The Official Fallout 3 Thread.
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Okay I am around level 14.5 and I have 3 or so quests unfinished not counting the mainquest. Do you think I could travel up north rape some things and get to 20?
Well, I stopped *believing* hype around the time Elite II was released. However, I still read previews and have a good memory, and if I spot discrepancies I am not above exploiting them for my own diabolical goals...DirkGently post=9.74419.910099 said:
Seriously though, what I mean is that the developers have talked a lot about having such respect for the originals, not going to be untrue to their vision, wanting to transfer the feeling and experience to a new generation, etc.
Well, it just so happens that one of the main new grounds the first Fallouts helped break was immersive endings. It was so awesome back then, playing a game that actually remembered just about every moral choice you made, and then showed you what impact they had on the world. True, Fallout 3 does this too, but limited to the final choice of the game, which really is just one instance of yes or no. Then the game states whether you were nice or naughty, something you probably already know pretty well.
And of course, Fawkes refusing to help with that little thing at the end simply boggles the brain, given his disposition and talents. THAT, my friends, cannot be explained away with "destiny". Cheap way of ensuring that a minimum of endings need be made.
But I won't go on about it. It has the markings of an enjoyable game, and I can certainly understand people loving it. Personal preference and all, and as a disliker of Oblivion I should probably have seen it coming. I just felt so cheated after sinking all that time into the game.
Anyway, I also had some technical issues I was wondering about. Several times, when loading a game, enemies who weren't present when I saved would spawn and attack me. I got the impression that they failed to appear in the previous session and that loading reset the cache or something. This was never more bothersome than after finding the church/cemetary place while at a very low level, killing one supermutant and then saving when all clear. Upon loading, I was surrounded by four centaurs and three supermutants and had to run...FAR. They were also very accurate with their assault rifle from a longer distance than mine would even reach. Annoying.
Anyone else encountered load-spawns like that?
*Walking* into an inert, already triggered (by me), hanging-object trap KILLED my artifact hunter ally (at full health) in the National Archives. Found her dead body there after clearing the entire floor alone wondering where she went. Even more annoying.
The Replicated Man quest could certainly stop you from asking the guy holding the answers about things you haven't discovered. Actually, this goes for a LOT of NPC's, where you can ask about people you haven't met, let alone heard about.
How come my weapons magically stop working when I point them at children? Not that I would WANT to shoot them, but still. In Fallout 2 you could get the title "Child Killer", the description of which included the phrase "You naughty person" and a picture of Vault Boy wearing a Snideley Whiplash outfit. It was a VERY bad thing to have, gave you a massive Karma reduction (basically to zero or even negative, I think) and made life very hard for you in many ways, but hey, it was still a choice.(OK, so the European version removed it - by removing all children - but there was a patch for restoring them.) Guess it was two birds with one stone for Bethesda - avoiding a moral outcry AND eliminating one more variable to keep track of and writing content for.
I also had more random freeze-ups than in any other game I've played for the 360, but I'm willing to write that down as bad luck/beginning hardware failure. There IS a chance it's not the game's fault.
There! I now have ranted enough (and then some, I'm sure some will say) and will peacefully wait for the release of Mirror's Edge, which I traded in Fallout 3 for a pre-order of. I have no expectations whatsoever, which will be nice for a change.
I had to put in some bloody effort to get Sydney killed. She's got a sweet SMG, and I'm a paragon of virtue and goodness...videot76 said:
Actually she keeps saying let's go or let's hurry or something like that, I stay and fight as many robots they throw at me, and they all kept targeting her. Sweet new smg for me that I ended up selling.GloatingSwine said:
Back from wandering around near Old Oney, could someone take a screenshot of that map screen RGP put up and just circle the area where the truck is in 'Paint' cause I CANNOT find that truck!
My copy only seems to enjoy freezing up after I've been exploring int he wasteland for a few hours without saving. Like it enjoys spawning a yaogui behind me after doing so. Also, you never played Rainbow Six Vegas, did you? That game loved to freeze on you, especially as it tried to screw with the contrast when you were wounded suddenly.videot76 said:Well, I stopped *believing* hype around the time Elite II was released. However, I still read previews and have a good memory, and if I spot discrepancies I am not above exploiting them for my own diabolical goals...DirkGently post=9.74419.910099 said:
Seriously though, what I mean is that the developers have talked a lot about having such respect for the originals, not going to be untrue to their vision, wanting to transfer the feeling and experience to a new generation, etc.
Well, it just so happens that one of the main new grounds the first Fallouts helped break was immersive endings. It was so awesome back then, playing a game that actually remembered just about every moral choice you made, and then showed you what impact they had on the world. True, Fallout 3 does this too, but limited to the final choice of the game, which really is just one instance of yes or no. Then the game states whether you were nice or naughty, something you probably already know pretty well.
And of course, Fawkes refusing to help with that little thing at the end simply boggles the brain, given his disposition and talents. THAT, my friends, cannot be explained away with "destiny". Cheap way of ensuring that a minimum of endings need be made.
But I won't go on about it. It has the markings of an enjoyable game, and I can certainly understand people loving it. Personal preference and all, and as a disliker of Oblivion I should probably have seen it coming. I just felt so cheated after sinking all that time into the game.
Anyway, I also had some technical issues I was wondering about. Several times, when loading a game, enemies who weren't present when I saved would spawn and attack me. I got the impression that they failed to appear in the previous session and that loading reset the cache or something. This was never more bothersome than after finding the church/cemetary place while at a very low level, killing one supermutant and then saving when all clear. Upon loading, I was surrounded by four centaurs and three supermutants and had to run...FAR. They were also very accurate with their assault rifle from a longer distance than mine would even reach. Annoying.
Anyone else encountered load-spawns like that?
*Walking* into an inert, already triggered (by me), hanging-object trap KILLED my artifact hunter ally (at full health) in the National Archives. Found her dead body there after clearing the entire floor alone wondering where she went. Even more annoying.
The Replicated Man quest could certainly stop you from asking the guy holding the answers about things you haven't discovered. Actually, this goes for a LOT of NPC's, where you can ask about people you haven't met, let alone heard about.
How come my weapons magically stop working when I point them at children? Not that I would WANT to shoot them, but still. In Fallout 2 you could get the title "Child Killer", the description of which included the phrase "You naughty person" and a picture of Vault Boy wearing a Snideley Whiplash outfit. It was a VERY bad thing to have, gave you a massive Karma reduction (basically to zero or even negative, I think) and made life very hard for you in many ways, but hey, it was still a choice.(OK, so the European version removed it - by removing all children - but there was a patch for restoring them.) Guess it was two birds with one stone for Bethesda - avoiding a moral outcry AND eliminating one more variable to keep track of and writing content for.
I also had more random freeze-ups than in any other game I've played for the 360, but I'm willing to write that down as bad luck/beginning hardware failure. There IS a chance it's not the game's fault.
There! I now have ranted enough (and then some, I'm sure some will say) and will peacefully wait for the release of Mirror's Edge, which I traded in Fallout 3 for a pre-order of. I have no expectations whatsoever, which will be nice for a change.
I also wish I could kill kids, because then I could mezz the kids and enslave them or the like. Never mind to teach the mouthy little bastards a lessons. THe loading thing I believe is where it clears the cache and then as you reload it generates a new one. I've several times had a bandit encounter turn into a set of Regulators or Talon Company mercs. An encounter that may have been a Raiders will become a wild animal encounter. Or the raiders may become hunters. Things of that nature. IT will know that there is supposed to be an encounter for you, but it won't have set as to what encounter it is.
The Replicated Man quest seemed very broken to me as you could very quickly solve it with out finding what happens in the majority of it. If it wasn't for that Fallout wiki I wouldn't have known about all the alternate quest options. If you don't know what you're doing you could lose quite a bit.
Also, in case you idn't know, the story is very reminiscent of the story Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick, more commonly known by it's film adaptation called "Blade Runner".
Can somebody help me? I found a huge glitch where I died while firing a gun, and it loaded my file and I keep firing my gun, even when I'm not touching the right trigger. I've tried unequiping it, but that just makes my fists hit, and if I put it away, it just comes back up. I've reloaded to a file before the glitch happened, I've tried my other controller, I've tried turning the xbox on and off, is there anything else I can do? I don't feel like starting a new game and I really dont want my sixty dollar hunk of 0's and 1's to go to waste. Any ideas? Oh, I'm also fully cured, have no addictions and no rad poisoning, if that matters.
Well if you were female and a total slut with black widow you could make the sexual deprived neighbor search for them instead of you in exchange for a 3-way.Spartan Bannana said:
I fixed mine by turning off my ps3 and coming back and hour later and it was fixed.jamesc said:
I"m a little over halfway there, if I could find that damn truck I'd be even closer!Bulletinmybrain said:Then your going to have to do it the mans way and find it.Spartan Bannana said:
Lol just so you know you should steal the quantam back to make nuclear grenades.Spartan Bannana said:I"m a little over halfway there, if I could find that damn truck I'd be even closer!Bulletinmybrain said:Then your going to have to do it the mans way and find it.Spartan Bannana said:
What, from the fridge?Bulletinmybrain said:Lol just so you know you should steal the quantam back to make nuclear grenades.Spartan Bannana said:I"m a little over halfway there, if I could find that damn truck I'd be even closer!Bulletinmybrain said:Then your going to have to do it the mans way and find it.Spartan Bannana said:
And is it possible to give the Quantum multiple times by stealing it then giving it back?
I think you have to do all at once? Hmm..It would feel wrong if you could onnly use nuka grenades a few times>.>Spartan Bannana said:What, from the fridge?Bulletinmybrain said:Lol just so you know you should steal the quantam back to make nuclear grenades.Spartan Bannana said:I"m a little over halfway there, if I could find that damn truck I'd be even closer!Bulletinmybrain said:Then your going to have to do it the mans way and find it.Spartan Bannana said:
And is it possible to give the Quantum multiple times by stealing it then giving it back?
Oh, I almost forgot, I did that Tranquility Lane mission, that was really fun and hilarious at times! Anyone know how many more missions I have till the end of the main story?