The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[searanox]

You know, if you find the game too easy you can always increase the difficulty. I find that money and such is quite rare, though, and if you spend too much time wandering around you'll find yourself very short on healing items very quickly.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

I really can't understand the point of making games so amazingly easy. It seems to be some trend currently. What's the satisfaction in breezing through a game with no challenges, I just can't understand it.

Even though I started just two gens ago I feel the pain you oldies have. I blame the rush of casual core and casually hardies.(Fakies.) so that devolopers tone back the game so they can play because they know we will buy it as hardcore fans. And then pirate the fuck out of it.

 

[Chartist]

The problem is not that my opinions coincide with his. It's that the vast majority of the gaming community's opinions coincide with his. Two or three months after they're done bashing him for giving them.

Fickle little buggers aren't we. ZP is a great counterpoint to hyped up reviews that hail games as the best thing since sliced sex but you can still enjoy a game he's damned, (bioshock for example). Oh and morrowind still kicks the shit out of oblivion in terms of story, immersiveness and giant mushrooms but hopefully fallout will eclipse both (although maybe not on the giant mushroom front).

 

[Magnetic2]

I died about 3 times today, played up to level 5. I keep running out of ammo. So far it's a blast, has anyone wondered into the tree people yet? I went up north trying to test the boundary of the game world and ran into this town. Took me 40 small cell, and about 20 5.56 to get there.

Overall though, the thing they should have kept was damage types and the way armor was handled in the old fallout games, that I miss. Anyway, more playing tomorrow before work, well done game.

 

[runtheplacered]

I really can't understand the point of making games so amazingly easy. It seems to be some trend currently. What's the satisfaction in breezing through a game with no challenges, I just can't understand it.

Because now at the end of a game there's some kind of resolution, and not just a Donkey Kong kill screen.

There was resolution in games like Fallout 1 and 2, Half-Life 1... I don't think resolution is the problem.

Right, and notice how much easier it is to get to the end of those games than to a Donkey Kong kill screen?

It's not a trend *currently*, it's a trend that's been in action for a long time now. It's speeded up recently, but the trend has been established for a long time.

I fail to see a direct correlation.

All he's trying to say (I think) is that video games as a whole have become gradually easier over the last couple of decades. For instance, games in the 90's were generally easier then in the 80's, and games in the new millennium have been generally easier then the ones in the 90's. However as of late we've really seen a "boom" in this theory that games are becoming easier, probably due to the herd of casual gamers that have graced video games as of late.

 

[Altorin]

I've played it for about 6 hours, and I just think they recycled way too much stuff from Oblivion.

It's not a bad game, but I feel like I've done this before, just because it seems so much like Oblivion.

 

[Volucer]

Aparently it's 2 days and 9 hours until my Steam version unlocks itself, which is 5pm on Friday for me, surely it should be midnight? Anyway, I can't wait to play it.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

So...Does anyone know how to get to the tepid sewers? I've cleared out all the damn mirelurks in the Anchorage Bay memorial/associated building area and I still can't find a molerat.

Have you ever thought of maybe a door that leads underground thats near water maybe?

The only difficultly I am having currently is finding someone with an acceptable bottle cap count so I can trade the countless shit that I would like to sell.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Have you ever thought of maybe a door that leads underground thats near water maybe?

Really?

And to think I kinda looked up to you as a PC gaming elitist.(Dick?)

I traveled by the waterfront and found it almost instantly.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

*shrug*

Knowing how to build an awesome gaming computer doesn't mean you can't misread a map which isn't scaled right for your resolution.

Hmm. Have you found anchorage memorioal? If you have, On the east side slightly south is tepid sewers. There should be a slight river near it with probably some mirklarks or whatever.