All of those are excellent games, well worth the money. F3 like you say falls short, and doesn't have the replay value.
Maybe he's just trying to prop up the economy? If he spends all his time on one game the industry will collapse!
Fallout 3
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All of those are excellent games, well worth the money. F3 like you say falls short, and doesn't have the replay value.
Maybe he's just trying to prop up the economy? If he spends all his time on one game the industry will collapse!
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
As much as grtting more time out of something is good, it's how much I enjoyed that time that really matters. Portal only took me 3 hours to play, but was worth every penny and is fun to replay. If you pay $20 or less then I figure even only 10 hours is a good value. Provided you enjoyed those 10 hours. Although yeah if I am paying $50-60 for a game then I want it to have at least 50 hours. Including a replay if nesecary. So I guess a dollar an hour. More is always better though 
Call of Duty United Offensive Multiplayer - 474 hours
Team Fortress 2 2 hours 327 hours
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 149 hours
Medieval II Total War - 117 hours
Mount & Blade 2 hours 101 hours
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer - 78 hours
Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms - 76 hours
Mount&Blade should be a few times higher than it is, I either didn't have X-Fire and then it wasn't added to X-Fire by the x-fire team until last year sometime. You know, those hours feel a LOT longer than they have been.
Although this makes me realise how few games I pay full price for
Call of Duty United Offensive Multiplayer - 474 hours
Team Fortress 2 2 hours 327 hours
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 149 hours
Medieval II Total War - 117 hours
Mount & Blade 2 hours 101 hours
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer - 78 hours
Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms - 76 hours
Mount&Blade should be a few times higher than it is, I either didn't have X-Fire and then it wasn't added to X-Fire by the x-fire team until last year sometime. You know, those hours feel a LOT longer than they have been.
Although this makes me realise how few games I pay full price for
The thing is, a great game shouldn't really have a "length"... "This game lasts 30 hours!". It's not a movie, or a book, it's a game! You buy a game because it's supposed to be fun to use it again and again.
In the golden age of board games, how many would have sold if, I dunno, after using your Monopoly board, the board itself would be ruined, or you're playing Clue, but there's only one possible outcome to the game. Or the "Guess Who" game, if you always had to guess the same person. Jeez.
Maybe we're just forgetting what a game is, compared to a movie.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
I think that it's just easier to create a linear experiance and control every aspect than create a million and one ways for the story to happen.
salty mud
Deity
I seem to have encountered the bug where I can not entre my suite in Tenpenny Tower, as the game crashes when I try to enter the lift taking me there. Is there a way to fix this? It's happened quite a few times now.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
I installed the Broken Steel DLC so I could continue my save game, loaded up one of my saves which was after I entered the Jefferson memorial, after a couple of minutes a box pops up telling me the DLC is loaded. I go in do everything, wake up two weeks later, and am stuck. I can't do anything. Fawkes stands there doing nothing waiting for someones work, the robot keeps making the fiery hovering noises and saying random stuff, the door opens and closes every now and then too, and all i can do is breathe/cough badly when pressing E. I waited 5 minutes once and still nothing happened! WTH?
I am using the fakepatch and unofficial patch, that might be the problem, but I've read a few comments saying it should be compatible >.>
This is bloody ANNOYING AS HELL.
I am using the fakepatch and unofficial patch, that might be the problem, but I've read a few comments saying it should be compatible >.>
This is bloody ANNOYING AS HELL.
Snerk
Smeghead
Fallout 3 DLC's to PS3, whoo! Might have to pick this up again once they're out. Although the game never truly hooked me like say Oblivion did. Not sure why not.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
I feel sorry for you having it on a console, there is going to be 5 DLC packs, and all of them are $9.99 each, so if you buy them each individualy it's as much as you paid for the whole game! With less content.
Althoguh I think the first 4 will be put into a pack and the last one will be on it's own. I think if you are foolish enoguh to get Beth game's for console, wait until the GOTY edition or some later edition as it will have ALL the DLC in it.
Althoguh I think the first 4 will be put into a pack and the last one will be on it's own. I think if you are foolish enoguh to get Beth game's for console, wait until the GOTY edition or some later edition as it will have ALL the DLC in it.
Snerk
Smeghead
TBH i'll probably not buy any DLC's for this either way. I think i'm more of less done with the game.
I did consider getting the pc version of the game at first, but i landed on the console one instead because i wanted to use my 7.1 speaker set up, and it would be awkward to hook it up to the pc. Really glad i went for the console version too. It played brilliantly with a gamepad.
I did consider getting the pc version of the game at first, but i landed on the console one instead because i wanted to use my 7.1 speaker set up, and it would be awkward to hook it up to the pc. Really glad i went for the console version too. It played brilliantly with a gamepad.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Bethesda's games can be modded to hell and back, and with the console version you can't mod it at all. I play through the games once or twice with few or no mods (just some to improve stability or anything that really really bugs me, and maybe a house or two). Then for future plays I get plenty of mods which add a lot to the game.
Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
Its gotten its value for me, ive played at least two hundred and fifty hours, probably more, and am now in the RPing stage of the games lifecycle.
Snerk
Smeghead
Modding-shmodding! I went through that whole charade with oblivion. It's fun browsing through user made mods and finding and trying out cool stuff. But at the end of the day i'll most likely have just as much fun with the vanilla version as with a heavily modded one.
If you're planning to play through the game several times i can see the attraction. But i rarely play through such big game more than once.
If you're planning to play through the game several times i can see the attraction. But i rarely play through such big game more than once.
Gelion
Retired Captain
It really depends whether you are the kind of person that comes back to an RPG for replay or not. Morrowind being a huge game I've played over and over with mods and without them. Fallouts 1 and 2 I've completed around 10 times. I'd go for a computer version for the mods and replay value with them. My hopes that ES makes a proper sequel to Fallout were shattered, the only way I can correct that is with mods.
Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
I honestly thought it was better then fallout one and only slightly better then fallout 2. Fallout 2 only even survived as well becuase of the amazing writing, whereas in fallout 3 its kind of a mixed bag. I figured this when writing down how many charectors I could genuinly remember from each game.
I'm having a tough time getting into Fallout 3 because the writing is terrible -- distractingly terrible in fact.
"Howdy stranger! I've never met you or seen you before but I bet you're willing to detonate an atomic bomb and destroy an entire city? Right?!"
Why does one guy have an Irish accent? Its 250 years into the future of a holocaust. Thick accents should be gone. What is he -- an immigrant? Who immigrates from Ireland to a nuclear wasteland? Was there some kind of super duper mega potato famine? That's just stupid. And is it just me or is Three Dog the lamest attempt to create a "cool" character, dad-i-o?
I don't mean to be a snob but I never see the game's writing mentioned anywhere, and it's that mind numbingly bad. The dialogue choices are ridiculous. No one has a natural way of speaking (and I'm not talking about the voice acting). Any one else have my problem?
"Howdy stranger! I've never met you or seen you before but I bet you're willing to detonate an atomic bomb and destroy an entire city? Right?!"
Why does one guy have an Irish accent? Its 250 years into the future of a holocaust. Thick accents should be gone. What is he -- an immigrant? Who immigrates from Ireland to a nuclear wasteland? Was there some kind of super duper mega potato famine? That's just stupid. And is it just me or is Three Dog the lamest attempt to create a "cool" character, dad-i-o?
I don't mean to be a snob but I never see the game's writing mentioned anywhere, and it's that mind numbingly bad. The dialogue choices are ridiculous. No one has a natural way of speaking (and I'm not talking about the voice acting). Any one else have my problem?
Serutan
Eatibus Anythingibus
Can't say as I do. It's a computer game, after all, and dialog is not even close to being a make or break item for me, unless it is flat out incomprehensible.
Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
The writing goes back and forth for me. Sometimes it was good, most of the time it was bearable,some times it was flat out bad. Three dog annoys the hell out of me, I cant freaking stand him. Also, Sarah Lyons was absolutely horribley done, as was curnal atuamn. Eden was ok, Fauks was very well done surprisinly.
I also just gbot the Broken Steel DLC and I freaking hate the new enemies. They just have tons of health, thats not genuinly challenging, thats just difficult. The overlords are the worst, they alsways have a nice gun, and theyre dead accurate. Its gotten to the point where I just nuke them everytime I see them. Also, Le 'Enfante plaza always spawns the highest mutant all over. So I litterally had to fight twenty of them in that one area alone.I wouldnt mind so much if they actually gave you more expierience......
I also just gbot the Broken Steel DLC and I freaking hate the new enemies. They just have tons of health, thats not genuinly challenging, thats just difficult. The overlords are the worst, they alsways have a nice gun, and theyre dead accurate. Its gotten to the point where I just nuke them everytime I see them. Also, Le 'Enfante plaza always spawns the highest mutant all over. So I litterally had to fight twenty of them in that one area alone.I wouldnt mind so much if they actually gave you more expierience......
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Actually there IS an immigrant. Allistair Tenpenny is from Britain, and he somehow made it across the ocean. Mr. Burke is his right hand man, although I do not know if he came with Mr. Tenpenny or ifh e is a native.
Love
Deity
How about the russian npcs?
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
What russian NPCs?
