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[mven]

Srsly. Am I the only one who bought this or even gives a shit? I know this is primarily an MMOG site but it's fucking fallout for christ's sake!

I was a bit disappointed by the character creation and initial tutorial area. There were several people I couldn't kill but only knock unconscious. This infuriated me.

[Giiizmo]

Toned-down dark humor, not all NPCs killable, Oblivion engine, super mutants as "bad guys", incongruent storyline with previous fallouts, easy game, NPCs scale according to your level...

I might download it in a few days/weeks/months but I'm in no hurry to play it. I doubt it'll live up to my expectations anyway since I'd like to play a game about survival and it'll probably just be a big bag of ghey. Most recent game I've had fun with was King's Bounty: the Legend; I'm already getting sick of Warhammer, its half-baked PvE and PvP, its instances and rotten community. I might make a post about it... or maybe not since hardly anyone reads these forums anyway.

[Isia]

I came back over to Pker.org to say hello to you punks and simply find out if FIII is worth the bucks.

[Siddhartha]

No, it's not... see you in 2 years.

[GhostCow]

I like it. The dialog choices you make actually seem to matter, the graphics are beautiful, and some of the quests are pretty interesting. I especially like the surviver book and android quests. For the first time in a while, I don't feel like I wasted $50.

Starting the game with your birth from first person view was a little freaky though.

[mven]

Starting the game with your birth from first person view was a little freaky though.

I was just pissed I couldn't punch my dad to death nor shoot him to death with the BB gun. Such bullshit imo. Same with Amata and Stanley. So gay.

[Isia]

Yes, I understand some people might want to do the "Rosemary's Baby" version of their birth. Just as long as the parents and doctors are allowed to go "red", grab you by your ankles, and club you against the wall. In 1st person, see parts of your little baby skull left on the wall.

[bonedead]

Lol, you guise is crazeh

[WinnebagoWarrior]

I think Fallout is fantastic, easily the best game Ive played this year. The game world feels very full and complete and there are really very very very few poeple the game wont let you kill (there isnt anyone that I have tried to kill that the game stopped me from killing, and I have a reaver rating which I believe is the most evil character you can have). And what Giizmo said about it being easy is a lie. The first couple of hours and the starting quests are pretty easy, but once I really get out in the world, I was truly fearing for my life.

I would recommend it to anyone.

[Giiizmo]

ZOMG all right, I'll give the damn game a try! But if the game sucks, I'll shove spiders up your nostrils while you sleep. Fo' rly.

[mven]

I am just curious of the people who liked this how many also really liked oblivion. Anyone that doesn't like fallout but liked oblivion?

[WinnebagoWarrior]

I liked oblivion and I love fallout. As much as I enjoyed oblivion, I felt that it a lot of ways it was overshadowed by Morrowind, which I felt was a superior game. I didnt feel like Oblivion added much of real substance to the RPG genre, while I thought that Morrowind did.

Fallout 3 is a much different creature than Oblivion in my mind. I have seen in some reviews parallels drawn between the two games, which I certainly understand. I also feel like Fallout is a much more progressive and complete game and a far more interesting world to explore. If you are into the exploration aspect of open world RPG's, Fallout 3 is the best game since Morrowind for that.

[Isia]

I knew Oblivion wasn't going to hack it, and still spent a couple hundred hours trying to sort it out. Quests that were irrelevant, dungeons that were irrelevant, pointless dialogue, you get the picture. FIII rocks, almost. I restarted on Hard, may end up regretting that as we get to tougher quests. (though yes you can turn it back-and-forth for difficulty) FIII has an advantage because you can remember that FI and FII had a storyline that was enjoyable to walk through, so the assumption is that FIII will do the same. If it all goes to no purpose I'll be po'd.

[Giiizmo]

I've played F3 for about 4-5 hours now. Killed lots of people and beasties, ran a few side quests and stuff... and I'm not a happy camper. I'll play more of it but it's definitely not sucking me in. I might post my impressions later.

[mven]

It didn't really suck me off either. But then I am still pretty much rock hard for warhammer and no single player game can distract me from an MMO I am actually enjoying.

[Gukag]

Played it for a few hours, lvl 6, still hanging around Megaton doing random quests. It's a fun game, and it's in a Fallout setting, but it's not Fallout. It's as good a translation as possible from isometric turn based to first/third person shooter. The combat gets nice and visceral, and the VATS thing works pretty well. Since it's real time combat I figured VATS would only be used as an opener in combats, but I end up using it a lot, if only to conserve ammo which is pretty expensive/hard to find, at least right now. Disapointed in the size of the map...I've already explored a good chunk of it. Also some underground areas, caves, tunnels etc... get ridiculously convoluted, even with the PIP boy's local map radar.
Went for my usual Fallout build, intelligent, perceptive, lucky sniper. Meaning small guns, sneak and energy weapons as tag skills. In a quest in an area called Minefield I ran into this old paranoid dude with a sniper rifle. I'm assuming he was the reason for the entire town being covered in land mines. A sneak attack sniper shot to the head pretty usually takes out anything in one go, so I'm glad I did this quest. I'm trying to stay neutral karma-wise, I usually am a goodie two-shoes when it comes to quests, but I also pickpocket and steal a lot of stuff so it seems to be working out.
As an experiment I've already been able to slaughter everyone in Megaton (saved it in another slot if i want to finish the game as a massive bastard), not through the bomb quest but just good old mine chokepoints, frag grenades and a handy roof to stand on. I still have to scour the town for stuff to loot so I probably missed a few people, and obviously the damn kids are invincible avatars of god or something.

[bonedead]

My DSL is too slow. I left it on all day while at work and came home to 9% lol. Baaaad

[Gukag]

Ok finished the game and am extremely disapointed. Not throwing out any spoilers out there but lets just say the main quest sucks, at least compared to the many side quests that were more..."fallout". At a certain point in the main quest it's pretty much impossible to stop it. Also when the game ends, it ends. You cannot walk around post-ending ala Fallout 2.
Ended up being extremely good on the Karma scale, my petty thefts didn't balance out all the quest Karma. I'm going to go through it again and try to get the worst ending I can, and pick up all the side quests I missed.

edit: the map is also more crowded than I thought. Since I already finished the game I'm now looking up walkthroughs online to see what quests I missed, and there are a bunch, also many locations I had no idea existed.

[Giiizmo]

Waiting for a mod that turns the "very hard" setting into something playable. Mobs that almost one-shot you = challenge. Mobs that take 20 bullets to the head to die = tedium.

Also, level-scaling is gay; die Bethesda.

[mven]

Someone needs to create a mod to allow three things in fallout. 1 - Killing children directly. 2 - Killing storyline characters. 3 - Rape.

Then it would be a much better game.