Fallout 3

[Jazzmail]

What's the main problem, too old graphics card?

Yeah, that gpu was slow even when it first debuted.

 

[JtheJackal]

The game has been great, but I was very disappointed the Air and Space Museum is not in the game. Its replaced by the National Technology Museum while having planes suspended from the ceiling (at least they used to be suspended from the ceiling) looks and feels nothing like the real museum.

I was also brought out the game when I arrived at the National Museum of American History and was shocked to discover that it is actually the National Museum of Natural History. Even though it has a dome, stuffed woolly mammoth and T-Rex skeleton all the signs say and indicate the American History Museum. At least the museum's interior (not exterior) looks and feels like the Museum of Natural History.

 

[Harbringer]

There are varieties of super mutant, at least there are plain 'super mutants' and 'super mutant brutes' which are quite a bit harder.

My whole gripe was that there were any leveled super mutants period....that just doesn't seem rite at all.

*spoiler so Dont read if you dont want it ruined*

Bethesada game studios IS in the game.

 

[Maniacal]

*spoiler so Dont read if you dont want it ruined*

Bethesada game studios IS in the game.

Thanks for using the spoiler tags.

That's a neat easter egg though.

 

[Harbringer]

I put . .. .. .. .ing spoiler above it with asterisks christ, but so far

Spoiler :

my impression is that everything in the game is still pretty much leveled to you, I havnt been downtown yet, but Im near it where everything is super muties and theyre still on my level, and actually quite easy to take on, which isnt bad, they still feel significantly threatening enough, it just seems kind of silly. Oh and I also found dogmeat to, I had him for about two seconds before he was killed by a bunch of Farrel Ghouls.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Got the game a few days ago and am enjoying it. It does feel a bit "Oblivion of the future!" which sort of gives it a 'seen it before' feel, but other than that I'm happily ploughing my way through the quests.

 

[Kozmos]

First impressions are so so, it's marred by bugs and occasional crashes/freezes but I find myself enjoying the gore and VATS targeting. There is something about blowing a raider off, point blank with a shotgun and watching his body flail helplessly with blood spurts all over the place in slow motion that is extremely satisfying. Oh and the Laser Pistol....PEW PEW PEW!

 

[kcwong]

There's a preview I've read that said the slow motion cannot be turned off - so after a while the previewer was sick of the VATS and would rather duke it out FPS-style.

Is that comment still valid?

 

[Gelion]

First impressions are so so, it's marred by bugs and occasional crashes/freezes but I find myself enjoying the gore and VATS targeting. There is something about blowing a raider off, point blank with a shotgun and watching his body flail helplessly with blood spurts all over the place in slow motion that is extremely satisfying. Oh and the Laser Pistol....PEW PEW PEW!

Have you played the original games Cleric? IYHO do they fit in well with FO3?

 

[Rub'Rum]

Bought the game when it came out last Tuesday, and have played the HELL out of it. It has flaws, like a very short main quest line and the easy gameplay... But it's pure bliss otherwise.

This shouldn't spoil anything but... In Oblivion and Morrowind, when you finish the main quest, you can continue to play. Not so in Fallout 3. Do everything you want to do before you go to the end. Or at least, if you want to go to see the end, keep a backup save before you start doing these quests so that you can come back to it.

In the spoiler box, I put the name of the last quests of the main quest, so that you know when to backup your savegame file.

Spoiler :

The name of the last quest is "Take it Back". Actually, I'd suggest that when you have the quest "American Dream" or something like that, you do a backup right away...

I think it's important to know that you can't continue, because many people have just gone to the end and not kept backups and found themselves sort of losing their game because they could not go back to previous saves and were stuck at the end.

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Anyway, I find the game awesome. I found myself lost in post apocalyptic DC in a totally overwhelming way. The game might be a bit too easy, but the fun of exploring these ruined and abandoned locations is pure pleasure. And in the proper setting (alone, in the dark, late at night), the game becomes freaky and scary as hell. Try Dunwich building (complete southwest) in such conditions and tell us about it, hehe.

I love the VATS system, personally. It can get a little repetitive, but at the same time it often ends up putting emphasis on unexpected events, like a blowing car or I don't know what. It's very cinematic, especially the way your gun recoils and the empty bullet casings fly out of your weapon. Talking about explosions, I find the explosions in this game to be positively awesome. They blind you and make you shirk back in a realistic way, the screen gets all dizzy. It's so cool. And the sound is great too (my neighbor would probably disagree). Anyone who was accidentally blown up by a bunch of cars in a parking (cars explode... a lot...) knows what I'm talking about. Or better, anyone who blew up a drive-in theater with raiders in it...

The setting is beautiful. Entering these forsaken places and crumbling buildings is totally believable. You feel quite lonely.

EDIT: I've played Fallout 1 long ago. I never finished it though. Fallout 3 is not QUITE as gritty in the relationships and conversations you have with other characters. However, I "felt" the post apocalyptic setting a lot more in FO 3.

EDIT 2: By the way, I loved Morrowind, and only sort of liked Oblivion. I'd say Fallout 3 is at least superior to Oblivion and is pretty close to Morrowind. I just wish I didn't have so much time to play Fallout 3 so that I could have spent a full month playing it as was the case when I was going through Morrowind in the middle of a college semester, hehe.

 

[Gelion]

I am going through a college semester! Well, university actually

Thank you for the review SimonL! I will wait for the bug-free version with CS editor before buying a copy

 

[Rub'Rum]

I am going through a college semester! Well, university actually

Thank you for the review SimonL! I will wait for the bug-free version with CS editor before buying a copy

Yeah, it was university... I don't know, the way americans use the words college and university confuses me all the time.

Anyway, I own it on PC and had very few problems. Maybe a random crash once every 10 hours of gameplay. Random slowdowns that shouldn't exist considering my very powerful rig. The game seems to have problems with high anti-aliasing for now. But it was really minor for me.

 

[Gelion]

How old is your computer? I got mine about a year ago. It runs Morrowind like magic!

 

[Rub'Rum]

How old is your computer? I got mine about a year ago. It runs Morrowind like magic!

I got mine a bit more than a year ago but it was a real bomb back then and it still is above average. It has like 4 processors, 4 gigs of RAM and a high end graphic card. Should last me another 2 years, hopefully, maybe a change of graphic card at some point.

 

[Kozmos]

Have you played the original games Cleric? IYHO do they fit in well with FO3?

Well personally it more feels like Elder Scrolls: The Apocalypse then proper Fallout 3. It's still a decent game, but it lacks the spirit of the first two. No groin shots for example

Oh and the story is completely butchered, shed a tear or two and move on.

 

[Gelion]

I got mine a bit more than a year ago but it was a real bomb back then and it still is above average. It has like 4 processors, 4 gigs of RAM and a high end graphic card. Should last me another 2 years, hopefully, maybe a change of graphic card at some point.

I will try my specs at the official forms, lets see what they will say. I have a feeling it will be very close to "just manage" as my Pentium III did with Morrowind years ago.

Well personally it more feels like Elder Scrolls: The Apocalypse then proper Fallout 3. It's still a decent game, but it lacks the spirit of the first two. No groin shots for example

Oh and the story is completely butchered, shed a tear or two and move on.

I see. It seems its the impression I get from most of old players. It looks like its better to treat FO3 as a completely new "Apocalyptic ES" not Fallout we used to know.

 

[Rub'Rum]

I see. It seems its the impression I get from most of old players. It looks like its better to treat FO3 as a completely new "Apocalyptic ES" not Fallout we used to know.

It does not have the same "spirit", but I can't say the new feel of the game isn't good. I can understand being disappointed with the game if you really wanted the same feel. But as soon as people learned that it was going to be in 3d and look like Oblivion, they might as well have started complaining right away instead of actually buying it and confirming their grudge, hehe. It's called Fallout 3, that might be the game's only flaw. If it was called "My Butt 1: a tale of washington DC after nuclear war", well we certainly wouldn't hear any of this stuff! If you really don't like the Elder Scroll games, then I can't see you liking Fallout 3.

Looking at the Fallout forums, I wouldn't say "most old fans" of Fallout are disappointed by Fallout 3. I, for one, played Fallout 1 quite a bit and loved it, but have no problem with how Fallout 3 feels. Many people are in that camp too. I'm not sure what isn't in Fallout 3 that makes people prefer the feel of the first few games... You can't kill children? It's in 3d? It might be in the dialog. But for me, social interaction wasn't the best part of Fallout 3, it's the loneliness of the ruins. Hell, I was glad whenever I saw someone that didn't intend on blowing my head to bits. Whenever someone came out of the dark and was actually a friend, I couldn't care less what they had to say, I was just glad to have a friend, hehe.

Maybe it's the dark sense of humor? There's less of that, but there's still some. Some of the dialog is pretty awesome I thought. There was this guy on a clinic's operation table that I could save. I had high medic skills so I saved him, he talked to me and started thanking me, one of the options was something like "Oh whatever, I just wanted you to be conscious when I was going to kill you", he said "Oh CENSORED" and I shot him in the face. Sweet. There are even cannibals for christ's sake.

 

[Harbringer]

The one thing I love about the game is that the world is hand placed like Morrowind again, and there are lots of random tidbits im finding everywhere. Thus far Im not ruining it like oblivion and looking at stuff online so everything is fresh and new to me.

Spoiler :

I found an alien laser pistol just shy of the minefield witha bunch of rounds spotting the ground around it, its so random and awesome.

 

[JtheJackal]

There's a preview I've read that said the slow motion cannot be turned off - so after a while the previewer was sick of the VATS and would rather duke it out FPS-style.

Is that comment still valid?

I can't find away to turn it off so it doesn't look like it. I thought I wouldn't like the slow motion but it turned out I don't have any problem with it.

 

[Gelion]

SimonL, as it was said on the offical forums: "its better if you didn't try the original Fallout". I loved Morrowind, I still turn it on from time to time and it remains one of my faourite games cheifly though storyline, player freedom and CS. I got a bit turned off by the reviews of Oblivion (and of course the graphic requirements ). I will certainly buy and play Fallout 3, just not the first edition. I think Bethesda's interpretation of post-nuclear world deserves a serie of its own.