The Official Fallout 3 Thread.

[JMeganSnow]

Fallout 2 has a 13 year time limit, which is plenty of time to do everything in the game and then finish the final quest. It just sends you those messages so you still keep the main goal in mind. I played Arcanum and liked it a lot, but it had an even worse interface than Fallout and was much more buggy as well. Not to mention that the skill set was extremely easy to exploit, my character was an unstoppable force 1/3 of the way through the game.

I didn't know what the time limit was, so it was pretty frustrating. I agree about Arcanum being buggy and unbalanced, but I enjoyed the steampunk/magic thing quite a lot, and the world was definitely unusual and well-done.

 

[ThaBenMan]

P.S. Has anyone that played the original games played Arcanum or Lionheart? Both games were made on a similar *plan* to Fallout (although Lionheart was a flop). What did you think of *those* games? I actually preferred Arcanum to Fallout, but it may not have helped that I played it first. Nostalgia games can be a letdown if you've already played a more modern version.

I played Arcanum, it was quite good. I still favor Fallout, however.

Never even heard of Lionheart :/

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Bethesda just took a piss on the fallout name.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

People are only calling Fallout 3 "Oblivion with guns" because it is developed by Bethesda-the same company that made Oblivion.

No. I'm not that shallow. I'm taking the phrase "Oblivion with guns" from the Swedish review of Fallout 3, and from the what I've seen in the previews. I had thought that was understood. Apparently it wasn't.

If you want to get technical. "Oblivion with guns! And a fallout fanservice!(Which we know your going to all buy it because its fallout!)

 

[waffletaco]

Maybe I'm just being too inefficient with my guns,(almost no real skill in any gun skill) but I'm almost running on the bare minimum. I just used the last of my rockets on those damn regulators. (1 rocket for 3 guys down to 25% health is good though I guess). I'm actually having a hard time with money and ammo and stimpaks. I love that in a game.

I think the only flaw in the game I find is that the game is in cells again like oblivion. Too many loading times even though it's like like 3-10 seconds. I also really dislike durability in games. It hasn't even screwed me over in fallout 3 yet because I always happen to kill a guy with a really nice laser pistol so i can just repair that using my old one.

On a side note: Did I just ruin tenpenny tower quest line? I finished the quest: tenpenny tower and the ghoul infestation one and then I killed alistair because I wanted his sniper rifle. I'm wondering because Mr. Burke hasn't really given me any other quests since Megaton.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

If you want to use the Rock-It gun, Specialize in Big Guns. Thats the classification its under. Headshot with teddy bear much?

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Bethesda just took a piss on the fallout name.

Well, don't just say it. Tell me why. How.

There is no difficultly curb besides carrying limit, Quests with only one way to beat it. You can't win the game by killing everybody. No stupid path. Need I say more?

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

What's no stupid path mean?

In fallout 1 and 2 you could forgo intelligence and your character coudn't talk. And then you could still win the game though.(It added more incentive for replayability.) And yeah. Your intelligence could be 1 in this game and the only thing you would miss out on is perks.(Eh. Skill points to.)

 

[waffletaco]

Maybe I'm just being too inefficient with my guns,(almost no real skill in any gun skill) but I'm almost running on the bare minimum. I just used the last of my rockets on those damn regulators. (1 rocket for 3 guys down to 25% health is good though I guess). I'm actually having a hard time with money and ammo and stimpaks. I love that in a game.

Well, that's the first encouraging thing I've read about this. Did you ever play the first two? How's it stacking up?

Well story-wise, hard to say. I haven't gone through the main quest line very much, so I can't really compare it to the other games. Yes I did play the first two. I do enjoy the VATS like in the previous games.(though not having to account walking in AP really helps out) I do wish my speech skill would come up more often. It would've been nice to have speech abilities in a non-quest connotations; I would've liked to extort doctors for discounted/free radiation healing. I suppose it does help for quests though. It does not help against regulators who are on a shoot-to-kill basis unfortunately. Sometimes, I do feel like I'm being punished for not being very proficient with guns. I didn't really have that feeling in the other fallouts.

I say that because there is a LOT of fighting in fallout 3. Not just fighting, but fighting that you can't weasel your way out of in any way. Sure you could run, but the raiders would chip away at your health so much that you might as well have killed them for the xp cause it certainly seems like you fought your way through a horde of raiders to get where you needed to go.

I'm an xp whore, and there are many ways to complete quests. If you cannot convince them to give information, you could hack their terminals, you could just kill them and hope they have the info on their person, or you could do a favor for them (probably killing something). I ended up getting info through speech more often than not and then I would still hack their terminal because you still get xp for doing so. You also do usually get more facets of information this way.

Sorry if it I'm rambling, I haven't slept yet. I've been studying for midterms and playing fallout 3 and I'm foolish