The Official Fallout 3 thread of post-apocalyptic proportions!
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beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
one thing i've noticed that i love about the game: some rooms seem to serve no "purpose," in the sense that we've come to expect every room in every game to have some little reward for our going out of our way in unlocking or finding it. some things are just there because they're there. it's something shawn discussed on the brodeo about stalker a while back (i miss that podcast), and it makes me want to give that a go very much.
rollingstart
Banned
Jswanko said:
I did this and got the note, but it won't give a quest or location. I just have the note in my note seciton, but nothing else to go by.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
SpudBud said:
my guess would be
tenpenny tower
beelzebozo said:
It was the same way in the first two Fallouts. Sometimes you'd fight your way through some entire area with tough fights and the reward at the end would be minimal. Other times, it would be something significant. That's life in a post-apoc wasteland.
I'm seeing that in Fallout 3 as well, which is nice. With some of the side quests you do, most of the reward is basically the quest itself, and what you manage to personally snag on the way there and back. I love that.
Grayditch is also a great example of what you're talking about. Lots of empty houses, but a couple hold valuable things.
gregor7777
Banned
EviLore said:
my god
the tommy gun is my favorite I think
The Gamer.nl review is up, written by... me, John Henry E... err, sorry guys.
Anyway, check it here: http://www.gamer.nl/doc/48482/Fallout-3
I gave the game 10/10. Should appear on Metacritic soon as well.
Summary:
"Fallout 3 is without doubt one of the best games of the year and, in it's own way, a worthy installment of the cult franchise of postnuclear role-playing games. Bethesda takes the essential elements from the original, year old Fallout-games and succeeds in giving the fighting a revolutionary twist with the V.A.T.S.. The gameplay of Fallout 3 is perfectly executed and the Capital Wasteland offers a fantastic playground that, even after dozens of hours, still manages to stay extremely interesting. Everybody has to hide in their nuclear shelters and only leave after they completed Fallout 3."
+
Massive, open playing ground
Postapocalyptic setting is great
Very strong role-playing core
Revolutionary V.A.T.S. works perfectly
Keeps interesting even after dozens of hours
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Flaws in polishing, especially on PS3
Main quest can stop somewhat abruptly
Anyway, check it here: http://www.gamer.nl/doc/48482/Fallout-3
I gave the game 10/10. Should appear on Metacritic soon as well.
Summary:
"Fallout 3 is without doubt one of the best games of the year and, in it's own way, a worthy installment of the cult franchise of postnuclear role-playing games. Bethesda takes the essential elements from the original, year old Fallout-games and succeeds in giving the fighting a revolutionary twist with the V.A.T.S.. The gameplay of Fallout 3 is perfectly executed and the Capital Wasteland offers a fantastic playground that, even after dozens of hours, still manages to stay extremely interesting. Everybody has to hide in their nuclear shelters and only leave after they completed Fallout 3."
+
Massive, open playing ground
Postapocalyptic setting is great
Very strong role-playing core
Revolutionary V.A.T.S. works perfectly
Keeps interesting even after dozens of hours
-
Flaws in polishing, especially on PS3
Main quest can stop somewhat abruptly
Cornballer
Member
The password will be a word with a certain number of spaces. You search through the code and pick out a guess, and it will tell you how many letters are in the correct spots. You get four guesses until it locks you out, but you can always quit after the third guess and boot it up again for a fresh puzzle if you're worried about failing.SanjuroTsubaki said:
Cornballer said:
Example:
Real password is "ROOT"
You guess RICE and it says RICE = 1/4 correct
You guess TORN and it says TORN = 3/4 correct
since neither RICE nor TORN have any of the same letters, 1 of RICE and 3 of TORN letters will be in the real password.
It's a lot of logic and guessing, just save before you try.
In my penthouse suite, as pictured. Normally I keep my weapons in the footlocker there at the top of the screen, but I took 'em out for the screenshot.
Zeliard said:
I use repair a lot actually. That's what's left over
. When my repair skill gets near 100 (in a level or two) I'll repair a lot of those and then sell them, to get the most value possible.Rodeo Clown
All aboard! The Love train!
There are some quests that involve him later.Jtyettis said:
My favorite scene was firing at a super-mutant with my laser pistol from across a river - following the laser blast in slow-mo as it connected with his body, and he started to glow from the inside out, then exploded in an array of fireworks.Zeliard said:
Afterward I went to search/loot his corpse and couldn't find it. I spent a few minutes wandering around till I found an 'Ash Pile'. I had completely disentigrated him - marvelous! :lol
Koomaster said:
Yup, last night, when my game was still working fine, I had a great time with VATS.
Some raider was charging me with his knife and I decided to put a bunch of assault rifle rounds into his knife arm. I ended up blowing off his entire arm, killing him in slow motion. As his body crumpled to the ground, the stump out of his body was squirting blood. Crazy.
I also shot some guy in the arm outside the grocery store, and he freaked out and ran away. I chased him down and clocked him with a baseball bat in slow motion.
Awesome.
RattleHead_
Member
Actually I think your example is not completely correct. The way I understand it is that the letter AND position of the letter have to be correct.Zzoram said:
So in your example it would be like this...
Password = ROOT
You guess RICE and it says RICE = 1/4 correct
You guess TORN and it says TORN = 1/4 correct
This game is incredible.
My main gripe is that they didn't improve the dialouge system at all in terms of look/feel. Give me some god damn camera angles or something! It feels way too much like oblivion in that regard.
Also, they really need to hire some new modelers/character designers. Yuck.
My main gripe is that they didn't improve the dialouge system at all in terms of look/feel. Give me some god damn camera angles or something! It feels way too much like oblivion in that regard.
Also, they really need to hire some new modelers/character designers. Yuck.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
chespace said:
I'm suprised at how Not Old VATS get. They are so awesome.
LaserBuddha
Member
Pellham said:
Unfortunately they could die before serving their usefulness though.
I couldn't complete the Daedric quests because some bitch in some castle decided to go on a stroll and get killed. Man did I wait a long time for her to come to her dinner party.
TheJollyCorner
Member
chespace said:
it's also double awesome hearing the slow-motion screams. Cracks me up every time. I think I ate too many paint-chips as a kid or something to get this much amusement out of that. :lol
Does it really matter if
Up to
, game keeps getting better.
the guy being held in the box in "Paradise Hills" makes it out alive? I got the two boys and Penny out, but the other guy got shot dead when he ran for it. Mezzing "Forty" and then watching him get gunned down by everyone else was hilarious, easiest way I could think of to get the key since pick pocketing didn't work.
Up to
Vault 87 Test Lab
EviLore said:
I have to admit, I'm a little jealous. It seems it was worth the 9000 snail-paced steps carrying 700 lbs to hoard this loot. :lol
EviLore said:I use repair a lot actually. That's what's left over
Did you choose repair as one of your main skills? What other skills did you focus on?
TheJollyCorner said:
Yeah, the way they modulate sound during VATS is sweet. Like those cinematic over the top moments when the protagonist is all, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" ... BOOM.
I was just watching a coworker playing and he had the bloody mess perk. Not sure if I like the fact that people just combust into a red mist and get complete dismembered. Feels less visceral to me somehow. Does it happen every time?
Diseased Yak
Gold Member
chespace said:
Not every time, seems to be like 50% though.
I picked up Mysterious Stranger last night and so far he hasn't shown up. I find myself getting into fights on purpose just to see him.
MrPing1000
Member
Raider with a rocket launcher shouting "Eat this" in slow motion as she fires a rocket and gets her head blown off moments after.
Fun
Fun
chespace said:
I think so, that's why I'm staying away from it.
Also awesome during VATS are those moments where it basically tells you you're about to hit a critical shot by zooming in on your character and having this crazy lighting effect. Those are usually followed by a slow-mo camera trailing of the bullet into its target. Too cool.
StorablePrawn
Banned
Shake Appeal said:
Is that Ron Perlman doing the voice? Am I being thrown off into thinking that just because I watched Sons of Anarchy five minutes ago?
Giganticus
Member
Bloody Mess is good if you don't primarily use weapons like shotguns or explosives. With my Unarmed focused character I just punch people's heads off, and only half the time.chespace said:
fatigues_gasolini
Member
StorablePrawn said:
It is!
Rodeo Clown
All aboard! The Love train!
How exactly do you get to Oasis? I don't see any way up the rocks.
Yeah, position of the word is the key. It's telling you that 1 out of 7 letters is in the right spot for instance.Zzoram said:
For the hacking, it's easiest just to sort of look through the list first and see if there are any common sets. You will often get rhyming words like Walking, Talking, Waiting, Pushing, Rushing. Then Leaders, Feeders, Readers, Headers. Then a bunch of other unrelated things like Orleans, Cochise, Closely, Turtles.
So it's easy to start with one of the sets and pick a word, like Pushing. If it tells me that 3/7 of the letters are in the correct place, then I know that the password will be ending in ING more than likely. If I get ANY number less than 3/7 - then I can eliminate ALL the words ending in ING, and move on to the next set.
So I pick say Headers. If the password is in that set, I should get AT LEAST 4/7 letters in the correct spot because that set ends in 'DERS'
If I get say 6/7 from picking Headers, then I can eliminate Feeders. Comparing Feeders to Headers, only 5/7 letters match up. And I know the password would match Headers by 6/7 letters.
The only ones left are Leaders and Readers. Neither guess is better than the other one at this point, not much more eliminating I can do, so I just pick one randomly.
It doesn't matter, because I have gone from Pushing -> Headers, only using up 2 of my guesses. And with only 2 more words left that it could possibly be, doesn't matter which I chose since I'll be able to select them both. Password Got!
I know exactly which one you mean since I had the same problem. Apparently there is a quest she is involved in earlier. She is marked essential (unkillable) untill you complete that quest, then that marker gets removed and she can die anytime in the wilderness.LaserBuddha said:Unfortunately they could die before serving their usefulness though.
I couldn't complete the Daedric quests because some bitch in some castle decided to go on a stroll and get killed. Man did I wait a long time for her to come to her dinner party.
I waited around for her to get to the party for FOREVER. Then I went online to see if I could find out where she was and found out she travelled the countryside between two cities all the time. So I actually set out on foot trying to hunt her down along the paths between these two cities which are of course on nearly opposite sides of the map. Went back online and found out about her essential marker being removed after that one quest and how she could die before you do the daedric quest. Made me very cross since I spent hours trying to track her down.
Haha, me as well. I love throwing frag grenades in VATS and hearing; "Oh Shit, Run Away!!!!!!" played in super slow-mo. Then watching as people get blown sky-high. Never. Gets. Old! :lolTheJollyCorner said:
MrTroubleMaker
Member
:lol nice !EviLore said: