Poll: Fallout 3 - Too easy?
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My comment was rather vague Richard, but you hit me below the belt and bombarded me with assumptions I didn't even bring up. Another issue is that a lot of games tend to make the game harder simply by making the enemies take more hits, and you take less - this is '08 damnit!
Of course I handicap myself and such, or replay as a different character, but in general, the game is easy. Simple Question, Simple Answer. Simple Problem, Simple Solution.
Of course I handicap myself and such, or replay as a different character, but in general, the game is easy. Simple Question, Simple Answer. Simple Problem, Simple Solution.
That's like saying You Have to Burn the Rope is really hard... if every time you push a button on your keyboard, you do a somersault out of a two story building, and whack yourself over the head with a frying pan before continuing to play.Richard Groovy Pants said:
Don't get me wrong, handicapping yourself to make the game more challenging isn't inherently wrong, and can be pretty fun in some cases, but you shouldn't have to handicap yourself in order to make the game challenging. If I get to the third last quest in the game on Very Hard in one sitting, there is something seriously wrong with the game's difficulty system.
i think the difficulty of the game depends on your equipment, deathclaws are hard to kill unless you have the dart gun, the behemoths are hard to kill unless you have the fatman and once you get further into the game you get so much ammo you could make a house from bullets and the only way i ever get killed now that im level 20 is when i fire my laser rifle in a gas leak and get toasted
I wouldn't say it was too hard. Like the man with the Groovy Pants has already said, you can do numerous things to get a more challenging experience out of it - if you so choose.
For myself, playing on hard was quite enough. Reilly's Rangers was to the point of ridiculous, as I had no big guns in my inventory at the time.
For myself, playing on hard was quite enough. Reilly's Rangers was to the point of ridiculous, as I had no big guns in my inventory at the time.
It was a bit of a downgrade of, say, Oblivion's difficulty. With Oblivion, if you jumped right into the main quest after getting out of the sewers you had about a 75% of getting your ass kicked, even if all the monsters were scaled to your level.
Fawkes is pretty much unstoppable on every difficulty except Very Hard, but in that case you just have to join in every now and then to speed up the killing.
And some of the Super Mutant Behemoth encounters are, frankly, embarassing. I stumbled upon one being held captive by raiders and freed it. While it was tearing up the Raiders it didn't die with all the lead I pumped into it and it came after me. I pretty much just hid inside an extremely downtrodden shed that was missing three walls and the roof that the Behemoth should have been able to trample, but hiding in this shed apparently made me untouchable to him. So he'd go away, and I'd pop out again to fire a few more rounds and if he came back, back in the shed.
Fawkes is pretty much unstoppable on every difficulty except Very Hard, but in that case you just have to join in every now and then to speed up the killing.
And some of the Super Mutant Behemoth encounters are, frankly, embarassing. I stumbled upon one being held captive by raiders and freed it. While it was tearing up the Raiders it didn't die with all the lead I pumped into it and it came after me. I pretty much just hid inside an extremely downtrodden shed that was missing three walls and the roof that the Behemoth should have been able to trample, but hiding in this shed apparently made me untouchable to him. So he'd go away, and I'd pop out again to fire a few more rounds and if he came back, back in the shed.
On normal difficulty, the game doesn't really challenge me to use every resource at my disposal, which is exactly what I like games to do. But that's what difficulty settings were designed for. And mods.
But, I couldn't help being a little disappointed when the game ended. Based on previous Bethesda titles, I was expecting a much more drawn out main campaign. I was wondering if I was half-way through yet right before it was over. It was more than satisfactory in retrospect, I simply have come to expect bulk from Bethesda.
But, I couldn't help being a little disappointed when the game ended. Based on previous Bethesda titles, I was expecting a much more drawn out main campaign. I was wondering if I was half-way through yet right before it was over. It was more than satisfactory in retrospect, I simply have come to expect bulk from Bethesda.
I'm still playing it on normal (last time I checked) and for me I guess it's just right. I do tend to die a lot even with power armor but that might just be due to me charging into a room and later finding out that there were not 2 but 5 super mutants in the room. Also I tend to go everywhere I can go as I like exploring the entire world, I'm doing about every side quest there is so far. So I venture into spaces which might be too hard for my level as I only do the main quest when I've finished off the latter side quests (I think I'm on roughly 40 hours playtime)
Next to that I sometimes rather die than pump a lot of stimpaks into my hp bar as they are quite costly and I like hoarding my money since I buy a lot of stuff in shops (yes unnecessary stuff such as house upgrades included)
So sure there are a lot of easy to kill enemies but once you run into a room full of enclave soldiers which are hiding behind corners and shooting from an unreachable platform (that took some time) it gets a lot harder. Also try running head first into a raider camp where 1 or more raiders have a rocket launcher.
Overall I guess just right.
Next to that I sometimes rather die than pump a lot of stimpaks into my hp bar as they are quite costly and I like hoarding my money since I buy a lot of stuff in shops (yes unnecessary stuff such as house upgrades included)
So sure there are a lot of easy to kill enemies but once you run into a room full of enclave soldiers which are hiding behind corners and shooting from an unreachable platform (that took some time) it gets a lot harder. Also try running head first into a raider camp where 1 or more raiders have a rocket launcher.
Overall I guess just right.
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If it's too easy just up the difficulty, Very Hard is, well, very hard
If it's too easy just up the difficulty, Very Hard is, well, very hard
No, there's a problem with you. You're too good for what the developers percieved as should be the hardest difficult. Congrats, have an e-peen stroke. The developers do not pander to your whim and if they give you a hardest difficult option and you're still not finding it challenging then you have to either a) grab a mod (assuming it's for the PC) or b) As Richard said, handicap yourself.GenHellspawn said:
In games where there is just one difficult I might, at a stretch, agree with you. In games where there's more than one: No. Handicapping is the way to go.
Well, it's not like I'm ever going to play the game ever again (I think people now know well enough that I really don't like this game, so I'm not going to bother explaining why), so it's a slighty moot point.Amnestic said: