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The Fallout 3 Thread

Started by JPA, January 14, 2010, 12:42:20 PM

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Custard

Right, I've started getting back into this marvellous game after selling it and buying it back recently.

Started from the beginning, even though i got pretty far into it in my last, aborted game.

Its funny how different this time round has been. I've travelled to different places, met different characters, had much more exciting shoot-ups/confrontations with the Super Mutants an the like. I'm just loving being back in that world again. To me, it never feels less than utterly real, which is incredible when you stop to think just how ridiculous and unreal it actually is!

I've decided to go through the game as a lovely young man, albeit with big guns, and i've only picked-up bad karma through nicking a couple of Stinpaks from a box here n there. But thats surely expected in this world? The owner would do the same with my loot, i'm sure of it.

Exited a train-station yesterday, and had a hugely exciting (and lengthy) shoot-out with 6 or 7 Super Mutants. Honestly some of the best fun i've had doing, well, anything, in a fair while. It made me fall in love with this game, this universe, all over again. Its just so satisfying and enjoyable roaming through this game. I'm actually getting itchy to stick it back on as i'm sat here typing this heheh.

Anyway, does anyone have any tips for keeping your energy bar topped up? I've slept in beds wherever i can, but i never really find many Stinpacks about (hence the cheeky theft earlier!). Just wondering if anyone had any tips for staying alive a bit more? hehe

Also, when there's a big gaggle of Mutants, is it best to run away like a 10 year old girl, or stay and fight? I'd rather fight, but it takes so much life from me, that its hard to keep going to the next bit! So is it easier generally to run away or sneak past/around them?

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Try and find a way to take them on one at a time if you're dead set on taking them all out. Which you may as well do considering you'll only run into ghouls/centaurs downtown anyway, and they have less useful kit on them.

Your story of returning to the game just proves what a wonderfully different experience each time can be.

Viero_Berlotti

A good tactic for Super Mutants is to use mines (or bottlecap mines are better if you can build them).

This works better if you have invested in stealth when leveling up. You need to sneak up close to the Super Mutants leaving a trail of mines. When you are ready take a pot-shot at one of the Mutants, and try to aggro it enough so it starts chasing you. Then run back the way you came, leading the Mutant through the mine-field you set up earlier. A bottle-cap mine should take out a Mutant in one go, a standard mine will do damage and hopefully damage the Mutants legs making it easier for you to finish off from a distance. This method does work better in-doors rather than out in the open, but you can make it work if you can fine a narrow enough street/alleyway to lay the mines.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Yeah, I'd agree with that.

It's fun leading a huge pack of ghouls along a carefully plotted path of bottlecap mines. Bit of a waste, but fun. That's all I'm saying.

Viero_Berlotti

I spent half the game saving the bottle-cap mines thinking I'd need them for some big boss battle that didn't materialise. I had about 50-60 in the end and just started using them against normal enemies.

The skill is to be able to stop and turn around at just the right point when you are running away so you can see the carnage when the bottle-cap mine gets set off.

Custard

Cheers fellas. Guess I'm off cap-mine a-buildin'! heh

One more thing, out of interest, do y'all prefer to listen to the in-game radio, play your own music, or navigate around in silence when you play?

I've been actually feeling quite lonely without any music, so i think i'm gonna start adding some music to the experience, through my Ipod or whatnot. Though I put Galaxy Radio on briefly last night, and quite enjoyed that. Wish it had more on it, mind, as it seemed to repeat/loop back on itself quite a bit.

Ignatius_S

Quote from: Shameless on March 25, 2010, 04:42:15 PM
...One more thing, out of interest, do y'all prefer to listen to the in-game radio, play your own music, or navigate around in silence when you play?

I've been actually feeling quite lonely without any music, so i think i'm gonna start adding some music to the experience, through my Ipod or whatnot. Though I put Galaxy Radio on briefly last night, and quite enjoyed that. Wish it had more on it, mind, as it seemed to repeat/loop back on itself quite a bit.
I like the in-game music myself - although sometime just go for the silence for the mood.

Because there's so few songs on Galaxy, I also listen to music that I have that's from the period as I love the feel it gives the game. Actually, archive.org has quite a lot of big band stuff - and a fair bit of Bob Crosby's stuff (although he was actually more of a frontman than bandleader proper).

Custard

Ah cheers, will have a look on there!

Had a bit of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack stuff on in the background whilst playing it last night, and though its not from that period, I gotta say it really added to the atmosphere.

Made it all filmic n dat!

surreal

Will be back on this at the weekend - I've got Charon accompanying me at the moment which is both a blessing and a curse!!  On one hand he is VERY handy in a fight, on the other if he spots something he's off after it without waiting for me, and liable to get killed.  I emptied Fort Bannister of Talon Mercs, which was fun but difficult.

I've also got DogMeat, but I leave him in my Megaton house as I couldn't bear it if he got killed

I've lost track of the main plot to be honest, too busy with the side-quests... I've only done the main plot as far as getting to Rivet City and meeting Doctor Whatshername

Custard

Haha yeah, it took me about 9 hours to get to Rivet City as i kept having my head turned by all the side quests.

The only companion i've had so far was Sydney, who i felt a bit tragic for fancying the pants off of. During a shoot-up underground, i ended up blowing her head off by accident, and was amazed at just how much it effected me! I even half-screamed "Noooooooooo.........!!!!!", and just stared down at her lifeless, pale head as it lay on't ground, 5 metres away from her (lovely) body, willing her back to life.

You can laugh, but she was the only woman who ever understood me :(

jimmy jazz

Hope you stole her gun, it's brill.

surreal

Cleared out Paradise Falls this weekend - guy at the entrance wouldn't let me in unless I did some slavin', so I shot him in his pie-hole.  Seemed to tick off everyone inside though, so I had to kill everyone.  After that I went and got medieval on Evergreen Mills - found Smiling Jack, killed him and now have The Terrible Shotgun.  Which isn't terrible, it's AWESOME!!!

I'm having fun.

I've been mooching around that Fallout Wiki place for tips and there still seems to be a hell of a lot of stuff I've not seen - how big is this game???

Desi Rascal

Quote from: Ignatius_S on March 25, 2010, 04:51:15 PM
I like the in-game music myself - although sometime just go for the silence for the mood.

Because there's so few songs on Galaxy, I also listen to music that I have that's from the period as I love the feel it gives the game. Actually, archive.org has quite a lot of big band stuff - and a fair bit of Bob Crosby's stuff (although he was actually more of a frontman than bandleader proper).

also try http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1418

Ignatius_S

Quote from: surreal on March 29, 2010, 02:03:17 PM
...I've been mooching around that Fallout Wiki place for tips and there still seems to be a hell of a lot of stuff I've not seen - how big is this game???
The way I like to look at it, you get your monies' worth – I think the first playthrough I did, I notched up well over 80 hours and although I had explored most places, there were still a few side missions I hadn't done (mainly  because I couldn't be bothered to go back to an earlier save) and I could have done a better job exploring some areas.

Quote from: Desi Rascal on March 29, 2010, 07:47:42 PM
also try http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1418

Oh my! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Haven't used any mods yet and will give that a go...

Actually, I had been meaning to ask, are there any mods people particularly rate?

Mustow Green

Where/which mission do you pick up 'Dogmeat'?  I'm onto my third play through and I've yet to have this happen.

(Other day, whilst cowering behind a pillar, I watched a three-way brawl between some Raiders, Mercanaries and Enclave Soldiers.  First time that'd happened in collectively 100 hours exploring this game, amazing the new stuff it throws up at you).

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Dogmeat is in the scrapyard near Minefield. You don't need to be on any specific mission to find him, in fact you could go straight there after escaping from the vault, although you'd be lucky to make it all the way there without getting killed.

I find him more of a hindrance than a help, as picks fights with anything he catches wind of, which makes him all but useless once the tougher monsters like yao guai show up.

kittens

I've never managed to get Dogmeat either, even having searched the scrapyard for him. I want that dog so much.

Custard

Tranquility Lane is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen, and now haunts my dreams :(

Spoiler alert
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Paaaaul

I bought this a few days ago, and as it has so much in common with Oblivion, I guessed that I could finish the main story, then go back for the rest of the missions.
I completed the game in about 15 hours and was very disappointed that I couldn't go back and play the rest of the game.

Oh well - it makes sense that you can't do that though,
Spoiler alert
as the whole world effectively changes when the main plot finishes
[close]

I managed to get through the whole game without building anything, or even learning how to. How do you?

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

You need to find or buy the blueprints and then take the necessary parts to a workbench. I must say, you did well to finish without getting the dart gun. I find that near essential.

As for the ending, if you get the Broken Steel expansion, the game carries on afterwards and reflects the changes you've made in the game world. Which is a great improvement, I think.

Paaaaul

Quote from: Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth on April 18, 2010, 05:34:54 PM
You need to find or buy the blueprints and then take the necessary parts to a workbench. I must say, you did well to finish without getting the dart gun. I find that near essential.

As for the ending, if you get the Broken Steel expansion, the game carries on afterwards and reflects the changes you've made in the game world. Which is a great improvement, I think.

I finished with 100s of darts, and didn't know what to do with them. See also railway bolts (or whatever they're called)
To be honest, looking back at this thread, I don't recognise 80% of the references, so I'm definitely going to have to play this again.


I've got the other expansion pack, so I may have to invest in the Broken Steel DVD after working through them then.

Paaaaul

I bought a cheap copy of the Game Of The Year edition today, and it's just what I wanted - resurrected after dying to carry on and polish off the rest of the quests.
Ta Claude.

small_world

Just replaying this game, I'm playing it through on v.hard and taking it slowly, I'm not really following missions, just exploring and finding stuff.
Just wondering if anyone who has played this has 'lived' somewhere other than the two game houses of Tenpenny Towers or Megaton?

Johnny Textface

I lived in the first house on the left in minefield for ages before i got sorted at Megaton

Zero Gravitas

#114
None of the other places to sleep support the themes and so aren't really 'houses' as such but I slept with the ghouls in underworld for a fair few turns when exploring the central city.'

small_world

Nah, but then I'm not really all that keen on the themes anyway.
I just really want somewhere to display my plundered stuff, somewhere with a nice view. I don't even mind if it comes with a tenant that I may have to kill.
I was actually thinking of taking over rivet city... or the whole of tenpenny towers.

Custard

What about that little house with the wee old lady, waiting for her family to return? Such a handy gaff, but i've never had it in me to actually kill her :(

Neomod

Wasn't sure if i'd enjoy this sort of game so i've just bought this on ebay for a tenner instead of shelling out for New Vegas,

It does sound good and I hope i'm not disappointed.

Famous Mortimer

It's pretty much taken over my life for the last week. I've just done one of the add-ons (I got the Game Of The Year edition) where you have to fight through the Alaska-simulator, and it's just brilliant. It's all brilliant, really. Just simple stuff like escorting a prostitute to Rivet City  and having to fight off all the stuff on the way there was a fun hour...it took me ages to get the house in Megaton, too, partly because I forgot to do that bit of the quest.

I'm nowhere near the end yet (I don't think I've even done part 2 of the main mission) but I'm loving this like I've not loved a game in a long time.

Famous Mortimer

Even though this has no doubt been spotted loads of times before by loads of people, I was just in the National Archives getting the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, and came across a bunch of pods for the robot Founding Fathers.

A few of them were broken, and there was a note from the robot repair guy, "P Brantseg". Well, the guy who did the puppeteering for Gypsy the robot in the later seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000...was Patrick Brantseg. I did a little geeky cry of glee at finding that. I love you, Fallout 3.