Anything Goes - A Fallout 3 AAR

[Ulyaoth]

Yeah, he's entirely useless. I mean what do you get for disarming the bomb? 20 caps?

 

[steviejay]

don't you get like a bundle of experience as well?

Not to mention the nice warm fuzzy feeling of helping out the needy

 

[GenMarshall]

Yeah, he's entirely useless. I mean what do you get for disarming the bomb? 20 caps?

Dont forget your very own Megaton House. Useful for storing weapons and apparel. You don't get any caps if you disarm the bomb without asking Simms, just a lot of Karma (and the Megaton House).

Usualy, if I have a high enough repair skills or barely enough but use the Vault 101 Utility Jumpsuit (+5 Repair, +5 Lockpick) to get that repair bonus. Offer the man in the Water filtration plant help fixing the leaks. He pays 200 caps.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Oh yeah, forgot about the house, but you get that with or without him. As a character he's useless.

 

[Maniacal]

By that kind of logic, 95% of the characters in the game are useless.

 

[Ulyaoth]

They are.

 

[Maniacal]

Wouldn't the game world feel empty and fake without anyone to add flavour? It would be like going into an open mall but the ONLY person in there was a single cashier in the one store you're buying something.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Yeah they're cool to talk to once, but they're so static it annoys me to no end. I want them to react when I save their god damned lives.

 

[Captain2]

Spoiler :

Shortly After the events at the Saloon I went back to craterside supply and sold some of my junk so I could persue some of my interests for the time being.

I'm nut so shure buht, after thaat thins kinna went downheel

Oi, Dis isn't gud. I deshide ta go out ta cleer ma head wit a walk

Recently?

I shtop in ta meat Mira, Hopfully she 'as some cure

Dat schmell is yer face! ahaha! shee? I'm shtill witty.

Oh yah, I cud totally do that. I go outshide and jump off the walkway ta help the leg breakin procees

AHHHHHHHHH! Bloody Hell!

Man, that is certainly stronger than a cup of black coffee. I hobble my broken self back up to meet Moria.

Getting the answers she requires to finish her book, I get my next set of marching orders. I'm to plant a transmitter of some kind in a mirelurk base.

 

[Ulyaoth]

You can get addicted to alcohol? I've drunk tons of scotch and beers in game and never got addicted, I get addicted to mentats after like 2 though.

 

[Maniacal]

Yeah the addiction thing is rather broken, and is is the "wearing off" effect.. you can get addicted to something after having it once, and I don't see how mentats are addicting.

 

[Thrawn]

This AAR is so much more interesting than when I tried to play fallout 3. Think I stopped a bit further after this, I remember I disarmed the bomb though.

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

I would always blow up megaton, you get your own posh suite.

 

[GenMarshall]

Oh no, Capt has partied to much and became a drunk! .

So I heard you're going to the Memorial to plant a device in some giant enemy crab's nest. After getting all of the DLC and helping the Outcasts. I go in the memorial with the Chinese Stealth Armor, don't wanna kill em since I am going for the optional objective and the Survival Guru.

 

[Captain2]

Spoiler :

On my way to plant the device in the Mirelurk nest I suddenly notice something running at me, its shape is that of a very small human, maybe even a dwarf

Nah its most likely a human. Thankfully I've listened to Three Dog's (The Resident DJ) warnings of these wasteland people.

I fire a warning shot over his head in hopes of scaring him off.

With an obvious wild, beastial quality I decide that this must end and fire a round into his gut.

My shots failing to down this feral beast I jump off the broken remains of the bridge, twisting my ankle upon landing. Luckily I was still able to summon my strength to run.

A look back behind me confirmed my deepest fear that I was indeed facing a determined foe.

I found an area with an old woman sitting down and having some lunch and she introduced herself but to me it was a blur as I ran past, I felt horribly about leaving her alone with the demon chasing me. However I could no longer entertain such heroic fantasies and had I sacrificed my life for hers, there was no way of knowing she could get away in time.

It turns out that he wasn't just after any victim and that for some reason he had singled me out.

I found myself cornered between a mindfield and a fiend with a single minded obsession with destroying me

I made the obvious decision, sadly crippling my legs as the mines exploded beneath me

I could no longer run, I could no longer bare the weight of this new world about to come crashing down upon a humble vault dweller. I steeled my nerves and waited for my fate to befall me.

Wait.... what?

Three Dog is a worse fear monger than Glenn Beck.....

 

[GenMarshall]

Oh my, you found a kid from the city filled with Giant Pyro Ants (I call em that ). Or the kid found you. But hey, look on the bright side, when you complete the THOES! quest, ya get a choice of Ant Sight or Ant Might.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Captain2 you make Fallout3 seem like it doesnt suck.

 

[Metromonkey]

Why does Fallout 3 suck? I've really enjoyed playing, but each to their own I guess.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

There was a long thread discussing that. (i think the "reviews" start about half way through the thread)
But yea, like you said, to each his own.

 

[Captain2]

Spoiler :

Looking at my map I discover that I'm already closer to the Mirelurk nest than...wherever it is that the invincible kid wanted me to go, so naturally I'll finish my first job before heading out to help him.

In fact the entrance is just across the bridge, so I head inside and begin looking for a clump of eggs to stick my listening device in

Things go rather well on the way in, sneaking past the one Mirelurk that I notice and then jump off the catwalk onto a pile of eggs. I figure they're probably still good and stick the listening device in the yolk running across the floor. Of course things don't go quite so well and the extraction is... shall I say, painful.

I'll just sum up the experience as "Things were pinched that should never have been treated in such a way"

I walk out into the sunlight and run like hell away from the memorial in case those things decide to keep chasing me, eventually I find myself looking over Greyditch.

Its lucky things are so close to each other, otherwise I'd need a horse or a car

I hear a person talking to himself inside this thing and I prepare to open it

However I quickly find myself destracted by my sudden lack of eyebrows, I take my Aka-47 off my shoulder and wait for the flames to clear. I must count myself as lucky since the flames barely missed me, had my foe used the flare gun I'd be quite enflamed.

Fire ant?

I see what you did there

I blow the things head off in a way that to me just reeks of skill and then open up the tube to get some idea of the situation

The kid tells me to go to his house and save his dad from those things, as someone who can relate to a missing parental figure I take up the task with much gusto.

Well I can always hope that my own quest goes much smoother....

I go back and inform the kid of his loss, he takes it very well, almost too well... but I'll come back to my crazy theories when I'm no longer being accosted by the skittering menace.

Really, I hate these things not so much because they're a walking flame thrower but largely because of the sound they make.

Skitter skitter skitter skitter, skitter skitter skitter. It sounds like someone rubbing a stalk of celery on a piece of sandpaper.

I decide to give my ears a break and begin looting the place for ammo, since the least they can do after bringing me here is to supply me with enough ammo to take care of the problem.

Of course this place doesn't look too much like an ammo depot, I decide to do a quick sweep of the place and then leave.

I decide to show this poor fellow the cost of leaving his password laying around by logging onto his computer and changing his facebook status to "Is way too interested in ants lulz" but before I can do this vile act I notice a few files on his computer.

Finally I come across something that gives me an idea of how to stop those, As I'm about to log off a final file catches my eye

Wow, this guy sucks at writing