Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

the "into each life some rain must fall" song was a stroke of genius too

My fave by far is Butcher Pete.

Hey everybody, did the news get around
About a guy named Butcher Pete
Oh, Pete just flew into this town
And he's choppin' up all the women's meat

He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat

Butcher Pete's got a long sharp knife
He starts choppin' and don't know when to stop
All you fellows gotta watch your wifes
'Cause Pete don't care who's meat he chops

Ever since Peter flew into town
He's been havin' a ball
Just cuttin' and choppin' for miles around
Single women, married women, old maids and all

Wakes up in the morning, half past five
Chops from sunrise to sunset
I don't see how he stays alive
Meat's gonna be the death of ole Pete, yeah

The police put Pete in jail
Yes, he finally met his faith
But when they came to pay his bail
They found him choppin' up his cell mate

That Butcher Pete is a crazy man
Tries to chop down the wind and the rain
Just hacks on anything he can get
Say, turn this record over, you ain't heard nothing yet

Well, they let ole Pete out of the jail
He went back to his store
All the women who payed his bail
Were waitin' on Pete to chop some more

There's an old woman, who's ninety-two
Lives down the street
She said, one thing more I wanna do
Is find ole Pete and let him chop my meat

Pete went to church one Sunday night
He gave the preacher a fit
That crazy Pete started a fight
When he went hackin' on the pulpit

Well, they put him in jail again
They tried to give him life
Pete beat the case, he pleaded insane
They gave him back his same ole knife

Well, he got out of jail on Sunday night
Monday he tightened his grip
He started to China to see the sites
Went nuts again and chopped up the ship

Brought ole Pete back to town
To electrocute him there
But Pete was crazy like a clown
He chopped down that electric chair

He's a maniac!
He don't do nothin' but hackin'

My favorite (I think I've said this before) is Andrew Sisters + Danny Kaye's Civilization.

Fuck, reilly's raiders took FOREVER for me since I couldn't figure out how to find their headquarters. The game goes much better when I don't cheat and look at online guides, though.

Nothing's better than stumbling across the wasteland, seeing some distant landmark, and finding out if it's some random ruins or a waypoint on the map. Now that I've got that quest done and get money for it, so much the better.

Finding the alien gun right before I went to the deathclaw-infested city was lucky, since my armor doesn't really hold up well to deathclaw attacks.

is EVERYONE playing this on hard? i figure it's going to take me long enough to finish anyway that i might as well play normal and thus waste less life-hours playing a video game.

no, i'm doing my first playthrough on normal, basically to allow for not worrying too much about progress and fucking around.

Okay, where's teh reilly's raiders thing.

have you been to underworld yet? not sure if you can get the quest until you've talked to reilly

where's underworld?

In the Museum of History.

kind of bummed out about the only remaining solution i had left for tenpenny tower.

how many hours are you guys in at this point? i topped 60 yesterday and have so much stuff left to do o_O. Also, is there an upper limit to levels, or do you keep going up after 20?

You cap at 20. :(

bleh, I hate level caps. I'm finally get fed up with Oblivion after 120 hrs, and I capped at level 47 or whatever maybe 60 hours ago. Every fight past about level 20 was trivial anyway, so why not let me get more powerful, if I want to keep playing?

Not to the museum yet... is it adjacent to the mall?

I'm gonna play the hell out of this tonight i think.

71-plus hours in.

museum(s) is adjacent to the mall, yes

well i guess that level capping at 20 will make me go back and replay so i can get some of the other perks :(

I went for the level 30 cap mod. Makes more sense.

Almost 60 hours in. I hit level 20 a while ago so I'm basically exploring and doing achievements now.

The DLC sounds so cool. I need help deciding: Do I repurchase this game, or - since I already beat it once - buy Farcry 2 and come back to Fallout 3 when it gets more discounted?

I would skip far cry 2 from what I've read and wait until FO3 becomes discounted / the DLC drops, whichever is the earlier

I thought the three DLC was going to cost 800pts total but it's going to be 800pts each isn't? that's a bit steep

actually maybe not 2400pts is about £20 isn't it? depends on how big the DLC is I suppose

confirmed:
- lvl cap increased
- new perk
- new weapons, armour
- able to continue after the main quest

so basically i should try to wrap up the main quest by the time the DLC hits, and then start fresh with the new rules.

it is good to have goals

czn, what have you heard about Farcry 2? I've only read really glowing reviews.

not exactly glowing: http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/B7B0B391-27F6-4E2D-A907-D31917F5C280.htm

(oh sorry, I should've. reports are very varied on it, mordy, and I'm only speaking from hearsay but what I've heard it gets boring very fast, the camps respawn so enemies respawn, the world is large and a bit tedious to move around in and drive about, v.generic multiplayer, lots of bugs; the intial impressions scared me off getting this, after being quite excited watching the development, but maybe now ppl have had chance to sit with it the reception has been a bit more positive? I dunno)

"A Sublime World View and Balance: "Where The Value of Things [You Know Well] Changes" (Five Stars)

This is a new Fallout from Bethesda Softworks, who made Oblivion.

While it's basically the same system in that you're free to go anywhere after the first introduction quest ends and you venture outside, in this work the things that weren't quite satisfactory and the things were that overdone in Oblivion have been planned and tweaked out in a detailed and minute way to match a ruined world and engender a feeling of things getting steadily worse [in that world] from start to finish.

Right after you start, there isn't anything written on your map. So because of that, it's a game where whichever direction the players heads in determines and changes the game content completely.

I, after coming out of nuclear shelter Vault101, wasn't able to discover the first city and was left to wandering the wasteland. Along the way, I luckily found a deserted domicile, and in the first floor's kitchen, weapons and recovery items rolled around lazily on the floor; I found them too. Furthermore, I noticed there was a bed on the second floor, so I decided to make that my steady residence for a while.

The next day I walked headed east and only east and amongst the boulders, I discovered an entrance that looked much like Vault101, creepingly, fearfully, I gave it a shot and to look inside was to see a nuclear shelter that had the same construction as a mercilessly eroded and ruined Vault101. Inside here, I turned over the corpses to find a "106" on their backs.

It is just that sort of situation.

Fundamentally because attack items and recovery items are highly priced rare valuables, the majority of players sling the risk of a pitch black abandoned factory and such settings as dungeons on their back and come to covet and lust for these items. The act of opening the item boxes in the office rooms of thin dark factories, fishing through desks, foraging for and seizing bullets from behind fallen bookcases appears to wrap the game up into a different feeling of exhilaration than Oblivion's treasure chests.

Really the act of recovering one's energy in itself, even in the dungeon's water drinking areas, eating the meat you can get from killing enemies, eating the candies and such that lay rolling around the heavy work areas and such is easily managed. However, unfortunately, these types of things are coated in quite a level of radiation and the next time you see the family doctor he may need to have a stern talk to you about your radiation levels and diet.

The types of food products that you can use to refill energy without ingesting radiation are limited, so for instance the "clean water" item that isn't showered in radiation, though it's just water it goes for a high price.

You see, the act of sleeping completely refills your energy, you can even recover from wounds, but in this world most beds no matter where are burnt and charred or stained with blood or have bones laying on top, in the actual meaning of the word: dirty.

I'm still only 10-20 hours in, but each time I wake up in the morning from my clean bed and put water into a cup it becomes something that makes me think a bit. It's an amazing game."

where is that review from?

japanese amazon

Vault 106 is funny!

i just spent a bunch of time watching Pumpkin, the adorable caged morerat. maybe i need a break

ok was not prepared for vault 112 change up at all.

Suggested addition to the soundtrack:

ok dudes question... without spoilerizing what the change-up is, do i want to avoid vault 112 as long as possible? is it like a point of no return thing where i wont be able to go back and do other stuff after?

You can play the main quest until you escape from the Enclave. Then do no more of it.

ok cool. didnt even know i was gonna escape from the enclave! well that's something to look forward to.

Sorry for the mini-spoiler. But I figure you'd rather know when to stop in the main quest than go too far.

Didn't even know the enclave was going to capture me!

I'm taking it megaslow though, no worries.

oh no probs, that's cool.

im in 112 now - great stuff.

how do i play this game for hours and manage to make no progress on my quests

ok so the level cap at 20 makes post capping play a little frustratingly pointless. doesn't help that i have the star paladin as a sidekick right now, w/charon waiting in the wings, probably never to be used.

think im going to just power through the main quest in order to do it all over again with a full on evil bastard character. or maybe play one of the other games i have been completely neglecting since i got this.

tesla armor + terrible shotgun/lincolns repeater/a232523535whatever pulse rifle/the modded smg's from the merc NPC from the constitution quest = no worries about anything killing me ever.

btw, how the fuck does the mezmo whatever work? every time i tried it, it just made whoever i was pointing it at pissed off.

I got the gatling laser Vengeance from the Deathclaw Sanctuary. Can kill a deathclaw with one headshot on sneak.

I think you can only mezz minor characters without proper names, like wastelanders, security guards, etc. aside from the VIPs in the Paradise Falls quest. If theyre not one of these people they just attack you.

You can play the main quest until you escape from the Enclave. Then do no more of it.

― Mordy, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:07 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do you mean when you escape to the citadel?

Yeah. Once you get to the citadel, do no more of the main quest. You can walk around and chat people up, get training in Power Armor and whatnot though. You shouldn't accidentally fall into the last part of the quest if you're paying attention to the dialogue. One of the NPC's is essentially "ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE READY AND PREPARED TO DO THIS BIG THING?" Y/N.

right. is that the last quest???

it's kinda crazy how much i THINK i've done but you guys are all talking about weapons and techniques and shit i've never even heard of yet!!