Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

Fallout 1/2?

or i dunno mass effect or something

get the point lookout expansion for sure. most similar looking game is probably oblivion.

bioware/obsidian stuff?

i just got the official strategy guide (for Fallout3), wow it's huge.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/pipclock-lite-survive-apocalypse/id418842110?mt=8

NOTE: To activate the Geiger Counter and the Magnetic Compass, touch and drag the main screen down.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: While the PipClock functions show real accurate datas (day night stats, weather and so on), the geiger counter is just for entertainment, it does not really work. There is absolutely no way to measure radiation with an iPhone.

if your touchscreen is melting, you should take that as a sign tho

fun times with an idiot character:

http://lparchive.org/Fallout-2/

have spent the day in DC, my first time ever, and going down into the metro stations is a way eerie experience thanks to playing shitloads of fallout 3 earlier this year...

xp them trogg chronicles are classic

got Fallout 1 from GOG for like $6 tonight. My shite work laptop can run it, so I can play it on the road.

ok so i mentioned this on the other thread, but i am currently banging through FO3 in some sorta ultracompletist rampage and i am still finding quests i didnt know existed (altho some of them like the aqua cura quest must generate thx to broken steel i guess). also still finding all sorts of weird non marked areas with weird little tableaus in them like the sewer evil kenivel or the dead hazmat dude hidden behind the radioactive lake (also lots of obv suicides). this game is still one of the most content loaded things ive ever seen. so awesome.

thinking that the hit all the levels with neutral karma is going to be a huge pain in the ass though, not sure if i will bother with that.

sorta ultracompletist rampage

wikia my friend! don't miss anything

im trying to avoid using wikia, just living off the perk that shows you all the marked locations. also how did i never get to the head of state lincoln memorial quest until now?

this is very out of character for me because normally when like shoot all the pigeons type shit comes up i shut down that urge but this game seems to bring it out in me.

just living off the perk that shows you all the marked locations

you fool!!!

hahaha

i do have to find all the bobbleheads tho, so i am thinking i will be checking online for that one rather than revisiting EVERYWHERE I HAVE BEEN

this is pretty much the only game i've been playing for like the past 6-7 months but i'm doing it very slowly since i can't/won't play it around my daughter. just now trying to get down to the ship or whatever in the southeast corner. haven't seen any deathclaws yet, i don't think.

there's one down in the basement of a wrecked building with a lovecraft vibe iirc. one of the add-on quests makes you go there, it was just a standalone location in the main game.

can't believe i remember all this shit :/

xp er a bobblehead that is.

nah i got that one, i also got the one in the arlington cemetary house. i think i have 15 of them already, but iirc there are 20?

yeah one for each stat and skill i think

seriously just look this shit up. all the fun, none of the hassle!

I think the Lovecraftian building was called the Dunwich building? I remember enjoying the hell out of it.

kinda want to play this with a cheat so i can just explore without worrying about dying/killing. the battle mechanics are the most boring part of this.

lovecraft building was AWESOME

dont worry n/a once you hit rank 15 or so and have 300 stimpacks u will never die again

n/a - check out fo3 nexus for mods. i doubt there's any that completely remove the horrible bullet-sponge Bethesda™ combat (a mod that just despawned every enemy in the game would be good), but there's probably some that increase player damage massively so you can get the crappy combat over with as fast as possible.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/

It was way, way too easy but the end of FO3 and (especially) the Broken Steel DLC were entertaining in that there were some pretty wide-open bases and the energy weapons were such that you could do the combat FPS-style instead of going into VAT and just snipe soldiers halfway across the base.

i've thought for probably waaay too long about the combat in fallout better. i get that way about just about every game i get into tho. i could go on for pages...

there's an odd kind of dead zone at medium range; at long ranges you can snipe, at close range your vats chances

I got to the point where there would be enough enemies that VATS was just kind of irritating in slowness (which makes me sound like I'd never love FO1/FO2, but I really do!) and I'd just sit there burning through ammo instead

lol i didn't even finish that sentence. "your vats chances... are good!" or something

apart from combat/gamebryo gripes my biggest complaint with FO:NV is how underpopulated it is. i know, lol wasteland, but come on. vegas is supposed to be a booming casino town. the NCR is supposed to be running big army bases. the legion is supposed to be a legion. the slums like freeside are supposed to be overrun with refugees. but there's only ever about nine people on screen at a time. (i have no idea what the system limitations are, maybe they were running up against them)

rivet city felt like it was dense and busy. the NV environments could have been made a little tighter, to give it that feel. idk i just like to complain.

i totally agree with that, and the battle at the end consisted of about 7 people on both sides.

that IS a gamebryo gripe! also a console gripe. consoles ruin everything

lol there were like 10 people in rivet city

well, room by room, sure!

did the pc version have more people milling around?

(the assassin's creed games had nice size crowds all over the place)

No, Rivet City really had about 15-20 people total and you had to load different areas for them to appear! It was like, go to a new floor of the ship, load load load

just about burned out on this deal

hey btw if i delete the DLC from my hard disk, i can always redownload it right (360 specific)? because its taking up a bunch of room that could be holding CSI the video game demos

i think so?

nothing sounds less appealing to me than CSI the video game

oh man you should see if the demo is still available, it is the most hilariously awful thing i have ever played.

morrowind is like my third or fourth favorite game of all time but the "big city" in that game is the most hilariously devoid-of-life environment i've ever seen; you feel like an archaeologist in it.

i find myself daydreaming of the day when an rpg can produce a populated space like a parade scene in an old sword-and-sandle movie or a street in blade runner or something. maybe those examples are pushing it, but why not? is that kind of thing even possible without a big step up in hardware?

id rather have a sparsely populated city with actual npcs in it than suffer through the thriving towns of colorful morons of Fable 2 etc tbh

games can do populated spaces, but the question is how much interaction you want. like FF-type games have big crowd scenes, but you can't talk to anyone in them (so they might as well be background) and heavy rain had some crowd scenes (like in the mall) but again, very limited interaction. daggerfall had towns full of ppl but they all had pretty much the same dialogues when you talked to them (ask them about rumors / ask for directions / etc). to have a game with hundreds of individually interactive ppl on screen wouldn't just require a big step up in hardware but so much writing that might just be creatively impossible w/out taking some major shortcuts.

Fable 2 another good example of this

yeah i mean dead rising 2 has basically your parade scene going on, its just a parade of shuffly zombies, so the hardware doesnt seem to be the issue here i guess

gotta be some procedural way of generating different npc "personalities." but maybe that's like... actual artificial intelligence

there are procedural ways of generating different personalities but those are at fable 2 level. i'm trying to think of any other procedurally generated npc personalities that do it better... but coming up short