The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[JMeganSnow]

I think I have this one sussed, fellas.

Woooo, nice sublimating the game for the purpose of empty Yahtzee-bashing! I swoon at your utter ballsy-ness.

Criminy. If you don't like the guy, just ignore him. And Get Over Yourself.

I find the guy entertaining, but I just find him to be a very ill-informed and poor game reviewer.

Also - Hehe, criminy.

I also have no idea what 'sublimating' means. I thought that was the process of ice turning to water vapour.

Ill-informed and poor compared to what? As far as I can tell, he just gives you his opinion. I haven't heard that he made any claims of it being a particularly enlightened opinion.

Sublimating does mean turning a solid directly into a gas without an intermediate liquid phase. But it can also mean, in psychology: "to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use."--so basically, I was saying that you were diverting the game of Fallout 3 (and this thread) to the purpose of Yahtzee-bashing. Might have been better to use "subverting", but I thought "sublimating" was more ironical.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Is it bad, that I can basically not kill anything? I mean I escaped the vault, and got a mission in megatron , and now have to go through a subway. I'm level 2, and there are three zombies that keep tearing me apart...

Well, it might do you some good to get some practice fighting things out in the open where you can run away more effectively--also finding some decent gear would probably be in your favor.

You can also set the game difficulty lower if you're having problems. What kind of skill do you have with the weapon you're using? Have you repaired it up to a decent level? Are you using VATS?

"I can't kill anything" doesn't give us a lot to go on if you want help.

 

[waffletaco]

Is it bad, that I can basically not kill anything? I mean I escaped the vault, and got a mission in megatron , and now have to go through a subway. I'm level 2, and there are three zombies that keep tearing me apart...

that's what you get for accepting a mission from a decepticon.

Started my evil guy. I pretty much killed everyone in megaton with a name before blowing it up. Scoped .44 magnum at the beginning of the game is awesome. (Thanks Billy)

 

[Bowstring]

I think I have this one sussed, fellas.

Woooo, nice sublimating the game for the purpose of empty Yahtzee-bashing! I swoon at your utter ballsy-ness.

Criminy. If you don't like the guy, just ignore him. And Get Over Yourself.

I find the guy entertaining, but I just find him to be a very ill-informed and poor game reviewer.

Also - Hehe, criminy.

I also have no idea what 'sublimating' means. I thought that was the process of ice turning to water vapour.

Ill-informed and poor compared to what? As far as I can tell, he just gives you his opinion. I haven't heard that he made any claims of it being a particularly enlightened opinion.

Sublimating does mean turning a solid directly into a gas without an intermediate liquid phase. But it can also mean, in psychology: "to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use."--so basically, I was saying that you were diverting the game of Fallout 3 (and this thread) to the purpose of Yahtzee-bashing. Might have been better to use "subverting", but I thought "sublimating" was more ironical.

Right then.

"I'll-informed and poor compared to what?" Other reviewers maybe? He may just be giving his opinion, but a lot of the time his opinion seems very uneducated, bypassing facts for humour/cock jokes. Like I said, I think he's a funny guy, but I don't think his reviews should be taken seriously.

Wow. So I diverted the energy of my immediate goal to the more acceptable social nature of bashing Yahtzee. Either way, I don't see how using that word is more or less ironical than any other term. In fact, I really don't see the irony either way.

(Squee. It's fun arguing with adults.)

 

[JMeganSnow]

"I'll-informed and poor compared to what?" Other reviewers maybe? He may just be giving his opinion, but a lot of the time his opinion seems very uneducated, bypassing facts for humour/cock jokes. Like I said, I think he's a funny guy, but I don't think his reviews should be taken seriously.

I haven't run across any other reviewers that do a better job--Yahtzee at least has consistently pointed out things that are pertinent to my gaming experience. Sure, other reviewers might wax eloquent about the historical antecedents of things that I neither know nor care about, but Yahtzee has been a lot more consistent in pointing out that the controls are sticky or the plot "shits itself inside-out".

I see him more as an *informal* reviewer and a critic than a knowledgeable one, kind of like asking an opinion from your geeky friend. I take my friends pretty seriously even when I know they don't have a Ph.D. in art criticism.

 

[DirkGently]

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.

You shouldn't enslave some one while you're trying to rescue them.

She probably died en route to Paradise Falls. Oops?

Then the quest would have said so. Did you collect your reward? You may not be able to see her until you do. Also,w hy the hell wouldn't you go and return her to Big Town first? I mean, seriously. Common sense man.

Indeed. You could've gotten both rewards. Now you have none because Red is probably scared and running away and then BOOM slave collar.

That's what I did.

Also, wow, way to get excited over somebody pointing what Yahtzee does.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Edgar and Millicent Wellington have 3-ways with Susan Lancaster.


EDIT: Susan Lancaster is the towers slut, Just found the good doctor bedding with her too.

 

[Twaddlefish]

Fallout 3 captures a lot of the old Fallouts. I even think it creates the dystopian hopelessness better than the first two, which I found in the Reilly's Ranger's quest...just constant street battles, running dry on ammo as a Super Mutant charges you down...

Andy the Android(and most of the others, come to think of it)when you return to Vault 101 is laugh out loud dark humour, just like F2!

 

[anti_strunt]

Possible upcoming video comments:

- Har har, your best one yet!
- This one wasn't very good compared to last week's.
- This video is a return to form.
- *Insert quote from video.*
- *insert more quotes from video*
- The ads suck!
- Please review X.
- Why haven't you reviewed X?
- Marry me Yahtzee, so we can make babies that maintain an equal degree of unwarranted self importance and autofellatio.

I think I have this one sussed, fellas.

Truely a shocking commentary on the social mores of our times. You have gazed into the abyss and seen the enemy, which is us.

You forgot "You're not funny anymore"/"You've sold out"/"You aren't talking as fast as you used to"
And of course the inevitable "Shut the hell up you stupid fanboys!"

Oh, yeah, and: "Your new theme music sucks!"/"- rocks!" (The second quote may exist only in theory, however.)

 

[Tattaglia]

Wait, I thought we were discussing Fallout 3...? My mistake.
But if you really want the Capital Wasteland to be as depressing and hopeless as possible, complete Agatha's Song and get her violin radio station. If you don't tie a hangman's knot after ten minutes, you're one stoic badass.

 

[Uszi]

...
- Not as good as the old Fallouts. (Although I'm fairly confident that he's never played them, due to certain comments made by him in certain past reviews. I wish I could remember what they were, but I DO remember thinking he was a clueless dolt. He'll probably just read the Wikipedia article for the old Fallouts and see what jokes he can pull from that.)
...

I think it's safe to agree there. I mean, Yahtzee is the type to be into cult classic games like the fallout series, and he seems to have a thing for adventure games. But he seems to not be a huge RPG fan, and Fallout 2 (the only one I've played) is really, really, really fucking slow and boring until you get your hands on some decent guns. The fucking temple in the beginning, with missing 60% of my hits on ants nearly kept me from continuing the game.

I could see how a lot of gamers, especially shooter fans, would not get very far with the original series.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Hooray for Fatman, 4 supermutants dead with the press of a button.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Hooray for Fatman, 4 supermutants dead with the press of a button.

I can't wait to get my hands on one of those. Although I haven't been putting as many points into Big Guns as I should have... question: when you fire manually (not in VATS) does your skill rating still factor into it or not?

 

[RhinoTuna]

There's a Fat Man on a dead Brotherhood guy just outside GNR. I picked mine up when we fought the big super mutant boss thing. Two shots and it was goooooooone.

 

[Amnestic]

Hooray for Fatman, 4 supermutants dead with the press of a button.

I can't wait to get my hands on one of those. Although I haven't been putting as many points into Big Guns as I should have... question: when you fire manually (not in VATS) does your skill rating still factor into it or not?

I believe your skill with the weapon type increases damage done. Big Guns aren't useful at the start, but I'm loving my unique Gatling Laser right now.

 

[Amnestic]

Hooray for Fatman, 4 supermutants dead with the press of a button.

I can't wait to get my hands on one of those. Although I haven't been putting as many points into Big Guns as I should have... question: when you fire manually (not in VATS) does your skill rating still factor into it or not?

I believe your skill with the weapon type increases damage done.

Accuracy actually.

Seriously? I could have sworn my damage went up as well...ah well.

Either way, my unique gatling laser=sex on lasers. PEWPEW ashpiles everywhere. Take that foolish raiders. Though VATS+Liberty Laser+Bloody Mess=lulz.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

The more you are skilled using a weapon, the more accurate you will be in VATS. It also increases damage.

(For example with big guns at 100 and a fat man at 100% condition a mini-nuke will do 1610 damage.)

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Has anybody taken a look on Moriarty's computer? Lotta messed up people in Megaton, especially Jericho.