Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

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i know exactly that feeling, but i'm definitely going to give it a go

and yeah this game sucks up so my much of my time once i get going, no way could i ever load this up for just a thirty minute blast.

and wtf at finding the family mission, i think i need a key but i have no idea where from

and i now have a ruck of toy cars and teddy bears

So this Fallout Trilogy pack, other than having a ridiculous name, is it just the last released versions of Fallout 1 & 2 and Tactics? I remember using a fan patch the last time I played through Fallout 2, and still having bugs. It seems unlikely they'd make a new version, but I haven't found any info out there.

bump, I guess
http://www.incgamers.com/News/16452/Fallout3DLCComingToPS3

you can TRY to be happy for us you big xbox fanboy

alien abduction!

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/983/983990p1.html

I played through the Pitt this weekend in about 2-3 hours. Maybe my character is too powerful. Though the story does have a nice twist at the end. Wondering if Broken Steel will be worth it.

100 steel ingots?

ok i've been straight on ammo & money since killing the ghoul colony. i felt bad about it though, so it was pretty satisfying to come back and shoot tenpenny in the head with the sniper rifle.

i've run into a couple of bugs, but it's not a big deal. i can't sell scrap metal to the ghoul in the underworld (only have two dialogue choices, "i don't want to sell" or "what was our deal again?", even when i have scrap metal), there was one freeze/crash, and one time i was in a dude's room in rivet city and he closed and locked the door. then i picked the lock to get out and he started shooting at me, ha.

think you have to have at least 5 to sell to him

I got back to the game after a lapse and ended up buying Broken Steel. I only had Operation Anchorage before, and was kind of annoyed by the combat-heavy bit. As a side note, is there any goal related to the briefcases of intel you can pick up? I grabbed all I saw and ended up with five of ten and haven't found any documentation online about what happens if you get them all.

I'm really thinking I should have bumped the difficulty to hard a long time ago.

think you have to have at least 5 to sell to him

oh good.

i'm gonna play so much fallout this holiday weekend. i finally got to rivet city after like five separate quests were pointing there. i don't know what to do when about the android, you guys...i don't wanna be a dick, but i do want to play blade runner.

oh cool i never looked at it like that, you're roughly where i am btw

and yeah gonna play this so much on sunday

creating a second option with my powerfist for dealing with the injured guy during the 'escort the scientists through the tunnel' bit made me nerd-lol.

more dlc this summer eh? i'll probably wait til then to replay this... i basically roared thru the last 3 dlc's with my maxed-out character and it was not as much fun as it could be in retrospect :/

i just started playing fallout3 a couple of days ago, was pretty wary as i've always had an aversion to rpgs in the past, but wow what game. can already tell i'm going to be spending 100+ hours of my life on this.

really reminded me of the STALKER games, has anyone else on here played those? STALKER is less slick & has more bugs but feels more real and unnerving.

can you guys recommend some other rpgs that are worth playing? im a bit wary of the whole wizards and orcs thing - i much prefer the post-nuclear war thing. also should i play the first two fallout games eventually or are they a massive step back from this one? (apologies if this is covered above, i haven't read through the read because of spoiler risk)

on a similar note, how's mass effect compare? a buddy lent it to me, but even though i'm still loving fallout (just escaped from the enclave already, so i guess it's time to cool it on the main quest), the thought of doing another massive faux-fps rpg with moral choices and dialogue trees doesn't seem very enticing.

nothing is as good as fallout 3 in the rpg world unless you are one of those anime freaks who likes tactic based games.

mass effect is pretty good though in terms of story/characters/voice acting. most of the the actual gameplay suffers from poor user interface, enemy AI, and just being poorly developed. I will get mass effect 2 the week it comes out tho fwiw.

I though mass effect was kind of a waste, but I gave up early. Gameplay just too too flawed.

"Tell me about (x)"

I hated Mass Effect.

In some ways F1+2 are better than F3. They're certainly different enough that I wouldn't say they're a step back at all, even if the graphics aren't as good.

ah great, i'll go back to them once i've completed this and the DLCs, thanks mordy.

unrelated to this thread but is it the same for Metal Gear Solid too? is it worth starting from the beginning or have they dated badly? i spent last summer going through all the splinter cells, start to finish (except the final one, double agent, as the controls had gone way finnicky) and that was great.

no love for the STALKER games on here? i totally love the desolate Threads-style post-nuclear landscape thing, highly recommended.

They're dated really really well. Partially because the aesthetic is already stripped down, so the graphics don't suffer much from being outdated. And the controls are great, etc. Except they really are different games (turn-based hexigonal top-down).

i never played any of the others but i love the first metal gear solid game, i played through it a couple of times on ps1.

Metal Gear Solid is totally worth going back for, even it's purely for the story. It may sound counter-intuitive, but they keep doing the same story again and again, but in slightly different ways and tweaked play mechanics and better technology - this may sound like a textbook example of video game sequelizing, but in context it's actually really interesting. Unlike most series it's actually constantly self-aware of this, it's reflected in the plots, so it gets more enjoyable and insightful (in that insane Kojima way). You might even want to go back to Metal Gear for MSX, but it's definitely a lot more frustrating and not quite as worth doing - a recap is probably good enough for the pre-MGS games.

I adore Fallout 1+2 and just played 1 again for the ILG PC thing several months ago, so I can't really give an objective opinion on it, so, uh, listen to Mordy. (Also still waiting on the inevitable GOTY edition of FO3 with all the DLC included.) You think it's original now for using a post-apocalyptic theme, but imagine how mindblowing it was in 1998! Sadly it's true that most RPGs still go for the default Tolkien-inspired worlds, West, East, PC, console alike...

I'm interested in STALKER, maybe I'll get into that at some point. It seems like one of those titles that got a bad rep when it came out because it was horrendously buggy. Actually I hear it's still horribly buggy even now, but time seems to have softened people's outlook on it.

I hate going back to games 99% of the time. Do not want anything retro or old school from gaming.

i think i would enjoy a game where mega man navigates a 2-D bombed-out wasteland and has to decide between helping to defend a colony of robot prostitutes from giant mutant babies or killing them and taking their energy tanks.

That's the plot of the Matrix, isn't it?

as lame as this sounds, im having real bad travel sickness from playing fallout3 (also had it with half life 2). after an hour or more of playing i feel real nauseous and it lingers around for an hour or two after. i don't get this with other games like gta4, not even in the in-car driving view, maybe it's something to do with games set in THE FUTURE. using the 3rd person perspective helps slightly, but the queasiness still comes after a time.</wimpy>

anyone else get this or know of any cures? it's really ruining my fallout3 experience! the noise when i smash an ant or roach to bits doesn't help either, never been as repulsed by something as much as this in a game before. but like i said above, absolutely blown away by the whole game. was always put off by the 'rpg' tag attached to it, what a fool i was

anyone else get this or know of any cures?

yes, had this with oblivibore too.
solution: get a decent graphic board capable of framerates above 40fps.

it's probably the radiation

thanks meisenfek, im using an nvidia geforce gtx 260, is that not good enough? i've gone into the options settings (before the game loads up) but i dont see anything to alter the fps

Finished Broken Steel, amazed by the power of the Tesla Cannon. It completely sucks in a close-quarters firefight, but if your character stats are as high as I've gotten (and only at level 24!) then you can pick off Enclave guys from what seems like a half mile away. Ridiculous.

since i'm at the last storyline quest i can't decide if i should bum around finding the little nooks that i haven't found yet or just get broken steel and plough through

that sucks :( the chinese xpac was all about sniping too and my guy is close quarter punch you in the face.

I do like in broken steel that a lot of the baddies are not just sitting in wait but get triggered.

Also some of the detail in the white house is great and shows how much potential the whole system still has.

i started keeping my extra guns and spare parts in the refrigerator at my house

is it worth seeing the original ending before installing broken steel or should i just download it now?

you still get the original ending w/ broken steel

Yeah, the only diff is what happens post-ending, and you get one other possibility of who gets to do a certain task. And there's not a huge difference after that.

this game is taking up far too much of my time - i hit a low when i was in a club at the weekend, taking a leak in the cubicle and first thing i thought when i saw the loo was 'hm i could drink out of that but my radiation level would.. ugh'.

still getting knocked sick if i play for more than an hour at a time, it's like a forbidden fruit.

i've noticed a few bugs, where missions i wasn't aware of suddenly become completed (when i collected a whole bunch of holotapes and listened to them, also this lewis taylor fellow mission just popped up out of nowhere) but nothing to ruin the game. read a few complaints about how the scenery repeats itself a lot, noticed this a bit but only in places you'd expect it to - like the sewers and metro.

i'm planning to get all the DLC (there are 3 out for the pc at the moment?), bit new to this so what's the best way of doing it - shall i complete F3 in full first before installing the DLC or is it ok to install them all now and they just fit into the game? or is it like the GTA4 DLC where they're entirely new games just set on the same landscape?

(sorry if all this has been said above, im reluctant to read through the whole thread in case of spoilers)

I think you can add the DLC now without doing damage to the game.

two of the existing DLCs (pitt and anchorage) are basically self-contained areas with their own mission strings and can be done at any time you want. broken steel adds (some) content to the general environment, extends the main storyline, and bumps the level cap up to 30. as far as i know you can add any DLC and it'll work fine with an existing game.

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i started a new character to have something to work with when the next two DLCs come out this summer, and i've been a cheating ass sob about it too :/

ah great thanks, i'll stick them all in now

i guess the next dlc's won't include the citadel because I sorta razed it.

operation anchorage is this weeks xbox live gold deal of the week (560 points) btw

bah stupid effin sonora cruz bug, now i have a drawer at home with like a hundred fingers in it.