Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

haha brilliant, I love this game! came across a town cut into rocks at the end of a train line, with a massive behemoth caged up in the center of town... stalked round the perimeter of the town, trying to see if I could get the lock on the behemoth's cage open from a distance with my rifle... ended up shooting the generator next to the cage: cage door opens and the raiders and behemoth then have a MASSIVE set-to while I sit above it all watching it unfold : DD

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Cultural_references_in_Fallout_3

A good starting list.

seriously i come to this thread and i don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about half the time. but i love this game and obviously need to put more hours in. hello thanksgiving.

game of the year though, right?

I've read everything on this thread, despite the fact that I've never played it, and won't get a chance until mid December. I'm dying to play this.

At this point, I'd go game of the year. Trying to think of what else comes close...

Yeah, it's my pick.

same here.

is there anyway to export an itunes playlist as MP3s? this seems like something that should be easy to do : /

One convoluted way is to burn it to CD and then rip the CD to MP3, but there's got to be an easier way.

It's definitely my game of the year. Maybe my game of the 00's.

Man, look at all the major league shit that shipped this year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2008_video_games

"Ron Perlman as the voice of the Narrator"
Wait, when does this happen?

"War. War never changes."

Also the whole ending.

lots of complaints about repeating art assets, identikit offices, metro stations and caves around too

http://img.skitch.com/20081126-j5f75b19u9dfweqpucgxi3mce5.jpg

fwiw, what I'm enjoying on my trip thru the wasteland; too big to rapidshare : /

nice

lots of complaints about repeating art assets, identikit offices, metro stations and caves around too

― czn (cozwn), Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:23 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

there is some of this but I thought they did a lot better job then with Oblivion.

I don't know if it completely fits Fallout, but I made a country western mix that might be good listening. It's mostly pre-1975 stuff, but with a few newer songs as well. Email me if you'd like the link. I only stole one song in it from Tofu's mix.

the speed with which i seem to get my NPC party members killed is kind of alarming. also, i can't count the number of times the mysterious stranger perk has saved my ass.

^^was totally waiting to see some supermutants breaking it down, but it never happened =(

i want to see a behemoth cuttin' rug

Saved the kids in Paradise Falls, have Charon and Dogment waiting safely out of the way over by the slave pens, time to clean house with the Alien Blaster...

*puts on Lucky Shades*

...Miami-style.

if only this wd run on a macbook

http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=214f8e09fbc3d2b491a9698615da65a9&showtopic=911618&st=0&start=0

I'm 15 hours into my second play through and I would say only 10-15% of what I've done so far has been repetitive. Granted I intentionally left out some stuff in my run but damn this game is massive.

i've been playing so much that i'm starting to grind. and there's 100 locations left to explore, but it seems like so many of them are just your stock underground set or your abandoned building set.

fuck it, i ordered it. but i had to get it via market place on amazon, why are amazon selling it at £66 !!?

Maybe it's just me, but I've found this game pretty boring so far...The tunnel sequence was trying, and when I finally made it out, I came upon megaton and spent about a half hour talking to everyone with the usual 'What's the word around town' dialog trees...oh well, maybe RPGing isn't for me...

you know you can choose what you ask and who you talk to, right

"One thing you don't know about my game: The most obscure reference I put in the game, the nearly impossible-to-find unique version of the Alien Blaster called "Firelance" - a reference to the Martian Firelances in the fake plot-text in the paragraph book for the original Wasteland."

link

hi guys this game is great

dont want to read anything upthread for fear of spoileration tho

wow, the people who made this game. ha!

i really hope there is an achievement for obsessively turning on ham radios and opening toilet stall doors, because im pretty sure that im in the lead on that one.

I stole this game on PC and got addicted to it for like 5 days, so that I couldn't do anything else, couldn't get work done, etc.
I also got lost in the Capitol building and couldn't get out for over an hour, and then couldn't figure out how the fuck to get into rivet city!
I was getting a little miserable and twitchy, so I uninstalled it. Hopefully I can find time to play it again in about a month. It's really an incredibly awesome game, despite me fiending out and getting bummed with it!

this game is invading my brain. i'm loving it.

i've been installing mods. I still want one that does this:

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/4488/screenshot03tu.gif

Argh, this shit crashed on me 3 times today. Patch please!

Things I found: in a service tunnel there were two ramps with a ruined car between them and a wrecked motorcycle on one side. Above the car between the ramps was a skeleton hanging from a light fixture. Post-apocalyptic Evel Knievel miscalculated.

Also saw a poor little dead robot with a box of energy cells in one of those fallout shelter tubes. :(

just got this, sorry to say I'm not loving it after an hours play in. We'll see what the weekend holds.

I thought it was a bit dull and boring until I'd sat with it for 3/4 hours, then you start to get invested and it clicks

my last victory was completing the fire ant quest with that funny doctor

i science'd and intelligence'd his ass

ok so just when i was getting to the "well this is kind of all a bit samey" point i got to the capital mall and nvrmind everything is exciting and new.

starting to feel a little silly about my intentional make no progress in main quest angle, because there is just endless shittons of stuff to do in this game, and being 50+ hours in with no progress on the main quest and only 57 locations map located is kind of ridiculous.

also, without spoilering, can someone tell me whether the nukacola girdershade quest is going to be rewarding or piss me off?

oh yeah also, has anyone fucked around with buying interiors for their house in megaton yet? i am turning into a bottlecap miser.

You get a Nuka-Cola schematics and an achievement if you're playing on the 360.

Nuka grenades are pretty bad ass but somehow I got the schematic before completing the quest in the first place.

I bought the scientist theme for megaton house. Nothing to write home about but at the very least you pump caps back into the local economy.

ok, am i playing this right? I've just spent my first five hours pretty doing the same thing - fighting zombies and raiders in the underground system. I'm supposed to be looking for a museum but it's just endles endless ENDLESS subway battles.

I've just turned it off because I'm bored shitless.

Where are all the cool things you guys have been talking about?

Seriously I think I've died already over one hundred times.

Are you following the map directions? There is no reason why you should be in the sewers for five hours (unless you are just exploring the sewers).

I was following the indicator on the radar, which to be honest seems screwy

I might start again, after a catastrophic start i came out of vault 101 with 1 hp, and have pretty much been playing the game with a constant heart beat sound lol.

I found a place called 'Foggy Lane' or something, but the super mutants there were just too much for my hunter rifle bullets.

The combat seems a bit strange, I can blast raiders in the face with about 3 bullets at close range and they dont' die. But sometimes a head shot from miles away kills them instantly.!!
and the China pistol is almost useless, the nail board is a far more effective weapon.

Still, I played it all night and so I must be enjoying it on some level, I was just expected more of an open ended expericence rather than a 'half life' sort of game.

Did you head straight into the guts of DC? That could be your problem. Its best if you explore the wasteland until you're around level 10.