Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

Developed by Obsidian eh? Interesting.

http://www.gog.com/en/page/fallout_promo/
$15 gets you:
* Fallout 1, 2 and Fallout Tactics
* 3 original soundtracks in MP3
* 9 hi-res wallpapers
* More than 300 artworks from all games
* Fallout Bible with special introduction by Chris Avellone (205 pages)
* Set of avatars
* 3 original manuals and reference cards

Fun interview, too: http://www.gog.com/en/editorial/editorial_fallout

oh btw I FINALLY bought FIII

YAY

I still haven't finished this, I'm wary of pushing ahead with the main quest until I've finished all the sidequests, but I seem to be spending a lot of time wandering wasteland and killing random raiders and deathclaws without actually managing to trigger any sides. Don't want to revert to faqs, so I guess I'll just go ahead and meet my dad, and see whether that leads me to any other stuff.

Apparently the 3rd DLC allows you to keep playing after 'completing' the game. Not sure how that's going to work, but will be good for those who don't want to finish the game before doing all the side quests. :)

Apparently it changes the ending too though? And the completionist in me feels like I should see the original ending before I play through the altered version.

trust me when i tell you that the original ending is hardly worth seeing.

okay so the game crashed on my during the tenth-birthday part of the tutorial; I tried to look at my new Pip-Boy and *fwpt* gone

grr

You could always play as the heroic character that persevered despite losing his Pip-Boy.

this crashed for me at least 20 times when I was playing it.

it only crashed once for me

I was pretty save happy so it never fucked me up.

The Pitt and Operation Anchorage are going to be bundled on a disc for retail for PC users who don't want to deal with GFWL (though it may require activation or some other bullshit) and Xbox users who, I dunno, don't have an internet connection? PS3 folks are still getting nothing.

As a PC user I'm probably going to end up waiting for the inevitable mega collection of all the DLC packs, unless the price of the main game drops significantly.

I started playing this game.

The mayor of Megaton is dead, whoops!

no no, don't worry.

so, broken steel is out tomorrow

the level cap is off

I have the pitt still to do and I didn't know about half of these unmarked quests o_O

So the other day I reinstalled this, compulsively poop-socked (NOT literally) for about 36 hours, then uninstalled and deleted my saved games in self-disgust.

And it's not that I even love it that much! A lot of the game-play is actually pretty boring imo

broken steel is out tomorrow

...and I've got three red rings. Blub!

being able to continue after the main quest: classic
level cap of 30: classic
other new sub-quests dotted around the map: classic

it's nice to be back in the wasteland

what about your skills, do they continue?

i know i will play this but i'm not that excited about it... all i think about when i think about this game are the design aspects that annoyed me. the weapons are too goofy and the AI is garbage. ten more levels, sign me up!

was the oasis in the original and I just totally missed it?

The Oasis was in the original.

it's part of a main quest, isn't it? it's great either way

love this game

Not apart of the main quest, but it's fairly significant. Harold is a reoccurring figure from the first two games, and Three-Dog constantly mentions the Oasis over the radio ("Have you guys and gals ever seen... a tree?").

Yeah, I somehow missed the Oasis mission too. Just completed The Pitt last night, so downloaded Broken Steel, which I will hopefully get round to playing soon...

***Spoiler Alert Kinda***
At least now I can (hopefully?) go into the final bit with barely any stuff and scavenge all the guns, armour, etc dropped by Enclave in that last battle and hock them for cash... unless they manage to screw you by taking that stuff away.
***End Spoiler Alert***

SPOILER

you can't go back after the last battle and scavenge but you can scavenge there and then. also I think if you pick something up and then drop it, it will be there if you go back for it. at least it was for me, for the one thing I did tht with. don't quote me tho

END SPOILER

it probably depends on how valuable it is, the game states in the manual that dropping stuff in public places *may* not be there when you come back. I guess this emulates other scavangers in the world. This is what i like about this game, it's just a huge bum simulator.

it's just a huge bum simulator

http://www.destructoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/boonga1.jpg

thinking about getting a 360 just to play this.

just in time for summer. :/

Worth it. I got my 360 just to play Oblivion. And so I got to play fallout 3 when it came out too. I'm of the opinion that buying a 360 to play Bethasda games is a good investment.

Totally true.

so did they end up patching all those crashes you dudes were talking about upthread?

I have been playing through again and have yet to crash. Got 'stuck' a couple times but a save and reload fixed it.

Yeah, it's much better from every report i've read.

Yep, mine has never crashed again -- and I've played two more characters through the game.

speaking from ps3 camp, yeah they seem to have fixed all the bugs.

Yeah, I didn't encounter any crashes or bugs at all, but I think I might be one of the lucky ones. Just started on Broken Steel (having skipped Operation Anchorage, and finally got round to completing The Pitt) and when I saved it I noticed I've put in 60hours. That might not sound like a lot to some, but for me that's a lot to have put in for a single game. Still loving it too.

Actually, I lie, I did hit a wee bug last night. I got to a bit just at the bit where you go to start Broken Steel. There's a Deathclaw, who leapt up into the air, so I was panicking and swinging around trying to find where he was about to drop out of the air onto my head, but couldn't find him. Wandered along a bit and he suddenly re-appeared right in front of me. So maybe not all the bugs are fixed...

or maybe you just got sonned

Wow - the re-release of the original three Fallouts (1,2 + Tactics) actually cracked the NPD Top 10 last week. How many people even knew it was coming out?

i broke down and i'm playing fallout 3 now. i love it but i don't think i'm very good at it. :/ trying to play a good chick, but i accidentally killed butch's mom while trying to help her so i had to shoot him in the head too. now i'm trying to do a bunch of sidequests (wasteland survival guide, the thing with the Family) but i think i'm too low-powered to do anything that involves killing very many people/mutants.

I accidentally killed her too, but it was VATS fault. I targetted one of the radroaches, thinking it might be clever enough to avoid hitting her but I just clubbed her while swinging for the roach. Fortunately Butch didn't seem to notice and just seemed to think the roaches got her, and I didn't do enough to help. So I was all "Yup, that's exactly how it happened. I definitely didn't smash her skull in cos I can't swing a baseball bat accurately".

Yeah, I killed Butch too, but it didn't seem to have too negative an effect on my karma (dude had it coming!) and I've been able to play as good ever since then.

I should just beat the game instead doing all the sub quests and finding all the skill books. My character is too damn powerful. I could also go from Very Evil to Very Good in a couple minutes if I wanted to ::sigh::

I need a game that is just as fun but remains challenging even after you put in X hours of game play. And Fallout 3 is supposed to be a long game?

i'm doing better, i finished blood ties, disarmed the bomb, and some other things. ammo feels super scarce which only adds to the atmosphere, it's kind awesome that i have to do a lot of scrounging and hit up a couple of different merchants before making a run on the fire ant colony.