Anyone else have this yet? I got it tonight and played for a little while. Haven't gotten much past the intro, but it's looking pretty good so far.

After I get my christmas bonus perhaps. Because there's no multiplayer (i think) it can wait. This month's moneys went on Gears 2.

How bad *** is gears 2?

Gears 2 is SO BAD*** that it hasn't been released yet. I'll tell you all about it after it lands circa November 7th. I pre-ordered the special edition so I can have a gold gun online - I'll continually use it to tease my boss (we play once a week) that it does slightly more damage and that I unlocked it in the game. I reckon it'll take him weeks to figure out my delicate ruse!

MWUHAHAAAAAHHAHAHAAA

Do you need to play Fallout 1 and 2 to play 3? I started Fallout a while ago but I'm nowhere near done.

I hear not. Silly economic downturn not allowing me to have all the games I want. Humph

Nope. Fallout 3 takes place in Washington D.C. and the area immediately around it, whereas the first two games were over on the West coast, so the most I believe people can expect to relate the new game with the old will be the occasional reference to the series (although I'm told one character* is supposed to have made the trip cross-country, but I'm not sure how true that's supposed to be). There may be a couple of things mentioned about the first two games that need explaining (like dipping), but I'd imagine Bethesda would explain that in game. Fallout 2 did come out 10 years ago, after all.

Also, damn you all. FO3 doesn't come out here until Friday I'm anxiously waiting (and hoping) for Play.com to send me a shipping confirmation email so that my pre-order copy arrives on the day. I'm thinking the odds are good on that, since it worked out that way for PES 2009 a few weeks ago. I can't wait to play it, it looks awesome.


* Harold

I haven't played either, and I don't feel like I've missed any crucial background.

Going to play through the intro again after classes now that I've got the hang of it, and then I'll get into the game proper.

Squeee!

Just got it, at school can't play.

I'll probably hold of for a while, being a poor student.

There's still a nagging feeling that it's going to be like I expected, though, and that's bad.

Played for about an hour and a half today. So far, so good.

just like fable 2 i'm waiting for the PC version. wait its already out for PC? ****!

This game is pretty wicked.

You can totally shoot people's limbs off when you score crits.

My guys tags were small weapons, melee, and sneaking so like my surprise crits are all instant kills at the moment.


The game is pretty cool, but it definitely reminds me Oblivion. Like picking up one item from a table disturbs the rest of the things on the table.

No pop-up yet, haven't got very far out of the Vault. I totally killed that ***** *** Overseer though.

I went straight to this elementary school and started regulating on raiders with my baseball bat and a combat knife. I used my pistol on their leader, and I actually managed to crit him in the face which made his head explode.

I want to get it for the PS3, but I have read about a bunch of bugs and glitches on that version. Getting it for the PC is not an option considering how my laptop underwent cardiac arrest from playing the Half Life episodes.

It's official, I'm getting this game.

The only thing I want to know about the game is whether or not it's more stable than Oblivion.

I'm having a lot of trouble conserving ammunition. Maybe I just need to buy more of it before I start wandering around the Wasteland.

Hmm... I really haven't had too much of a problem with ammunition. I use melee attacks against most wild animals (except the stupid crab-like creatures), and if you use the V.A.T.S. system correctly you shouldn't go through a ton of ammo. Plus I've found a lot of ammo from searching around in the places I've gone.

Just played for almost 4 hours straight... I finally forced myself to stop since I have work tomorrow. =\

You're getting a game on account of a head blowing up? Thats not exactly novelty, fella.

Still Fallout 3 seems to be a helluva game.

Headshots have been done before, but VATS' bullet time gore is pretty damn gratifying. I've had so many animals' heads explode just as they were jumping at me. It's so dramatic!

Anyone else with the 360 version have their game freezing a lot? Three times in an hour is enough to make me quit.

I have the 360 version and I haven't had any freezing problems. I haven't even really noticed any drastic framerate drops.

Wait until their aiming arm is facing you, vats them to wreck their accuracy, then move in with a knife or a sword. You'll usually hack their arm off and kill them, unless you can crit them somewhere else then they lose a different limb, or multiple limbs. Depends on how awesome your melee skill is.

I just blew up megaton . Let's see where this leads.

I think it leads to not getting the sweet as sword the vampire guys have.

I was going to do a bunch of stuff in there then blow it the **** up.

I'm getting better. The Commando perk is making a world of difference in VATS. I love my hunting rifle.

Getting this game tomorrow, can't wait to sink my teeth into it

Yet another game I'll play when I go home for Christmas.

Hmm... still ****ing loving it, but I just had a problem where I loaded it up and my Pipboy was extremely bright. Everything else looked normal, but it was so bright I couldn't even read it. I restarted the game and everything seems to be fine now.

Installing now

I have 2 weeks before wrath of the lick king comes out. I had a promotion. I have a little extra cash flow. Is Fallout 3 worthwhile?

Better question, since this is flat out what made Oblivion unbareable to me :

How is the distance/terrain/building popups? Oblivion was pretty ****ty, with nature rearranging itself before your eyes every 20 yards, and buildings popping up within 50 feet.

Does this still happen in Fallout 3?

I haven't had any problems like that on the 360 version, though I can't say about the PC.

I haven't experienced that with Fallout 3. The only time I've noticed building popups was when looking across a river with a sniper rifle.

Is it worthwhile to get this game on PC? Are there modding tools that come with it like there were for Oblivion?

I don't think the modding tools are out yet, but I still think it's worthwhile. It's definitely better than Oblivion.

I'm pretty certain I'll get it. I'm just trying to decide whether to get it for my subpar PC for modding or get it for my xbox for hdtv+comfort

Just picked it up today, played it for 3 hours or so, just wandering around. Ammo is kind of hard to come by, although this may be remedied by more questing, finding more towns, etc. I accidently stumbled across a Super Mutant with only an assault rifle with 20 shots, a baseball bat and no health packs, what followed can only be described as the most epic battle ever.

In other words, you ran?

Yeah, I got blasted by a super mutant by accident, it kind of sucked. Right now I'm in another vault, it's kind of creepy. Insane Vault Survivors are so ****ing weak though, I can knife them in the face and crit kill them.

Oh, I also found out you can de-limb people after you kill them.

Spoilers ahead, maybe, I don't know. I'm not too far in.

This game is amazingly dark. I went into Fallout coming out of Fable thinking "Oh, I'll be evil, the game's always more fun when you're evil", but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I mean, the first decision you're given coming out of the vault is whether or not to nuke a f***ing town. Your actions really feel like they have weight, and it gives you all the options and abilities to act the way that you feel right. I went to the Lincoln Memorial, and there were some slavers there, and the dialogue options didn't quite give me the option to tell them off, so I just started shooting. I killed all the slavers, and it skipped ahead in the mission where I should have been, and granted me Karma just for doing what I thought was right. The game compensated for my own choices, and didn't leave me up the creek without a paddle like Oblivion would.

I felt like I was doing some really good work setting up the radio station, or helping Lia's brother getting away from The Family. I found myself feeling pretty depressed after a long play session, everyone just feels so beaten down and depressed, I feel like it's my duty to help these people, it transcends the game any really gets to me.

Combat was a bit lame at first, but it's starting to become really satisfying (Every shot is no longer a 30% miss rate from 10 feet away >_>), and Bloody Mess is as awesome as always. VATS is just great, and every fight feels more fun than the one before it. I loved the first fight with the Super Mutant Behemoth, and falling into a Brotherhood of Steel battle with Mutants before it. Random battles between BoS / Enclave / Mutants that are taking place regardless of you being there, random hunting parties, bounty hunters and traders, it all just makes it feel like a real living world.

The main quest and more scripted events are great, but they aren't much better from little cool things that happen on the journey there, which for me, is really the mark of a great game.