Azaraxzealot said:
im about to buy it, and i want to know if i can basically craft my own story with this game, as follows:
i want to be a sadistic vigilante who takes pleasure in shooting individuals and asking questions later, and i want to do this all without haveing to worry about being caught by the law.
because one thing i HATED HATED HATED about Oblivion was the fact that for a game touted with "choice" i couldnt so much as brush up against someone without a guard going "HEY! YOU BROKE THE LAW! YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL!:and then the guards were do powerful that i really had no choice in the matter as to whether or not i wanted to commit crimes.
i hated that game so much because of its overpowered and unjust law enforcement that i couldnt take on evenly (really, GTA and Saints Row have an easier time at making me feel like i want to feel in a virtual world)
anyways, CAN i do this? will i be allowed to be a dispenser of brutal justice with nary any consequences besides bad karma?
EDIT: I'm not trying to be Jack the Ripper, I'm trying to be the Punisher
EDIT2: I have only an xbox 360 and a laptop, so i cant do PC gaming. yeah. i've heard of STALKER, but no, i dont have a PC
Wall of text incoming but the op at least should read it.
If you want to craft your own world, and you have a 360, go out and pick up Mass Effect. Start at the first one and by number three you will have a world you have well and thoroughly created. The combat in the second one if a lot of fun, the combat in number one, not so much but the story's top notch. You want to be the punisher? The renegade path is EXACTLY what you are looking for. As for fallout 3. It's playable, you can spend a lot of time with it wandering around and looking at things and killing other things. But really it's a poorly written game.
If you like old cartoon story lines about good versus evil then you'll be fine. Frankly I liked seeing the brotherhood living up to the potential for good it always possessed. For those of you that follow the series I'm sure goody two shoes Elder Lyons raising the next Maxon will have a positive effect on the brotherhood's fortunes in future games. But the game itself is lacking. It will dangle options in front of you that don't really exist like joining with The Enclave or finishing a quest without killing everyone. The game thinks so little of speech that speech checks are presented in percentages. Dice rolls that even the most advanced skill level can fail or the crappiest skill level can pass. Pliny the Elder said no book is so bad it isn't good in some of it's passages. To that end I will point out the game has one well written quest and that is the "You gotta shoot them in the Head" Quest. Beyond that I don't know what to tell you. You'll be wandering around a sewer and subway for hours. That's what I can tell you.
Why in the world are the super mutants trying to kill everyone? Where do they get the idea that they are the future? They are moronic imbeciles. They could not have formed these complex ideas as the mutants in western fallout did. The people are all like cardboard cut-outs. The place is a desert like mad max when it should not be. It made sense that southern California was a desert. It IS a desert. In reality it rains in Virgina, hell Washington DC is surrounded by swampland. People eat 200 year old food. I dunno what to tell you. The whole thing feels very juvenile. Like kids wrote it or it was written for kids. Everything is black and white, the violence is the focus, children are invincible and there is no sex at all. You'd think at the very least your character could get a peck on the cheek from some of the ladies he helps along the way like sentinel Lyons or Amada but all they give you is a "Thanks for saving the world, now here's a curt and platonic nod of respect. Maintain three feet of body distance at all times." Humans don't act like that. Everything seems off about it.
I won't tell you how the game ends, but it is the least satisfying ending of all time. You get three pictures and about 30 seconds of dialog from Ron Pearlman reflecting whether you were good or evil. what happened to the people and the towns you helped? What the hell do you care, go blow up some more mutants and laugh about that.
Which brings me to my next proposal. If you want to play a game like fallout three but better. Buy New Vegas. You can complete the very first quest in the game half a dozen different ways. Everyone in town has their own voice actor. It's like, what universe did you pop out of strange and better version of fallout 3? Yeah there were an assload of bugs at launch but patch 1.02 killed most of them. So go buy it and enjoy it.
You might like fallout three, seriously lots of people do. But New Vegas is (with the exception of no post-game play) just better in every way. And when it ends, there are individual endings for different places you visited and even people. And the nuances, one decision influences another. You can help different factions take over new vegas for instance, and the fate of a gang called The Kings can pop out at least three ways for the NCR faction alone.
How much better is it? People actually grow their own food here. You SEE them farming. THEY FARM! MY GOD HOW THEY FARM! And they make fun of the idea anyone would eat "that 200 year old stuff!? Good GOD!".
