The Official Fallout 3 Thread.
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Drift-Bus said:
That's cause you put Thank in front of the /. If you want the spoiler box to say something just put:
(spoiler=Whatever you want the outside of the box to say)Then whatever you want the inside to say(/spoiler) but do it with [] instead of ()
(spoiler=Whatever you want the outside of the box to say)Then whatever you want the inside to say(/spoiler) but do it with [] instead of ()
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He's in a few places, or you can encounter him wandering the wastes, but the Scrapyard is one place he turns up and there are a few othersThaBenMan said:
Does anyone else hate Three Dog? As soon as I helped him re-install the satellite dish I Fat Man'd him while he slept. My mysterious stranger friend also showed up to help me finish the deed. Then I stole his hat that should've been vaporised in the atomic blast and, I must say, I look snazzy.
I love Three Dog! What's your problem with him?Tattaglia said:
Okay, I'll admit, I have one issue:
My character has very evil karma, but I always do the good outcome of quests, so it makes for some pretty odd broadcast when he calls me Evil Incarnate then congratulates me on saving Bryan Wilks.
You saved Bryan Wilks? Why? For 250 caps, I found him a nice new home... in Paradise Falls. It's not that I hate Three Dog exactly, it's just he keeps repeating the same lines every time I tune into GNR. I've heard "And now it's time for a public service announcement... don't feed the Yao Guai. That is all." over twenty times since I've been scavving in the Mall, and I'm bloody sick of it. And once you "solve" the GNR problem, the station plays 1950s songs without interruption. Hooray!Spartan Bannana said:
The only time I liked him was when he called me the Hero of the Wasteland, but that got old fast.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean; I have personally listened to every single song and piece of dialogue out of Three Dog's mouth. Twice. So most of the time I end up switching to Enclave Radio even if it is a bit obsessively patriotic, or I just turn the radio off period.Tattaglia said:
Just finished the game on a friends computer, since the game won't properly function on mine:
I did not like the ending, sure it was nice and all, but where are the summaries of what happened to every town you influenced? I would've loved to see/hear that. I do remeber Bethesda saying how they made over 300 endings with 12 of them 'proper'. What happened to that? Seems to me like you can only get 5 at this point, depending on your karma.
I did not like the ending, sure it was nice and all, but where are the summaries of what happened to every town you influenced? I would've loved to see/hear that. I do remeber Bethesda saying how they made over 300 endings with 12 of them 'proper'. What happened to that? Seems to me like you can only get 5 at this point, depending on your karma.
Well I just completed the game after about 30 hours game time.
Never played any of the other Fallout games so my overall opinion isn't going to be biased by those. The game had the chance to be so good yet turned out, as so many have found out, to be quite dis-appointing.
The game world is great, since it's been clearly built on the same engine as Oblivion a lot of the same traits are there but the feeling of a post apcoliptic world filled with people just trying to survive really is there. I identified more with the characters in this game than those in Oblivion, they felt some how more real they actually did more realistic day to day things than those of Oblivion at one point I even felt a bit guilty about turning one of the folk in to a slave, to the point were I went and rescued them later on in the game.
Combat was strange, it went from quite hard due to lack of resource and equipment at the start of the game to being dead easy with no end of ammo, weapon and armour at the end. I keep hearing the creatures were supposed to be scaled to your level but at level 20 with 100 in energy weapon and 100 small arms and the Reaper Sprint perk the only creature that even half way made me stop and think was the Deathclaw, I heard of a creature called the Beheamoth Super Mutant but the only one I ever encountered in the wilds was caged so that didn't prove much of a challenge.
So we move on to the stroy and quests. The story is uninspiring, short and comes to a rather abrupt end. To be honest once I had completed the game several times (to see the different endings) I was still of the opinion that what I had done in the world just didn't matter. The result of the final mission felt uninspiring. Of course this isn't helped by the fact that knowing what to do and where to go you could probably round the main mission up in 5 - 10 hours max. Worse still is the lack of side quests, yeah there are a few but there was opportunity for so many more, some of the side quests got shut down instantly once you made a decision or relied purely on the the player obtaining a certain skill level (blowing up or disarming the bomb in Megaton for example.)
So extending this game came down to exploring, and yes the game map is epic in size with loads of places to discover and if you feel like it you could no doubt spend many many hours exploring. Now I didn't find every location on the map but I did find a fair few and the significant problem with exploring is
a). The gains are zero, beyond finding new sources of ammo and equipment, pointless since later in the game ammo and equipment is readily at hand anyways.
b). Finding something new and interesting. Uh except there wasn't anything within the wasteland that could be classed as truly interesting, seriously how many ruined towns can you fit in or abandoned power sub stations? Their was nothing in this game that made me sit back and think oooohhh look at that I am glad I found this place because it looks amazing.
It sounds like all I have done was ***** about the game but seriously I really did enjoy this game. It pulled me in far more than Oblivion did. All it needed was
a). A more involving main quest that gives a better feeling of you doing something epic
b). More side quests, Oblivion had people throwing them at you left right and centre
c). More locals that were interesting enough so as to encourage you to explore them, seriously I found one vault went in and explored it, abandoned, overrun with super mutants. Later on I happened upon another vault, guess what; abandoned, overrun with super mutants, why would I want to explore this then?
Never played any of the other Fallout games so my overall opinion isn't going to be biased by those. The game had the chance to be so good yet turned out, as so many have found out, to be quite dis-appointing.
The game world is great, since it's been clearly built on the same engine as Oblivion a lot of the same traits are there but the feeling of a post apcoliptic world filled with people just trying to survive really is there. I identified more with the characters in this game than those in Oblivion, they felt some how more real they actually did more realistic day to day things than those of Oblivion at one point I even felt a bit guilty about turning one of the folk in to a slave, to the point were I went and rescued them later on in the game.
Combat was strange, it went from quite hard due to lack of resource and equipment at the start of the game to being dead easy with no end of ammo, weapon and armour at the end. I keep hearing the creatures were supposed to be scaled to your level but at level 20 with 100 in energy weapon and 100 small arms and the Reaper Sprint perk the only creature that even half way made me stop and think was the Deathclaw, I heard of a creature called the Beheamoth Super Mutant but the only one I ever encountered in the wilds was caged so that didn't prove much of a challenge.
So we move on to the stroy and quests. The story is uninspiring, short and comes to a rather abrupt end. To be honest once I had completed the game several times (to see the different endings) I was still of the opinion that what I had done in the world just didn't matter. The result of the final mission felt uninspiring. Of course this isn't helped by the fact that knowing what to do and where to go you could probably round the main mission up in 5 - 10 hours max. Worse still is the lack of side quests, yeah there are a few but there was opportunity for so many more, some of the side quests got shut down instantly once you made a decision or relied purely on the the player obtaining a certain skill level (blowing up or disarming the bomb in Megaton for example.)
So extending this game came down to exploring, and yes the game map is epic in size with loads of places to discover and if you feel like it you could no doubt spend many many hours exploring. Now I didn't find every location on the map but I did find a fair few and the significant problem with exploring is
a). The gains are zero, beyond finding new sources of ammo and equipment, pointless since later in the game ammo and equipment is readily at hand anyways.
b). Finding something new and interesting. Uh except there wasn't anything within the wasteland that could be classed as truly interesting, seriously how many ruined towns can you fit in or abandoned power sub stations? Their was nothing in this game that made me sit back and think oooohhh look at that I am glad I found this place because it looks amazing.
It sounds like all I have done was ***** about the game but seriously I really did enjoy this game. It pulled me in far more than Oblivion did. All it needed was
a). A more involving main quest that gives a better feeling of you doing something epic
b). More side quests, Oblivion had people throwing them at you left right and centre
c). More locals that were interesting enough so as to encourage you to explore them, seriously I found one vault went in and explored it, abandoned, overrun with super mutants. Later on I happened upon another vault, guess what; abandoned, overrun with super mutants, why would I want to explore this then?
Three Dog, I like him. For a bit. When he informs me about my horrible deeds in a certain quest, okay, that's cool. When the next thirty fucking news broadcasts are the same two things, it starts to get a bit irritating. Otherwise, we're cool. I would like for them to update more songs into it, or add quests wherein you can help somebody start up a new radio station.
Sometimes, I like to create a black character identical in face and hairstyle to Three Dog. Then, in the dead of night, I enter GNR Studios completely naked.DirkGently said:
I murder him. I take his clothes, and dispose of his corpse.
The rest of the game is spent not taking quests, but attending to the listeners of his radio station--my radio station, simply being him. I sleep in his bed. I eat his food. I walk in the same aimless pattern he did.
And I talk to members of the Brotherhood of Steel that guard the station. Though we maintain an air of friendly chatter, I can see the uneasiness in their eyes. All of the members. They know. They're watching me.
I've passed 100+ game days doing this.
You know... you could always do that. Roleplaying is fun.
Bloody hilarious. I am actually going to try that. Someday, when the moons aline and I have enogh money to buy....waffletaco said:
FALLOUT 3!!
Hey, I think I've discovered a major glitch with the Big Trouble in Big Town quest and I need some help. I rescued Red from the jail-place, and then mezzed her and put on a slave collar, since she was one of the special targets Eulogy wanted. She promptly ran away, and the quest said I had to go to the place in Paradise Falls where they kept the slaves, but I can't find her anywhere and I don't know how to complete the quest.
I noticed something kind of weird - a lot of the main characters seem to be black: Lucas Simms, Three Dog, Red, I think the Vault 101 Overseer was too (I haven't met any Brotherhood of Steel guys or Enclave guys yet or anything, so I don't know about them). Forgive me if this is offensive or anything, I'm really not trying to be, but something about it made it seem as though the devs were really, really trying to not be perceived as racist in any way.
Or I might just be crazy.
Or I might just be crazy.
