The Official Fallout 3 thread of post-apocalyptic proportions!
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voltron said:Damn, that weather mod looks awesome. Wish I could get it on 360
This just displays how fucking stupid some of the hardcore fans are. They complain how the game is too commercial, how it's a kids game, and then they mod in a sunny skyline and proclaim it like they somehow made the game better.
voltron said:Damn, that weather mod looks awesome. Wish I could get it on 360
Uhm wat, no. Only thing it does is to erase the fallout atmosphere. If Bethesda wanted it to look like that they would make it look like that. That mod looks like crap relative to the context of the game.
bj00rn_ said:
I just find it kind of refreshing. I mean, it is hundreds of years later so theres no reason that there would still be muck and stuff in the atmosphere.
It just would have been cool to have a choice, like in Mass Effect. Id probably use the intended greenish filter for the game then switch to the nice blue sky when Im finished and fucking around (like now).
And sorry beedog I should learn to read
Psychotext
Member
I tried that. It says I have to be wearing the suit to use the chair... which I am.BeeDog said:
I loaded an old save, but it's crappy that the quest is showing incomplete on my main save.
Psychotext
Member
1100 / 1100. 
Diseased Yak
Gold Member
Psychotext said:1100 / 1100.
Congrats! I got my last bobblehead last night, I'm two achievements away from 1100/1100 now, lacking only the neutral and good level 20's. Getting those tonight.
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
I really wish I hadn't deleted my old saves. Guess I'll never get the neutral level 8 and 14. Damn you Microsoft for your HDDs costing so much (I have a nearly full 20GB).
Jamesfrom818
Banned
YES! I now have Col Autumn's Laser Pistol and a Gauss Riflle that won't degrade.
Been playing Fallout 3 hardcore over the past few days. Went from having 180 Achievements to almost 700 in like 3 days. Amazing game.
Shame that the DLC is so incredibly expensive though. No way I'm shelling out 800 points for 2-3 hours of gametime. Maybe, just maybe I'll bite the bullet when 3rd DLC comes with the level cap increase.
Shame that the DLC is so incredibly expensive though. No way I'm shelling out 800 points for 2-3 hours of gametime. Maybe, just maybe I'll bite the bullet when 3rd DLC comes with the level cap increase.
KennyLinder
Member
I'd like to buy this game for PC via Steam, could someone confirm to me whether it contains Windows Live (aka 360) Achievements or has the Steam style Achievements?
Thanks.
Thanks.
KennyLinder said:
windows live achievements that add to your gamerscore. oh and you can unlock them all through the console (by pressing `). It's the only pc gfw live game that lets you unlock the dev console and still get the achievements. you can even get the anchorage achievements without even buying the dlc.
KennyLinder
Member
You press ' and it allows you to unlock them? LOL! What do you have to type in? That's insane.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
:OProc said:
Jamesfrom818
Banned
voltron said:
If you drag Gary's body into the sim chamber, its possible to put your inventory on him before you get stripped of it when you finish. I also have the Winterized Combat Armor. Doesn't degrade either.
AndresON777
shooting blanks
Damn at least on 360 the gauss rifle does degrade over time and you have to repair it.
I used it a shit ton though, it's like my favorite gun. It works great on deathclaws when you shoot them in the leg it usually knocks them down and I finish them off with the flamer.
I finally stopped being a total wuss and upped the difficulty to hard.
I used it a shit ton though, it's like my favorite gun. It works great on deathclaws when you shoot them in the leg it usually knocks them down and I finish them off with the flamer.
I finally stopped being a total wuss and upped the difficulty to hard.
Jamesfrom818
Banned
Is it just me or is the Gauss Rifle weaker when used in VATS? Its like the round explodes before hitting the targeted body part. When I shoot a Super Mutant Brute manually, he blows up. When I target the Brute's head in VATS, he just falls down with about a third of its life knocked off.
EDIT: Apparently it isn't just me. I wonder if this is going to get patched.
EDIT: Apparently it isn't just me. I wonder if this is going to get patched.
djtiesto said:
After I beat Fallout 3 I wondered whether I should try Obilvion. I did and Oblivion is definitely a keeper for me.
Oblivion has more cities which makes for a lively world, I like guilds/factions and the associated quests. That really made me feel like part of the world and made me realize how Fallout 3 lacks side quests like that.
On the other hand combat/vats is superior to Oblivion. In Oblivion I'm hacking away trying to find the enemy unless I sneak attacked. I wanted to explore Fallout and kept being pulled back in to play after I completed it. In Oblivion I fast travel as much as possible, even though the environments are lush. Oblivion feels too big without enough substance, all of the dungeons feel like repeats.
I would take Fallout over Oblivion, and I think playing Fallout first really made me key in on some of the negatives when I play Oblivion.
BakedPigeon
Banned
Well I finally beat all the side missions and the main quest. Time for operation anchorage!
I'm just about near the end game now. Fallout 3 is, more then any other game I can think of including FO1&2, an archeology game. That is when it's at its best. It does away with the boring stuff that actual archaeologists have to do like cataloging and documenting, it's all about piecing together the story after the fact. You enter these abandoned buildings, vaults, homes; You read their diaries; go through their stuff; check their corpses. Just about every single location in FO3 has a story to tell even if there's no one there to tell it. These little moments are what make Fallout 3 such an amazing game to me.
Right from the moment you leave the vault this becomes noticeable. At the foot of the Vault 101 door you see these picket signs. It smacks you INTO the world of the Capitol Wasteland. There were people here dying and begging for their lives to enter the safety of the Vault as they die at the door.
Bioshock comes to mind with this example. We saw familiar signs right when entering Rapture. All of the other 'Shock' games in fact are similar in this fashion to Fallout 3. You've got the logs, the aftermath of events, the puzzle to piece together. In the Shock games however those pieces come to form the main plotline. In FO3, all of the hundreds of locations and little pockets of stories don't have anything to do with the main (*cough*forgettable*cough*) plot at all. It's ancillary and unnecessary.
A few times, as it happens sometimes even in archeology, you get multi-layered stories. Dunwich Building for example. You have the pre-war history: why it was there, what happened during the bomb, etc. Then you have the post-war history: A tale of a guy going mad after finding a mysterious book. Then finally you have a THIRD later on top of that (minor non-plot spoiler):
I've never encountered anything like that in a game. Having one, meaningless location become the setting for multiple interesting events that all occurred before you even set foot inside.
It's about the details in FO3 for me. One poignant moment struck me as I was wandering the wasteland just walking back to my place in Megaton. I came across some ruined houses and walked up to a mailbox. Inside the mailbox was a Vault-Tec rejection letter, informing the family that they were unable to admit them into any of the nearby vaults. Just to rub salt in the wound, if you check by the door, you notice a few packed suitcases.
Right from the moment you leave the vault this becomes noticeable. At the foot of the Vault 101 door you see these picket signs. It smacks you INTO the world of the Capitol Wasteland. There were people here dying and begging for their lives to enter the safety of the Vault as they die at the door.
Bioshock comes to mind with this example. We saw familiar signs right when entering Rapture. All of the other 'Shock' games in fact are similar in this fashion to Fallout 3. You've got the logs, the aftermath of events, the puzzle to piece together. In the Shock games however those pieces come to form the main plotline. In FO3, all of the hundreds of locations and little pockets of stories don't have anything to do with the main (*cough*forgettable*cough*) plot at all. It's ancillary and unnecessary.
A few times, as it happens sometimes even in archeology, you get multi-layered stories. Dunwich Building for example. You have the pre-war history: why it was there, what happened during the bomb, etc. Then you have the post-war history: A tale of a guy going mad after finding a mysterious book. Then finally you have a THIRD later on top of that (minor non-plot spoiler):
Fallout Wiki said:
I've never encountered anything like that in a game. Having one, meaningless location become the setting for multiple interesting events that all occurred before you even set foot inside.
It's about the details in FO3 for me. One poignant moment struck me as I was wandering the wasteland just walking back to my place in Megaton. I came across some ruined houses and walked up to a mailbox. Inside the mailbox was a Vault-Tec rejection letter, informing the family that they were unable to admit them into any of the nearby vaults. Just to rub salt in the wound, if you check by the door, you notice a few packed suitcases.
disappeared
Banned
Good points, Oni. That reminds me of when I found an old abandoned house in the far-east section of the map. In the house was a computer which chronicled the seemingly final days of five survivors in the house. The last entry mentioned that the survivors saw some raiders in the distance and they hoped that they didn't see the house. Kind of eerie.
Polmacaoidh
Member
Great way of putting it.Oni Jazar said:
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
So I've got it for the PC and I'm starting the main game over again... my question is, should I install Operation: Anchorage after I've reached a high level? Or should I just wait till I finish the main quest?
Jamesfrom818
Banned
Polmacaoidh said:
Yeah. Now all we need is an annoying Asian boy for a companion.
Salami Inferno
Neo Member
I played it at a high level and you do lose a little bit of the challenge this way. There are a few tougher enemies that you will be happy you have those high stats for, though.
dgenx
Made an agreement with another GAF member, refused to honor it because he was broke, but then had no problem continuing to buy video games.
So, I just finished the game after 72 hours....
What RPG should Iplaynext? till now I played Mother 3 and Fallout 3, I want an RPG as good as those games.
Have any recomendations GAF??
oh btw yes the ending was meh but the whole game was awesome
What RPG should Iplaynext? till now I played Mother 3 and Fallout 3, I want an RPG as good as those games.
Have any recomendations GAF??
oh btw yes the ending was meh but the whole game was awesome
Diseased Yak
Gold Member
That felt good. Bring on more DLC!
I said it before in the 2008 GOTY thread and I'll say it again: This was my GOTY 2008, no question. I'll continue to play it until The Elder Scrolls V comes out.
The ending seemed so sudden, but the journey to that point has got to be the most amazing RPG experiences i have had in videogames since Suikoden II.
Its also one of the most surreal and messed up games I have ever seen. The stuff you see in the game is just straight up brutal.
Its also one of the most surreal and messed up games I have ever seen. The stuff you see in the game is just straight up brutal.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
cool, thanks!Jamesfrom818 said:
chemicals
Member
man, I had been disappointed with Fallout 3 as when I first bought it I went straight through the main campaign and finished the game feeling cheated, after expecting the depth of Oblivion... but lately I have rebooted the game and been concentrating on the side quests.. and WOWWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW! The side quests trump Oblivion's best quests.. I LOVED the quest with Mr. Crowley (I ended up killing Tenpenny on the balcony and tossing his body off the ledge) .. what an amazing feeling.. I'm gonna buy the DLC.. fuck it.
Aurelius
Member
I'm having some trouble with killing all the super mutant behemoths.
Had this happened to more people? Is this a known bug?
I've killed all the super mutant behemoths, except the Jury Street Metro Station one. I've found the cart cage with the teddy bear that should make him spawn, but he doesn't appear. I've tried reloading the game, taking the teddy bear, waiting next to the teddy bear. But to no avail.
This is pretty frustrating since this is one of the last achievements I need to get.
This is pretty frustrating since this is one of the last achievements I need to get.
Had this happened to more people? Is this a known bug?
C- Warrior
Banned
Aurelius said:
It's happen to me as well. I can't get the asshole to show up.
neoism
Member
There are two pieces of Fallout 3 DLC on the way. One called "The Pitt", one called "Broken Steel". They were due soon, but according to Bethesda, they'll now be here a little later.
Don't worry, though. It's nothing drastic. "
By May, then, you'll not only have new areas to explore and new quests to complete, but an expansion to the game's level cap as well.
As with the first piece of DLC, "Operation Anchorage", both will only be available on PC and 360.
Kota..
WHATTHEMOTHERFUCK BETHESHA!!!!!!!!!!
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