i played the first part - love it so far. it's not oblivion with guns dammit.

10/28/2008 4:09:36 PM

taking the blue line to division
RUNNING up the stairs
taking the ashland bus to diversey
RUNNING to the gamestop
RUNNING home

10/28/2008 4:11:44 PM

haha I know. It's just the same company, similar engine but no annoying trees!

10/28/2008 4:13:25 PM

Has anyone played it on anything similar to this:

cpu: e7200
gpu: 8800gt 512
ram: 2 gigs

Should I go with PC, or just not bother and get the Xbox version?

10/28/2008 8:03:42 PM

I would go PC if I were you.

For the mods.

10/28/2008 8:14:51 PM

so its oblivion with guns?

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10/28/2008 10:41:35 PM

^ I really don't get that feeling as much as I thought I would.

It is a little weird to press Back and see the Oblivion rest menu.
I suppose you could argue the conversation system is similar, but only on a very basic level. (The dialogue choices are hilarious.)

The gameplay itself feels nothing like oblivion, i.e. managing health, rads, AP, using VATS.

10/28/2008 11:28:57 PM

I just got to the end of the vault right before I bust out into the real world

Trying to decide whether to change any of my stats before I do

10/28/2008 11:38:23 PM

agility == ++ APs == FUN!

this game rocks so far

10/28/2008 11:50:01 PM

so its elder scrolls 5 basically and you happen to have guns?

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10/28/2008 11:53:11 PM

so Walls are you saying you think this game is like Oblivion with guns?

I'm not sure I understood you

10/28/2008 11:58:59 PM

I never knew how awesome that going apeshit with a police baton on a radroach could be in slo-mo. godamn my work for sending me on a trip the next few days.

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 12:08 AM. Reason : be prepared for A LOT more talking/dialogue/overhearing than FO1 or 2]

10/29/2008 12:06:42 AM

oblivion was elder scrolls 4. I'm saying its not oblivion exactly but an updated version of it as it was an updated version of morrowind.

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10/29/2008 12:11:34 AM

um watchout for the explosives as you cross the potamac

10/29/2008 12:46:17 AM

I love the race choice "African American" even though, you know, America doesn't exist. I loled a bit putting such a lame PC thing in there.

Game runs great on my laptop, even better than Oblivion I think.

10/29/2008 12:48:25 AM

Recognized a few voices:

Narrator - Ron Perlman
Father - Liam Neeson

and according to imdb:
President of the US - Malcolm McDowell

10/29/2008 1:10:56 AM

just got to three dog.

just give me my goddamn g.e.c.k... would you people??

10/29/2008 1:45:33 AM

Ron Pearlman has been doing the main voiceover since Fallout 1

War

War never changes

10/29/2008 1:47:58 AM

^yes(duh)

10/29/2008 1:56:06 AM

god I want this now, but all I have is a Vaio laptop with a 1.80ghz intel core 2 duo, and I don't even know what kind of video card, I assume I can't really run it. I'm planning on building a PC between now spring though.

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 3:32 AM. Reason : hfjds]

10/29/2008 3:31:56 AM

I ended last night at 2 am inside of the museum of science and industry. I had like 3 shots left of my hunting rifle. I basically had to sneak through the whole subway system eating rabid dog meat in order to stay alive. I was too tired to really appreciate the vault tour in the museum... I think I'm going to teleport back to a town and rejuvenate then go back.

this game is fucking awesome...

10/29/2008 9:58:54 AM

For all you fools struggling with your stat choices, this is a great list of all the stats and perks with tips on the best way to build certain types of characters

http://www.wikicheats.com/index.php/Fallout_3_-_PC_PS3_XB360/Character_Building

10/29/2008 10:04:03 AM

Reading through the perks and character attributes has gotten me even more pumped about this game, I'm gonna go buy it at lunch. What types of characters have you guys started?

10/29/2008 11:00:47 AM

Mine is pretty balanced

Small Guns, Speech and Repair are my tagged skills

I went with low strength and charisma, high intelligence and agility, and average perception, endurance and luck

I plan to be an asshole for the most part


Also, since there are hidden bobbleheads that gives you a permanent 1 point bonus to each SPECIAL stat, you shouldnt make any of them higher than a 9 initially

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM. Reason : x]

10/29/2008 11:14:32 AM

I am doing the first go round as a good guy with small guns/speech/big guns and your typical strong/agile/intelligent character

I plan to slap the shit out of gob the second time around

10/29/2008 11:37:46 AM

i played for 2 hours last nite - i've never played a game like this and it is a little overwhelming

just getting into megaton and talking to all the people is making my head spin by all the possibilities

i'm going to be eating a lot of radiated meat i suppose

i think i went with charisma, intelligence, and luck

and then speech, science, and small guns

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 11:45 AM. Reason : .]

10/29/2008 11:41:20 AM

I fell right back into the groove and to me the only learning curve was VATS and getting used to bethdesda's games.. It took me a while to take in fallout though when playing the first two games. it's not too bad, just stick to the major quests for now

10/29/2008 11:46:58 AM

I think I went Strength, Science, and ummm Intelligence... I think...

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 12:06 PM. Reason : /]

10/29/2008 12:05:50 PM

i mean shit i didn't even know you could take points from the other S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats and put them into the others

10/29/2008 12:12:13 PM

One thing I love about this game is that you really feel like a scavenger in a desolate world. Also, the random encounters are incredible, and the dialogs of the characters are much more detailed and believable than in Oblivion. BTW, I did not blow up Megaton. I got booze and poon right outside my house, a shop to cop stuff from, and a personal robot in my crib that tell jokes. Ha!

10/29/2008 12:18:11 PM

Is this out on PS3 yet?

I liked Oblivion a lot, and generally hate turn based games fighting, how has the combat system worked out so far?

10/29/2008 12:36:11 PM

Its combat system is pretty good actually, but the FPS real-time combat is not all that, its somewhat clunky. One thing that I just found out by watching the video review on GameSpot is that once you finish the main quest the game is OVER, and you can't continue exploring or doing other shit... WTF? I was thinking I could just go ahead and do the Main quests just to get that out of the way then just doing whatever when I finish that...

10/29/2008 12:42:12 PM

I ended up playing until 4am last night... its really awesome so far. I'm a bit irked by the FPS feel, but I do like how the VATS was layered on top of it.

As for what I'm running it on:

CPU: Q6600
GPU: 8800GT 512MB
RAM: 2GB

Looks beautiful, and that's just at "high". Haven't tried cranking the graphics to the max yet.

10/29/2008 1:31:05 PM

Oh, and I'm still working out of Megaton right now. Set up some roots and am doing a bit of questing from there, running errands, hunting ants, and providing "research" support.

10/29/2008 1:32:26 PM

Quote :

"GameSpot is that once you finish the main quest the game is OVER, and you can't continue exploring or doing other shit... WTF?"

I thought I read that it dumps you out to the screen, but you can still load up that character and continue exploring

or did that mean load up and don't complete your final quest and come back later?

10/29/2008 1:35:58 PM

Vista x64
Q6600
8800GT 512mb (OC'd by EVGA?)
4gb RAM


i play it at 1440x 16:10 and it feels awesome. no lags. i had it set the Q settings for me, then bumped up the Res to that from 960x.


the melee does sorta feel like Oblivion, but everything else seems different.


In the first school area, with the area underneath with the ants - is there anything to accomplish there? i killed everything on both floors and underneath and felt like i deserved an award or something

10/29/2008 1:36:55 PM

im going to fix that bomb once I get back and pop in some mentats...

I never really put stock into the science/repair/doctor skills in the earlier fo games but they seem much more useful now.

Quote :

"In the first school area, with the area underneath with the ants - is there anything to accomplish there? i killed everything on both floors and underneath and felt like i deserved an award or something "

just a raider hideout, I think. there is a girl living near there that you might need to go seek out though


*where the fuck is ian? I hate searching for npcs
*I don't know if any of you are doing this quest, but going through the underground subway in DC is seriously awesome (make sure you are prepared though)



[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 1:45 PM. Reason : .]

10/29/2008 1:38:24 PM

Quote :

"there is a girl living near there that you might need to go seek out though"

the druggie hooker?

10/29/2008 2:22:26 PM

yes

I let her off with a warning. she also wouldn't let me fuck her

10/29/2008 2:23:20 PM

yeah i didn't get any pussy either. i told her i'd let that other dude know she peaced out.

10/29/2008 2:30:49 PM

whats vats and what does it stand for? i assume its that thing where he stops time and can look at like everything about every person/object.

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10/29/2008 3:53:14 PM

V.A.T.S. Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System

Zooms in near by enemies (probably civilians too) and displays your % chance of hitting whatever body part of the target zoomed, and how much potential damage that you can do to that part selected. You can string together shots on different targets as well.

Basically, its a very sophisticated version of turn-based shooting.

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM. Reason : /]

10/29/2008 3:59:15 PM

Quote :

"*I don't know if any of you are doing this quest, but going through the underground subway in DC is seriously awesome (make sure you are prepared though)"

Went underground for a bug hunt; I had a blast but got in trouble when I ran out of ammunition. (Melee bad against flamethrowers...)

10/29/2008 6:22:17 PM

Just started playing. This is going to consume a lot of my time. So much stuff to do.

10/29/2008 7:47:18 PM

just picked it up...can't wait to play...after making jello shots though!

10/29/2008 8:17:10 PM

Quote :

"Went underground for a bug hunt; I had a blast but got in trouble when I ran out of ammunition. (Melee bad against flamethrowers...)"

yeah, I'm essentially at the end of the metro line trying to finish the quest since there's no way I can/want to haul ass back to a place where I can teleport back to a safe location.

sucks cause I only have around 15% hp (after eating everything I've found) and scant ammo

hopefully this is over soon!

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 8:41 PM. Reason : /]

10/29/2008 8:39:15 PM

Quote :

"Just started playing. This is going to consume a lot of my time. So much stuff to do."

i did come across a bug and had to reload to see a conversation between two NPCs because i tried to talk to one during their conversation

very crappy

otherwise this game is awesome

10/29/2008 10:02:32 PM

Anyone figure out if you can read the burned/scorched books you find all over the school or other places? Basically like you could in FO1 or 2? I'm wondering how the hell I can better some of these skills like repair or science without having to dump points toward them every time I level.

10/29/2008 10:41:45 PM

just now starting! wooo

10/29/2008 10:49:18 PM

^^ Maybe you have to 'repair' them somehow.

10/29/2008 11:18:27 PM