Fallout 3 question

[eestlinc]

If I disarmed the bomb in Megaton and never killed Burke or spilled the beans on him to Simms, does Burke ever appear again? I would like to kill him. Killing all the stupid Talon mercs and putting a railroad spike in Tenpenny's forehead just isn't enough.

[Necronopticous]

I don't know the answer to your question, but I recommend sledgehammer + VATS regardless.

[Quindiana Jones]

I'm pretty much certain that he is gone forever. He only exists in the game for that quest.

[Shoeberto]

Basically the only time Burke ever appears is with the whole Tenpenny Towers story. I did both options on separate playthroughs and was kind of disappointed he didn't turn out to be working for the Enclave or anything. He's really just Tenpenny's lackey, unless I missed something big.

Tenpenny's a douche though. I'm pretty sure I ended up killing him both times I played through.

[Psychotic]

Burke isn't in the Tenpenny Tower story, Stu! That's the one with Roy Phillips and his ghouls, and you get a pretty sweet scene if you help Roy and then side with Burke in the Power of the Atom. But yeah I agree with you, he kind of hinted that he was part of some sort of shady society and it's lame that you never hear more about that.

[Iceglow]

You don't really wanna kill Tenpenny until you've got and done the You Gotta Shoot Them In The Head quest because he is important in it and once you complete the quest you get to get the T151b power armour. Though through Operation Anchorage you can get a winterized version which is nigh on indestructible. However to answer the initial question. No Burke does not ever re-appear in the game should you not take the opportunity to kill him (warning, Megaton can become very hostile if you do kill him there and surrendering is not always possible, even if you fire to save Simms) Even if you blow up Megaton he only appears during the quest so far as being on Tenpenny's balcony during the explosion if I remember correctly on the evil end to the quest he heads off on a request of Tenpenny taking him outside of the game domain.

[Shoeberto]

Burke isn't in the Tenpenny Tower story, Stu! That's the one with Roy Phillips and his ghouls, and you get a pretty sweet scene if you help Roy and then side with Burke in the Power of the Atom. But yeah I agree with you, he kind of hinted that he was part of some sort of shady society and it's lame that you never hear more about that.

Oh, yeah, you're right. I got the Power of the Atom/Tenpenny Tower stories intertwined, probably as a result of how much of a douche Tenpenny was.

You guys suck because now I want to play Fallout more >:O

[Psychotic]

Let's make this a general Fallout 3 thread just to spite Stu even further.

The Dismemberer is the greatest weapon in the history of video games. y/n?

EDIT: Although the Experimental MIRV is a good candidate. I killed everyone in Megaton, made their corpses into a huge pile, then fired my MIRV at it repeatedly. What I was left with were a bunch of tiny flesh-coloured marbles, each reading things like "Search Lucas Simms" and "Search Megaton Settler". Much more satisfying than helping Burke

[Shoeberto]

You don't really wanna kill Tenpenny until you've got and done the You Gotta Shoot Them In The Head quest because he is important in it and once you complete the quest you get to get the T151b power armour.

Well, as long as you get the key off his body, it's possible to persuade ol' whats-his-face into believing you shot him in the head, iirc. That power armor is pretty boss, though. I think I ended up having to kill the guy to steal it off of him, but nobody in Underworld seemed to mind too much xD

[Quindiana Jones]

I loved that quest. And Charon is boss with the armour on.

[Psychotic]

Yeah what you need to do is mesmetron him. That makes him go crazy and attack you and I am pretty sure the Underworld residents help you kill him. He didn't come back on my second playthrough, though, so I'll never have the armour in that.

Also why waste such good armour on a stinkin' zombie like Charon when you can use it yourself?

[DK]

Charon is an awful man.

[Psychotic]

He's not even that in one my games. I watched him explode in a shower of gory pieces when a Raider with a Missile Launcher let rip from the top of one of those comms towers.

[Jiro]

I loved sniping those raiders in the legs and having them topple off the tower. It didn't always work so sometimes I climbed up there and threw them off myself.

[Quindiana Jones]

Also why waste such good armour on a stinkin' zombie like Charon when you can use it yourself?

The first reason is because you should be wearing the winterised version. The second is that I don't wear heavy armour.

Charon is an awful man.

He's the second best one after Fawkes!