The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[Jaythulhu]

To be fair, maybe you should play it on console before you say it's a bad game, console games don't crash as much and you sound to me like someone pissed off just because their PC is having issues, most of which are caused by DRM, not the game itself.

You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. I've already posted a comment refuting someone else's almost identical claim, so go back a couple of pages and find what I said there. I'm not gonna repost the same thing, that's just daft.

[Edit - inflammatory remark about consoles removed]

 

[ThaBenMan]

In 40+ hours of play time on the Xbox, Fallout 3 has frozen only twice for me. Most of the technical issues I hear about people having have been with the PC version. Now I'm not flaming, I'm not claiming the Xbox is superior to the PC, I'm just reporting what I've heard...

 

[Spartan Bannana]

In 40+ hours of play time on the Xbox, Fallout 3 has frozen only twice for me. Most of the technical issues I hear about people having have been with the PC version. Now I'm not flaming, I'm not claiming the Xbox is superior to the PC, I'm just reporting what I've heard...

Over 60 hours for me and it's only frozen four times for me, so it freezes an average of once every 15 hours, pretty good.
See, that was what I was trying to say to Jaythulu when I had my foot in my mouth a few posts ago: Play it on a console before you proclaim that the whole game is bad.

 

[waffletaco]

In 40+ hours of play time on the Xbox, Fallout 3 has frozen only twice for me. Most of the technical issues I hear about people having have been with the PC version. Now I'm not flaming, I'm not claiming the Xbox is superior to the PC, I'm just reporting what I've heard...

Over 60 hours for me and it's only frozen four times for me, so it freezes an average of once every 15 hours, pretty good.
See, that was what I was trying to say to Jaythulu when I had my foot in my mouth a few posts ago: Play it on a console before you proclaim that the whole game is bad.

it froze 4 times on me in 20 hours, and then never again. :was playing 6-8 hours a session:

Now that I don't do that anymore (classes) it's perfectly fine.

 

[Jaythulhu]

Hmm, it seems I am being slightly misunderstood. I'm not saying that fallout 3 is a bad game, it looks like it has great potential. What I'm saying is that it was released in such a flawed state, it's practically unplayable on any kind of high end pc. So far the number of quad-core and sli/crossfire users reporting major lockups, ctds, system hangs, memory leaks, graphical corruption and savegame corruption is ridiculous.

That's not even going into the poor implementation of audio codecs, the incompatibility with vista+creative soundcards, poor implementation of the 3rd person view, failure of the volume controls, custom key configs causing ctds on startup, the lies about securom rootkit.... etc etc.

The software is more like a paid beta than a final release.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Just got the game, and by god am I enjoying this! I've just died for the first time, running out of ammo while being shot at by my first Talon Company Mercs. They're... pretty tough. As in, really tough.

Don't feed the Yao Guai.

....Never mind, you'll get it later, the hard way.

Perhaps, but these chaps have foreheads of steel. When you can take three bullets to the face and continue to shoot at me, then I'll be impressed.

Well that's the good side of playing a neutral protagonist. You stay in good terms with everyone. The Talon Company only attacks you if you're playing a goody two-shoes character and on the other hand if you're playing a sick fuck people will send the Regulators after you.
It's actually pretty funny looting their bodies and finding a note saying: 'KILL RICHARD!!!'. That always makes me chuckle a bit.

I named my character Poppa Biscuit, made for some pretty funny bounty notices

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

I have finally forced myself away from Gears of War 2 by letting a friend borrow it and I can now give this game the attention it deserves, and my dear sweet zombie Jesus it deserves it. I have been playing for 15+ hours and feel as if I haven't even scratched the surface. Though I really wish you could kill children.

Spoiler

Just let me in. All I want to do is pass through you stupid little camp, shoot some super mutants in the face and grab myself a G.E.C.K. Is that too much to ask?

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Hey is there a car in this one? Maybe a ridable Yao Guai? I'm sick of walking around the wasteland.

Also "Gotta kill a goody-two-shoes ElArabDeMagnifico."

Fits so well...

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Hey is there a car in this one? Maybe a ridable Yao Guai? I'm sick of walking around the wasteland.

Also "Gotta kill a goody-two-shoes ElArabDeMagnifico."

Fits so well...

No cars, though there are a lot of motorcycles that it seems like you should be able to ride, but you can't...

 

[whyarecarrots]

On the subject of the game crashes; is it specifically on quad core pcs that it has most problems? Just a bit worried as to whether this will work on my pc (3gig dual core, few months old).

Also, if I buy it through steam will I avoid the rootkit DRM as I get Steam's DRM instead?

Thanks

 

[Xaryn Mar]

I have a dual core and have only had one crash since release. And my pc is at least a year old so I don't think that you will have eny problems. I'm running XP.

 

[whyarecarrots]

Ah... Vista here (maybe problematic since this pc only has 2gig of RAM...); has that been a problem?

 

[Amnestic]

Oh, I am enjoying myself since I started again. This time I have so much more ammo, health and caps. I haven't even reached Megaton yet, but I've already got 400 caps. I found the woman called Silver, took her money in exchange for helping her, then capped her and looted her whole house. I'm a sick, sick man.

Huh. When I succeeded a speech check for helping her she gave me 400, then I killed her and she had an extra 100 on her ;o

But yeah, killing Silver gives you a tidy sum to start the game with. Then again, first time I played through I went to Springvale School instead of straight to Megaton and ended up clashing with about 30 raiders in total. ;< Do not recommend.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Just got the game, and by god am I enjoying this! I've just died for the first time, running out of ammo while being shot at by my first Talon Company Mercs. They're... pretty tough. As in, really tough.

Don't feed the Yao Guai.

....Never mind, you'll get it later, the hard way.

Perhaps, but these chaps have foreheads of steel. When you can take three bullets to the face and continue to shoot at me, then I'll be impressed.

*puts on a pyramid head and asks who will do the honors.*

I am a heartless bastard yet I still have Talon Company after me even though I have been evil since the opening moments of the game..

 

[fat american]

Just got the game, and by god am I enjoying this! I've just died for the first time, running out of ammo while being shot at by my first Talon Company Mercs. They're... pretty tough. As in, really tough.

Don't feed the Yao Guai.

....Never mind, you'll get it later, the hard way.

Perhaps, but these chaps have foreheads of steel. When you can take three bullets to the face and continue to shoot at me, then I'll be impressed.

Well that's the good side of playing a neutral protagonist. You stay in good terms with everyone. The Talon Company only attacks you if you're playing a goody two-shoes character and on the other hand if you're playing a sick fuck people will send the Regulators after you.
It's actually pretty funny looting their bodies and finding a note saying: 'KILL RICHARD!!!'. That always makes me chuckle a bit.

Really becuase I'm so evil I'd burst into flames like Marylon Manson at a baptist revival and they still attack me.

I thought it was funny since I took the Regulator perk because there's more evil people than good people in the game. She told me all I had to do was bring in bad people's fingers and she'd give me money. You have no idea how badly I wanted to start choppin' off ma fingers.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I really hope that in like 30 years, when I get my Xbox 9000 virtual reality console, they make Fallout 8, and the map is the entire United States. How crazy would that be?

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

I really hope that in like 30 years, when I get my Xbox 9000 virtual reality console, they make Fallout 8, and the map is the entire United States. How crazy would that be?

Well it would take a loong time to get from one side to the other.

 

[laikenf]

Is there a way to get back together with Paladin Cross after I escape Raven's Rock? Cause I never saw her again after I was captured by the Enclave in vault 87 and I would love to have her back on my team. I got Fawks with me and it would be really awesome to have them both on my party (along with Dogmeat) because I don't plan on doing the final mission until I get all the side quests done and until I visit all locations; so I still got a lot of fighting to do.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Is there a way to get back together with Paladin Cross after I escape Raven's Rock? Cause I never saw her again after I was captured by the Enclave in vault 87 and I would love to have her back on my team. I got Fawks with me and it would be really awesome to have them both on my party (along with Dogmeat) because I don't plan on doing the final mission until I get all the side quests done and until I visit all locations; so I still got a lot of fighting to do.

I went back to Vault 87 to see if Cross and Dogmeat were still there, but nope. Now I'm hoping that they'll return to their "home" locations, which would be the Citadel for Cross and Vault 101's entrance for Dogmeat. I haven't seen either of them yet, but hope springs eternal...

-- Steve

 

[laikenf]

Is there a way to get back together with Paladin Cross after I escape Raven's Rock? Cause I never saw her again after I was captured by the Enclave in vault 87 and I would love to have her back on my team. I got Fawks with me and it would be really awesome to have them both on my party (along with Dogmeat) because I don't plan on doing the final mission until I get all the side quests done and until I visit all locations; so I still got a lot of fighting to do.

I went back to Vault 87 to see if Cross and Dogmeat were still there, but nope. Now I'm hoping that they'll return to their "home" locations, which would be the Citadel for Cross and Vault 101's entrance for Dogmeat. I haven't seen either of them yet, but hope springs eternal...

-- Steve

I did get back together with Dogmeat at vault 101, but I'm gonna go check the Citadel to see if I can come across Paladin Cross. Damn man I had that woman armed to the teeth and we just OWNED the waist land together; good times man, she will be missed if I never see her again.