Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

i also have op anchorage sitting unplayed on my hard drive. prob is my videogame time is in short supply right now, and if i start down the slippery slope of fallout, everything else will get dusty.

in a perfect world, they would release a patch that makes the supply store quest lady just quit her job randomly at some point in the game with little explanation.

or you could just kill her.

nah i was making a Wasila joke

so was Jordan

apparently not a very good one

xpost looool

has anyone ever found the Firelance?

no ;_;

i refuse to do the reload save point a billion times exploit. i assume that luck points are pretty key to this tho.

wait wait wait

I just read some spoilers and remembered some old posts and YOU CAN HAVE A DOG??????

warning: having a dog will lead to spending a lot of time not getting yer dog killed, trying to figure out where your dog has managed to get lost, reloading your game because yer dog got killed, etc.

i never got a dog. ;_; but broken steel does add a "puppies!" perk so that if your dog gets killed, you can just grab a new one from the litter.

besides who would want a dog when you can have a super mutant

ehhhh fuck followers imo

tempted to do a poll of which Fallout 3 buddy is the best.

xpost: well now u arent allowed to vote. so there.

fawkes is great because if someone starts shooting at you from far away you can just hide behind him

ha! never tried that

i just get really annoyed herding them around, none of them are all that in combat anyway, and the game isn't even hard!

i've managed to avoid having any followers except the dog, mainly by not noticing them - like, i realised later it was probably a good idea to recruit that jericho guy in megaton while i was low-level and useless. might pick up the zombie guy next time i'm in underworld.

i did a lot of reloading in the anchorage memorial where dogmeat kept going one on one with mirelurks while i was trying to sneak around and shoot them in the face. then left him outside. then sent him off to wait at vault 101 the entire time. i don't know why i'm less cold-blooded about a non-existent dog than i am non-existent ppl.

spent most of this week playing this semi-obsessively btw. started obeying several fictional hard mode rules that exist only in my head, like not being able to pause the game and heal in the middle of combat, and not being able to repair weapons in situations where i would be likely to be interrupted. i was considering having to have my character eat on the regular but i think the food distribution in the game is too broken for it; also i thought "but what about refrigeration and spoilage?" and realised it was definitely a step too far

game this reminds me most of: ULTIMA VII

u can set stimpacks to a hotkey, no need to pause dogg

got all the way to copy pasting the list of followers before i got bored w/the idea of making a poll that like 7 people would vote in.

pretty fascinated w/the clover follower tho - maybe if i keep the evil schtick up i can manage that one (considering i blew up megaton and am pretty sure that jericho was still in it oops).

It's pretty much impossible to get Jericho as a follower unless you grind negative karma.

fawkes is effective in battle and he can carry a lot, definitely prefer him to the paladin follower.

main quest in this game kind of sucked, i managed to miss out on a couple of quests just by accidentally going places ahead of the story.

i am deliberately not playing this, now, as i actually need to do stuff this week, and i know if i double click that icon it that will be six hours gone

i still almost downloaded the (newly free) daggerfall the other day though

apparently mothership zeta is out today? and i haven't even gotten back to point lookout.

can't find any reviews, but details seem to be showing up on the wiki

my broadband went down for a week, thus no steam, thus i stopped playing this. probably for the best.

seems decent -- its like the alaskan simulation one where its very closed in with one path and separate from the rest of the world. coming so soon after point lookout (the best dlc imo) won't help it in comparison.

Yeah, I'm still only just getting started on Broken Steel, they need to slow down.

mothership zeta is the last one, isn't it?

Yeah, I think after this it's Vegas.

WOO VEGAS.

(I still have to catch up on all the DLCs. Can someone give me a quick S/D on them?)

i haven't played any yet either. are they all supposed to be played when you're at level 20? don't feel like paying 4x800 points and then having to go unarmed and unarmored to make it a challenge

DLC tip - if you buy them on the newly released discs instead of as downloads, you can install them to your HD and then never need the disc again. So as a rental, or a quick second hand buy-and-resell, they're a bargain. And if you find a shop which does friendly next day refunds, they're free.

(Was very GRR when I found out about this, having paid full price for them all myself).

broken steel raises the level cap to 30 and extends the main story. if you're gonna get only one i'd get that.

xxp

There's a DLC disc?

Yeah, the OpAnch/Pitt one is out, BS/PL coming soon apparently.

Link to amazon or something? I can't find info about it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fallout-Game-Add-Operation-Anchorage/dp/B0022NHM36/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1249391959&sr=8-3

Thanks. OT question: There's a scene in Fallout 3 where you enter a Town House in the middle of Downtown DC and there's a robot you can activate who will then read the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains." Any idea if there's a clip online I can use to show in a classroom, or how I could possibly generate such a clip?

Nevermind! I actually found a clip on youtube. Awful quality, but it might do the trick.

is the dlc out for ps3 yet ?

I think it starts coming out in October?

Eurogamer gave Mothership Zeta a pretty thorough spanking today.

yeah i have no interest

its very pretty btw and you get a star trek-esque battle at the end.

I have bought and played through everything except for Mothership Zeta and The Pitt. Which should I go for next?

The Pitt.

haven't played either but i was watching a bro play mothership zeta and it seemed kinda lame.

operation anchorage is yawwwwwwnnnnn so far. thx i already have call of duty 2 guys.

bought the broken steel/point lookout disc tho, so that should be cool

ok finished operation anchorage. that sucked. super short, really easy, nothing engaging AT ALL about it. i guess i have the gauss rifle now so that makes wasting a couple hours worth it?

did you also get the very nice power armor that doesn't degrade?