Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

ok now it's GOTY and i'm reading everyone's pant-creaming reviews i have to give this a go. One question though. D'ya think I should play like myself (easygoing helpful non-violent sucker) or go for the opposite? Kind of a generic RPG question really, what do you get the most kick out of, as well as what you think might be best for this game.

I played as "guy who can be pushed too far" and had a blast. I can see where playing the game as a pacifist or a psycho could be fun too. The game rewards and penalizes all those choices!

i have been playing a bunch of trad PC RPGs since finishing FO2, and none of them hold up to it at all... part of the problem is probably the stupid ass fantasy settings of all these bullshits, it's just so much more satisfying to mosey around nuclear California and shoot fools

canks, you don't have a next gen system, right?

nope

can your pc handle FO3?

i mostly just wanna hear your reaction to the game.

ya i'm pretty sure it could handle it... probably won't be getting it for a while tho, unless u wanna send me a copy~

i only got 360. Aren't you a torrent kid?

420 buy pc games every day

finally let myself finish 3, and wow, the cakewalk ease of the ending was really pretty lame after the rest of the game. i am not a big SUPERBOSS kind of guy but wtf at least give me something with some oomph other than the (spoiler-free) cinematic awesomeness of the "follow that thing" mission that leads into it.

doing the evil female w/maxed INT, CHR, LCK and mega speech skills startover to see how different it is, but TBH it is hard to do some of the dirt that earns you bad karma. nice reminder of how much harder this game is in the beginning, tho, before you get all superhuman killing machine.

(hard to do said dirt in a "really? shoot that nice harmless dude in the back of the head?" sort of way)

the ending did suck.

yeah, kind of hoping that they knew that the DLC was going to extend you past the ending and decided to softball it, but way to drop a turd on top of an otherwise excellent game.

Yes, but for 99 hours out of 100, it was a fun journey. The interior environments get repetitive, but there is a lot of narrative (or at least history) in the off-main storyline. Think of when you ran into that ghoul turned feral, who had a comprehensive Nuka-cola collection and pet radroaches. There are a lot of little details that fleshed out the environment, even if they weren't in any scripted subplot.

DLC 2 (the Pitt) sounds fantastic, DLC 3 will fix issues. Martigan's Mutant Makeover (a PC only mod) is highly recommended. All of your encounters will be significantly more unexpected. I'm attempting a second playthrough with it (as a amoral character, not karma-good or karma-evil), and many times I've had to return to saves because I managed ammo and health-boosts poorly.

(edit of the above) DLC 3 will permit unlimited play past the main-quest ending.

99/100 is pretty much right.
But it would've been SO EASY to get it right!

back on this tonight after many weeks of refusing to play, and thankfully no crashes at all. enjoyed it far more as a result.

stupid quick question (suuurprise) does having the radio on affect your hiding at all?

i love just looting places, and i have so many unfinished tasks that i've activated.

i don't think radio affects sneak? I never noticed.

Has anyone played the Antartica expansion? The other two look better, but I don't want to wait til the end of this month.

i think your radio and pipboy light affect sneak.

Calstars, you can skip Operation Anchorage unless you really want to add a stealth suit and a high-power sniper type gun to your arsenal. OA doesn't look, feel, or smell like a Fallout franchise, and is sort of a consequence-free, first person shooter on rails.

And to clear up that question, radio doesn't effect sneak. Pipboy light does.

my friend has the official guide book, that thing is HUGE.

Finished OA today, quite enjoyed the fact it felt almost nothing like the rest of the game. The first section reminded me of Goldeneye on the N64, later parts felt a bit crysis-like. Worried this stealth suit is going to make life too easy from here on though - might need to avoid using it just so that combat doesn't get boring.

video for PITT is out and it looks pretty good.

Hearing Liam Neeson banging on about his dead wife is going to start feeling pretty weird now.

oh wow dude, hadnt thought of that o_O

yeah, put me down for a o_O on that as well.

GUYS! I got a new copy of Fallout 3! SO HAPPY

just blew up megaton on my second playthrough, after killing a whole bunch of people inside first. mushroom cloud r pretty.

Honestly don't think i'll ever play this again; just too much new stuff to keep me busy. Good memories tho.

question: Fallout 3 on PC or on console? answer quickly as I will likely buy it tonight on my way home

PC for editing suite and downloads from other users. Console for no worries about your PC being able to handle the graphics. Definitely a game improved by smooth graphics/sounds.

Hey, Lone Wanderer, what's on your iPod?
(or, you know, Pip-Boy. Whatever.)

hey wait did HI DERE buy a fallout 3 or no?

This may, in fact, be the greatest game ever. My first character was a do-gooder sniper dude who kinda looked like me. I'm in the middle of my second playthrough. My current character is a redheaded firebrand named Arson who exclusively uses a custom-made Shishkabob - ie: the flaming sword. She's way evil (Three-Dog recently called her a "Merciless Fucking Defiler," and he's always calling her a bitch. This mostly went-down because she decided she couldn't pass the chance to arm and detonate a nuclear weapon... in the middle of Megaton. (In Arson's defense, the mushroom cloud it made was way pretty.) The coolest thing about the Shishkabob is that if you're carrying it past a gas leak, you will CATCH ON FIRE.

Even cooler is that despite having played for like 30 hours my first playthrough, I'm still running into TONs of things I didn't find the first time. Locations and such. Like a dude who was combining paste and mole rat meat to make super mole rat meat. And you can use his machine to make some yourself. (Arson refrained from eating it.) OH! Also, I bought her some biker goggles. So now she's traipsing around the wastes with her flaming sword and a big over-sized pair of goggles. It's pretty rocking.

yeah its kind of fun to chill with tenpenny up in his tower while he snipes at whatever he feels like shooting.

having the same experience mordy is with this, second playthrough is way more fun than expected, the reactions are pretty awesome (btw that sheriff in megaton gets pissed and hostile pretty easy), and the stuff that i couldn't get to the first time through (lots of weird background stuff in megaton that you dont find out when you are being a goody goody) is really interesting, fills out the story a ton.

well at least it did until i shot or nuked everyone in it.

I didn't buy it because I didn't actually get a definitive answer! "one version has this, the other has that" is not actually a recommendation, it's just more info

am i right in thinking that there is no DLC for the PS3 peeps? if so (and assuming that you have a roidrager of a PC), i would go with the PC version.

i can not give you a definitive answer because i have a 360, wii, and mac.

What's the DLC and is it available for the PC version? Is it, like, extra quests/missions/areas, or fancy outfits?

no its extra quests and areas, plus i know that PC dudes can actually do game mods and stuff.

details here:
http://www.totalvideogames.com/Fallout-3/news/Bethesda-Confirms-Fallout-3-DLC--PC-Editor-13472.html

hmm.

looks like my PC can support this

unfortunately if you use the GECK to make a postapocalyptic HSTNGS i will not be able to enjoy it natively on my 360 :(

what's the consensus on the pitt?

I've jumped right in and bought it, without reading any reviews or anything. But haven't played any of it yet.

i've ravaged and looted so much cool stuff I'm actually afraid to load it up anymore for fear of losing any of it lol

dan i assume that your PC would work since you are running some fairly graphic intensive games on there already, right?

NWN II and ES: Oblivion, yeah

then i would totally go pc, because i am 1000% envious of the GECK thing.

xbla really needs to get on board with user created content; it's the only thing the ps3 seems to be doing right.