One commenter on Jeff Green's blog said (attributing this to Xplay), "If you consider Fallout 3 just being Oblivion with guns, then you probably also consider Jurassic Park just Jaws with dinosaurs."Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
The hype came from two fronts. One was fans of Bethesda, for whom Oblivion with guns is a kickass idea.
I lol'd
I'd've bought the bastard thing if my feckin' 360 hadn't RRODed me.
I keep reading about this in a gaming internet comic. Is it a good game or was the previous one good?
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I may be picking this game up soon. It looks pretty awesome. It's just a battle between my wallet, my desire to play and my huge load of school work... Let's hope I can get it
I am not very far, but it's been very interesting. It wasn't what I wanted Gamefly to send me, but it's a pleasant surprise. I wish they'd stop sending me the third game on my list all the same.
At least my 360 is completely quiet playing this game. No more loading noise headaches like I had with Fable II, ohohoho.
I like that I can switch to a RE4-ish type of perspective. Ultimately there's little different between the first-person or that, but I always liked seeing my character for whatever reason. Maybe because he's a hot blond like I've always wanted to be. Goddamn you blond people.
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I finished it earlier today. It was great overall but the ending sucked ass in so many ways. They must have rushed like hell to get it out the door or something.
I found a pretty cool interactive world map
Fallout 3 Navi
I'm too lazy to search the world.
Multiple endings. (they say over 200, though I think that number is just little tweaks that can be made to 4 or 5 very different endings) Your character must have been lame :P
I haven't played it for a couple of days, but I'm achin' to.
I can't link to proof without spoiling, but there are only 8 endings. There are no permutations based on other things you did - only three variables exist, and you get the following:Multiple endings. (they say over 200, though I think that number is just little tweaks that can be made to 4 or 5 very different endings) Your character must have been lame :P
Part 1, Part 2a or 2b, Part 3a or 3b, Part 4a or 4b, and Part 5.
And there's a very good reason the ending is retarded. These spoilers are total ending spoilers, so fair warning:
(SPOILER)Part 1 is "You left the Vault to follow your dad."
Part 2 is your karma. Good or bad.
Part 3 is whether you sacrificed yourself, or Sentinel Lyons. There's a character, Fawkes, who is immune to radiation. The final act in the game is to choose who goes into a radiation flooded chamber. The problems are that A) You can quite easily have enough radiation resistence to get in and out safely, but you die anyway if you go in, and B) You can't choose to have Fawkes go in.
Part 4 is whether you used the modified FEV to cleanse the Wasteland of anyone with mutations. Super mutants, Ghouls, and humans who were afflicted. Problem: My character was an idealist. He was a GOOD guy. He believed that sacrificing some good people to kill the Super Mutants and Ghouls who held most of DC in their grip was worth it. He also risked his own death, seeing as he'd mutated! The ending portrayed him not as misguided, or questionable, or willing to sacrifice even himself for the greater good, but as a genocidal quasi-nazi maniac.
Part 5 is "He walked into the wasteland forever yadda yadda" even though he should probably be very dead.
So two of the three changable ending parts are decided in the last minute of play, and very little you do throughout the game influences the ending. But yeah, mainly that Fawkes and/or radiation proofing is smurfing retarded.
Yeah the ending sucked. That seems par for the course for most games these days which annoys me. But the rest of the game is so awesome I'm almost willing to let it slide.
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I have completely lost all interest in this game. I didn't even touch it all day today, and usually I play the game I'm currently completing every day at some point. For some reason, I really don't like it, even though by all objective opinion it is a great game. I'm just gonna flog myself and return it.
I started playing it the other day and got to the first town... the intro was really great but I'm a little intimidated by the open world and just the multitude of options. Can't really form an opinion of it, and I don't know how much I'll be playing, but it appears very well done so far. Playing it on an SDTV, so I haven't seen all those graphical problems people have been noting on the PS3.
I'm running through with two characters right now. One's the typical "I'm a psycho who will do whatever for money or goods" whose karma has long since bottomed out. The other is me actually doing things as I would do. So far any complaints I wanna make are overshadowed by the games awesomeness, so I'm a fan.
Boy am I an unfunny ass.
So I finally got to play it at my friends house. Since I put all my SPECIAL into Agility and Charisma I played it a lot different than him. And my GOAT was pretty accurate too, with Explosives, Small Guns, and Speak. I changed Explosives to Sneak though. I stole the key and password from the Overseer. And when I got to Megaton I just talked to the guy at the Saloon and he gave me the info on where my dad went. My friend watching got irritated cause he had to do a quest for him to get that information. But even still I didn't advance the story. I was doing quests for that woman. There's no such thing as Ghosts. I shouldn't be afraid of the minefield xD. Same what happened to the Sherrif though. I reloaded my nearest save to that point, but he didn't change anything. Oh well, at least his kid gave me a house.
Hmm still first page so this post is good to go...
I just got my mitts on Fallout 3 (360 ofcourse) as an early xmas present. What to say, I took the gun from Amata at first, I've just done the supermarket raid mission and well suspected from the off that raiders would be there. Even without reading Milf's spoiler tagged post. I have to admit, VATs is incredibly useful, I merely snuck around and used a 10mm pistol (even though I got a shotgun and assault rifle early on in my raid, I remember how tough fallout games were and am saving the biggest and best guns for later) The only thing that bugs me is the repair shop for my equipment, I repair my stuff but because of the Oblivion esque take everything from the dead I have always got too much stuff to sell really, so I'm like never losing any money. I am however considering re-doing the game I've not got many hours in and I'm enjoying it so far but I feel I could have made a few wiser decisions earlier on.
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