one under my belt.

http://kotaku.com/5082637/bethesda-censors-fallout-3-for-japan

got my 360 back and decided to play as a ruthless rogue and killed the first person I met after leaving the vault then stole all her shit

What's the first easy NPC to recruit? I've barely started and I have the bomb defusing quest done along with the radiation and food/meds quest from the Wasilla woman. Thinking about heading to the radio station next.

Dogmeat. Find him in the Scrapyard east of the Meresti Trainyard.

Like with Oblivion, I think it's great to have a dog companion on our massive overworld adventure. You can send him out to go nick things for you, too; ammo, food, meds, etc.

Dogmeat's easy to get. Look at the scrapyard near Minefield.
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question

can you murder children in fallout 3

no

Really? i mean i haven't tried, but it certainly seems like you can...
I know what I'm doing when I get home.

You can't vats them and when I tried to gun down the kids at the Republic of Dave my bursts seemed to do nothing.

yeah, you can't kill them.

Lord knows I've tried!

Little Lamplight is very disappointing for this reason. At least I got to sell one of those brats into slavery.

I tried to do that but I blew up the guy's head by accident (the mezzers occasional side-effect).

mezzer's

you're all sick

Not me! I took enough Rad-Away and I'm back to normal!

hmm, after getting to level 20 everything seems a little futile. I could complete the main quest, which I'm pretty sure I'm right at the end of. Might just kill or trick in to slavery everyone I can to see if I get some sort of special award for being so evil.

lol, u guys.
I'm apparently too good to get involved with slavers; my little PIP boy karma character has now taken on a robe, long hair and a beard and looks like Jesus.

I don't even know what Mezzers are!

yeah, im jesus right now too.

what is with the "pants exploded" tally, btw?

i got in a extended firefight with the dudes from the military base (i think they shot me while trying to shoot a bloatfly oops) and stopped my freeforall killspree when i saw that my karma was plummeting, because this supergood deal is giving me loads of benefits.

that being said, cant wait to play through a second time as a horrible bastard.

also, got dogmeat killed and did an oldsave for the first time because i felt really bad ;_;

i am such a overblown fanboy for this game, srsly.

yeah, same with my dog from Oblivion(and Fable II when I finally play it). I can't handle having my dog get killed.

In other news, I found the repeating rifle. FUCK yeah.