Power station: Probably a radio signal, follow the strengh to get ammunition, guns or....special things
Republic
of dave: you help them run the elections and can change the results so he doesn't get elected. Not much to do really, except for a bobblehead in the museum of dave
Head of
lincon memorial: you can help the slaves take over the lincon memorial and fix the lincon statue, also you have to find a picture of the lincon memorial before the war so they can fix it and it becames a place for escaped slaves. Or you can guide the slavers to the place where all the escaped slaves are and help them kill them. That way, everything related to lincon can be sold to the slavers for a good price
Last place
Oasis: No idea, there are 3 different endings, but I believe that the only difference is the perk you get as reward. It changes depending of what you do
THIS GAME IS AWESOME. I'm gonna do rigth now a new characther. A FUCKING NINJA! Stealh, pickpocket and speech are gonna be my weapons of choice.
So I've been shooting and then hitting right trigger again and doing my VATS one at a time but I saw a video where someone queued it up. I'm not playing ATM, but do I just keep pressing A or something to do that? I'm at level 6 and have been playing for awhile without knowing it was possible. :lol
So I've been shooting and then hitting right trigger again and doing my VATS one at a time but I saw a video where someone queued it up. I'm not playing ATM, but do I just keep pressing A or something to do that? I'm at level 6 and have been playing for awhile without knowing it was possible. :lol
So I've been shooting and then hitting right trigger again and doing my VATS one at a time but I saw a video where someone queued it up. I'm not playing ATM, but do I just keep pressing A or something to do that? I'm at level 6 and have been playing for awhile without knowing it was possible. :lol
:lol Not to be an ass, but I keep getting surprised seeing comments like this on every other page. At the very least, I could imagine it being a huge pain going in and out of VATS continuously.
So I've been shooting and then hitting right trigger again and doing my VATS one at a time but I saw a video where someone queued it up. I'm not playing ATM, but do I just keep pressing A or something to do that? I'm at level 6 and have been playing for awhile without knowing it was possible. :lol
:lol Not to be an ass, but I keep getting surprised seeing comments like this on every other page. At the very least, I could imagine it being a huge pain going in and out of VATS continuously.
So i've put in 45 hours in the game now and i'm only up to the going to the main quest which requires me to go a Vault to find clues about my father. All this time I've decided to go out of my way to do side quests and explore all of capital wasteland. Whenever i see an area I haven't visited on my radar i go out of my way to reach it, if only for the fast travel. I'm having a good time but its come to the point where i'm just about explored out. I'm already level 20 so i should just do the main quest and get this over with right?
So i've put in 45 hours in the game now and i'm only up to the going to the main quest which requires me to go a Vault to find clues about my father. All this time I've decided to go out of my way to do side quests and explore all of capital wasteland. Whenever i see an area I haven't visited on my radar i go out of my way to reach it, if only for the fast travel. I'm having a good time but its come to the point where i'm just about explored out. I'm already level 20 so i should just do the main quest and get this over with right?
I finished it today (360 version) at 63 hours give or take and I have to say that Fallout 3 is probably my GOTY. Just... wow. The world and the immersion is amazing. These 63 hours were all done in one week btw, couldn't really put it down.
Now, it's not perfect of course, and I could nitpick a lot but I won't, I'd just like to focus on what is the "main" problem with the game for me. For the first 30/40 hours side quests would just show up as I walked slowly through the main quests, and it was great. Suddenly, at around 40 hours the only quest I had available was the main one. I didn't want the experience to end so I explored a bit and did a few more, then I went on with the main quest, searched for a few more side quests and eventually went on to finish. I'll probably pick it up again and continue just before the last main quest since I know there's still lots to do and
I have all the locations visible in the map since I got to level 20(not sure if it's worth covering this but hey)
.
Now, as I said, for the first half of the game I wasn't forced to explore and the game always seemed so busy, and I feel that it should always be like this. You'd go on a main quest and wherever you went you'd find new side quests that would lead to other quests, but for the last 5 or 6 quests in the main story, it was all too self-contained. Perhaps it makes sense storywise that at a certain point the events are so "important" in the game world that it wouldn't make sense for the character to say "oh can you guys wait a few days to save the world, I'm just gonna check out that village over there". However, before the story reaches such a point, the main quest should branch into about 90% of the side quests, leaving only a very tiny percentage as a reward for pure exploring. In this case, part of the problem is also the fact that the main quest makes you visit a relatively limited area in the map.
I wanted it to last longer (and it could if I'd been more patient) but at some point I just said let's go with the main quest, perhaps it'll branch a bit more, but it didn't.
Oh well, I just had to let it out. I must just say that the game had some pretty amazing quests, one of my favorites was the one where I rescued
Reilly's Rangers
. But I guess the best was reserved for
last, because the last quests are awesome. I almost shit my pants after getting the GECK with Fawkes' help and as I'm going away from Vault 87 I see something blue-ish fall to the ground and there's a flash. Then I saw the enclave dudes and was all "oh them again, they probably want to get their asses kicked some more". And then I kicked their asses some more, mainly with my newly built railway rifle. Left quite a few heads stuck in the walls lol. The escape from their base is awesome and the last mission with Liberty Prime (lol) at the helm is AMAZING. I was slightly disappointed with the very end, perhaps it's a bit anticlimatic. I chose to insert the code myself, and without using the virus that "President Eden" gave me, but I saw other endings after that.
Now, I'll probably reload from just after
getting out of the Enclave base
. Any suggestions about what to visit? I saw two places in the map where I'll have to go for sure,
the White House
and
Vault-Tec's HQ
. Perhaps I should have gone there but I was too impatient, so... there.
Thanks for the tips! I'll try to do them differently if I decide to play the next time
I have been putting my stats on Stealth, Science, Pickpocket for the most part. I jacked up my Speech through that +30 perk but you have to be neutral.
And I didnt know you could line up your VAT shots consecutively! Mind blown.
This. I played a brute strength on my first run, and a sciency techy type pistolero on my second. I am not sure if I have the energy or will to play it thrice with a sneaky stealy sniper guy, but I might when an expansion hits.
PC version is fantastic with the mods, it fixes a lot of nitpicks and adds a lot of cool twists to the gameplay if you so desire.
Thanks for the tips! I'll try to do them differently if I decide to play the next time
I have been putting my stats on Stealth, Science, Pickpocket for the most part. I jacked up my Speech through that +30 perk but you have to be neutral.
And I didnt know you could line up your VAT shots consecutively! Mind blown.
This may be a stupid question but I'm going to ask it. When you play this game does it feel a lot like oblivion? Are quests and the story handled the same way? Gameplay feel somewhat similar?
What I am basically getting at: If I disliked Oblivion, will I dislike Fallout 3? I still haven't picked it up since I am not sure about it, no demo to try either.
This may be a stupid question but I'm going to ask it. When you play this game does it feel a lot like oblivion? Are quests and the story handled the same way? Gameplay feel somewhat similar?
What I am basically getting at: If I disliked Oblivion, will I dislike Fallout 3? I still haven't picked it up since I am not sure about it, no demo to try either.
Flat out response? Its like a reskinned Oblivion with guns, better variety, more stuff to do and an about equal quality story. Some say it looks better, but I prefer the lush forest to the wasteland, so to me Oblivion was better looking. You can tell its the same makers, but its a different game. Plus if you played the old Fallouts, the nostalgia lone in the details makes it worth of at least a dozen hours of dicking around if you can rent it.
The hockey mask gives a bonus to AP, not luck. I'm wearing it right now and this combined with the AP boosting perk means I can set up six shots in VATS with the assault rifle. Pretty crazy.
The hockey mask gives a bonus to AP, not luck. I'm wearing it right now and this combined with the AP boosting perk means I can set up six shots in VATS with the assault rifle. Pretty crazy.
Flat out response? Its like a reskinned Oblivion with guns, better variety, more stuff to do and an about equal quality story. Some say it looks better, but I prefer the lush forest to the wasteland, so to me Oblivion was better looking. You can tell its the same makers, but its a different game. Plus if you played the old Fallouts, the nostalgia lone in the details makes it worth of at least a dozen hours of dicking around if you can rent it.
I was a bit disappointed with Oblivions story so "equal quality" scares me a bit. I don't have the Fallout nostalgia either unfortunately.
I definitely think I will take to the projectile combat better than the swords (which I thought I would love). Guns in games = fun 90% of the time. Definitely going to need to rent this.
Guess I'll throw that on the list of things to do, I hadn't realized how many games were really coming this fall. I still have so many to pick up...
The hockey mask gives a bonus to AP, not luck. I'm wearing it right now and this combined with the AP boosting perk means I can set up six shots in VATS with the assault rifle. Pretty crazy.
ugh....ok....riley's rangers quest has to be the worst quest in the game....it literally makes me feel like throwing up after spending 3 hours str8 on it and it still not being completed.
I just had to stop cause it's just taking to long to finish. whoever put this quest in the game needs to get shot in the face.
who thought fighting super mutants in super tight and dark spaces over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over would be fun?
I was a bit disappointed with Oblivions story so "equal quality" scares me a bit. I don't have the Fallout nostalgia either unfortunately.
I definitely think I will take to the projectile combat better than the swords (which I thought I would love). Guns in games = fun 90% of the time. Definitely going to need to rent this.
Guess I'll throw that on the list of things to do, I hadn't realized how many games were really coming this fall. I still have so many to pick up...
has to be the worst quest in the game....it literally makes me feel like throwing up after spending 3 hours str8 on it and it still not being completed.
I just had to stop cause it's just taking to long to finish. whoever put this quest in the game needs to get shot in the face.
who thought fighting super mutants in super tight and dark spaces over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over would be
Lay down frag or stronger mines and walk backwards having them walk into mines and blow themselves up. They are big and cumbersome and walk awkwardly and slowly in the narrow corridors. Didn't use one stimpack the whole time.
I have to give some credit. They've improved, at least a bit, in terms of making places seem like they don't revolve around you. What I mean is, when you walk into a town, non-quest related interactions between NPCs take place.
I'm playing an evil character this time and in the
slaver camp
for example, conversations take place between Eulogy and different people as he goes out and tours the facility. And there's the guy who
kills the bartender with a sledgehammer for putting water in his vodka
.
These kind of interactions help make the game seem far more fleshed out, like it exists even when you're not there. To me, this is something that is extremely important in a game of this kind and it is a much-appreciated addition. More, please!
Just finished this on the weekend as a with really good karma. I only got 40 hours of it and I'm about half-way through level 19, almost level 20. Oblivion was about 89 hours for me with 1000 achievements. I'm gonna load my last save and do some extra exploring. Anyone get 1000/1000 achievements yet?
My next play I'm going the bad karma route.
Falout 3 is my GOTY, close second is MGS4 though...
Just finished this on the weekend as a with really good karma. I only got 40 hours of it and I'm about half-way through level 19, almost level 20. Oblivion was about 89 hours for me with 1000 achievements. I'm gonna load my last save and do some extra exploring. Anyone get 1000/1000 achievements yet?
My next play I'm going the bad karma route.
Falout 3 is my GOTY, close second is MGS4 though...
Yeah, it took me about 80 hours. Most of the time was spent doing the collectibles rather than the quests though... and it's pretty damn annoying that one of the Bobbleheads exists in a "one time only" location.
Just finished this on the weekend as a with really good karma. I only got 40 hours of it and I'm about half-way through level 19, almost level 20. Oblivion was about 89 hours for me with 1000 achievements. I'm gonna load my last save and do some extra exploring. Anyone get 1000/1000 achievements yet?
My next play I'm going the bad karma route.
Falout 3 is my GOTY, close second is MGS4 though...
Yeah, it took me about 80 hours. Most of the time was spent doing the collectibles rather than the quests though... and it's pretty damn annoying that one of the Bobbleheads exists in a "one time only" location.
Just finished this on the weekend as a with really good karma. I only got 40 hours of it and I'm about half-way through level 19, almost level 20. Oblivion was about 89 hours for me with 1000 achievements. I'm gonna load my last save and do some extra exploring. Anyone get 1000/1000 achievements yet?
My next play I'm going the bad karma route.
Falout 3 is my GOTY, close second is MGS4 though...
