i uh havent gotten that far i guess

11/8/2008 6:14:14 PM

^^^What's worse is running through the Wasteland at night, hearing a random noise, and then turning around to find a giant radscorpian right behind you with no radar warning.

11/8/2008 6:26:10 PM

some of the text on the pip-boy is really small to read

and my TV screen is fairly big...i couldn't imagine playing this on like 30" or less

11/8/2008 7:00:19 PM

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"some of the text on the pip-boy is really small to read and my TV screen is fairly big...i couldn't imagine playing this on like 30" or less"

I played this (the first week and a half) on my 23" tv from freshman year in 2002.

I'm currently playing this on my sister's 42" hdtv. it's a little bit better.

on a side note, anyone already looking forward to replaying this the second time as either an unruly asshole or a "neutral" dependsonthesituation type of character?

also: lol at the fallout boy lincoln repeater image. if this doesn't exemplify the quality of thought they put into the game then I don't know what does.

Quote :

" I keep all my extra armor, weapons, and food in one locker, and all my custom weapon ingredients in the other locker."

don't get me wrong, I admire this, but I simply don't have enough crede hours to do this. I make swift drop/use/keep decisions all the time



[Edited on November 8, 2008 at 7:49 PM. Reason : .]

11/8/2008 7:31:56 PM

Not that I keep everything, things I don't use stay on the ground. But right now I have a low strength character, and I don't have all the schematics for what I'm eventually going to build, so I need a place to put stuff.

11/8/2008 8:10:23 PM

i just made the rock-it launcher

i am pretty disappointed because its not doing much damage and i have to carry around junk as ammo and that weighs me down pretty bad

my chinese assault rifle is where its at

11/8/2008 8:53:15 PM

I think the Rock It Launcher is more of a gimmick than an actual useful weapon

The Rail Gun, on the other hand, is certified bad ass

11/8/2008 9:03:05 PM

Rock It Launcher sucks.

The rest of the custom weapons are great though

Shishkebab: Awesome melee
Deathclak Gauntlet: Awesome unarmed
Railway Rifle: Really good small guns
Bottlecap Mine and Nuka Grenade: Awesome explosives
Dart Gun: Awesome for everyone when fighting melee enemies

There are no custom energy weapons

11/8/2008 9:08:39 PM

Just went through a location with a bunch of syringes laying around, and I wished for a TF2-esque custom weapon: syringe gun.

I just totally fucked up the slaver compound at Paradise Falls. I don't think I missed a headshot, lol.

11/8/2008 9:24:13 PM

is the rail gun similar to the Quake III rail gun

11/8/2008 11:46:12 PM

So has anyone had random encounters while fast traveling like the old fallouts did?

11/8/2008 11:56:58 PM

^^ actually it's more like the nail gun.

It's not a magnetically propelled weapon like "railguns" or gauss weapons.

It's a steam powered weapon that shoots railroad spikes.

11/9/2008 12:14:39 AM

Quote :

"is the rail gun similar to the Quake III rail gun"

Haha no, it's a steam-punkesque weapon that shoots railroad spikes.

11/9/2008 12:14:41 AM

11/9/2008 12:17:20 AM

It's like the spike gun from FEAR and you can stick people to walls and stuff, though I have yet to do that.

11/9/2008 12:21:18 AM

Quote :

"also: lol at the fallout boy lincoln repeater image. if this doesn't exemplify the quality of thought they put into the game then I don't know what does."

i know, right? i just noticed it today when i was assigning my hotkeys for a new weapons loadout...laughed pretty hard at that one

11/9/2008 2:08:34 AM

ha ha, when i plugged myself into the matrix (tranquility lane) i actually said aloud "holy shit this is creepy" due to the stark contrast of the worlds. i think i started off my conversation incorrectly with the couple that you have to split up. i felt bad for making the kid cry and didn't want to ruin a marriage too. but now i just keep having the same conversation over and over with them and they just tell me its none of my business, i'm just a kid etc etc. they are really starting to piss me off.

11/9/2008 10:29:51 AM

i pissed off Amata by killing her dad and she wouldn't talk to me

so i gtfo of the vault

11/9/2008 10:36:44 AM

that part is fun heh. need we repost the pic from earlier.



[Edited on November 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM. Reason : ^ same. what a crybaby bitch]

11/9/2008 10:43:10 AM

i couldnt help but laugh on the inside when i thought of "chuck amata"

11/9/2008 11:12:59 AM

beat it last night, the ghoul merc you can pick up is a big help with tesla armor and a plasma rifle...

i'm a little disappointed with the ending but i just reloaded a save and continued the killing so i quickly forgot about it.

11/9/2008 11:17:16 AM

yeah, it snuck up on me. i was laughing when i chose the "bad" path and then it just ended. i was like...oh gay.

only merc i had whole game was my slave bitch. i went on a mission shortly after that made me lose her so i lost half my (less awesome) weapons and ran out of ammo as a result.

used to keep 10mm and assault rifle around just in case, but usually keep 44 cal, sniper, hunting rifle, and combat shotgun on quick buttons.

11/9/2008 11:20:25 AM

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"only merc i had whole game was my slave bitch. i went on a mission shortly after that made me lose her so i lost half my (less awesome) weapons and ran out of ammo as a result."

*SPOILERS*

If you're talking about Raven Rock, the followers usually go back to where you first got them I think.

Because I lost Star Paladin Cross after that, figured they killed her when I was captured. So I took Fawkes along with me (who kicks a tremendous amount of ass) and did some more exploring before I went back for the final mission.

When I was ready to go, I went to the Citadel, lo and behold, Cross was just walking around, in my Tesla armor and with my android plasma rifle strapped to her back. I was like "I thought you were dead" and she was like "LOL nah, I just took your stuff and ran" (this convo didn't actually happen, but I imagine it would have went something like that).

11/9/2008 11:31:55 AM

ill have to check that out. i didnt put much stock in her, but its nice when u do all but like 2 nubs of dmg and they finish off the mob before you are even out of vats.

11/9/2008 11:35:18 AM

^^ yeah even jericho goes back to megaton ruins after he left my group

11/9/2008 11:44:10 AM

ah yep here she is back at slaver camp. makes deathclaws a lot easier.

11/9/2008 3:09:37 PM

I want to rename my character Benjamin Jefferson



"How could we allow these ruffians to gain a foothold in our glorious capitol?

After all, All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."

11/9/2008 3:22:47 PM

i'm good and i want the paladin or the super mutant

how do you get in the citadel or vault 87? everytime i get close to what i think is vault 87 the radiation kills me

11/9/2008 3:46:37 PM

You have to progress in the main quest to get in the citadel.

After that it tells you how to get into 87

[Edited on November 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM. Reason : ]

11/9/2008 3:54:06 PM

Just beat it in a little under 30 hours at level 18. I finally found a use for the 100+ missiles I was carrying around, hehe. The ending combat was fun, I choose the good ending. I probably won't play it for a while, though I do have a save right before the end if I want to explore around more.

11/9/2008 5:54:30 PM

i did it in 16 hours at lvl 15 doing some but not insane amounts of side missions. still a good length. running around killing ppl and trying to get lvl 20 before restarting.

11/9/2008 6:01:45 PM

Mine was 40 hours at level 20, and I still didn't do all the side missions.

11/9/2008 6:19:08 PM

christ, I'm at 65 hours and nowhere close to beating it. I must have left it on all night or something

11/9/2008 6:32:39 PM

For you people at level 20, what did you pick as your last perk? Does revealing the map mean you can fast travel any/everywhere, or you know where stuff is but haven't found it yet?

11/9/2008 6:41:53 PM

I think it means you can fast travel anywhere.

I picked Reaper Spirit. That's just so freaking powerful. Devote all your shots to taking out a single target, and if you can kill it you get all your action points back.

11/9/2008 6:45:40 PM

why pick the explorer perk when you can just walk and find everything

i'll probably pick the one that recharges AP after every V.A.T.S. attempt

11/9/2008 6:47:26 PM

In hind sight, I would say I would not raise any skill above 90, just because there is is some outfit that can boost any of them and you will find quite a few books to read; the only exception is Repair, and if I restarted right now, I get my Repair Skill to 100 in the first 4-5 Levels, becasue if makes your weapons stronger faster, and can help with the Weight. Personally I pick mainly Perks that make you have a greater Damage resistance or make my weapons stronger like Cyborg, Command, Toughness, Action Boy, Better Critical, Mysterious Stranger, Grim Reaper's Spirit, Finesse, Nerd rage, and Bloody Mess.

11/9/2008 6:59:34 PM

we need to split up once we've all finished and discuss/assign new roles our 2nd go round.

that way we can tell tales.

anyone?

11/9/2008 7:01:59 PM

I already got a special package thought up for my second playthough, its gonna be badass.

11/9/2008 7:05:08 PM

share plz, I'm going to keep a running tally. come up with an appropriate title, a la "legally retarded strong guy"

11/9/2008 7:08:39 PM

my next play through will be totally evil badass chick who uses energy weapons and melee with high sneak so i can steal everybody's shit

11/9/2008 7:57:22 PM

played evil sniper w/mr. sandman and cannibal heh. fun doing whatever i feel.

next gonna play, smart techno druggy (with a heart of gold). gonna keep and use drugs a lot in place of having higher agilty and focus on intelligence. going energy weapons, hacking, and speach. plan on trying to talk my way out of shit most of the time and convince ppl to do the right thing.

last playthrough will be a hulking brute woman who is too stupid to be good or evil. melee weapons and big guns heavy on str, con, agi.

11/9/2008 11:27:06 PM

i feel bad for those of you who have powered through the game without exploring. there's way too much cool shit out there to finish at level 15

for example, as i was exploring the northern part of the map today near old olney, i stumbled across a radio signal...following it so it got stronger, i started getting some rad exposure...then i stumbled across the source...an alien spaceship crashed with the alien dead next to it. also next to it was an alien pistol and about 120 rounds of unique ammo

after a little testing, this has to be the most powerful gun in the game - i've one shotted a lot of thing with it, but am going to save it as the ammo hasn't been anywhere else i've been

11/9/2008 11:33:13 PM

shrug i was lvl 15 when i finished. play through the towns, stop and do 2-3 side quests each. now i am going back and exploring while i level up. explored quite a bit fo the map now hitting quests i heard about or just exploring.

not like you HAVE to do it before finishing the game.

11/9/2008 11:34:35 PM

Did anyone else notice you can't kill the kids? Like in megaton?

11/9/2008 11:37:09 PM

^^^ in the citadel on an old pentagon computer, there's a report (among a couple of other military 'secrets') about a UFO that crashed but could never be found. guess you found it.

also, i love the random experiments they were doing on the people in the vaults. funny stuff.

11/9/2008 11:56:03 PM

Seen it played, looks like a far superior version of Oblivion... the people actually have something resembling personalities!

Waiting on the PC download now... hopefully my comp will run it for >5 minutes without shutting off (it's not overheating... long story. Might only do it for certain games, but it also might be a hardware issue).

11/10/2008 12:21:20 AM

Yeah, the voice acting is definitely superior.

11/10/2008 12:34:05 AM

^Well, yeah, but more noticeably, Bethseda's dialog writers have finally learned how real people speak. The voice acting in Oblivion was still above-average.

11/10/2008 12:36:21 AM

So I was wandering through the wasteland today and found a crashed alien ship

11/10/2008 12:50:46 AM