Not Enough to do in Fallout 3

[Aardvark]

I know where to find it and how

Spoiler

(Thankyou, spoilernets full of spoilermatic spoilerbots)

, but I don't know the specific locations. So I'm going through the thing, exploring and enjoying the experience.

That's how I'm lengthening the gameplay.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Although I don't think you can do it all in one day, Fallout does seem incredibly short. I've done all the quests and finished the main quest. Wanna know how long it took me to do that in Morrowind? I don't know either I'm still not done yet.

Don't get me wrong I love fallout its just that I expected more of it. I tried scouring the wasteland look for giant mobs of raiders to kill but I guess I've already killed every evil doer in the capital wasteland.

BTW: Outlaw star is epic

 

[electric discordian]

4 weeks of wandering avoiding doing the main quests, still not reached the end as people tell me it's rubbish Im loathed to get there just yet. Built three characters the second one Ive played for the fifth week and my mechanic a further week. I am now having an enforced vacation from the wastes as my memory stick is full and Im too skint to pay 60 quid for a new hard drive having tried four times to pick up one cheap off ebay and getting ripped each time.....

So I totally diagree about the lack of game, i occasionally play it just to walk listening to Galaxy as I love the games music.

 

[FarleShadow]

Orbital Weapons platform? ICBM? Where!?

You don't actually get aboard the OWP, you only fire off its payload from one of the dishes dotted on the west north part of the map. It fires mini-nukes anyway and is not that impressive anyway.

 

[shadow_pirate22]

I play it whenever I get bored of oblivion (which takes at least a week of solid playing, even w/o Knights of the Nine + Shivering Isles), get bored of it after a while, and go back to oblivion. Which is what I was hoping it would do for me.

 

[ygetoff]

there's now ay you could have discovered EVERYTHING. I read an interview with the guy who wrote the guide, which has EVERYTHING, and he said it took him more than 100 hours to play it and then write it, and this is a professional we're talking about here. If it took him 100 hours to do everything, there's no way it took you 24 hours to do everything.

 

[Kermi]

Orbital Weapons platform? ICBM? Where!?

You don't actually get aboard the OWP, you only fire off its payload from one of the dishes dotted on the west north part of the map. It fires mini-nukes anyway and is not that impressive anyway.

Nevertheless, it can be done. Launching the ICBM would also show he made it to the missile silo instead of giving Crowley the keys. Assuming he even went and got the keys in the first place.

 

[xitel]

Wouldn't you need to do 3 playthroughs to get all the karma acheivements?

EDIT: Sorry, missed the "almost".

You can exploit the achievement system. You save just before the level up, get it as good, reload the save point, steal stuff until you hit neutral and level up, reload again and get to evil then level up the third time.

 

[mattttherman3]

i agree with the quests thing, the storyline kind of sucked, theyre are not really that many ennemies i guess, oblivion was better except in this respect: GORE

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

I have proof that you havent. Have you discovered the alien pistol or Dogmeat or Abrahams Rifle? Have you discovered every location ingame? Like fable you have to immerse yourself in the world and not just do the story.

But one thing that i wish was there was More interesting loot and dungeon crawling. For example you see a Science lab and after about an hour of trekking and fighting you come accross a awesome weapon or armor.

I also feel like the survival part is a bit light and not hardcore like i wished. Like you have to eat and drink water to survive no matter your health.

and Finally Taking away the drug names and replacing them with disney drugs is the stupidest thing i have ever heard.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Edit: When I say I have done everything, I don't mean I have Opened Every Lock, Hacked Every Computer, Or done every quest ending. But I have done each quest once, as I cannot bring myself to play through again.

Play it again, make new characters that are drastically different from your first one. Also, some of the quest endings are very different and interesting. Explore some more buildings and forts, oh wait-

Your playing it wrong?

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I love Fallout 3, I would marry it if I could. There is just so much to do in my opinion, but you have to be in the right mindset to play it, or else it's not nearly as good. I realized that once I stopped comparing it to Oblivion and just let it be it's own game, I enjoyed it so much more then I did at first.

 

[CoverYourHead]

I liked Oblivion more in most aspects. I hope Bethesda makes a new Elder Scrolls now.

 

[Powerhelix]

I liked Oblivion more in most aspects. I hope Bethesda makes a new Elder Scrolls now.

I read that they are making one for release in 2010

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

Also Oblivion didnt have that scene were its a perfect world and you have to kill every living soul that you meet in that cul de sac

 

[Powerhelix]

I have EVERY weapon, that includes the Alien gun... And I have discovered EVERY location, and I found Dogmeat at the Junkyard

 

[sequio]

It took me 6 weeks to finish the game doing every quest. The replay value does suffer a bit unless you are trying to get some random encounters (like uncle leon lol). I would say that it is better than oblivion but it has a lot of clutter.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

You're right! In Oblivion I still haven't beaten every side mission, but in Fallout 3, I hit the level cap and beat every mission in a short amount of time. (Compared to Oblivion) Although the F3 side missions were better quality, there just weren't enough of them.

that's how I feel about it. Oblivion's side quests just weren't as creative as some of Fallout 3's.

 

[beastman227]

I think that you can complain all you want about oblivion's lack of creativity but the core gameplay was strong enough that it made up for it. With fallout, though, I didn't feel like the creativity made up for the fact that all you had to do was use VATS over and over and over again.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

While I'm loathe to say that someone is playing a game 'wrong', blasting through the whole thing in a single day, which I'm not entirely sure is possible, doesn't seem like the best way of doing it.

I'm almost afraid to ask what you make of games like Bioshock or Call of Duty 4, which aren't open world at all.

 

[beastman227]

I played Bioshock for a few months and I played COD for even longer. It's not that i don't appreciate games, it's just that FO3 could've been so much more