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Fallout 3 - jpub - 10-30-2008
Go. Buy. NOW, damnit.
So much fun.
(HW note: PS3, 360, PC. If your PC ran or can run Oblivion decently, or CoH at fairly high settings w/out slowdown, you're fine.)
- Bluemage - 10-30-2008
Oh, yes. Very much so.
I got the Collectors' Edition last night, and it is amazing. Even more so with everything turned up to max.
My only regret is that I didn't have time to play past escaping from the Vault
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
- Rod.H - 10-31-2008
Okay. So I did go and buy now. A lot of good that did me. Frackin' securom won't let it run. I don't have any of the programs like 'Alcohol
120%' or 'Daemon Tools', it say's I'm "running".
Also http://www.securom.com/message.asp?m=emu&c=2500 is supposed to have a patched F3
launcher. I'm not seeing it, even if Google at one point did.
edit: An email to Securom *cough*sourceofevil*cough* resulted in them providing me with a link to the fixed F3 launcher. Perhaps I should'ved got the Steam
vers....
--Rod.H
- jpub - 10-31-2008
Rod: You can run the Fallout3.exe from the install directory. No launcher. No CD. Shh.
Edit: I had some noticable issues with that Launcher. Windows would give me a crashed app notice every time I quit, and sometimes the game would just hang.
Ever since I just ran the damn game directly, it's been working much better.
- Rod.H - 10-31-2008
Hrm, while that works. You still need the launcher fixed or the fixed launcher, even, just to get it running if your getting the 2500 error message
- WengFook - 11-01-2008
Has anyone found the Brotherhood of Steel guy who's supposed to teach you how to use power armor? I've been roaming around the capitol but no luck :S
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.
- Sweno - 11-02-2008
I have just picked this up (installing as I type this). So depending on how hooked I get, I may not show up in CoX this weekend.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
- Rod.H - 11-02-2008
Nope, still doing early side quests & early bits of main story for caps. Have come across one of the traveling salesmen supposed to have a rare blueprint
though.
Headshots ftw! 8)
edit: Oh one important thing to be aware of. Activating GFW live thing, disables all previously saved games. Suppose it's one way to enforce fair
achievement bings..... *grumblerumblegrumble*
- HoagieOfDoom - 11-03-2008
"Has anyone found the Brotherhood of Steel guy who's supposed to teach you how to use power armor? I've been roaming around the capitol but no
luck :S"
The only I've found is to complete the main quest up to a certain point where Elder Lyons suggests that you get the requisite training from one
of the Brothers. It activates after the plot point that allows you into the citadel (about 3/4 into the main quest). I don't know of any other way, but
I've only had one playthrough so far.
(One point in the game's favor: it's plot outshines Oblivion by several hundred factors.)
- WengFook - 11-03-2008
Quote: HoagieOfDoom wrote:
The only I've found is to complete the main quest up to a certain point where Elder Lyons suggests that you
get the requisite training from one of the Brothers. It activates after the plot point that allows you into the citadel (about 3/4 into the main quest). I
don't know of any other way, but I've only had one playthrough so far.
Ah okay then, I suppose i'd better stop admiring the scenery and get on with the storyline then
Thanks for the tip 
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.
- jpub - 11-03-2008
Eh. Screw the storyline. I'm having fun running all over the place.
1) Level-appropriate critters suck. Since when did all the freaking Mirelurks become Mirelurk Hunters (and recently, Kings?) Oh, I see, I leveled. Yeah,
that's fair. And all the Super Muties becoming Masters? Whee, I really appreciate that I now have to use my precious 44 mag ammo all the damn time, because
my laser pistol does bupkis.
2) Bloody mess is hilarious.
3) So is the 'Mysterious Stranger'
4) I have to agree with those who have said that this game is far more depressing than F1 or 2. In those, you had to imagine the horror of being in a
post-apocolyptic world. With F3, you're IN one.
5) Those Vault-Tech guys were fscking insane.
- HoagieOfDoom - 11-04-2008
5) Those Vault-Tech guys were fscking insane.
Well, Vault-Tec was actually a public front for the US government prior to the war for conducting sociological experiments. The Wikipedia article on Fallout
as a series has a nice summation of the purpose for a few specific vaults and their intentions and let me tell you, their messed up. Varied post-war nuclear
confrontation opening times, administration of psychoactive drugs by way of ventilation systems, the "illustrious" work of Dr. Stanislau Braun,
etc... And it was part of the Enclave's job to monitor all of it. (Well, maybe except for Braun. They probably had no idea what the hell he was up to.)
- CattyNebulart - 11-05-2008
Why do so many interesting games ship with DRM? Oh well it gives me more time to actually make games.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
- Evil Midnight Lurker - 11-05-2008
My laptop is too outclassed to play the game. ;.;
--Sam
"War. War never changes."
- Bluemage - 11-05-2008
DRM? This game only has a CD-check, which is generally considered quite reasonable. Heck, it's easy enough to bypass that I only use my disc to install
the game and change graphics settings.
Sure, it's Securom, but it's the same as Oblivion's Securom protection- unnoticable and consequence-free, unless you try to start the launcher w/o
the disk.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
- OpMegs - 11-20-2008
So, having notably been nosing about this game, I was rather....abruptly informed of the major plot twist in the ending.
The following is attempted to be rendered in unreadable font unless one makes an effort, but for the sake of assuming the font setup doesn't work as I
expect it to, the following spoiler space is provided.
Still here? Spoilers below.
No, really, I'm going to spoil the ending.
Okay. So you're supposed to enter a room filled with radiation to unload fresh water to the wastelands. Save
millions of lives.
You go in, you die. Or you talk someone else into doing it....and spend the rest of your
life branded a coward.
There are three problems with this:
1. By this point, you're carrying enough Rad-X that you could live on the SURFACE OF THE
FREAKING SUN.
2. Several of your party members are actually immune to
radiation, or even HEAL when exposed to it.
3. When you ask any of them to do it, there is a scripted response where they tell you
it's your destiny, not theirs, and you can't skip it.
....okay...um...yeah. WTF?
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
- WengFook - 11-20-2008
Yeah I guess they wanted to end the storyline with one of those bittersweet endings of personal sacrifice for the
greater good. The only thing is... it could have been handled and executed better.
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- Ebony - 11-20-2008
Quote: jpub wrote:Ebony the Black Dragon
2) Bloody mess is hilarious.
3) So is the 'Mysterious Stranger'
Oh good, they kept those. Bloody Mess is one of my favorite parts of the first two games. That, and the alien blaster and plasma rifle criticals. There's
something extremely ... pleasing, about rendering an enemy into a pile of dust or a pool of sludge.
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
- Rod.H - 12-06-2008
Plasma rifle? What plasma rifle....I've been schlepping around the wastelands with a supposedly very good, but rarely effective laser rifle and your saying there's a plasma one. Must've come from a downed Sectoid scout disk.
But seriously, man this game looks loads better on a 22" screen with a 9800GTX+ pumping out the frames. Loads better then the SLI'ed 8600GTS that was trickling out the frames previously. It's got to a graphical improvement point where an old friend - Mister Motion Sickness- has begun to rear its head.
--Rod.H (who when not working or sleeping is spending time split between Nuked D.C. & Liberty City)
"Ahhhh radioactive glowing zombie pigeon! Kill it, kill it!"
- jpub - 12-08-2008
Rod - the plasma rifle comes from the Enclave. There's also a special plasma rifle (replicated man quest) and a special laser rifle (get it in little
lamplight).
- Rod.H - 01-08-2009
Well, I scored a plasma rifle off the Enclave. Its crithit just makes me go 'WTF!' a lot. I got a few more of 'em and headed off to do some trading
with the Outcasts. Who then took back their snazzy red painted in the field power armor. Luckily, a nearby Enclave patrol & checkpoint
"kindly"gave me theirs.
Still, I'm somewhere in the middle of the game and am halfway to reaching lvl20. Which either means I'm playin' at the wrong difficulty level or
farming raiders for caps & ammo reaps in the XP.
Of cause apparently there's in the works, an expansion which lets you play beyond the current end point amongst a bunch of other stuff.
--Rod.H (who would like a decent zooming scope on the sniper rifle)
- jpub - 01-08-2009
Here's the best way to play - do the main quest until the Enclave make a major presence. Then scour the countryside, since that adds a lot of Enclave to
rob for stuff. Then finish the game.
- s3yang - 01-14-2009
Also, according to the fallout wikia, apparently, the expansion pack which lets you join the brotherhood to wipe out the enclave changes the ending so that
you're able to use your old character.
I have suspicions that the original ending was just there just to piss people off, and make them want to buy the expansion more.
bastards.
- jpub - 01-15-2009
I suspect the original ending was a cop out for sequelization purposes.